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Jean-Luc Mélenchon's policies are no far-left fantasy | Philippe Marlière | Comment is free | The Guardian
"Humans First!" is more than a manifesto title, it is a democratic imperative: a sixth republic in place of the current republican monarchy; the nationalisation of energy companies (as energy sources are public goods) and, less often noticed, the ecological planning of the economy, the core of Mélenchon's political project.
Mélenchon  france  politics  socialism  left  europe  democracy  republic 
6 weeks ago by sunpig
James Kelman — On Self-Determination » Christie Books
Power is a function of its privileged ruling elite. To be properly ‘British’ is to submit to English hierarchy and to recognise, affirm and assert the glory of its value system. This is achieved domestically on a daily basis within ‘British’ education and cultural institutions. Those who oppose this supremacist ideology are criticised for not being properly British, condemned as unpatriotic. Those Scottish, Welsh or Irish people who oppose this supremacist ideology are condemned as anti-English. The ‘British way’ is sold at home and abroad as a thing of beauty, a self-sufficient entity that comes complete with its own ethical system, sturdy and robust, guaranteed to outlast all others.
jameskelman  selfdetermination  scotland  independence  2014  nationalism  snp  politics  monarchy  republic 
8 weeks ago by sunpig
John Lanchester · Marx at 193 · LRB 5 April 2012
Complicated though Marx’s model of the world is, the modern world is more complicated still. This exerts great pressure in one more area, one Marx would have recognised through a favourite saying that comes from Hegel: quantity changes quality. What this means is that you can have an explanatory system which accounts for certain phenomena – in this case, the way capitalism produces things which run against its own main current of accumulation and exploitation – while the broad direction of travel remains the same. But a point comes when the phenomena mount up, and stop seeming like isolated contradictory examples and look instead like a basic challenge to the central ideas. Something like this has happened with the countercurrents that run inside capitalism.
johnlanchester  lrb  london  review  books  marx  capital  politics  socialism  economics  china  proletariat  bourgeoisie 
9 weeks ago by sunpig
Bring back the 40-hour work week - Salon.com
It’s a heresy now (good luck convincing your boss of what I’m about to say), but every hour you work over 40 hours a week is making you less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul. And it may sound weird, but it’s true: the single easiest, fastest thing your company can do to boost its output and profits — starting right now, today — is to get everybody off the 55-hour-a-week treadmill, and back onto a 40-hour footing.
salon  health  job  life  politics  work  productivity  time  energy  sleep  fatigue 
10 weeks ago by sunpig
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Rick Santorum’s bogus statistics - The Washington Post
@brad_frost Get a "Don't euthanize me, bro!" bracelet as soon as you arrive! Saved my ass last time I saw my dentist!
santorum  politics  madness  usa  netherlands  holland  health  euthanasia  bracelet  statistics  fake  healthcare 
11 weeks ago by sunpig
Scottish Review: Now that I see the puny alliance in the 'No' camp, I'm voting 'Yes'
Quintin Jardine: "Now that I see the puny alliance in the 'No' camp, I'm voting 'Yes'" /via @amendlocke
quintinjardine  scotland  independence  politics  alliance  2014 
12 weeks ago by sunpig
“The Grass Is Closed”: What I Have Learned About Power from the Police, Chancellor Birgeneau, and Occupy Cal « zunguzungu
"Why did so many people allow the police to beat them rather than get out of the way?" @zunguzungu on #Occupy Berkeley
berkeley  protest  police  occupy  ows  politics  education  academia  cal 
november 2011 by sunpig
LRB · John Lanchester · Once Greece goes…
Good summary of the Greek crisis by John Lanchester in the LRB: "Once Greece goes..." /via @theplayethic
johnlanchester  economics  politics  greece  crisis 
july 2011 by sunpig
The Osama bin Laden exception - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
RT @evilrooster: Re #OBL: This. I STFU at the time b/c people were not in a listening mood, but it's good to see som ...
glenngreenwald  salon  binladen  obl  osama  politics  law  legal  war  criminal  capture  nuremberg  trial  history  ethics  morality 
may 2011 by sunpig
Opinion: the time for the independence referendum is now | Caledonian Mercury - Politics
RT @thoughtland: Loving Stewart Kirkpatrick's forthright argument for an indy referendum now #sp11 / & gives us all ...
scotland  politics  independence  referendum  election  snp  caledonianmercury  sp11 
may 2011 by sunpig
Is AV better than FPTP? « Gowers's Weblog
RT : Absolutely fascinating and detailed investigation of AV and FPTP as recommended to me by : ...
AV  voting  fptp  uk  election  system  mathematics  slogals  politics  government  britain  fairness  from twitter
april 2011 by sunpig
Mexico and the Failed State Revisited | STRATFOR
"From Mexico’s point of view, interrupting the flow of drugs to the United States is not clearly in the national interest or in that of the economic elite. Observers often dwell on the warfare between smuggling organizations in the northern borderland but rarely on the flow of American money into Mexico. Certainly, that money could corrupt the Mexican state, but it also behaves as money does. It is accumulated and invested, where it generates wealth and jobs. "
mexico  stratfor  georgefriedman  politics  economics  drugs  warondrugs  capital  cartel  usa 
april 2010 by sunpig
Charlie's Diary: Designing society for posterity
"Designing a space habitat/generation ship with the implicit parameter that the crew are expected to work 40-60 hours a week is a really bad idea; efficiency is the enemy of redundancy, and multiple redundancy (in life support and propulsion) is absolutely vital to any such project (because it provides resiliency that is essential to have any hope of recovering from a disaster). What if the population crashes? If you've designed your ship to require a 40-hour work week by 1000 maintenance crew and you're down to 250 crew, you're going to die. A 10-hour work week, in contrast, gives them a fighting chance of survival in event of a major die-off."
charliestross  society  sociology  space  travel  longnow  future  sf  sciencefiction  interstellar  lh  politics  psychology  generationship  government 
november 2009 by sunpig
Doth I protest too much? | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian
"Protest is part of the democratic process. It wasn't the goodwill of politicians that led them to cancel developing countries' debt, but the protests and campaigning of millions of ordinary people around the world. The political leaders were merely the rubber stamp in the democratic process. Thus any targeting and treatment of demonstrators (at the G20 for example) that creates a "chilling effect" – deterring those who may wish to exercise their right to protest – is profoundly undemocratic."
markthomas  guardian  politics  protest  democracy  freedom  privacy  security  surveillance  police  uk  activism  lh 
october 2009 by sunpig
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