New Socialist Webzine
Fight the Deficit-Cutting Agenda!
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- Published on Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:27
A statement for May Day 2010 from the editors of the New Socialist webzine.
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The Deficit: THEIR Problem, Not Ours
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- Published on Monday, 26 April 2010 14:12
By David Camfield and Daniel Serge
Deficits are the difference between what governments spend and what they take in. Governments often claim deficits are the fault of social spending that's too high. But in fact deficits always grow when capitalist economic activity slows down or contracts because tax revenue falls while state spending rises.
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What Strategy for the Big Union Centrals?
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- Published on Monday, 19 April 2010 21:14
By Pierre Mouterde
In the name of "deficit reduction," governments and other public sector employers across the Canadian state are attempting to extract concessions from public sector workers and weaken the services they deliver. The Common Front of Quebec's public sector unions is currently in negotiations for contracts covering 475 000 workers. The employers are still showing no sign of moving to meet union demands, but the union leaderships have not been preparing for a strike and continue to negotiate despite the lack of progress at the bargaining table. This article takes a look at the situation. We will be running more articles about public sector unions in future. -- NS.
The Politics of Free Speech: Israeli Apartheid Week, Ann Coulter and Mobilization from Below
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- Published on Sunday, 18 April 2010 08:55
By Alan Sears
One talk by racist American right-winger Ann Coulter gets shut down and the media fills up with columns, editorials, stories and opinion pieces about freedom of speech. Yet a concerted silencing campaign against Palestine solidarity that has included the federal government, Israel advocacy organizations and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff gets virtually no critical media attention.
Costa Rican Election Results Hide Complex Reality
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- Published on Saturday, 03 April 2010 15:35
By Elena Zeledon
Costa Ricans have the highest standard of living in Central America including universal free education and health care and a social safety net of workers' unemployment benefits and pensions that is the the envy of Central America. However, these hard-won gains are threatened by the capitalist crisis, the implementation of the Central American Free Trade Agreement and other pro- capitalist policies of the governing social democratic National Liberation Party. The NLP won reelection in February with Laura Chinchilla succeeding Oscar Arias as President. What does this mean? Will intensified attacks spark social struggles? Elena Zeledon reports from Costa Rica
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