it makes. us army veteran margaret stevens of the speculation that the catastrophic be poor life outcomes of the caribbean referenced by donald trump bar the island of cuba from the headlines why you should keep your pennies away from the hard fast bowlers but think about sending them to bankrupt because of all this and more coming up in our first episode of this new season but first straight to our top story the minority u.k. government led by prime minister theresa may is today scrambling to keep british public services running because of monday's liquidation of taxpayer funded multibillion pound transnational contractor karelian allegedly one of the most shorted companies on the london stock exchange meaning the city of london knew it face problems karelian continued to win taxpayer funded contracts even as it paid out shareholder dividends while it faced a pensions black hole tourism a presided over two billion pounds in contracts being given to former advisors company after profit warnings and with a civil service oversight role concerned with karelian unfilled questions in even

mainstream media now center on whether it's time to rethink capitalism after decades of thought right from the labor outsourcing joining me now is angus mcneil he's the chair of britain's international trade select committee as well as being on the u.k.'s national security strategy committee and the s.n.p. shadow spokesperson for the environment and rural affairs analyst thanks so much for coming back on before we go into the iraq other issues surrounding this debacle are your only national security strategy committee what implications for defense of the realm given that karelian is in charge of certain facilities around britain's nuclear deterrent in scotland and a naval base well that the tentacles of cotillion seem to be what they are there tarmac in the past a company that i was a very weird if i did a degree in civil engineering they built some of the floating docks. and they would undoubtedly be still be. delivering for the ministry of defense it's a concern in defense as to it's a concern on the civil side as well. privately of course my my sympathies and

understanding of course for the to the workers the employees who are losing their jobs who find themselves in a precarious situation he's forty thousand affected indeed you know what's the management penalty here we see managers here on bonuses clawbacks been taken away. on their watch this has happened to this big company also question for the u.k. government to full question they've taken away their current auditor or that other current representative i should say who who kept an eye in companies quite closely in what closely with these companies that didn't happen also when the give the profits warning the u.k. government kept pushing money in the direction of clearly and which could only mean they were putting taxpayers' money at risk public money at risk whereas the scottish government at that point was trying to manage and move are we being aware of the difficulty that could arise that no hazardous and because i was and what a prime minister whose corporate responsibilities are top adviser on called

responsibility up until recently was the person who then became chairman personal of caribbean village green here shortly and i have the regular phone calls saying these are normal profit warnings you just cyclical nature of the economy nothing to do with the systemic existential threat of the gun raises huge questions though about the relationship and the overlap and the causing is that an e.t.s. between the highest levels of politics in the u.k. and the highest levels of some of the biggest companies in the u.k. delivering for the government and shooting the prime minister that all is fine when all was not fine and then we see the pieces line in front of us huge questions political questions have to be answered and what was the prime minister was she didn't do diligence there was you just take in a friend's words everything would be fine let's have another jenin tonic is this an interactive sort of what he believes over government yet again another version of it ok i want to get on to the philosophical implications of this as regards the economy but there will be people in this country wondering that when your. country

wondering about what happens in the abilene western peripheral road what happens is that will scotland's railway electrification whatever to edinburgh's waverley platforms the capital of scotland's rail stations are in trouble because of really well i think governments have to do the best for continuity here we have we have to make sure that services are delivered for the republican or bailing them out just follow the other government the problem here with with companies like this is the privatization of profit and the socialization of loss when clearly and were making the money and the money is gone in bonuses the money is gone and she had all the dividends but when the problem comes the problem is socialism the same with the banks it's the same with many other things with a new level experiment is just about falling apart i don't i don't it is the the we have delivering public contracts while you take short term profits i knew have new view or no responsibility or no worry about the long in the medium to longer term

