Posted in CWU, Industry, Postal Strike, Public Services, Royal Mail, Unionism on July 19, 2007 | No Comments »
having now determined which side of this I’m going to come down on I thought maybe I should continue with the inside commentary.
The CWU has escalated strike action with a rolling programme of strikes that will last a full two weeks, the strikes will be called for different elements of the company at different times [...]
Posted in British Rail, Economy, Education, Free Market, Government, Industry, NHS, Police, Privatisation, Public Services, Renationalisation, Royal Mail, Social, Socialism, Society, UK politics, Utopia, democracy on July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation.
I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising them.
To [...]
Posted in Blair, Capitilism, Class Conflict, Free Market, Government, Industry, Labour, Major, Marxism, Materialism, Political, Property Market, Social, Socialism, Society, Thatcher, UK politics, Unionism on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
How would we go about applying libertarianism to Socialism, given that due to history many people seem to labour under some major misconceptions about both.
I’m thinking now back to the idea that was popularized by John Major, the interim primeminister in the void between Thatcherism and Blairism. He wanted to create a classless society, and [...]
Posted in CWU, Industry, Marxism, Media, Public Services, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism on July 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterdays strike was supported by around 95% of the Royal Mail workforce, those are figures from the CWU, I’d like to get some less vested figures but it would seem that none are available, in fact over the past few days neither the Times nor the Independent has even given it a mention.
I have looked [...]
Posted in Capitilism, Economy, Free Market, Government, Industry, Socialism, Society on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
The examples of the USSR, China and Cuba have been widely upheld as the failure of Socialism and all its precepts, as a result most modern ’socialist’ parties have abandoned their plans for social reform and taken a more Laissez-Faire attitude toward managing Capitalist society as best they can, without ever seriously challenging the status [...]
Posted in Capitilism, Free Market, Idiocy, Industry, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail, Social, Socialism on June 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It struck me today whilst conversing with a colleauge about the nature of the current industrial dispute that the fashionable fervour for a free market ignores one very interesting fact.
The idea behind the free market is that by introducing competition to previously state owned monopolies you will initiate a sudden rush to become more productive, [...]
