David Cameron is Coming for Your Facebook

Hello, Genossinnen und Genossen!  Now back to regular business.

Back to business, sadly, is going to become a lot more common in coming weeks if our British Comrades don't manage to stop the UK government's new Trade Union bill, which (in certain draft versions) will among other things ban union members from using social media for the month surrounding and the duration of any strike action while massive regulating the conditions under which a strike is legal.

This legislation will also require the appointment of dedicated picket leaders who will need to provide all their information to the police weeks in advance, allowing for ease of disruption.  When passed, this will greatly restrict the flexibility of workers to react to aggression by their employers.

Curtailed here in 1947, the right to strike is the one way people can prove the truth of Marxism: that it is the expenditure of labor that creates value.  We are told of course, that it is the wise men of business who create wealth, and that we are parasites.  They enforce this fiction by forbidding the human right to strike and organize, with strikebreakers, conservative police departments, and now with online censorship making any union member who discusses labor issues online within 2 weeks of an action a criminal.

Let that sink in- discussing your union on facebook will be illegal (if you're British, but honestly Walker Inc. and co. won't wait long to copy this tactic in the states will they?)

Meanwhile, the Missouri legislature just overrode Gov. Nixon's veto of a bill allowing companies to commission their own policemen with full jurisdiction over the entire state, and not even the limited codes of conduct required of real police departments.  Can you guess how these new Pinkertons are going to be used?

There is a bit of good news from my own side of the pond- Capitol building workers and other federal contractors are striking for 15$/hr and adequate guarantees of union rights as we speak.  Stand with the Strikers!  (More information at http://goodjobsnation.org/ )  Genosse Bernie Sanders is marching with them, at least as of when I write this on Tuesday afternoon.

It's the workers that create our economy, the workers who produce our wealth, and the workers who keep our very capital functioning- with rather more consistency and efficacy than the Republicans do, I might add.

It's especially indecent that those serving our elected officials are paid starvation wages and are often homeless.  About time somebody fought back.  If you're in DC, please go support them! 

Solidarität, Genossinnen und Genossen

P.S.  I'm now on twitter!  Elise Krueger (@Waldmarschallin).  I promise not to make your feeds explode with too many messages, so please follow me and let's keep talking!