in this eye opening video on you tube
http://t.co/iQzsPYzR
a clip from the BBC news channel yesterday they interview a hedge fund invester to talk on teh global economic crisis. He reveals how the ruling class capitalists really see the world and who really has the power. He stated that there is nothing anyone can do about this oncoming crash and its going to be huge. Far bigger than 2008 and we must get prepared for this as people are going to loose a lot of money.
he went on to say when questioned what can governments do to give confidence to the markets. He replies that is a tough question. Fact is now none of the investers have any confidence in any rescue package and are dreaming of a recession as they see it as a way of making money.
The stark honesty of this guy tells us for the first time how the ruling class elite work and how they see a recession. They do not care about people or the destruction it may cause the social impacts only making money.
The guy goes on to say governments do not rule the world, Goldman sachs do. A very telling point i think as i think he is spot on. The governments do the capitalists dirty work making investing and making money easier. They really have no power at all when it comes to the running of their system.
I think as marxists we have known this for a very long time and have been warning people that this is coming long before others in the media caught on. This next crash is going to eclipse the 2008 banking crash. Whether we can recover or be left in a stagment flat economy with little to no growth for a very long time it remaisn to be seen. But it does bring back the point that all cuts need to be opposed limiting the cuts as some on the left seem to strive for will turn out to be fruitless and make no difference at all. We must oppose all cuts to jobs and services and look to push this system down. The working class when strong and organised is f ar more powerful. Class war is really kicking off and we must be ready for the fight of our lives. We simply cannot loose many are saying.
I'd recomend all to watch t hat you tube video though and just think what it really means and who holds the power. It is not government or the tories as you are told. They are just the puppets of a capitalist system ripping this planet and its people apart for what ? for money dirty filthy money and that is all they care for.
We need a different system a system based on peoples needs over greed and profit. A system of socialism where the wealth is not concentrated among a few but the many.
Join the fight today and resist wherever you can. THis is not just about the tories being incompetent thsi is far more than this now.
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Housing benifit crisis brings despair , united response needed
A father killed himself after his housing benefit was cut, an inquest heard on Tuesday 23 August. Richard Sanderson of Southfields, south west London, committed suicide after receiving a letter from Wandsworth council informing him his housing benefit would be cut by £30 a month.
Mr Sanderson's death came a month after the government capped housing benefit (Local Housing Allowance) at between £250 and £400 a week depending on property size. Recording a verdict of suicide, the Coroner said: "He carried out a considered act in response to his inability to find employment and the fact that his housing benefit was about to be cut and the family would have faced having nowhere to live."
Merton council estimates that 3,000 people in the area will be hit by government housing benefit cuts. Annys Darkwa, from a local housing charity, was quoted as saying that tragic cases like this would become more frequent in the coming months because housing benefit cuts would hit the most vulnerable the hardest.
Mrs Darkwa said: "We are going to see this happen more and more as we expect 80,000 people across London to be evicted due to housing benefit cuts." Publicly, ministers deny that their policies will produce homelessness but leaked correspondence between ministers' aides has shown that they have been coolly discussing 80,000 homeless as a result of this stage of the housing benefit cuts. When fully implemented the figures could rise still higher.
Even before the housing benefit cuts began to bite, homelessness was on the rise because of the impact of recession. For example, in the London Borough of Haringey, which includes Tottenham where August's riots began, applications to the council for assistance due to homelessness were up by 83% year on year in the first three months of 2011. For every family making such an application many more will be suffering hardship but avoiding homelessness.
Next year, further changes will mean that single people between 25 and 35 years old will no longer be able to claim for a flat and will be expected to live in cheap shared accommodation despite the shortage of such accommodation.
Many such people already have to make up their rent because they cannot find anywhere cheap enough to be covered by existing benefit rates. In Haringey alone, for example, this change will hit 810 young people.
The government claimed that rents would fall but in fact they have continued to rise. According to the latest buy-to-let index from LSL Property Services the average rent in England and Wales rose by 0.6% to £705 a month in July.
The average rent is now £29 a month higher than in July last year. London had the greatest annual rent increase (7.9%) to hit a new high of £1,009 a month.
This crisis hits low-paid workers as well as people entirely dependent on benefits. In London around a third of people getting housing benefits are workers in low-paid jobs. Many others who cannot claim benefit are finding rocketing rent levels very hard to pay.
