"Prediction is difficult, especially about the future" --------------------- Reflections on questions concerning global warming Richard Jones Part 4: Where are we going? Modelling the future climate --------------------- If anyone is amused by that old joke about prediction, it may be thanks to an assumption that prediction, obviously, is about the future. However, people in the … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
By Gwydion M. Williams [The photo above shows Pan Zhanle, Chinese Olympic swimmer] Riots by Failed Englishmen Failed By Thatcher Laissez-faire becomes Laissez Foul IT Giants – They Who Must Be Obeyed Olympic Politics China Rising The Vices of US Vice-President Snippets Normal Corruption in India Lethal Corruption in India Erdogan as a new Baybars … Continue reading Notes on the News
Catherine Dunlop [The photo above shows Viktor Orbán] Socialists call themselves socialists, conservatives call themselves conservatives, but so-called populists don’t call themselves populists. It is a derogatory term. The word itself indicate that the people are involved, either as a mass to be flattered and used, as in demagogy, or simply involved. The implication is that the … Continue reading What is Populism ?
We reproduce this article by Tim Pendry of the Workers Party of Britain Tim Pendry Unstable Times Sep 03, 2024 We are supposed to be either surprised or outraged by populist (both Left and Right) victories in the regional elections in East Germany but, leaving outrage to partisans, it should not be a ‘shock’ to anyone … Continue reading Germany & The Problem of Centrism under Pressure
[The Liberal mainstream are worried about the rise of a genuine left wing party that looks after the interests of working people in Germany. The latest ploy, used recently by the Guardian is to describe the BSW as ‘far right’. Extracts from recent BSW bulletins expose this for the lie that it is. What liberals … Continue reading Labour Affairs Bulletin on the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht Party in Germany.
No Ban without a Plan Sharon Graham: We can’t sit back and allow oil and gas workers to become the miners of net zero https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/5902396/sharon-graham-oil-gas-unite-opinion/ Put simply: the transition to net zero will only work if we put jobs at its very heart. The current plan is too vague, writes Unite's general secretary. When Margaret … Continue reading Sharon Graham on Net Zero
Richard Jones Part 3: Global Climate Change? I had intended for this instalment simply to look at the facts about the climate record (expecting to find confirmation that average temperature has been rising, and then in later instalments examine the evidence as to causes, the oracles predicting how this will evolve, and the pundits telling … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
By Gwydion M. Williams Suffering from Freedom, Rather Than Enjoying It. India – Twisting a Twisted System Anti-Social Housing Snippets China’s Continuing Rise Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian An End to Feed-the-Rich? The Alternative Right How to be a Good Follower Austerity Was Pointless Fixing Addiction Suffering from Freedom, Rather Than Enjoying It. All … Continue reading Notes on the News
The Guilt of Upper London and the Mahan USA Press Poisoners – Now on Television Upper London’s Other Victims The Oddity of Kosovo Post-Truthful in Gaza Britain Gave the World Democracy? The USA as Redefined by Admiral Mahan Press Poisoners – Now on Television Irish socialist James Connolly complained in 1913 about the way that … Continue reading Britain’s Immoral Foreign Policy
Once again we bring Labour Affairs readers news of the developing anti-globalist worker-friendly new left party in Germany. The party did well in the European elections and despite caution about growing too rapidly it is self-confident and optimistic about its future, particularly as it is offering policies that no other German political party wishes to … Continue reading Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht June 2024
[The first round of elections left about 500 constituencies where no one had an absolute majority. 200 had only 2 candidates remaining, but 300 had 3 candidates eligible for the second round. Negotiations took place for the weakest candidate to withdraw in order to try and block the National Rally from being elected. In around 200 constituencies the … Continue reading French Elections 7 July 2024
Brendan Clifford "Britain should be preparing for war—instead we're fretting over fiscal rules".—so says Paul Mason in City AM (9th April). Under his many disguises Mason has always remained a British patriot. British patriotism carries many things of the moment along with it on its erratic journey. These things are discarded in a moment when the opportunity arises for … Continue reading Britain Preparing for War
Richard Jones Part 2: What must we do? In the service of a multi-billion pound industry --------------------- In my introduction last month, I explained that I accepted the premises of climatists (a term that I will adopt, coined by people responding to being called denialists) when I set down to write about the project of … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
John ClaydenAn Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Force Made a Nation Verso, 2020by Haim Bresheeth-ZabnerNot long ago some of us went to demonstrate outside Hackney Police Station when we learnt the police were receiving training from the Israeli security services. Our MP Dianne Abbott turned up thereby no doubt sealing her own … Continue reading An Army Like No Other—Book Review
Gwydion M. Williams (The photo shows Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia) Georgia Defending its Sovereignty Slovakia Condemned for Disagreement Georgia Defending its Sovereignty If it is wrong for foreign powers to meddle in the politics of sovereign nations, surely it is sensible to make a law exposing those who have been meddled with? To insists … Continue reading The Slovak Assassin and the Riots in Georgia
PRESS RELEASE, May 22, 2024 Today the International Criminal Court has been officially called to investigate Ursula von der Leyen for complicity. Reasonable grounds exist to believe that the unconditional support of the President of the European Commission to Israel – military, economic, diplomatic and political – has enabled war crimes and the ongoing genocide … Continue reading Ursula von der Leyen ‘guilty of war crimes’
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter May 2024 ‘Labour Affairs’ is pleased to publish the European manifesto and an extract from the party manifesto for the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), the new left party in Germany led by Sahra Wagenknecht. In both documents the key points are clearly stated and it is evident that BSW deputies would be … Continue reading News from Germany. The new party steps cautiously forward.
(The photo shows Mosul after its destruction in 2017) "In a roundtable discussion Wednesday [8 May], former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp defended Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians by advocating military brutality as a general principle. .... “Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel is doing, we … Continue reading Military Brutality as a General Principle in Western Thinking
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