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CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion.
Wednesday 1 February — 7.00 pm — People’s Bookshop
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With a substantial explanatory introduction this pamphlet outlines the fight of the Italian Left within the Communist Party of Italy against the dictates and impositions of Moscow. Today we recognise it as one of the founding documents of the entire Italian Left tradition in its fight against the degeneration of the Comintern.
46 pages A5 £3.00/€4/$4 plus £1/€2/$2 postage from the group address.
Spain 1934-39 — From Working Class Struggle to Imperialist War
With a new preamble it contains many articles that have long been out of print on the Asturias Soviet of 1934, on Anarchism, Trotskyism and the Communist Left as well as the Barcelona May Days plus reprints from Octobre the organ of the International Communist Left during the war in Spain.
40 pages A4 £3.00/€4/$4 plus £1/€2/$2 postage from the group address
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its growth forecasts for most major countries, warning the eurozone crisis threatens to pull the global economy into a slump.
It downgraded the world’s growth forecast from 4.1% to 3.3%, and cut the UK’s growth outlook from 1.6% to 0.6%.
The IMF also expects the eurozone to experience a recession in 2012, with the region’s economy shrinking by 0.5%.
Until at least the middle of the next decade, global growth is likely to slow to approximately 3 percent per year on average–a rate somewhat below the average of the last two decades. A recovery in advanced economies will be more than offset by a gradual slowdown in emerging ones as they mature, with the net result that global growth will slow. But the biggest risk ahead for the global economy is not this slower overall growth in output but a slowdown in average output per capita, which will determine how fast living standards can be supported and raised.
The World Bank’s forecasts of world economic growth (Jan 2012) has been “significantly downgraded” from its previous assessment six months ago. It now expected the global economy to expand by only 2.5 percent and 3.1 percent in 2012 and 2013, compared to the previous prediction of 3.6 percent for both years. Any rate below 3 percent is generally considered to be a recession for the world economy as a whole. Europe was now in a recession and growth in high-income countries was expected to be only 1.4 percent. Even these weak results may not be achieved.
The pay gap between the highest and lowest earners in the UK has grown more quickly than in any other high-income country since 1975, a report has said.
Research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found the sharp increase in income inequality, which began in 2005, leaves Britain well above the group’s average.
The study — Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising — published by the forum of 34 countries that earn the most, said the annual average income of the top 10% was almost £55,000 in 2008, nearly 12 times higher than that of the bottom 10%, who earned an average of £4,700. This is up from a ratio of 8 to 1 in 1985, the OECD said.
ROME (AP) — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures.
The “Occupy Wall Street” protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.
Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set at least two vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags
On Friday over 3,000 people marched to New York Police Department headquarters to protest the over 80 arrests and pepper-spraying of unresisting demonstrators the week before. Dominating the march were large numbers of young people whose futures have been gravely undermined by the economic crisis and the response of the political elite to it.
Over 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday on the Brooklyn Bridge by the New York Police Department (NYPD) after the cops had allowed them to enter the roadway reserved for motorized vehicles.
The mass arrests mark a major escalation in police intimidation tactics. wsws.org
The UK’s economy will not grow as quickly as previously thought this year and may not fully recover for another three years, the Bank of England has said.
GDP is set to grow by around 1.4% in 2011, the Bank said in its quarterly inflation report, down from its estimate of around 1.8% in May.
Growth will remain sluggish in the near term, reflecting the continued squeeze on household incomes, but the Bank said it is likely to be above normal levels by 2014…. “The outlook for growth in the world economy has deteriorated and, largely as a consequence, near-term growth prospects at home are somewhat weaker,” Sir Mervyn added.
56 million years ago, the average temperature rose almost 6°C over about twenty thousand years — the most rapid (documented) warming in the past. However, according a recent paper in Nature Geoscience, the current rate of carbon release to the atmosphere is almost ten times higher than the highest rate during the PETM.
The latest evaluation of humanity’s carbon budget for 2010 released by the IEA was not good. The poor global economy had meant that 2009 had seen a rare drop in CO2 emissions compared to the year before. But in 2010, carbon emissions roared back to set a new record.
Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging a sit-in at the factory, which manufactures piston rings for Hyundai, Kia, Renault and General Motors in South Korea. The majority of occupiers have been arrested, with the remaining strikers and their supporters being dispersed by the police.
More than 250,000 civil servants are to vote on staging a national strike in protest at government cuts to jobs, services and pensions.
The nationwide ballot was approved by delegates at the annual conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union in Brighton.
Voting will start next week and the result will be known by mid-June.
It has been timed to coincide with industrial action by other workers, including teachers, who are set to walk out on June 30.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told the conference that 750,000 workers could be involved in strikes next month, a figure that could rise to millions later in the year.
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