Wednesday, August 30, 2006

CHEAP LABOUR Independent: "The leaders of Britain's biggest businesses employing millions of people have called on the Government to allow unlimited immigration from Bulgaria and Romania when the two former Eastern Bloc states join the European Union next year. David Frost, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said that the recent rise in unemployment to a six-year high was flashing a warning signal about the impact of migration of the indigenous workforce. 'We have seen unemployment rise in the UK and clearly we don't want to be in a position where we are seeing migrant labour coming in and getting the jobs and supporting the great number of local people have not got jobs,' he said." Instead of increasing wealth in the eastern countries and providing more opportunities for people there, the policies of the EU will only drain those countries of their essential labour forces (particularly health care) and increase unemployment in the west. Cheap labour is the only concern of big business; they don't give a damn about the local population, welfare or sovereignty anywhere. Now that communism no longer is a threat, capitalism - as the only ruler - can drop all pretences of humanity and show its ugly face. Big business thrives on poverty, illegality, recession, catastrophe and war. It's 'calamity capitalism'. Tikkun: "This reversal in the global pattern of ownership fundamentally altered the power structure and institutions of capitalism. With capital bought and sold on a world scale and profits increasingly earned outside the country, capital accumulation became less and less reliant on domestic sales. With less emphasis on local activity, Keynesian policies grew out of fashion. And with Keynesianism on the decline, the business-labor accord started to unravel. The welfare state, previously seen as a bulwark against communism, became a burden. Labor was no longer likely to revolt - particularly with jobs being shipped to 'emerging markets' and with union membership on the decline. Furthermore, capitalists were no longer fearful of recession. On the contrary, they often encouraged it as a means of disciplining workers, reducing wages and reversing the hard-won social gains of working people." 12:02:29 PM

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