http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog Analysis, Strategy and Vision for a Participatory Society Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:04:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The LPPS has endorsed the London Coalition for Sustainable Cities, and we fully support the work they’ve been doing, with others, in promoting the campaign to save the Meadowlily Woods environmentally sensitive area. Londoners need to get behind these campaigns, which are not only important for moral reasons, but also ... http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog/2008/09/22/save-meadowlily-woods/ Those who haven’t been to an LPPS meeting for awhile may be interested in an update on our activities. So here it is. Since our formal founding meeting (October 2007), we have had several “regular general meetings” (or RGMs). These RGMs have never had fewer than 8 people in attendance, and ... http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog/2008/06/02/update-on-the-lpps/ One of the things that distinguishes a “radical” activist from a more broadly “progressive” activist is that the radical looks ahead to the transition to another kind of society, and acts today with those more distant possibilities constantly in view. Already in 1848, in the Communist Manifesto, Marx made this ... http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog/2008/06/01/whats-the-point-of-having-a-revolutionary-strategy/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the officials of two of the largest private-sector unions in North America have entered into secret agreements with employers (notorious food service ‘outsource’ corporations Sodexho and Aramark), which “give the companies the right to designate which of their locations, and how many workers, the ... http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog/2008/05/10/seiu-and-unite-here-make-secret-deals-with-employers/ According to UNICEF, about 30,000 children die each day within the world capitalist system due to easily preventable conditions related to poverty and malnutrition. But the longstanding failures of the system to feed those who live under it — for the simple but shocking reason that feeding some people is ... http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog/2008/05/08/putting-the-food-crisis-in-political-perspective/ According to a new report from Statistics Canada, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That may be no surprise. But the scale of the injustice, and its persistence for a quarter century, is remarkable. According to the report: “Between 1980 and 2005, median earnings among ... http://radicalblogs.org/lppsblog/2008/05/04/canada-report-documents-25-yrs-of-income-redistribution-from-the-poor-to-the-rich/