The same with the banks its the same with many other things. The near liberal experiment is just about falling apart i dont i dont adhere to the we have delivering public contracts well you take short term profits and you have new viewer no responsibility and no worry about the long in the medium to longer term has to be of concern and i think there is this penny has dropped both from the conservatives and liberal benches in the house of commons that there is adriel problem with that we Companies Look very short term and our companies ive known have gone on the stock market holders sometimes have got themselves off it quite quickly again the betting i think we did drop with Jeremy Corbett all his political life in the few of his supporters the bottom of the labor party are any pennies going to drop for the Scottish Government because youre saying youre giving these commitments is london already talking with the scottish pollin saying theyre going to give you the money to continue these projects is massively important restructure but i mean i think thing first. What we want to make sure that those working on the u. K. Government projects in scotland find themselves in is in a secure position the u. K. Government works night indeed to make sure that these jobs continue when we have problems in scotland where with by far been talent and influence the u. K. The Scottish Government what ninety one way tata steel and motherwell we did what we did to bring them in it to keep jobs so its beholden on the u. K. Government this is a beer mouth created by the u. K. Government in many ways and that we defend the taxation comes from all taxpayers theyre not emptied scholars and i think you know the u. K. Government is a huge role to play here we obviously have certain contacts we have to keep going we cant leave we have really station for instance as a building site in perpetuity because situation is that i mean that whatever it was these companies have at the end of the day they have the public over the battle because this has to be done and we all know what has to be done and if they go bust and they work with the bonuses and the profits or whatever weve still got to go and pick up the pieces and let them with this privatizing the privatizing fetish thats been they havent pushed the thought through the bleriot in london what has that given bracks it means the shin fein has become a very Important Party to the government obviously the g. O. P. Is very good important because they would be Prime Minister without where is scotland when it comes to negotiating monies off of back for through karelian and other things because you know even on the border in fein and the day you can talk about talk face to face theyre down here talking and so i think i think the point there that should in fairness abstentions nationalists dont have the clout that they might do for the voters of not of an only concern of irish nationalism is important now as it never has been before. Unionism most of the u. K. Unionism is that was you know that voice could be diminished in favor of the European Union the Single Market had the Northern Irish people voted for participation nationalists as opposed abstention nash. Thats a matter for them but its just a point its worth observing that theyve left the field open in the absence of any government in Northern Ireland theyve left if you look into the city your representatives in Northern Ireland which are the unionist politicians at the moment on the are going to have a softball or so everyone seems to say whereas you are going to have a hard border whatever im not saying is and we should have a violin are we as a citizen isnt there something in the we are giving we have a weak position here not at all because. If there is a soft border with ireland that is a soft border with scotland why would the u. K. Government who the u. K. Government over to resumes to me saying what reason we will have to do are two Different Things that is becoming clearer and clearer in the backs of negotiations if you have a look at Northern Ireland they have exceeded every demand of the you border of the island of ireland remember its the e. U. Border. Me when she has with one member so that with everybody else because the most favored nation status of the wu would mean that youve got to treat everybody else if you can the other so thats just Utter Nonsense to talk about scott on the talk about scotland has treated its main export market is in england another sort of the public of irelands main export market is england as well you dont have to see the government to read what leaders want what you what you do how well i think when we have our independence referendum in the next fifteen months ill be given all the leverage we need and we have forty nine percent just now and you can only get fifty one percent by implication the e. U. Sixty eight percent support in scotland the e. U. Is far more popular in scotland than the u. K. Thats very damning for the status quo on the government and the government in london is that just probably the reasons why we got the likes of kelly and the bad government of london thats feeding into that political picture and give you everything that was spoken about has been in the context of the failure of Lehman Brothers in twenty zero eight and of course the failure of r. B. S. The massive bankers bailed out by the british taxpayer tell me about what youve been talking about in parliament lately about the out of a. Quite controversial very controversial at the scotland out of the upset or else ill be as want to cause an awful lot of but im just a little scotland will damage the economy of little scotland hugely theyve made no Impact Assessment no what he new concern its just something that a much more board level theyve decided to do for instance my own small island they want to take away the last bank the only bank thats ever been it and they want to take it away which means people would have a decent travel to go banking elsewhere. And for some sort of context the bonus part of r. B. S. A sixteen and a half Million Pounds this year would pay for two hundred sixty six years of salary at my local branch so weve seen corporate greed buccaneering devil me kid attitude to society around them just for their own personal enrichment and you know when you think in broadcasting at the moment of the surprise that rush to do of course but theres a argument about gender but gender pay a one to one ratio which end of pay that levels men and women get paid the same bigger question here the more good place to get at the bigger question though becomes the ratio between the top level at r. B. S. And their bonuses