Defending the state? Welfare cuts and the social wage
Chris | 04.11.2010 00:19 | Analysis | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | Sheffield
Attached is a recording of the Sheffield communist discussion group meeting held on 3rd November 2010 on the subject of the Con/Dem public sector and welfare cuts.
This is how the meeting was advertised:
An open, independent forum to discuss class struggle and communist theory in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
Questions:
Do we simply defend the "welfare state"?
Will the cuts smash or restructure "welfare"?
Are the cuts an economic necessity?
Can Trade unions defend jobs and services?
http://alt-sheff.co.uk/events/1067/
http://yorks-afed.org/2010/10/sheffield-communist-forum-defending-the-state-welfare-cuts-and-the-social-wage/
With further links to background reading on the Commune site:
http://thecommune.co.uk/2010/10/12/welfare-capitalism-and-the-cuts-sheffield-wednesday-3rd-november/
Sheffield Communist Forum Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152244801465099
Audio of past meetings:
Imperialism and the National Question
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/05/451151.html
Alienation
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/04/449172.html
The Rise of the Far Right and Anti-Fascism
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/02/446261.html
What would our alternative society look like?
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/01/445008.html
An open, independent forum to discuss class struggle and communist theory in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
Questions:
Do we simply defend the "welfare state"?
Will the cuts smash or restructure "welfare"?
Are the cuts an economic necessity?
Can Trade unions defend jobs and services?
http://alt-sheff.co.uk/events/1067/
http://yorks-afed.org/2010/10/sheffield-communist-forum-defending-the-state-welfare-cuts-and-the-social-wage/
With further links to background reading on the Commune site:
http://thecommune.co.uk/2010/10/12/welfare-capitalism-and-the-cuts-sheffield-wednesday-3rd-november/
Sheffield Communist Forum Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152244801465099
Audio of past meetings:
Imperialism and the National Question
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/05/451151.html
Alienation
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/04/449172.html
The Rise of the Far Right and Anti-Fascism
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/02/446261.html
What would our alternative society look like?
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/01/445008.html
Chris
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