Via Dave Osler at Liberal Conspiracy:
The trouble with working out with the radio on is that you cannot fully concentrate on what is being said. But as I was on my fourth set of bicep curls this morning, I heard something that nearly made me drop my dumbbells on my toes.Work and pensions minister Chris Grayling was […]
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According to Government Figures 1% of benefits are fraudulently claimed
US employment, % change after recessions end
Via Brad De Long, a pretty interesting graph on the the changing degree of ‘improvement’ in the state of employment after the official end of recession.
Do the Tories not care about unemployment because of who votes for them?
Okay, it took me bloody forever to work out how to embed these svg images on a wordpress blog, but they should now be visible. If not have a look here.
This is from the touchstone (TUC think tank) blog. I’m pretty shocked by it to be honest. Its pretty clearly showing that where there is […]
Doodling about the Crisis of capitalism & Time Perspectives and singing about Marx
Aileen
I tend to think in pictures, often when I’m listening to a seminar or reading a journal article or planning a piece of writing, I take my notes in cartoon form, drawing little pictures, arrows, cartoon like headings. These presentations do the same, very effectively. It makes me think perhaps it’s time to […]
Chris Dillow - “Necessity, choice & legitimation”
Chris Dillow on UK austerity:
For years, Marxists have been accused by their opponents of believing in a crude economic determinism. However, it is not so much Marxists who believe this as our rulers. George Osborne described his Budget yesterday as “unavoidable.” His stooges have described the measures as “necessary.”
This is […]
Employment studies masters at TCD (Dublin, Ireland)
Just got notice that there are some places available on this masters, for details follow the links below
MSc European Employment Studies at Trinity College Dublin
There are a few places left on the MSc European Employment Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Applications will be accepted until 31 July 2010.
For further information including course contents, admission […]
“Learning from each other’s struggles” social movements / activist research workshop
We now finally have a programme for the social movements / activist research workshop “Learning from each other’s struggles”, in Maynooth next weekend. There are some real highlights - Ziggy from Kolinko talking about organising call-centre workers as militant research, Dave Landy from the IPSC talking about the inside story of their year, a joint […]
Interface 2/1: Crises, social movements and revolutionary transformations
Finally got Interface vol. 2 issue 1 online - feels like the gentle art of zine publishing never died, even though now it’s doing peer-reviewed journals with people around the world and broadband connections rather than a bunch of friends in a room with a Gestetner (I hasten to add that it is the comradely […]
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
One of the oddest things about moving to England is the fact that the press is so right wing, and Sir Tony O’Reilly is so opportunistic, that the main O’Reilly newspaper is centre left. Anyway their front page today is pretty good.
Text reads:
Inside Parliament: “Legislation will be brought forward to restore freedoms […]
Croke Park Deal: How the unions are voting
Below are some charts indicating how the vote in the Croke Park deal is going. I’ll update them as the votes come in.
(If you want to see a bigger version, click on them, that will bring you to a flickr page, and then click on the small “all sizes” button on the top to open […]
