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European Parliament rushes towards Soviet Internet OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by ewelke on Thursday, 10 July, 2008 - 13:27
FFII

There has been a recent public outrage over anti-piracy lobbyist amendments to a European Parliament Telecom reform bill. The amendments would both implement a 'three-strikes' rule, which would cut off internet access for anyone suspected of illegal file-sharing, as well as giving government control to which internet software and services could be 'lawfully' used. On 7 July 2008, in Brussels, politicians voted in favour of the addition of these amendments to the Telecom law which will be voted on in September.


The Battle of all* Mothers (or: No Unauthorised Reproduction) Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 14 May, 2008 - 13:14
Madame Tlank


The UK’s health and social services have become tools of surveillance and control, with working class women the most vulnerable to state intervention. Madame Tlank reviews the State’s policies, targets and projects and uncovers the warped logic and fragmenting effects of marketised welfare


Hillary joins the vast, rightwing financial conspiracy OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 21:31
Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson on the fiscal policy continuity from Reagan's supply side 'voodoo' through (Bill) Clinton-era government by Goldman Sachs bond traders (a tradition continued with Bush's appointment of Paulson) to the present crisis.

Resurrecting Greenspan
Hillary Joins the Vast, Rightwing Financial Conspiracy

By MICHAEL HUDSON


Hanging in the balance (PFI & PwC) OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 - 17:56
Private Eye

From Private Eye, the otherwise barely-reported story of the recent Treasury paper underlying the UK government's renewed commitment to more! bigger! better! PFI, which draws on the 'analysis' of PFI fee-farmers PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG etc.

    It has screwed scores of hospital budgets, snarled up the school building process and lumbered taxpayers with billions of pounds of hidden debts, yet the private finance initiative continues to thrive.  Why?


Big cheques in the post OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 3 April, 2008 - 18:56
Private Eye (In the Back)

Last year's Royal Mail strikes responsded to an ongoing attack on postal workers' conditions, the origins of which can be traced directly to the competitve, 'harmonized' market being gradually introduced under the EU Postal Directives of 1997 and 2002.  The threatened closure of post offices across the UK also falls within the Directives' market logic.  (It remains to be seen if local post office user campaigns, whose bandwagon now groans under the weight of Ken Livingstone and a posse of embarrassed/embarrassing Labour MPs, will manage to organize in solidarity w


Outsourcing: lie of the land OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 24 March, 2008 - 02:53
Private Eye (In the Back section)

From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants.  The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita.
*NB. Readers with no sympathy for 'benefit thieves' have come to the wrong website.

Outsourcing
LIE OF THE LAND

Lie–detector technology developed by Mossad for interrogating suspeted Palestinian terrorists is being used in British Jobcentres.


Mute Vol 2 #7 cover Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 February, 2008 - 16:50
Mute Vol 2 #7 cover

Invisible Workforce Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 19 February, 2008 - 11:51
Invisible Workforce

Home Counties Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 19 February, 2008 - 11:45
Home Counties

Doing it for the Kids Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 14 February, 2008 - 16:42
Elizabeth Povinelli

On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour


dps Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 16:36
dps

Concern Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 16:30
Concern

Free Software Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:31
Toni Prug

                               Free Software
                         Toni Prug, toni@irational.org
                                August 13, 2007


Putting Illegality to Work Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Friday, 8 February, 2008 - 14:56
Seemab Gul

The vulnerability of illegalised workers forces them to accept the worst pay and conditions and produces conflict within the working class as a whole. Here Seemab Gul examines how the production of this illegality is the main goal of the UK’s immigration laws
 


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