The combination of rising rents and cutting benefits is placing people in an agonising vice and none of the main parties speaks up for them - Labour had its own plans for benefit caps when in office.
We need an energetic trade union and community campaign against low pay, for emergency rent caps instead of benefit caps and for a programme of social house building and renovation.
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In this issue
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Fighting public sector cuts
Mass action can stop
The fact that Labour in their 113 years in government in the so called "boom" years failed to build anywhere near enough housing renders them absent in this debate. We are still feeling the effects from Margret Thatchers days of where council housing was sold off to the private sector and people could buy their own homes. One of the worst things ever to happen to this country i feel. It moved people on and gave them a false sense of a advancement in class, many wallowed in their greed and it was actively encouraged by the then tory government. The fact that no government since labour or tory has done anything about a mass housing crisis is a disgrace in my view. The fact that we even have homelessness in this country one of the richest in the world is just appauling . We can afford to build more houses and invest in peoples future but housing builders and the governemnt wont do it as they see no profit in building social housing they feel its a waste of money and too much of a cost and they get very little rent back. This highlights again the ruthlessness of the capitalist system that greed and profit comes before peoples needs. A change is needed and the trade union movement should be putting housing at the top of their agenda i would say.
Mr Sanderson's death came a month after the government capped housing benefit (Local Housing Allowance) at between £250 and £400 a week depending on property size. Recording a verdict of suicide, the Coroner said: "He carried out a considered act in response to his inability to find employment and the fact that his housing benefit was about to be cut and the family would have faced having nowhere to live."
Merton council estimates that 3,000 people in the area will be hit by government housing benefit cuts. Annys Darkwa, from a local housing charity, was quoted as saying that tragic cases like this would become more frequent in the coming months because housing benefit cuts would hit the most vulnerable the hardest.
Mrs Darkwa said: "We are going to see this happen more and more as we expect 80,000 people across London to be evicted due to housing benefit cuts." Publicly, ministers deny that their policies will produce homelessness but leaked correspondence between ministers' aides has shown that they have been coolly discussing 80,000 homeless as a result of this stage of the housing benefit cuts. When fully implemented the figures could rise still higher.
Even before the housing benefit cuts began to bite, homelessness was on the rise because of the impact of recession. For example, in the London Borough of Haringey, which includes Tottenham where August's riots began, applications to the council for assistance due to homelessness were up by 83% year on year in the first three months of 2011. For every family making such an application many more will be suffering hardship but avoiding homelessness.
Next year, further changes will mean that single people between 25 and 35 years old will no longer be able to claim for a flat and will be expected to live in cheap shared accommodation despite the shortage of such accommodation.
Many such people already have to make up their rent because they cannot find anywhere cheap enough to be covered by existing benefit rates. In Haringey alone, for example, this change will hit 810 young people.
The government claimed that rents would fall but in fact they have continued to rise. According to the latest buy-to-let index from LSL Property Services the average rent in England and Wales rose by 0.6% to £705 a month in July.
The average rent is now £29 a month higher than in July last year. London had the greatest annual rent increase (7.9%) to hit a new high of £1,009 a month.
This crisis hits low-paid workers as well as people entirely dependent on benefits. In London around a third of people getting housing benefits are workers in low-paid jobs. Many others who cannot claim benefit are finding rocketing rent levels very hard to pay.
The combination of rising rents and cutting benefits is placing people in an agonising vice and none of the main parties speaks up for them - Labour had its own plans for benefit caps when in office.
We need an energetic trade union and community campaign against low pay, for emergency rent caps instead of benefit caps and for a programme of social house building and renovation.
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In this issue
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fighting public sector cuts
Mass action can stop
The fact that Labour in their 113 years in government in the so called "boom" years failed to build anywhere near enough housing renders them absent in this debate. We are still feeling the effects from Margret Thatchers days of where council housing was sold off to the private sector and people could buy their own homes. One of the worst things ever to happen to this country i feel. It moved people on and gave them a false sense of a advancement in class, many wallowed in their greed and it was actively encouraged by the then tory government. The fact that no government since labour or tory has done anything about a mass housing crisis is a disgrace in my view. The fact that we even have homelessness in this country one of the richest in the world is just appauling . We can afford to build more houses and invest in peoples future but housing builders and the governemnt wont do it as they see no profit in building social housing they feel its a waste of money and too much of a cost and they get very little rent back. This highlights again the ruthlessness of the capitalist system that greed and profit comes before peoples needs. A change is needed and the trade union movement should be putting housing at the top of their agenda i would say.