and all these types of companies on the bottom level because the rishi was there no obscene or obscene and you know that theres some sort of revolution but after that have to take place but if you have any when the leader to take scotland out of the absolutely i mean they are going to close the branch as well as i. Said in parliament they call themselves the royal bank of scotland while while the tories going to one side to scotlands economy to one side not giving a damn frankly for them to continue the r. B. S. To continue to use the name scotland this should be seen as its almost criminal you dont really have to be a palace to find out where the queen could take the royal out of it well that might be my next step they would just because a bank and they might be dodgy to close down all the branches of us will have something to say i hope they do i remember i want them to come on the big bonuses your meeting with them well they were theyve offered me meetings at various levels but i want them to come the chief executive if he is. This fantastic was good he can come and talk to an island. And explain why its a good idea to close the branch in the area around his bonus alone member the whole lot of the mr than sixty six years on his bonus alone would pay for about sixty years of the salary so you know if the financial whiz kid were told he is mckeown id like to see come along and talk the islanders and explain it because these are the princes of the of the modern new liberal experiment let them come and tell the people male thank you thank you for the break. Why have the soviet unions black revolutionaries been driven out of the history books we speak daughter of Red International and black caribbean stevens about the continued fight against nato nation imperialism being waged today by the world working. On from the headlines why were losing the war on terror in iraq the war on Child Poverty. Coming up about to have going on. Young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. This culture led to the development of these new liberal and highly controversial children in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances. Eat. From the things years. But there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. Mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but its never in force and that means the schoolboy mine is here to continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive on. Is iran must going to fit into steve jobs kids by coming up with Innovative Products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car business is you know you kind of bound by the highway system and youre bound by the whole infrastructure that is the Automotive Industry and the lobbying of the Automotive Industry so its a bit difficult to be disruptive in that industry in a way hes going to open up is charging stations with one nine hundred fifty style burger and shake joints with servers on roller skates ok thats thats an idea that might take off that might be a new like starbucks like third place that people go to to have an experience that might work. But youre going to stand. Out. From what i saw. Right now the goods that are in a lot of trouble and there are rather you know profit off the floor for them because of that. Im going on that compared to my next question and you can keep an. Eye on it is the trial for the profile that it is in the living. Below the. Financial times a lot of. Its whole food plus choice on you say you have to pay off the time in theory this is a lady who she ought to have a. Model for that in africa will fuck around with mr hates it for a human and lawyer for hope that are fairly mature for. The money. Well come back with we could go through some of the stories now is broadcaster for liberal democrat member of Parliament Lembit gave arshad speech last night fascinating but did you make any money out of shorting karelian this government contract or as so many of the city of london did for getting in for a moment the tens of thousands of jobs at risk now ive got all my money on an e. Q. A bet between kim jong and donald trump cant lose after and god knows you think im drawing is going to take over this is good for this oxford professor daily doings blog showing very informed Danny Dorling he says on Martin Luther king day twenty eighteen Child Poverty rates still rising in the usa and the u. K. Born lady nine years ago this week and a hero in history but what dollar says is he would be hated today because his legacy has been pretty much thrown out the window poverty is at twenty five percent in america and thats the highest for Child Poverty anywhere in the developed world but hold on a sec we can crow about it from the u. K. Because it looks like within two years were going to overtake that up to thirty percent if you include homeless issues and benefits issues to pull in but the government for at least one tory council has a solution to all of this lets go to the metro surely a solution to the awful terrible problem fear not this is brilliant from Gloucester Council which is about two hundred miles west of london tory council puts up poster telling people not to give money to the homeless its beautiful in the world well it would be badly spent if you give it to the homeless the poster says are you really helping Homeless People well i think the answer is yes but apparently not in the councils eyes there is a sort of subtext to this which arguably makes sense you give it to organized charities and then they give the money in a measured way but come on these people are hardly raking it in they have got private jets there apparently some of them and i quote the story are in accommodation receiving support and the benefits of human beings having that it will also. So i think that the c. E. O. s of britains Biggest Charities need those salaries in excess of hundreds of thousands of pounds so youre also hurting them when you give that money but again surely outside all of this debate is the government should be building not war houses im not supporting Saddam Hussein when i say there was a better housing situation in iraq with before the twentieth three wars is when your terms i think you are about suicide bombings in baghdad puncture you found hope now where did the new found New York Times hope i think it might be right what two dozen People Killed in the. Two suicide bombers killed more than twenty four people in baghdad we dont see this in the western media very much its boring its old news and its not our boys and girls who are dying there its just the vocals and we did quite a lot of that ourselves but if you look at whats really going on there theres no kind of