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A new coalition of trade unions and other groups is taking up the fight for socialism in the Labour Party. Set against the backdrop of Keir Starmers ongoing purge of the left, the group is looking to build the resistance. And on Saturday 18 September, Unite the Union assistant general secretary Howard Beckett will take the lead in launching the groups manifesto.

Labour Left for Socialism (LL4S) formally launched in August 2021. Its a coalition of trade unions and other groups. LL4S came out of the Dont Leave, Organise movement. Its aims are broad. They include:

The groups supporting LL4S include:

LL4S said in its August statement that Labour is not effectively opposing the Tories. In fact, it said that on some issues the party has echoed the government. LL4S also called out the ongoing purge. It said:

the democracy of our own party is under threat. A growing number of local parties have been taken over by unelected officials; the Forde inquiry report has not been published; many members who have spoken out have been suspended or expelled; proscriptions have been introduced against socialist groups; Jeremy Corbyn remains without the Labour whip. As a result, over one hundred thousand members have resigned from the party over the last year.

We will not stand idly by and allow this to continue. We are, therefore, coming together in solidarity not only with the people who are being so gravely disadvantaged by this government but against the purge of the left, which is key for the Leadership to achieve its aim of reversing the socialist policies brought in under Corbyn and to make the Party a safe place for capitalism.

Now, LL4S is taking things a step further.

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On 18 September, LL4S will hold a virtual meeting. Called Building the Resistance, it will take place on Zoom from 11am. You can register here. LL4S said in a press release that its:

launching a manifesto setting out an agenda of unified defiance on major issues affecting all sectors of the labour movement. It is also backing calls for delegates at party conference in Brighton later this month to reject Keir Starmers ally David Evans as general secretary.

LL4S continued:

speakers at the online launch on September 18 will include Andrew Scattergood (FBU) on workers rights, Ekua Bayunu (Labour Black Socialists) on the fight against racism, Chris Saltmarsh (Labour for a Green New Deal) on the climate crisis and Matt Wrack (FBU General Secretary on Public Services.

Barry Gardiner MP will also speak about the campaign for his private members bill to outlaw fire and rehire, which has its second reading in parliament on 22 September.

Beckett will chair the event. LL4S noted that this is in a personal capacity.

Beckett said in a press release:

This is the start of something for the whole of our movement, the result of months of work by members of left groups and unions working together to confront attacks from the Tory government and also from Labours right wing.

With the ferocious ratcheting up of suspensions and expulsions in recent weeks, its clear that delegates to Labour Party conference in Brighton next week need to follow the lead of Unite the Union and vote down Evans as party general secretary.

The right have got away with a full-scale assault on the left of the party, to rid it of socialism, to become a party of the establishment, because the left has not been united. Now we are putting down a marker that we are united and we are not going anywhere. We are calling on all socialists in the party to come together around common goals and join us in setting in motion the process of left mobilisation.

Whats also interesting about LL4S is that the Labour Party has proscribed (i.e. banned) one of its signatories. It outlawed membership or support of Socialist Appeal back in July. At the time, Dylan Cope from the group told The Canary:

Were certainly going to fight this purge. I think the whole left needs to come together and resist this by all means

This is now what appears to be happening. But with Socialist Appeal involved with LL4S, whats unclear is whether or not being a member of LL4S will incur disciplinary action from Labour. The party has form on this. Recently, it threatened to expel prominent member and activist Graham Bash. This was for signing an open letter from a proscribed group, Labour Against the Witchhunt. Labours action against Bash was despite him signing the letter around 18 months prior to the partys banning of the group.

It appears LL4S has thought of this, though. Because it says on its website that:

Signatories demonstrate their support for the principles in the statement, not each others organisations.

But whether this is good enough for Labour not to try and expel people associated with LL4S remains to be seen.

The new group seems to be picking up where Corbyn left off. It also represents another attempt to operate an organised fightback against Starmer and Evans ongoing purge. The left-wing of the Labour Party will surely be watching closely to see where this group goes next.

Featured image via Labour Left for Socialism and Going Underground YouTube

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In his Sept. 1 column, James Edwards beats the socialist drum when describing our Democratic presidents agenda.

He even now goes so far as to infer that socialism is another way of saying communism. The usual hard right arguments he uses to somehow support this claim are:

Open borders spreading COVID, stopping the pipeline, defunding the police, the federal government taking control of elections, etc.

