–People taking back the streets in Hungry. Cannot argue with that.

–Nothing new for the workers in the “new” offer coming from the CBC corporation. The lockout continues. Support the workers!

–The new ColdType is out. Always an interesting read.

–The WSWS writes about the Chinese government’s crackdown on the people and how far from power the people are now in that country.

–A compliment to the article below on the ejection of Mr. Wolfgang from the conference for heckling Jack Straw. It seems they also threw out s supporter who tried to stop them.

–The gentleman that was ejected from the Neo-Labour Party conference has written a piece for the Independent of London about his experiences in Labour and what the party has become today.

–The racist and chauvinistic comments of the utterly useless but somehow influential writings of Thomas Friedman.

–Douglas Ireland reports that the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization has sent out a call for support from the NA activists to bring awareness and support for their struggle against the barbaric actions of the Iranian state.

–Douglas Ireland on Democracy Now! A great show and a great guest. What else would you want to listen to on a Friday?

–Le Monde Diplomatique takes a closer look at the contracts that are being rewarded in New Orleans and sees nothing but anti-poor and racist actions.

–And you thought to were going to be safe to say what you want online?

–An interview with the author of a book on the struggle for the people’s power to grow in South Africa. There is a growing movement down there and they need to be put in the international spotlight.

–That is a lot of people. It is too bad that the whole thing is “progressive” except for a few Marxists that show up to represent the workers. This might change a little with it happening in Venezuela!

–Jim Lobe writes about the lowering trust the people of the US have in Bush. One could ask what took so long?

–Politics within Neo-Labour look to be getting heated. I think that either the workers take back the party and send Blair to the Tories where he belongs or they need to build a party of their own.

–A quick look at how the myth of dependancy (actually, it works the other way) stops food from reaching the people that need it.

–This is interesting. Ugandan president has sent out an altimatum to the world to disarm the rebels or he will. I do not know enough about this conflict to comment further on this… Would anyone else care to?

–HA! Oh, this is a good one. People who share are more likely to be thieves. Only capitalists can write such garbage.

–Double the military budget? Are we in a rush to start wars? Lets spend the money on society and see if we cannot stop imperialism before the armed forces are needed.

–These passports are not going to do anything for security of our boarders.

–The Tories have not been in the news much lately so their numbers have gone up… this is not something to be proud about.

–New deal for childcare… however there is nothing that stops private hands from looking for and making profits off the system.

Gary Kinsman gives us the (uncritical) low-down on Autonomous Marxism. Some of you may be familiar with the work of Antonio Negri, entitled “Empire”. Negri is also an autonomist Marxist. So is Harry Cleaver (”Reading Capital Politically”), Hardt, etc. It’s a revisionist trend that is (unfortunately) becoming ever more popular. Here’s a sample: “Autonomy in autonomist Marxism can be seen as autonomy from both capital and the official leaderships of the trade unions and political parties and the capacity and necessity of groups of workers who experience different oppressions to act autonomously from others (blacks from whites, women from men, queers from straights).” For a classical Marxist, this is a sham(e)! Have a read!

–General (well… more of a national) Strike in India today.

–Some basic analysis on the CBC Lockout coming from the Socialist Worker of the International Socialists in Canada. Support the CBC workers. Demand that the government intervene and give the CBC more money and more control of that money to its workers.

–The WSWS continues it analysis of the attack on science and evolution in the US.

–If you think that we have a “free” public healthcare system then think again. Our public health insurance system has been under attack for so long and at such a slow and steady pace that we have not realized that the services that we one had have been replaced with for profit ones that exclude the poor and the working class of this country. This trend must be reversed if we are going to keep healthcare for all.

–For profit child care. Yes, there is nothing like the continued attack on the poor to make people angry. They should be angry. The service we have been asking for is a publicly funded childcare system. Not a money grubbing for profit babysitting system.

–This is a Trotskyist analysis of the one-day general strike in India. An interesting read of the situation in India.

–Have a read of a Marxist analysis of the current “peace processes” in Ireland. The state has once again manufactured its own version of reality. The conflict is continuing regardless of how many time the politicians say that it isn’t.

–Dear Kitty relates a story of Turkish women standing up to empire.

–This is global warming. Don’t let the silly people on the right-wing try to give you religious derived excuses about how little we know about things… We are having an effect on the planet and it is going to make our lives very difficult.

–Ramzy Baroud talks about the different picture the West gets of war compared to the realities and the media in the Middle East.

–The DRC is a mess… and no one seems to notice.

–Jim Stanford (the economist at the Canadian Auto Workers union) writes about the new contracts with the big three. He also points out the capitali markets and how they are not going to help Canadian workers.