peace there weve lost our boys over there because i want to glee the british de facto support for ice is linked and alqaeda linked groups in syria the failed attempt to destroy the president government and all retreating into iraq although that doesnt count amateur british theyre not theyre all volunteers are not officially working for us well within the past twenty four hours or so the p. L. O. Has suspended recognition of a state of israel which was the big oslo decision until israel abides by the u. N. Security Council Resolutions are regarding nine hundred sixty seven borders what this story from here at switch looks pretty gloomy to me gloomy economics news on top of the other unrest. Gaza an Economy Infrastructure on the verge of collapse Israeli Security Officials Say well they should know because in large part theyre causing it it looks like and i quote again official the gaza strip is going like from zero to below zero in short the infrastructure is failing ninety five percent of the water there isnt drinkable and the sewage is being pumped straight into the mediterranean and the reason the israelis should be concerned about. This is because if you take everything away from a group theyve got nothing to lose and this could literally blow up right back in their faces second thing in a story theres an increase in infection and potential epidemic levels of disease there and those germs they dont respect borders theyre not going to be kept out of israel by a war this is the classic example of cutting your own nose off to spite your face and theyve been bombing. Palestine in the past forty eight seventy two hours the biggest open air prison camp in the world today theres some good news though theyve got six or seven hours of electricity now for say have to buy from you guessed it israel some type of internet in the west where there are a big thank you. Well for a post from gaza on the verge of collapse of the revolutionary nations labeled by the us president joining me now from new jersey in the usa is professor of history at essex county gallager and Us Army Veteran Margaret Stephens whose new book Red International and black caribbean is out now professor douglas even thank you so much for joining us just before we go to the amazing book that youve written your thoughts on the fact that in the past seventy two hours maybe in iraq double suicide bombers killed perhaps scores of people in baghdad so many so many years after the invasion when we should place when you were in the u. S. Army and i think it speaks to the way in which western imperialism. Has not only imploded in the middle east but the ways in which the working class resistance movements of the past one hundred years failed to generate the kind of internationalism and solidarity necessary for workers to figure out what the viable. Resistance need to be would you say that your new book describes the wholesale destruction of work in gaza movement which in a way explains why donald trump arguably is right to call nations in the western hemisphere. Now the book is more about a heroic history then a tragic demise with respect to donald trump his remarks about people of color nations primarily in africa and the caribbean as being nations sure this is a sentiment thats that had a manic i mean i mean he i mean he took the example of haiti and so many of the nations in your book could be arguably seen a central but haiti did you ever start seeing the irony that Hillary Clinton was a moderate or take it for the democrats saying two hundred thousand were killed in the twenty to break i mean i was in haiti in two thousand and ten after the earthquake. Carrying on the legacy of some of what it is that my book is about which is the relationship between radicals organizing between new york in the caribbean so in the end you know in the aftermath of the earthquake i went out there with some of my activists friends and we tried it is we tried to start a school and also we had a little medical facility for a lot of folks who just needed basic medical care. And you see poverty absolutely you see poverty everywhere across the entire country but i traveled the country was some of my friends and you also see a higher level of working class consciousness that i never saw in United States you go to haiti and you talk and you have conversations with people in various towns and communities in a court of prince about politics about dialectical materialism and how to understand the world you know scientifically and looking at people and social movements you know through to the notions of contradiction in you know these young people anywhere from twelve to thirty five and their next question is you know whats next ok so what do we do there that higher level of consciousness and just. Human activity the energy many eighty just from five in the morning till till you know eleven at night you feel the human Energy People are alive even though theyre poor. So absolutely you can see the ways in which the economy in haiti is continues to suffer you know since independence to be honest with you from you know colonialism neocolonialism corruption which is oh its a manifestation of the lack of resources in the Global Capital eskin things you definitely see that but you also see the potential for working class struggle in haiti in a way thats definitely much more. Proximate then in places like here in newark new jersey where and obviously were not going to get time to talk about those initial stages or revolution auditors or louvered or but in the book again and again its the Russian Revolution and its. Conjectural influence on all the movement seemingly just tell me a little bit about i mean people in britain that alone knowing what to the people the youngsters in Port Au Prince know about i dont going to know anything about what you found in British Guiana moscows support for workers in british here what about what is that the boss of it revolution in one nine hundred seventeen had a huge impact on workers all over the world and my focus specifically on jamaica cuba haiti british guy trinidad. Mexico we cant forget Mexico Mexico plays a pretty critical part in this book my focus on the in puerto rico my focus on the way in which the communist movement. Based out of russia then impacted workers all over the world in and you had folks like well for domingo who was a jim aikin migrant to the United States who talked about bolshevism in guyana when he looked at workers in one nine hundred nineteen who were just in an uproar across the caribbean and he just asked questions in his magazine in his newspaper that he created you know is there bolshevism in the caribbean and i think that