has to be of concern and i think there is this penny has dropped both from the conservative and liberal benches in the house of commons that there is adriel problem with the we companies look very short term and companies i've known have gone on the stock market. sometimes have got themselves off it quite quickly again the betting i think we did drop with jeremy corbett all his political life to have been a few of his supporters in the bottom of the labor party already pennies going to drop for the scottish government because you're saying you're giving these commitments is london already talking with the scottish pollens saying they're going to give you the money to continue these projects is massively important structural i mean i think i think first about where we want to make sure that those working on the u.k. government projects in scotland find themselves in is in a secure position that the government works night indeed to make sure that these jobs continue when we had problems in scotland where with by far been talent and influence the u.k. the scottish government what ninety one way tata steel and motherwell we do. what

we did to bring them in it to keep jobs so it's beholden on the u.k. government this is a beer mouth created by the u.k. government in many ways and that we defend the taxation comes from all taxpayers they're not emptied scholars and i think you know the u.k. government is a huge role to play here we obviously have certain contests we have to keep going we can't leave we have really station for instance as a building site in perpetuity because situation is that i mean that one of your ideas companies have at the end of the day they have the public over the battle because this has to be done and we all know it has to be done and they go bust and they work with the bonuses and the profits or whatever we've still got to go and pick up the pieces and in that survey also i'm with this privatizing that the privatizing fetish that's been driven push the thought through the in london what has that given bricks it means the shin fein has become a very important party to the government obviously the g.o.p. is very good important because they would be prime minister without what where is scotland when it comes to negotiating monies off of back for through karelian and

other things because you know even on the border shin fein and the d.p. can talk about talking face to face they're down here talking and so i think i think the point there that should famous abstention is nationalists don't have the clout that they might do for the voters of novel only one servant irish nationalism is important though is it never has been before. unionism most of the u.k. unionism is that was you know that that voice could be diminished in favor of the european union the single market had the northern irish people voted for participation nationalists as opposed abstention nationals that's a matter for them but it's just a point that's worth observing that they've left the field open in the absence of any government in northern ireland they've left if you look into the city your representatives in northern ireland which are the unionist politicians at the moment on the are going to have a softball or so everyone seems to say whereas you are going to have a hard border whatever i'm not. thing is and we should have a violin are we as

a citizen isn't there something in the we are giving you have a weak position here not a tall because. if there is a soft border with ireland that is a soft border with scotland why would the u.k. government who the u.k. government over tourism is tourism is seeing what these i mean will have to do are two different things that is becoming clearer and clearer in the backs of negotiations if you have a look at northern ireland they have exceeded every demand of the u. border on the island of ireland remember it's the e.u. border. me when she has with one member so that with everybody else because the most favored nation status the w. would mean that you've got to treat everybody else if you can the other so that's just utter nonsense to talk about scott and the talk about scotland has treated its main export market is in england another sort of the public of ireland's main export market is england as well you don't have to see the government to trade what leaders want whatever is what you what you do how well i think when we have our independence referendum in the next fifteen months i'll be given all the leverage we need and we have forty nine percent just now and you can only get fifty one

percent by implication the e.u. sixty eight percent support in scotland the e.u. is far more popular in scotland than the u.k. that's very damning for the status quo and the government and the government in london with that just probably the reasons why we've got the likes of kelly and the bad government of london that's feeding into that political picture to give you everything will be spoken about has been in the context of the failure of lehman brothers in twenty zero eight and of course the failure of r.b.s. the massive bank was bailed out by the british taxpayer tell me about what you've been talking about in parliament lately about the. quite controversial very controversial take the scotland out of the upset or else i'll be as want to cause an awful lot of branches in little scotland will damage the economy of little scotland hugely they've made no impact assessment no what the new concern it's just something that a much more board level they've decided to do for instance my own small island.

