Posts by Sacha
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bugger
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Don't let the twatcocks get you down
there's another one
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It's culture, that's what it is
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Oooh, double dare - wear it on screen :)
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Jumping forward many pages but..
"your treachery will not be forgotten"
Tee-shirt. Dare you.
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Comrade Lew further sullies the manifesto of socialist brotherhood.
Unions do not enjoy any legitimacy by virtue of their ideological rectitude; in fact, their commitment to Marxist ideological doctrine is a considerable disadvantage in terms of their survival. Because of this, the trade union which relinquishes its commitment to democracy also risks relinquishing its claim to legitimacy, and if trade unions as a whole start to cut corners on democracy, then the movement as a whole risks granting anti-union governments a pretext to weaken and outlaw unions on the basis that they don’t actually represent workers’ interests.
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So there’s no way I’m going to overlook the real and serious damage caused to the trade union movement and the cause of workers’ rights by this upstart union who took excessive action without a mandate. They’ve done real and genuine harm to the trade union movement and they’ve made industrial relations — which should have been a Labour’s trump suit — an easy source of tricks for the government. And this at the very time the union movement was beginning to gather strength again!
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I personally find 'Reading the Maps' pretty great reading normally; thoughtful and erudite.
Same
But it's a pretty good sign that certain elements of the Left have lost their way when they start arguing that workers don't know what is best for themselves in industral disputes, and should just shut up and do whatever <pick self-annointed union-flavoured spokesperson> tells them to do.
That paternalistic tone worries me too - and that they don't seem to hear themselves uttering it. Nor correctly identify who their enemies are.
And especially, refuse to update their thinking and strategy to reflect the world as is now rather than an idealised past. Tired ends-justifies-means approaches seem to offer more harm than benefit for workers, especially if their supposed champions are smugly beyond reproach.
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Ponies for all #rainbo
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I insist on bonus views, in exchange for marketing considerations #dealio
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Re targeting the Hobbit vs Spartacus.
I don't think the self-interest argument works well - as Russell pointed out, other Auckland-based productions have been targets from Actors Equity/MEAA.
I'm sure there was (misguided) tactical reasoning about willingness to shift production and applying pressure on the largest player. Something more like that, anyway. Could ask Equity..