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October 5 marked the 37th anniversary of the murder of outstanding Irish revolutionary leader Seamus Costello. We've put up Bernadette (Devlin) McAliskey's appreciation of him from 1977 and an introduction by me. They're at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/remembering-seamus-costello-outstanding-irish-revolutionary/ Some other interesting new pieces: There are currently ructions at Lyttelton, the port that serves Christchurch city, over a big hike in the salary of the Port Company CEO, while three workers have died on the wharves in the past 12 months and the company, which is owned by the city council, tries to keep workers' pay down: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/ructions-at-lyttelton-port/ In recent years 'child poverty' has become a big issue in NZ, however, as a number of us have pointed out, the term is highly problematic. The problem is not child poverty - it's not the children who are poor, it's the adults, and they're poor because of low wages and crappy welfare benefits. Here, we reprint an excellent piece from the NZ-based Two Arab Girls site on Why I Refuse to Talk About Child Poverty: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/why-i-refuse-to-talk-about-child-poverty/ Another excellent piece we've reprinted is on capitalism and the tyranny of time: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/capitalism-and-the-tyranny-of-time/ Phil ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
