Politics

Could you imagine having to live on £45 a month? What if it was only £27 a month? That is around $70 and $40 in US money. Now imagine if it was even less.

Yet this is the situation for textile workers in Bangladesh. Following an advert by an alliance of British and North American trade unions, some employees have been offered an increase to the princely sum of £27. Others are continuing their protests in order to reach £45.

The advert was placed by Workers Uniting which is an alliance of Unite from the UK and the United Steelworkers from North America. The advert said:

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50 Years ago the first commercial photocopier was sold by Rank Xerox sparking fears from publishers that their copyright would be compromised and predicting the end of publishing. When the first tape driven recording devices appeared similar music publishers made predictions of a end to studio publishing. The movie industry long resisted the video market because of copyright fears. Today it's the Internet that music, movie and paper publishers most fear. Peer to Peer networks distribute content to millions of people in a nano-second and have proved extremely difficult to shut down. Books, Articles and Images copied and redistributed, newspapers suffering from falling advertising revenue as people seek out news on demand online. Even television has seen a huge decline in advertising as the Youtube generation seek the interactive internet with the world chopped into 5 minute chunks of video.

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Author: Eugene Yiga

"The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." – David O. McKay

Man, the world has problems. Fifty years from now, society will look back at our generation and forever shun us for three things: curable diseases, avoidable wars, and reality TV. How could they let those things happen? How could they have actually stood by and let those things happen? Having grown up in post-apartheid South Africa, it's a question I've always asked myself. How on earth was that allowed to happen for so long? Didn't the rest of the world realise what we were going through? Didn't they care?

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Difficult to know the best way to write this article because, after all, spending a cool half billion on government advertising does seem a lot. Of course, the adverts that remind people to get their tax returns in on time or return Working Tax Credit forms in time only benefit those who do not already have an an accountant who will arrange this for them at a fee which is tax deductible.

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Inaregee Towers does not have huge media access so we may have missed the announcement of other job losses as the result of the ConDem government favouring the better off.

This reporter does have a habit of noticing stories that reference Durham though because he was born in Dryburn Hospital in that very city.

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