Capitalism - Mohammad A.Hamama on Diigo

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2012

Brotherhood business heads enter spotlight - Economy - Business - Ahram Online

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Nov

6

2011

CIA Following Twitter And Facebook To Analyze Public Opinion, Predict Major Events

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CIA US Twitter Facebook Intelligence Revolution Capitalism

The agency's Open Source Center sometimes looks at 5 million tweets a day. The analysts are also checking out TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms – anything overseas that people can access and contribute to openly.

Nov

2

2011

المعونة العسكرية الأمريكية.. بين الرؤية الأمريكية وأوراق الضغط المصرية - سارة خورشيد - بوابة الشروق

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US Aids Egypt Capitalism Israel Imperialism

Oct

16

2011

Global protests - The Big Picture - Boston.com

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Oct

7

2011

البديل | البديل » عمال غزل شبين يحتفلون بعودة شركتهم ومطالبات بمليونية للعمال والفلاحين بالتحرير بشعار ” العدالة الاجتماعية”

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Student solidarity with… squatters? | Counterfire

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UK students Squatting Riots Capitalism Poverty Class

Whether it's an unintended side-effect or a deliberate fringe benefit, imagine the future of protest without occupations.
how does criminalising squatting help with a housing crisis?
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- Are the 160 property lawyers who signed a letter accusing you of deliberately misleading the public telling fibs, or are you?
- Can't we do better than a situation where 1.7 million families are on council housing waiting lists, when homelessness is up 17 percent, while 737, 491 properties lie empty and abandoned?
- But, regardless of whether these salacious, home-invasion horror-stories hold any weight, it's not squatting per se that's being outlawed: it's the act of occupation.
- Historically, occupations have been the cornerstone of student activism
- esurgent wave against the cuts to education funding and the rise in fees

Sep

4

2011

CorpWatch : LIBYA: The minister, the Tory donor and a contract to supply oil

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Aug

26

2011

Students continue fight for free education in Chile — Revolution Socialist Youth

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Aug

22

2011

دراسة تؤكد : الخصخصة وسيلة النظام لأفقار الشعب | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر

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Jul

21

2011

Socialist Alternative - Perspectives on the world crisis and rebellion

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Socialism Economy crisis Capitalism Austerity Europe

But there was no recovery for the working class. The bosses used the Great Recession to cut pay and casualise jobs. In the US, unemployment, which had doubled from 5 to 10 per cent, remained stuck at this high level. The boom in oil and commodity prices in late 2010 pushed up the price of household essentials. The poverty rate soared. The situation was no better in Europe where there are 25 million unemployed and the unemployment rate amongst young adults is at 20 per cent or more.
$2.4 trillion dollars in total
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- . In the US, unemployment, which had doubled from 5 to 10 per cent, remained stuck at this high level.
- . In the US, unemployment, which had doubled from 5 to 10 per cent, remained stuck at this high level.
- In the US, unemployment, which had doubled from 5 to 10 per cent, remained stuck at this high level
- In the US, unemployment, which had doubled from 5 to 10 per cent, remained stuck at this high level
- But there was no recovery for the working class
- But there was no recovery for the working class
- The situation was no better in Europe where there are 25 million unemployed and the unemployment rate amongst young adults is at 20 per cent or more
- G7 growth tailed downwards every quarter through 2010 and the 3 per cent growth recorded in the US economy in 2010 was well down on the 8 per cent annual growth enjoyed by the US when it was last recovering from such a deep collapse in 1934 and 1935, never mind the 14 per cent growth recorded in 1936.
- Now the capitalists and their governments are using the supposed “debt crisis” that has resulted to ram through savage cuts in government spending in a “shock and awe” exercise to demoralise working class opposition.
- These loans were no act of charity by the IMF and EU, merely an emergency measure to ensure that these governments paid back the money that they owed to European and US banks – $2.4 trillion dollars in total
- the imposition of drastic austerity measures
- In Greece, wages have fallen by 20 per cent
- In Ireland, unemployment has risen from 4 per cent per cent before the crash to 15 per cent today
- the deepest cuts to public spending since 1922. Student fees have been tripled.
- government in Britain announced cuts of £81 billion in its October 2010 budget
- In the US, the Obama administration announced $US38 billion in spending cuts to the US federal budget in April and spelled out plans to reduce government outlays by $4 trillion over the next ten years
- State and local governments for their part are closing schools and fire stations, cutting public sector pay and laying off workers – 150,000 in the last six months alone
- the biggest wave of working class and revolutionary struggle for at least thirty years
- Regular mass strikes in Portugal and Italy, 10 million on strike in Spain in September, and eight general strikes in Greece in 2010, two so far in 2011 and another one scheduled for May
- A massive series of public sector strikes against cuts to state pensions took place in France last September and 10,000 teachers, doctors and other public sector workers marched against cuts in Belgrade in late March
- Students have joined workers and the young unemployed in protests, with a wave of student occupations in Italy, Austria and Greece in the northern autumn
- But they got a big shock in Wisconsin in February when the sleeping giant of US labour got back on its feet. Tens of thousands of workers rallied in opposition to an attempt by the Republican governor Scott Walker to strip away public sector workers’ collective bargaining rights and cut wages and pensions for state and local government workers
- resistance is continually being undermined by the established leadership of the trade unions, reformist and “progressive” forces
- the established leadership, both parliamentary and industrial, is committed to the capitalist system
- student struggles, which have a history of rising very quickly but then vanishing just as fast
- the main beneficiaries of the economic crisis have been the far right, not the left
- More mainstream conservative parties in government are also doing their best to cultivate a racist environment in order to divide opposition to their austerity measures
- fiscal policy implementation shocks

Jul

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2011

The political lessons of Greece

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Jun

27

2011

What Recession? – World’s Wealthiest Individuals increase their Wealth | Workers Solidarity Movement

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Wealth Fortune Capitalism 2010 Recession credit

Jun

23

2011

دفاعاً عن المركزية الديمقراطية | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر

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1) الديمقراطية تتعارض مع المركزية والعكس
على سبيل المثال، في ألمانيا في بداية الحرب العالمية الأولى، قام الحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي بطرد كل الأعضاء الذين عارضوا تعاون الحزب مع الحكومة وموافقته على اعتمادات الحرب. وبعد ذلك قام حوالي نصف أعضاء الحزب بتشكيل حزب آخر (فيما عُرف بالحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي المستقل) وقد عمدوا إلى التخلص التام من الميول البيروقراطية التي سيطرت على الحزب القديم، و قاموا ببناء هيكل حزبي لا مركزي.
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- 2) قد نحتاج المركزية في الأوقات الثورية، لكن ليس في النضالات اليومية التي ننخرط فيها قبل الثورة
- 3) المركزية تعني التدرج في الهيكل الحزبي، أي التكثيف الشديد للسلطة في أيدي القادة
- 4) النشاط اليومي للثوريين يجب أن يعتمد على تشجيع مبادرة الأعضاء وثقتهم بأنفسهم واعتمادهم على أنفسهم في اتخاذ القرارات، وليس على إلقاء القرارات التنفيذية من مركز الحزب إليهم
- 5) في ظل انحسار الموجات الثورية، تكون المنظمات المركزية الديمقراطية مضرة للغاية؛ حيث تحتكر تأييد وولاء مناضلي الطبقة العاملة في أوقات غير ثورية
- 6) المركزية الديمقراطية تؤدي إلى استبدال الطبقة بالحزب
- 7) ما يهم في الأمر كله هو السياسات الصحيحة وليس الهيكل التنظيمي