Monday, 31 January 2011
are our governments turning more authoritarian ?
As we have seen over the last few months with more and more protests taking to our streets around the globe. Be it in North Africa in Tunisia or Egypt where the main news is focussed on heavily at the moment.
In 2010 we saw towards the end of the year mass scale protests on the streets of London and Greece towards their governments . In Britain it was the student movement taking to the streets to fight against the trebling of tuitian fees and the scrapping of the EMA allowance.
Whilst out on the streets i have noticed more and more reports that police tactics during these protests is becoming more and more heavy handed. I find this quite worrying. The oppressed in these countries are already oppressed so why do the governments of these countries feel the need to clamp down even more on them.
Even in Britain i'm hearing noises from the government and Labour that strike action by unions trying to protect jobs will be frowned upon and the laws may even be changed to prevent strike action. This to me is nothing else but authoritarian and governments around the world are becoming more and more like this.
Whatever happened to our right to protest ?
We seem to be dictated to when and how we can protest. Fair enough we must keep within the law but saying people cant strike or protest and flex their democratic right then waht kind of society are we really living in ?
It would seem as though we are turning into a police state in this country, Britain that is, With heavy handed police tactics being enforced on our streets on protesters it looks as though they are coming down on people with a opinion in a heavy way.
To even have the leader of the labour party and various MP's critesise unions for even wishing to strike and take industrial action to protect their jobs and conditions of their workers is a sign of how far we have come. This also shows how much the labour party is now in the hands of the capitalists it likes to protect. The labour party used to be out to protect workers rights and the workers movement this seems to be a distant memory now as they look to prop up our banks and protect big business who continuely exploit their workers year after year.
So it is a worrying sign if our governments are looking to clamp down on us having a voice. It seems they want a society as do as i say and follow us and you can only have a say if we allow you too.
It certainly does feel like we are heading back to the past where in victorian times there was a huge gulf in class's and a real distinction between class's.
I do hope either the lib dems or labour realise their roots and stand up for ordinary working people wishing to protest to protect their lives, jobs, benifits, working conditions and everything that is currently under threat peacefully and lawfully and without attacking them for doing this.
We wait and see.....
In 2010 we saw towards the end of the year mass scale protests on the streets of London and Greece towards their governments . In Britain it was the student movement taking to the streets to fight against the trebling of tuitian fees and the scrapping of the EMA allowance.
Whilst out on the streets i have noticed more and more reports that police tactics during these protests is becoming more and more heavy handed. I find this quite worrying. The oppressed in these countries are already oppressed so why do the governments of these countries feel the need to clamp down even more on them.
Even in Britain i'm hearing noises from the government and Labour that strike action by unions trying to protect jobs will be frowned upon and the laws may even be changed to prevent strike action. This to me is nothing else but authoritarian and governments around the world are becoming more and more like this.
Whatever happened to our right to protest ?
We seem to be dictated to when and how we can protest. Fair enough we must keep within the law but saying people cant strike or protest and flex their democratic right then waht kind of society are we really living in ?
It would seem as though we are turning into a police state in this country, Britain that is, With heavy handed police tactics being enforced on our streets on protesters it looks as though they are coming down on people with a opinion in a heavy way.
To even have the leader of the labour party and various MP's critesise unions for even wishing to strike and take industrial action to protect their jobs and conditions of their workers is a sign of how far we have come. This also shows how much the labour party is now in the hands of the capitalists it likes to protect. The labour party used to be out to protect workers rights and the workers movement this seems to be a distant memory now as they look to prop up our banks and protect big business who continuely exploit their workers year after year.
So it is a worrying sign if our governments are looking to clamp down on us having a voice. It seems they want a society as do as i say and follow us and you can only have a say if we allow you too.
It certainly does feel like we are heading back to the past where in victorian times there was a huge gulf in class's and a real distinction between class's.
I do hope either the lib dems or labour realise their roots and stand up for ordinary working people wishing to protest to protect their lives, jobs, benifits, working conditions and everything that is currently under threat peacefully and lawfully and without attacking them for doing this.
We wait and see.....
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