they want to take away the last bank the only bank that's ever been it and they want to take it away which means people would have a decent travel to go banking elsewhere. and for some sort of context the bonus part of r.b.s. a sixteen and a half million pounds this year would pay for two hundred sixty six years of salary at my local branch so we've seen corporate greed buccaneering devil me kid attitude to society around them just for their own personal enrichment and you know when you think in broadcasting at the moment of the surprise of rush today of course but there's an argument about gender about gender pay a one to one ratio which end of p. that levels men and women get paid the same bigger question here the most good place to get at the bigger question though becomes the ratio between the top level at r.b.s. and their bonuses and all these types of companies on the bottom level because the rishi was there no obscene it obscene and you know that there's a some sort of revolution but after that have to take place well if you have any way in the union leader to take scotland out of the absolutely i mean they are

going to close the branch as well as i. said in parliament they call themselves the royal bank of scotland while while throwing scotland to one side to scotland's economy to one side not giving a damn frankly for them to continue the r.b.s. to continue to use the name scotland this should be seen as it's almost criminal you know with a lot of your palace diviner with the queen could take the royal out of it well that might be the next step they would just because a bank another that they might be dodgy to close down all the branches of us will have something to say i hope they do i believe i want them to come on the big bonuses you're meeting with them if they've offered meetings at various levels but i want them to come the chief executive if he hears this fantastic was good he can come and talk to an island of a thousand hebridean and explain why it's a great idea to close the branch in the area earn his bonus alone remember the whole lot of the mr than sixty six years on his bonus alone would pay for about sixty years of the salary so you know if there's minus the financial whiz kid.

mckeown i'd like to see ross mckeown come along and talk the islanders and explain it because these are the princes of the of the modern neo liberal experiment let them come and tell the people male thank you thank you for the bright why have the soviet union's black revolutionaries been driven out of the history books we speak daughter of red international and black caribbean margaret stevens about the continued fight against nature nation imperialism being waged today by the world looking glasses on from the headlines why we're losing the war on terror in iraq using the war on child poverty. coming up a bottom up going underground. i don't think that any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important to be farmers to political

backlash money is a very fine people think and i think it will be very quick before people find ways around it because as i say you meant it might be damaging it might cut it back but the idea that you could do anything merely. is very unlikely. well come back with we could go through some of the stories now is because of all the liberal democrat member of parliament have an obit lembit give our shared speech last night fascinating but did you make any money out of shorting karelian this government contract or as so many of the city of london did for getting in for a moment the tens of thousands of jobs at risk now i've got all my money on uneek through a bet between kim jong and donald trump can't lose after and god knows you think

i'm drawing is going to take over as good you're this oxford professor danny dorling splunk showing very informed danny dorling he says on martin luther king day twenty eighteen child poverty rates are still rising in the usa and the u.k. but it is getting born lady nine years ago this week and a hero in history but what dollar says is he would be hated today because his legacy has been pretty much thrown out the window poverty is at twenty five percent in america and that's the highest for child poverty anywhere in the developed world but hold on a sec we can crow about it from the u.k. because it looks like within two years we're going to overtake that up to thirty percent if you include homeless issues and benefits issues to pull in but the government for at least one tory council has a solution to all of this let's go to the metro surely a solution to the awful terrible problem fear not this is brilliant from gloucester council which is about two hundred miles west of london tory council puts a poster telling people not to give money to the homeless it's beautiful anyway

well it would be badly spent if you give it to the homeless the poster says are you really helping homeless people well i think the answer is yes but apparently not in the council's eyes there is a sort of subtext to this which arguably makes sense you give it to organized charities and then they give the money in a measured way but come on these people are hardly raking it in they haven't got private jets though apparently some of them and i quote the story are in accommodation receiving support and the benefits of human beings having that it will also. so i think that the c.e.o.'s of britain's biggest charities need those salaries in excess of hundreds of thousands of pounds so you're also hurting them when you give that money but again surely outside all of this debate is the government should be building or houses i'm not supporting saddam hussein when i say there was a better housing situation in iraq with before the twentieth three wars is when your terms of thing to worry about suicide bombings in baghdad puncture you found

hope now where did the new found new york times hope i think it might be right what two dozen people killed in the bus routes are two suicide bombers killed more than twenty four people in baghdad we don't see this in the western media very much it's boring it's old news and it's not our boys and girls who are dying there it's just the locals and we did quite a lot of the ourselves but if you look at what's really going on there there's no kind of peace there we've lost our boys over there because i want to glee the british the facto support for isis linked and al-qaeda linked groups in syria the failed attempt to destroy the president government and all retreating into iraq although that doesn't count amateurish they're not they're all volunteers are not officially working for us well within the past twenty four hours or so the p.l.o. has suspended recognition of a state of israel which was the big oslo decision until israel abides by the u.n. security council resolutions are regarding nine hundred sixty seven borders what

