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Copyright - keeping ideas under lock and key

Details Will Roche (a BECTU member) logo 25 May 2010
mgz-83_illustration-copyright-bomb_350x531.jpgCopyright is in crisis. Photocopying, scanning, audio and video recording, computers and now the internet have all made it increasingly difficult for the owners of copyright to enforce their rights. There has been a renewed effort, such as the Digital Economy Bill, to restore the balance of power in favour of big business, but levies and legal penalties only serve to patch holes in an already leaky system. The flaw lies not in the technology, or in piracy or file-sharing, as corporations would have us believe, but in the very notion of copyright.

Music industry: an era of crisis or opportunity?

Details Will Roche BECTU (personal capacity) logo 19 Apr 2010
ipod.jpgThe House of Lords has just approved the Digital Economy Bill. It has caused ripples across the technology world, most notably because of its proposals regarding the suspension of repeat file sharers’ internet connections, and gives the courts power to issue injunctions against websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing material. Internet freedom campaigners have reacted with dismay.

Corporate Media: A Ruling Class Tool

Details Antonio Bâlmer (www.marxist.com) logo 10 Feb 2010
no_corporate_media_button.jpgIn the society in which we currently find ourselves, class society, a small minority of the population holds ownership and control over industry, banks and all major means for producing wealth. Because we, the workers, do not get to enjoy this wealth, although we create it, our lives are reduced to working for wages that disappear when we pay the bills. How does the ruling class keep us putting up with such a lifestyle? One way is the fact that the ruling class’s ideology permeates contemporary culture and dominates the media.

Robert Burns - Man, poet and revolutionary

Details Alan Woods logo 22 Jan 2009

Robert Burns (1759-1796) the poet needs no further introduction. But Robert Burns the revolutionary democrat is another matter. It is a matter of great regret that nowadays it seems to have become the fashion among certain left circles in Scotland to renounce Burns. To some degree this is understandable. After his death, Burns was hijacked by the Scottish Establishment, who turned him into a harmless icon. On Burns' night each January, upper class Scotsmen in kilts (!) make use of the great man's anniversary to eat and drink to excess, declaim poems to the haggis, and generally make fools of themselves. This grotesque parody would, of course, have had Rabbie Burns splitting his sides with laughter. His poems, his politics, his philosophy, his life and his death - all bear witness against these stage Scotsmen and hypocritical Pharisees.

‘A slice of bloody cake for all! ...That’s what Brian Clough says!’

Details Mark Turner logo 06 Jan 2009

bc.jpgA review of The Damned United by David Peace

Why would socialists be interested in this book? Because it is a fictionalised account of a period in the life of one of Englands’ greatest football managers – the man destined to be England manager, but who never was.But not only was ‘Cloughie’ (Brian Clough) a great football manager, he was also a man who constantly challenged and criticised the footballing establishment; the club directors and chairmen, the FA and the powers that be generally.

 


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  1. Capitalism and Art, or they know the price, but not the value!
  2. Capitalist fetishism and the decay of art
  3. Art and Politics In Our Epoch
  4. Art and the Class Struggle
  5. William Morris: How I Became a Socialist (extracts)
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