Showing posts with label Capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capitalism. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Boycott Prada if you can live without your luxuries for just a while...
I doubt if many of you regularly buy leather goods sold by Prada, Louis
Vuitton, Mulberry and Nicole Farhi. These are luxury brands, priced too
high for ordinary working people like us.
But the people who make those products are often low-paid, non-union
workers. When those workers stand up and fight for their rights, it's
our responsibility to stand with them.
Earlier this year, hundreds of workers at the Turkish leather
manufacturer DESA -- which produces for all the luxury brands mentioned
above -- joined a union. The reaction of the company was fierce: 44
union members were sacked, and 50 more compelled to quit the union.
Nevertheless, the workers have stood firm, holding daily protests
outside the factory. Local police have been called in to arrest them,
and bribes offered to union leaders to call off the demonstrations.
Families have been threatened.
Workers at DESA need a union urgently. They complain of poverty wages,
long hours and terrible health and safety conditions.
Please take a moment to send off a message to DESA's customers -- the
luxury fashion brands -- telling them that you support the DESA workers
in their struggle:
http://www.labourstart.org/desa
Tell them that a union is right, not a luxury.
Thanks - and spread the word!
Vuitton, Mulberry and Nicole Farhi. These are luxury brands, priced too
high for ordinary working people like us.
But the people who make those products are often low-paid, non-union
workers. When those workers stand up and fight for their rights, it's
our responsibility to stand with them.
Earlier this year, hundreds of workers at the Turkish leather
manufacturer DESA -- which produces for all the luxury brands mentioned
above -- joined a union. The reaction of the company was fierce: 44
union members were sacked, and 50 more compelled to quit the union.
Nevertheless, the workers have stood firm, holding daily protests
outside the factory. Local police have been called in to arrest them,
and bribes offered to union leaders to call off the demonstrations.
Families have been threatened.
Workers at DESA need a union urgently. They complain of poverty wages,
long hours and terrible health and safety conditions.
Please take a moment to send off a message to DESA's customers -- the
luxury fashion brands -- telling them that you support the DESA workers
in their struggle:
http://www.labourstart.org/
Tell them that a union is right, not a luxury.
Thanks - and spread the word!
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Walking tour around Londons capitalist crisis points
A walking tour and talk in the City of London, taking in landmarks of capitalist crisis past and present - organised by Mute magazine
(Writer) Fabian Tompsett and (Historian) Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (such as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text.
When: 3-5pm, Wednesday 12th November, 2008
Where: Meet 3pm at front entrance to the Royal Exchange, Threadneedle Street, London EC1
Nearest Tube: Bank
Admission: Free / All welcome
(Writer) Fabian Tompsett and (Historian) Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (such as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text.
When: 3-5pm, Wednesday 12th November, 2008
Where: Meet 3pm at front entrance to the Royal Exchange, Threadneedle Street, London EC1
Nearest Tube: Bank
Admission: Free / All welcome
Monday, 3 November 2008
SOAS dancing on the grave of capitalism
See more pics at my fickr account
Very ghostly pic...
They followed a group of about 25 of us all the way to the Stop the War party. They were actually quite friendly (I'm not sure what their plan was) and even stopped the traffic to allow us to cross!
Me and Malaika looking oooh ever so scary! Suzie and I won a competition for scariest outfits, well, we came second but it was fixed! i also won the champagne in the raffle which was much more exciting...
Very ghostly pic...
They followed a group of about 25 of us all the way to the Stop the War party. They were actually quite friendly (I'm not sure what their plan was) and even stopped the traffic to allow us to cross!
Me and Malaika looking oooh ever so scary! Suzie and I won a competition for scariest outfits, well, we came second but it was fixed! i also won the champagne in the raffle which was much more exciting...
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Karl Marx: did he get it right? Vote here...
From the Times Online Comment Central blog
Did Karl Marx get it right? That's the poser in today's paper. The Prussian has recently been ignored by the mainstream - consigned to obscure curricula as the business world steamed ahead. But as markets plummeted last week, dog-eared copies of Das Kapital started to fly off the shelves.
Did Karl Marx get it right? That's the poser in today's paper. The Prussian has recently been ignored by the mainstream - consigned to obscure curricula as the business world steamed ahead. But as markets plummeted last week, dog-eared copies of Das Kapital started to fly off the shelves.
Comment Central wants to know your thoughts. Can you hear an 'I told you so' reverberating from Highgate Cemetery? Or are you still using the work of its most famous resident to prop up your television?
Cast your vote here.
Sunday, 12 October 2008
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Egyptian stockbrockers face says it all!
Hearing the news that Egyptian certificates of deposit traded on the LSE have fallen dramatically and also that the Egyptian stock market is about to crash too, this gem of a photo sums up the general worry of the greedy capitalists.
Read more at El-Badeel newspaper here
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Monday, 15 September 2008
Destroy American Imperialism
Destroy American Imperialism, originally uploaded by solomonsmfield.Some would say that according to Antionio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony McDonald's has such power in American culture as well as enormous capital and advertising power in the media that it is ingrained in the American psyche and has come to represent all that is false, plastic and unhealthy about Western consumer culture.
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