Great Recession » unionism http://www.greatrecession.info Because it's not a Depression.Yet. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:05:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 State Socialism for the Rich, Market Liberalism for the Poor http://www.greatrecession.info/2009/03/17/state-socialism-for-the-rich-market-liberalism-for-the-poor/ http://www.greatrecession.info/2009/03/17/state-socialism-for-the-rich-market-liberalism-for-the-poor/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:21:37 +0000 alex.foti http://www.greatrecession.info/?p=2414 This is what’s happening in the EU and the US. Where’s the left? Socialists sold out to Blair and the Third Way a decade ago. With the exception of Zapatero (actually fairly orthodox on the economic front, although now he has fired Almunia), there hasn’t been anything new on the rosé side. As for reds, the descendants of the communist left are saying their time has come back again because of the crisis of capitalism, but they are mostly nostalgics of the working class, aging 68ers and trozkyite no-gooders. They have nothing to say about the informational society and, more damningly, they don’t have a strategy to organize service and immigrant labor in the slump. Because this is the utmost imperative, especially for radical lefties: to organize new forms of labor so that people can claim back what capital has stolen from them over the last two decades. There will be no way out of the Great Recession without huge social transfers and generalized wage rises, in short, without redistribution. In the meantime, let’s fight for the right of eating a tuna sandwich out of the bin while at work:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/fired-over-a-tuna-sandwich-and-fighting-back/?emc=eta1

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