UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
The Grangemouth dispute makes it clear who really runs the country - Owen Jones
28-10-2013 14:39
extracts for the article highlighted: "..And so the workers and Scotland as a whole had a pistol pointed at their head. Capitulate on our terms, said Ineos, or the plant will go. It could have blown away around 10% of the Scottish economy, triggering economic ruin for entire communities." & "..The whole episode raises again an age-old question, not whispered enough, let alone asked loudly: who runs Britain?"Unconditional Basic Income
27-10-2013 12:24
MisiónStart a debate about Unconditional Basic Income in Europe and beyond
INEOS announce Grangemouth Petrochemical Plant to close/Workers continue fight
23-10-2013 15:33
This morning in a shock annoucement INEOS Refining - owner of Grangemouth Oil Refinery & Petrochemical Plant - announced that the petrochemical plant at Grangemouth was to close, with 800 people to be made redundant. It comes after Unite members voted for strike-action on 27th September, with 90% voting in favour of a strike with an 86% turnout, after INEOS issued workers with a ‘sign or be sacked’ ultimatum to slash jobs, pay and pensions with a deadline by 6pm Monday 21 October. This further escalation of closure shows the brute careless abandon of INEOS controlled by billionaire hedge fund owner, Jim Ratcliffe, that compromises the entire oil industry and petrol supplies throughout the UK particularly Scotland, and the shameless opportunism of a company resorting to the worst example of industrial vandalism in living memory to get their own way, who have refused union demands to allow the company accounts to be reviewed by an independent assessor of the union's choosing.London property market explodes (again): London as world financial hub
22-10-2013 15:23
On the day after it is announced that London House prices have risen an incredible 10% in just 1 month
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-20/london-home-prices-rise-an-unsustainable-10-on-foreign-demand.html just thought I'd share this with you - something I wrote in TLIO's name back in 2006/7 (updated):
Why Having Children Should Be Illegal:
16-10-2013 00:21
Despite all the cultural and religious indoctrination (and presumption) to the contrary, to be born Homo sapiens onto this planet, even in these modern times of materialist comfort, is still far too much a curse. Of course no one will tell you you’ve been condemned to a life of questionable worth and meaning, albeit with plenty need to toil for one’s un-mitigating desires. Rather its expected you’ll inculcate the accepted lies, such as how precious life is, in general, as it is always presumed to be—and never question its ordained status or sacred value. Conditioned are you then to think you “should” be grateful for having been born into this human mess (more properly referred to as the insanity of humanity).Meeting on new ideas for anti-capitalist/anarchist actions
13-10-2013 13:22
On 20th October 2013 the Stop G8 Network are meeting to discuss taking forward new ideas for anti-capitalist and anarchist projects. Some of the ideas on the agenda are an anarchist news website, a temporary anti-capitalist squatted space and an anarchist festival.U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Take Argentina and NML Capital Debt Case
07-10-2013 18:39
The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take the landmark debt case between Argentina and bondholders led by NML Capital, a hedge fund that buys the debt of countries in financial crisis. Argentina is expected to file a second petition in the coming months that the Supreme Court will review and decide again if it will hear the case. In June, Argentina filed a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to overturn a ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made last October. The ruling ordered Argentina to pay bondholders $1.33 billion based on the court’s interpretation of a pari passu, or parity clause.65 Syrians protesting at the port of Calais
03-10-2013 09:45
65 Syrian exiles have blocked the foot passengers entrance at the Calais port and some of them have gone on hungerstrike. They are asking to meet a Home Office representative as they want to be allowed to seek safety in UK. They are also complaining at their inhuman treatement at the hads of the French authorities and police.25 Ingredients In McNuggets, 17 Ingredients in McDonald's Fries..
24-09-2013 19:46
litter, etc.
In memoriam Pavlos Fyssas
21-09-2013 21:56
Robotics and the real (sorry, Karl, you got it wrong) final crisis of capitalism
17-09-2013 16:56
Robotics is advancing rapidly. Probably within the lifetime of most people now living – and conceivably within the next ten years – there will be general purpose robots (GPRs) capable of doing the vast majority of the work now undertaken by human beings. When that happens international free trade and free market economics even within a closed domestic market will become untenable. The final crisis of capitalism will be the development of technology so advanced that it makes capitalism in the Marxist sense impossible because machines make humans redundant.Royal Mail and ideology
16-09-2013 10:46
The privatisation of Royal Mail is an act of pure ideology. The globalist, laissez faire ideology has infected to a lesser or greater degree all of Britain’s major political parties. That ideology dovetails with the supranational mentality engendered by the EU , commitment to which is at the British political elite’s political core. It is doubtful if any senior British politician not firmly committed to either laissez faire globalism or the EU; most are committed to both. That is the simple truth.The era of changing yourself
28-08-2013 20:56
The era of activism has ended. No more cutting fences, no more protests, no more banners and leaflets.Words from the General Command of the EZLN, to the Indigenous National Congress
20-08-2013 15:52
The Indigenous national Congress has just been re-launched in Mexico to unite the struggles against megaprojects, mines, dams, theft of water and lands.This is the Zapatista word to the Congress.
Uprsing at Concentratiuon Camp, Amydaleza, Athens
10-08-2013 20:34
Incidents began at 2100 and peaked (reportedly) at 2200 when so called illegal immigrants set fire to their container cells. Reports of mattresses burned and at least one housing unit destroyed. Lots of tear gas, and flash bangs grenades reported with heavy police and fire unit present. Some reports that police coming the outside looking for escapees?Reports of injured immigrants, maybe heavy.
Tesco trying to close our local pub; petetion/demo
25-07-2013 14:09
Despite local saturation coverage already, Tesco want to close The Wheatsheaf in Tooting Bec and turn it yet another Tesco ExpressThe Future Isn’t Working
20-07-2013 13:56
And yet, at the same time, the imperative to work remains universal. Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to participate in workfare schemes in return for their Jobseeker’s Allowance. And with the new Universal Credit system, it is proposed to extend this so-called ‘conditionality’ even further, with mandatory 35 hours a week job searches, monitored remotely by Universal Jobmatch software. Even the unemployed are compelled to ‘work’.
Egypt – State of Disinformation
16-07-2013 12:33
It seems to have become a conundrum for many, but it was obvious for some at least since last summer when Morsi compromised with the spies of the old regime. This sort of Islamic revolution would be very different from the one in Persia a generation ago, where Khomeini resisted that temptation, not as much as the death toll on the most revolutionary segments of the population is concerned, but in its fundamental architecture and outlook to the future. The current Persian regime, whatever one might think of it, was literally rebuilt from mud, but in Egypt it was the remainder of the old which served as the raw material for the new one, with the Islamic association being little more than the icing on the cake. This decoration has now been removed, and lacking an internal enemy the structural legacy of generations of imperialist meddling has come to the fore.Ethical fashion debated or not at Ethical Fashion Source Summit Friday 12th of J
11-07-2013 18:16
What's missing from this government-subsidised list of what "ethical fashion" means?- Fair Trade (or ethical trading), the second one would be
- Organic, manmade, bio-degradable fabrics, and the third is
- Recycling and upcycling.
£225 buys you access to an exclusive view of Ethical Fashion
07-07-2013 17:32
If you have £225 to spare you can attend a conference from the "Ethical Fashion Forum" at the Chrystal Conference Centre this Friday in London's Docklands. The event will brief deligates in how to appear "Ethical" without mentioning the UK governments' call for more transparency in Bangladesh or the EU parliaments' motion urging tariff rises if Bangladeshi human rights don't improve.