this story from here it's which looks pretty gloomy to me gloomy economic news on top of the other unrest. gazan economy infrastructure on verge of collapse israeli security officials say well they should know because in large part they're causing it it looks like and i quote again official the gaza strip is going like from zero to below zero in short the infrastructure is failing ninety five percent of the water there isn't drinkable and the sewage is being pumped straight into the mediterranean and the reason the israelis should be concerned about. this is because if you take everything away from a group they've got nothing to lose and this could literally blow up right back in their faces second thing in a story there's an increase in infection and potential epidemic levels of disease there and those germs they don't respect borders they're not going to be kept out of israel by a war this is a classic example of cutting your own nose off to spite your face and they've been bombing. palestine in the past forty eight seventy two hours the biggest open air

prison camp in the world today there's some good news though they've got six or seven hours of electricity now which they have to buy from you guessed it israel some type of internet in the west where they were hoping thank you. well for a post from gaza on the verge of collapse of the revolutionary nations labeled by the us president joining me now from new jersey in the usa is professor of history at essex county gallager and us army veteran margaret stephens whose new book red international and black caribbean is out now professor douglas even thank you so much for joining us just before we go to the amazing book that you've written your thoughts on the fact that in the past seventy two hours maybe in iraq double suicide bombers killed perhaps scores of people in baghdad so many so many years after the invasion when we should place when you were in the u.s. army and i think it speaks to the way in which western imperialism. has not only imploded in the middle east but the ways in which the working class resistance

movements of the past one hundred years failed to generate the kind of internationalism and solidarity necessary for workers to figure out what the viable . resistance need to be would you say that your new book describes the wholesale destruction of work in gaza movement which in a way explains why donald trump arguably is right to call nations in the western hemisphere. now the book is more about a heroic history then a tragic demise with respect to donald trump his remarks about people of color nations primarily in africa and the caribbean as being nations sure this is a sentiment that's that had a manic i mean i mean he i mean he took the example of haiti and so many of the

nations in your book could be arguably seen a central but haiti did you ever start seeing the irony that hillary clinton was a moderate or take it for the democrats saying two hundred thousand were killed in the twenty ten or break i mean i was in haiti in two thousand and ten after the earthquake. carrying on the legacy of some of what it is that my book is about which is the relationship between radicals organizing between new york in the caribbean and so in the end you know in the aftermath of the earthquake i went out there with some of my activists friends and we tried it is we tried to start a school and also we had a little medical facility for a lot of folks who just needed basic medical care. and you see poverty absolutely you see poverty everywhere across the entire country but i traveled the country was some of my friends and you also see a higher level of working class consciousness that i never saw in united states you go to haiti and you talk and you have conversations with people in various towns and communities in

a court of prince about politics about dialectical materialism and how to understand the world you know scientifically and looking at people and social movements you know through to the notions of contradiction in you know these young people are anywhere from twelve to thirty five and their next question is you know what's next ok so what do we do there that higher level of consciousness and just. human activity the energy many eighty just from five in the morning till till you know eleven at night you feel the human energy people are alive even though they're poor. so absolutely you can see the ways in which the economy in haiti is continues to suffer you know since independence to be honest with you from you know colonialism neocolonialism corruption which is oh it's a manifestation of the lack of resources in the global capital eskin of things so you definitely see that but you also see the potential for working class struggle in haiti in

a way that's definitely much more. proximate then in places like here in newark new jersey where and obviously we're not going to get time to talk about those initial stages or revolution auditors or louvered or but in the book again and again it's the russian revolution and it. can textual influence at all the movement seemingly just tell me a little bit about i mean people in britain that alone knowing what to the people the youngsters in port au prince know about i don't going to know anything about what you found in british guiana moscow's support for workers and british here what about what is it the bullshit revolution in one nine hundred seventeen had a huge impact on workers all over the world and my focus specifically on jamaica cuba haiti british guy in a trinidad. mexico we can't forget mexico mexico plays a pretty critical part in this book my focus on the in puerto rico my focus on the way in which the communist movement. based out of russia then impacted workers all

