Lisbeth Latham | Public figure
Lisbeth Latham
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25.01.2022 My latest article published by Green Left. Looking at the limitations of Morrison's wage subsidy and what we need to achieve so that working people don't pay the price of this crisis.
24.01.2022 My latest article for the Irish Broad Left looking at the capitalist accumulation crisis and how capital has intensified war on working people in response.
23.01.2022 TL/DR The Morison government's wage subsidy announcement is an important step, but like early stimulus packages is insufficient to face the extent of the crisis confronting us. We need a ban on layoffs, a wage subsidy for all workers, a subsidy that more accurately reflects workers real wages in this economy. Capital and the government are moving, but they have not moved enough but we can win.
23.01.2022 Some thoughts on applying the transitional program to the COVID-19 crisis.
22.01.2022 My latest article for Green Left. Discussion of the impact Morrison government's changes to the Fair Work Regulations around agreement variations on workers rights and a discussion of the protections needed in any agreement variations to protect workers rights and limit the extent to which workers are made to pay for the crisis.
21.01.2022 The French government has activated clause 49.3 of the constitution allowing it to pass its attacks on pensions without a vote in parliament.
18.01.2022 For those who didn't see the version published by the Irish Broad Left here is my article explaining the origins, components, and functioning of the Transitional Programme and it might be updated to meet the political challenges confronting us today.
18.01.2022 My latest article for Irish Broad Left. Thanks to Emma for making me sound coherent. TL/DR capitalism and neoliberalism are a highly resilient system and ideological structure respectively. Their proponents are adept at turning setbacks and crises into opportunities to deepen their dynamic. If they are to be destroyed it is going to take conscious and organised efforts on the part of working people.
17.01.2022 Some thoughts on the latest figures on working people making use of early access to superannuation, its implications for exacerbating poverty in retirement and the need for liveable government-funded pensions to address this.
17.01.2022 Wherein I argue that while an economic stimulus is needed both during and in the wake of the current crisis. That such a stimulus will not be able to reproduce an economic boom similar to that which followed the end of the Second World War. More importantly, in the face of the climate crisis progressives need to fight for an economy that not only prioritises the needs of people but ends capitalism's constant drive for growth.
15.01.2022 Discussion of the impact Morrison government's changes to the Fair Work Regulations around agreement variations on workers rights and a discussion of the protections needed in any agreement variations to protect workers rights and limit the extent to which workers are made to pay for the crisis.
15.01.2022 The Coronavirus Economic Response Package Acts passed on April 8 are about subsidising company profits than they are about protecting workers' incomes.
14.01.2022 Talk I gave last week via zoom to a Socialist Alliance forum.
14.01.2022 #15-11 of the most read/visited articles on my blog last year. #15 My "Presentation at Covid-19: Capitalism puts profits over health forum" - talk at a Socialist Alliance forum discussing the measures needed to ensure that working people wouldn't be pay for the crisis associated with the pandemic. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//presentation-at-c... #14 "Coronavirus Will Not Destroy Neoliberalism Only We Can Do That" - article for the Irish Broad Left challenging the idea that the crisis would automatically lead to the end of neoliberalism as the hegemonic capitalist response to crisis within capitalism, arguing instead that the current crisis would lead to a deepening of neoliberal policies unless an alternative course was forced by working people. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//coronavirus-will- #13 "France : Mobilising Islamophobia to mask the deepening authoritarian state" - article regarding the new wave of racist attacks on the Muslim community in France by the French state. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//france-mobilising #12 "Pro-Israel unionists seek to undermine Palestinian solidarity" - article looking at the role of the then newly formed Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine in undermine solidarity with the Palestinian national liberation struggle within the union movement within Anglophone countries. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//pro-israel-unioni #11 "Fair Work changes an attack on all workers" - article looking at the changes made to the Fair Work Act by the Morrison government in April which were aimed at making it easier for employers to use the COVID crisis to undermine working conditions. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//fair-work-changes
11.01.2022 My effort from last night. NVL/SDR JobKeeper was always primarily about boosting and protecting profits rather than protecting wages.
09.01.2022 New article which I wrote Sunday, looking at the idea of a rent strike and why I believe that fails to address the key question at present which is the maintenance of employment and wages during the pandemic induced economic crisis.
07.01.2022 My latest article for Green Left looking at how the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Acts passed on April 8 are about subsidising company profits and that is being done at the expense of workers' incomes and lives.