when we began to just understand the complexity of the ways in which working workers Running Society really really seeped into the minds of so many people in their imaginary their concept of what was possible with their life activity it just gives us a much broader richer and more exciting cast of characters to draw from when we began to think about the history of radicalism black radicalism anticolonialism which is have such a rich diverse set of figures and to me the most successful ones were rooted in communist Party Leadership not always the communists were always in the forefront sometimes workers in the caribbean were in the forefront and communist sort of had to look up and say wow you know lets write a memo on that because that was huge and we need to follow their lead so it wasnt a sort of one. Way trajectory from moscow to the caribbean it was a constant back and forth and the back and forth that i look at is not so much between moscow to myself between new york mexico and then what i call the black caribbean although london has an influence there i know youre talking about owning again. And about the influence of newspapers. Those a little bit about oil as well mosley of course was then supported by the daily mail newspaper here in london that the that he opened a chapter of his fascist movement in trinidad to oppose communism where we tend to look at fascism in western metric poles whether you know germany or france or now everyones talking about trump in the u. S. But part of the point i was making was mostly was simply that fascism also in the caribbean was in my opinion almost constant and like fascism was colonialism in essence was a sort of form of fascism is part of the argument im making so thats part of what i was trying to do with the book was look at the way fascism hit. The Dominican Republic on it you heal in the impact that it had on on haitian workers in dominican workers and also the ways in which communist resisted but then also failed to mount a deeply internationalist antiracist fight against some of the fascism when it was at its worst point because people are going to know more about taking all the days for the rich and famous in barbadoes than britain brutally putting down any kind of revolutionary activity on that i would hire one of the questions i have in the book that i pose is why is it that there are communist parties founded in the period one thousand nine hundred one nine hundred thirty nine in haiti cuba puerto rico but not in the British West Indies the British Government was banning not only the negro world but even more severely all the communist presses that i saw coming from new york as early as one nine hundred twenty they were banning them they were running down peoples houses doing home raids so if you had the crusader. Or the emancipator in your house in one nine hundred twenty you know when you were just a blackwork or you know you wanted to start a coop you could very end up you know in jail so the british ruling class was extremely serious about censoring any communist influence in the caribbean and that sort of one thousand nine hundred revolutionary working class turmoil the british really looked up and did everything they could to prevent the circulation of these materials on steamboats coming from germany and london and making its way to the caribbean you know the kuber is perhaps the only nation that is survived across the across all this appeared of time that that you talk about tragic that we know more about these countries really is tax avoidance and tax evasion yeah right so all those places where you know were people like to stash their wealth i mean panama youre talking about the panama canal how the panama canal built black workers were brought from across the west indies to to work into slave in the panama canal. So in these places where you have the sharpest evidence of corruption and wealth and the sickness of capitalism and colonialism you also have workers who resisted against that and sell i was simply trying to look at the richness of that history what was back to workers of color in the caribbean present obviously vince thank you. Thank you and thats it for office show the new season well be back of that day when we describe will todays u. K. By ministers questions but there we called in challenge to raise a maze minority government on its multibillion pound failure to protect Public Services until then People Like Us by social media with you know exactly twenty three years to the day if Yasser Arafat won eighty eight percent of the vote in palestine first elections conducted as he faced a defacto assassination threats from british and u. S. Backed israeli agents. We all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but knowing first signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people ive seen stuff that was nuclear biological and Chemical Products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam and polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the berm pits would really literally send a v. A. Broke and they dont want to pay it so the waiting in the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay. Paltrow to get the middle finger the movie is to model the slow. Delayed and i hope you die. A bachelor sudden passing ive only just learnt you were a south and taken your last to bang turn. Me on do it but i tell you im sorry. So i write these last rites and hopes to put to rest. These things that i never got off my chest. I remember when we first met my life turned on each day. But then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was it gave still some are fond of you those that didnt like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave the funeral the same as one enters the mind its consumed with death this really like to see the speech here because there are no other takers. Claimed that Mainstream Media has met its maker. Was there are. Still a. Lot of you dont know what it was like to go to the old. Man standing there you know he was going to decide. Canada hosts western allies about nine hundred fifty s. Korean war to discuss the Current Crisis on the peninsula but with the absence of russia china and north korea itself the proposed solutions appear limited. The pressure. To intensify that pressure just good to include cutting off diplomatic ties with north korea. And the specs of russian meddling returns a number of influential us democrats claim the kremlin is behind the whistleblower Chelsea Mannings decision to run for the senate. Russias Investigative Committee presents evidence that it says refutes a key claim about
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