British workers: the most exploited in Europe
More surplus value gets squeezed out of the British proletariat than any other working class in Europe, the Department of Trade and Industry has proudly announced. OK, they didn’t quite put it quite like that. Instead, the DTI each year produces something called the value-added scorecard. Here’s how the FT reports the 2006 edition: ‘The [...]
More on the Workers’ Power split
The following statement has been issued by the group expelled from Workers’ Power: The Split in the LFI: expelled members respond On 1 July the leadership of the League for the Fifth International (LFI) summarily expelled 33 members, mostly from the organisation’s British section, Workers Power but also comrades based in Australia and Ireland. Those [...]
Stop press: League for the Fifth International splits
The international tendency around Workers’ Power has split. Political grounds? The minority reportedly wants to see a return to work in the Labour Party, while arguing that the boom in China will underpin expansion in the world economy until 2015. Just what the British left needs – another Trot splinter group. Oh well, never mind. [...]
Gilad Atzmon and Jewish jazz
Jazz originated in the more impoverished black districts of New Orleans sometime in the late 19th century. Its dominant practitioners have largely been black Americans. But that’s not to say it can accurately be described as intrinsically Afro-American music. After all, jazz has been influenced by everything from Debussy to Bossa Nova. To argue that [...]
