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class-struggle-anarchism:

fuck workfare

And this exactly what I was saying yesterday…

Labour MP Pat Glass

The UK cabinet reshuffle

This week a family of Iraqi British nationals were gunned down in the French Alps along with a witness, leaving the 8 year old daughter for dead and a 4 year old hiding beneath her dead mothers legs for eight hours. As most random shootings, the media has been forever changing their story. The bodies were found by an ex RAF man who minutes before had been overtaken by the French cyclist who was subsequently gunned down; why didn’t he hear any shots or see any of the perpetrators if he was so close, with it also being a little strange that an ex military person who loved cycling was overtaken by a man on his way home from work. It was initially reported that there were no rounds of ammunition found, and then plenty linking the weapon to being an automatic gun; but reports state that each person killed was shot at point blank range in the forehead clinically, so why was casing found littering the sight?

Intelligence workers from the British Embassy in Paris arrived within hours of finding out the owner of the car, and it is claimed Mr Al-Hilli had be known to Mi5 and Mi6 for the 20 years he had been living in the country and was even monitored by them at one point. Mr Al-Hilli is said to have previously worked in some capacity on the Iraqi nuclear programme prior to the 21st Century Iraqi war. In Britain he worked as an aerial photographer at one point, shooting from military aircraft.

To me this is increasingly pointing to either an Israeli or Syrian state approved killing because Mr Al-Hilli obviously knew too much. The media tried to make it seem like a random hi-jacking but this is in the middle of the French Alps, and why was a witness the cyclist killed too? Nothing was stolen from the scene. Either way the British government is hiding the truth and letting someone get away with this contract killing.

This is definitely a story to watch.

What I personally think is if these positions were beneficial and did give us experience then without a doubt I know people would be willing to take part as many of my friends are applying to intern for free just to get a bit of experience in a field they’re interested in as they can’t get full time work, but even this is proving extremely difficult and I only know 1 person out of a whole class full that has been successful yet! 
I myself graduated from university in May, I had been looking for work before then up to now so around 5 months in total and in that entire time I only had two call backs for interviews, which were both down to the fact I had contacts within the company. Luckily I have found employment now but of course the job is nothing to do with my degree or what I want to do in life, but we’ve been put in the position that it will just have to be something that will get me through for now.

It is already currently law that if you have been on jsa for a certain time with no job offers you MUST take on this unpaid work and cannot refuse or will have your benefits withdrawn, this type of work currently includes high street shops not charities as is being proposed now. Hear of the case of the geology grad who was forced to work in poundland and tried to take the DWP to court for slave labour? What benefit or experience does this offer her after she is already £20,000+ in debt after gaining her skills at university?
As I said if it is for a charity or an area you wish to have a career in by all means I’m sure people won’t be workshy but being forced to work 30 hours stacking shelves for £56 a week what is the point in that? I’d rather see my time spent on job hunting as it is a time consuming business these days with online application forms. If the minimum wage is increased to £6.19 as planned a 30 hour week should count for £185.70 displaying just how unjust this is.

Without a doubt corporate companies will take advantage of free labour as they’re only out to make a profit, and full time workers will gradually be edged out in favour of this slave labour.

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London Student Fees Protest 2010

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socialistscum:

Introduction to anarcho-communism:

The ideology:

Anarchist communism, often called anarcho-communism, is a branch of anarchism that believes in abolishing the concept of the State, capitalism, money, and private property in favor of common ownership of the means of production. Also anarcho-communism is in favor of direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations where everyone will be given the liberty to satisfy their own personal needs. Anarcho-communism is sometimes known as communist anarchy and libertarian communism.

Anarchist-communism very much purveys the concepts of egalitarianism and the absolute abolition of concepts of social hierarchy and disintegration of the class distinctions that are created by the unequal wealth distribution. This is why no anarcho-communism believe in the concepts of money, capitalism, or the idea of private property. With concerns to anarcho-communism, concepts such as the State and money would become things of the past.

The abolition of slave labor is one of the central ideological beliefs held by anarcho-communists. With distribution of wealth being based on needs that are determined by self, individuals will have the liberty to engage in whatever activities they find most fulfilling and will no longer have to engage in work for which they have neither the temperament nor the aptitude. Anarchist communists believe that there is no legitimate way of gauging the value of any one person’s economic contributions because all wealth is a collective sum of current, past, and future generations. Anarcho-communists argue that any economic structure based on wage labor and private property will require a coercive state vehicle to enforce property rights and to maintenance the unequal economic relationships that will inevitably come from it.

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Mankind has used money for more than 2,500 years. For most of history, money was a commodity of limited and practically inelastic supply. Occasionally, over the past 1,000 years, state authorities introduced paper money, the supply of which was elastic and under complete control of the state. Today we live again in a complete paper money system. Since the dollar was taken ‘off gold’ internationally in 1971, the entire world has been – for the first time in human history – on a global standard of irredeemable paper money.

The book ‘Paper money collapse’ demonstrates that paper money systems are not inevitable, not advantageous and not sustainable. Contrary to common belief, a growing economy does not require an expanding supply of money. None of the benefits that elastic paper money is supposed to have, relative to inflexible commodity money, stand up to critical examination. Importantly, systems of elastic money are inherently unstable and must destabilise the economy.

Eminent economists suspected long ago that an expanding money supply had disruptive effects. But only the Austrian School of Economics, in particular Ludwig von Mises, provided, in the first half of the twentieth century, a satisfactory theory of money-induced instability. All paper money systems in history ended in failure. Either they collapsed in chaos, or a voluntary return to commodity money was accomplished before this happened.

What is the endgame? Either the authorities abandon further money printing and allow the undoubtedly painful liquidation of misallocations of capital, or they print ever more money in an attempt to postpone the correction, and, in the process, accumulate ever more debt. In the latter scenario, the public will ultimately lose faith in the system. Paper money systems are confidence games. When the public realizes that the printing press is increasingly used to keep states and banks solvent, this confidence will evaporate quickly. The endgame will then be sovereign default, hyperinflation and economic chaos.

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By Detlev Schlichter