over the world in and you had folks like well for domingo who was a jim aikin migrant to the united states who talked about bolshevism in guyana when he looked at workers in one nine hundred nineteen who were just in an uproar across the caribbean and he just asked questions in his magazine in his newspaper that he created you know is there bolshevism in the caribbean and i think that when we began to just understand the complexity of the ways in which working workers running society really really seeped into the minds of so many people in their imaginary their concept of what was possible with their life activity it just gives us a much broader richer and more exciting cast of characters to draw from when we began to think about the history of radicalism black radicalism anti-colonialism we just have such a rich diverse set of figures and to me the most successful ones were rooted in

communist party leadership not always the communists were always in the forefront sometimes workers in the caribbean were in the forefront and communist sort of had to look up and say wow you know let's write a memo on that because that was huge and we need to follow their lead so it wasn't a sort of one. trajectory from moscow to the caribbean it was a constant back and forth and the back and forth that i look at is not so much between moscow's morsels between new york mexico and then what i call the black caribbean although london has an influence there i know you're talking about a new game there but other than about the influence of newspapers this tell us a little bit about oil as well mosley of course was then supported by the daily mail newspaper here in london that the that he opened a chapter of his fascist movement in trinidad to oppose communism where we tend to look at fascism in western metric poles whether you know germany or france or now everyone's talking about trump in the u.s. but part of the point i was making was mostly was simply that fascism also in the

caribbean was in my opinion almost constant and like fascism was colonialism in essence was a sort of form of fascism is part of the argument i'm making so that's part of what i was trying to do with the book was look at the way fascism hit. the dominican republic on it you heal in the impact that it had on on haitian workers in dominican workers and also the ways in which communist resisted but then also failed to mount a deeply internationalist anti-racist fight against some of the fascism when it was at its worst point because people are going to know more about taking all the days for the rich and famous in barbadoes than britain brutally putting down any kind of revolutionary activity on that i would hire one of the questions i have in the book that i pose is why is it that there are communist parties founded in the period one thousand nine hundred one nine hundred thirty nine in haiti cuba puerto rico but not in the british west indies the british government was banning not only the

negro world but even more severely all the communist presses that i saw coming from new york as early as one nine hundred twenty they were banning them they were running down people's houses doing home raids so if you had the crusader. or the emancipator in your house in one nine hundred twenty you know and you were just a blackwork or you know or you wanted to start a co-op you could very easily end up you know in jail so the british ruling class was extremely serious about censoring any communist influence in the caribbean and that sort of one thousand nine hundred revolutionary working class turmoil the british really looked up and did everything they could to prevent the circulation of these materials on steamboats coming from germany and london and making its way to the caribbean we know that cuba or is perhaps the only nation that is survived across the across all this appeared of time that that you talk about tragic that we

know more about these countries really as tax avoidance and tax evasion yeah right so all those places where you know were people like to stash their wealth i mean panama you're talking about the panama canal how is the panama canal built black workers were brought from across the west indies to to work into slave in the panama canal. so in these places where you have the sharpest evidence of corruption and wealth and the sickness of capitalism and colonialism you also have workers who resisted against that and sell i was simply trying to look at the richness of that history with respect to workers of color in the caribbean present obviously vince thank you. thank you and that's it for office show the new season will be back on saturday when we scramble to days you get by with just questions but here we called in challenge to raise amazing minority government on its multibillion dollar failure to protect public services until then people that just

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the uk the. president says it's very possible the north korean crisis can't be resolved peacefully despite the two koreas agreeing to compete under one flag at the winter olympics. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees slams america's decision to cut the organizations funding horning it's the worst crisis in its history plus. there are russian agents in his very own parliament right now. lies and lies and lies being told throughout europe and we hear the same story over and over again talk about russia dominee it's in the european parliament's with members clashing over alleged threats and.