07.01.2022 I've been asked to speak at this forum. I'll be talking about and expanding on the issues I've discussed in the articles I've written over the past couple of weeks. If you are interesting me talk, please think about joining the Zoom mtg.
06.01.2022 I shared the GLW version earlier, I've just uploaded to my blog. Please feel free to share either. TL/DR: The government saying that workers can draw on their superannuation is an admission that the government's package is inadequate to meet the needs of working people and an effort to make working people sacrifice their retirements in order survive in the here and now. The government must guarantee wages to secure lives, jobs, and incomes.
06.01.2022 My latest article looking at where the government's stimulus goes wrong. It is also up at Green Left. Thanks to Fred for the editing work on it. It should be read in conjunction with my article from last week https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//working-communiti
05.01.2022 Posts #10-6 for 2020 #10 "France: Support for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France in the face of the attacks of Macron and Darmanin!" Joint statement against the move by the government to ban the Committee Against Islamophobia in France. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//france-support-fo... #9 "Morrison’s COVID-19 response puts profits ahead of people" Probably self expanitory. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//morrisons-covid-1 #8 "France: Philippe Government Guillotines Parliamentary Debate to Force Through Pension Attacks" https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//france-philippe-g #7 "For Green Universities: Insurgent campuses for sustainability" My attempt to explain the Red University Strategy and apply to the climate crisis. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//for-green-univers #6 "Morrison’s COVID-19 stimulus measures: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine" My assessment of the Morrison government's first stimulus package. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//morrisons-covid-1
04.01.2022 My latest article for Irish Broad Left
04.01.2022 Thanks to the Irish Broad Left for publishing my piece on the Transitional Programme. A nice touch that it was on the 80th Anniversary of the Old Man's assassination.
04.01.2022 Some thoughts on the events on January 6 and what comes after.
03.01.2022 Top Posts for 2020 #5-1 #5 "France: The Struggle to Defend the French Pension System" - Article outline the latest fight to defend France pensions system. This is article was randomly republished in both French and English by a news aggregation site. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//france-struggle-t... #4 "Keynesianism Is No Long-Term Solution To The Economic Crisis" - An attempt to outline the specific contextual factors which made Keynesian smoothing of business cycles possible in the wake of the Second World War, and how the current long run capitalist accumulation crisis has at its roots the disapparenence of these factors. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//keynesianism-is-n #3 "Solidaires statement declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign" - 2009 statement by the militant French union confederation Solidaires committing it to supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//solidaires-statem #2 "Working communities must not be made to pay for COVID-19 crisis" - One of my earlier contributions regarding responding to the looming COVID crisis. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//working-communiti #1 "COVID-19 and why a rent strike is the wrong tactic" - An arguement about the need to focus energies on ensuring sufficient income for working people to survive the crisis rather than simply not paying rents and mortgages which risked a spreading and deepending of the pandemic's associated economic crisis. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//covid-19-and-why- Did you have a favourite article from this year or another year? Let me know.
03.01.2022 So last year was quite a productive year for me - and for the first time, I am going to highlight the most read/viewed blog posts of the last year - running from 20 to 1. So at #20 was "Neoliberalism is dead, long live neoliberalism!", which was published in July of 2019 while I was in Brussels. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//neoliberalism-is-... #19 "COVID-19: Workers should not be made to mortgage our future" - one of a number of articles talking about the Morrison Government allowing working people to access to their Super to cover their living costs during COVID. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//covid-19-workers- #18 "Superannuation and the Morrison Government's Determination to Make Work People Pay for the Crisis" - same topic https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//superannuation-an #17 "SWP Rape Allegations and Lessons for the Left" - from 2014 - the title says it all about the covering up of rape by the former National Secretary of the British SWP. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//swp-rape-allegati #16 "Morrison’s COVID-19 wage subsidy fails workers" - one of a number of articles looking at the limitations of JobKeeper. https://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com//morrisons-covid-1
02.01.2022 My latest article published by Green Left, which I wrote last night after work. It explores how Frydenberg's push for workers to draw on their super in the current crisis is an admission by the government that their stimulus is insufficient to allow many workers to survive. Working people should not have to sacrifice their retirements to survive in the here and now. We need to demand the guarantee of jobs, incomes and a permanent doubling of all welfare payments - to at leas...t the level of the temporary job-seeker payment. I will upload this article to my blog after work today. Please share it and my earlier articles. I should have another article available later today. We are all in this together - lets take the opportunity to build a better world
01.01.2022 Some thoughts on superannuation and the superannuation guarantee as mechanisms for eliminating poverty in retirement.