There is no evidence that COVID is spreading from the border, yet Republican governors in some states are doing everything they can to fight mask and vaccine mandates.

The defunding the police rally cry by Republicans is basically noise and simply untrue.

The Keystone pipeline, with only 8% being completed, would carry heavy tar sands oil that would be an environmental disaster and is not a factor in current oil prices.

Most importantly, Edwards attempt to assert that Democrats are trying to gain control of our once-free elections is ridiculous. Many red-state legislatures have been working overtime to successfully pass voter suppression bills directed at Democratic voters.

His argument is that this will lead to stacking of the Supreme Court. Just last week, the Republican-stacked Supreme Court failed to act against the absurd Texas abortion bill, which is restricting womens reproductive rights in that state.

This type of bill will soon move toother states.

All of this is summed up as a choice between big government or freedom.

Edwards should attempt to explain his views about freedom to the women of our country.

Tom Stewart

Windber

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Republicans cant afford to blow a once-in-a-generation campaign opportunity to tag all congressional Democrats as big government socialists by supporting President Bidens $3.5 trillion social welfare spending package.

To have an issue of this size involving $3 trillion in spending and about $3 trillion in taxes, and to have every single Democrat having voted lockstep in favor of it, gives you a weight of argument unlike anything Ive seen in recent years, Mr. Gingrich said in an interview with The Washington Times.

Polling conducted for the conservative American Majority project is clear and devastating for Democrats if Republicans define them as big-government socialists, he said.

Republican pollster John McLaughlin has found that Americans generally favor free market capitalism over big-government socialism by a margin of 59% to 16%. Among swing voters, that margin increases to 82% to 18%.

A strong majority of those swing voters already believe that Democrats $3.5 trillion spending bill defines the party as big-government socialists, the polling showed.

Given that view, Mr. Gingrich said, Republicans need to develop a new way of talking about the issue. He said Republicans cant allow some Democrats who voted for the package in August to portray themselves as moderates.

Every single Democrat in the House and Senate voted for what is literally Bernie Sanders bill, he said. Bernie Sanders, for Petes sake, is an open and avowed socialist. Its not slandering him to say that hes a socialist. So youre in a position where you can literally pin every single Democrat running for reelection against that reality.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee criticized Democrats on Wednesday for barreling through an additional $3.5 trillion (more like $5.5 trillion) in reckless spending in order to completely remake the U.S. economy into a socialist utopia.

Will Senate Democrats like Maggie Hassan [of New Hampshire], Mark Kelly [of Arizona], Raphael Warnock [of Georgia], Catherine Cortez Masto [of Nevada] and Michael Bennet [of Colorado] finally speak out against their partys inflation-inducing spending, or will they continue to turn a blind eye to the negative impacts their far-Left policies have on American families? the NRSC said.

A spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said the spending proposals in the package are popular.

Democrats will deliver on highly popular, once-in-a-generation investments in infrastructure, access to child care and health care, and energy independence for the American people, said DCCC spokesman Chris Taylor.

Americans agree: The uber-wealthy and corporations should pay their fair share to support these investments in Americas future.

Meanwhile, House Republicans are stuck shifting from one half-baked message to the next because [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy and his extremist circus have zero ideas and even less moral integrity to campaign on, he said.

In August, all House and Senate Democrats supported moving ahead with the framework of the spending package. The House is heading toward a final vote after several days of a Ways and Means Committee markup this week.

Never has our government wasted so much to kill so many American jobs, drive prices even higher and hook a whole new generation of the poor on government dependency, Rep. Kevin Brady, Texas Republican, said during the committees sessions.

Coming out of a pandemic, the last thing Americans need are higher prices, fewer jobs and the largest expansion of our welfare state in our lifetimes, he said.

Mr. Biden met Wednesday with Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who are resisting the total price tag.

Some Democrats also have expressed concern that the massive spending plan would make some incumbents vulnerable.

Democratic consultant Douglas Schoen has said pursuing the $3.5 trillion proposal will end up being a lose-lose situation for Democrats in the 2022 midterms.

Writing in The Hill, Mr. Schoen compared the situation to the 1994 and 2010 midterms, when Democrats lost heavily because of voters perceptions that they had overreached.

The conservative Club for Growth announced Monday that it would run TV ads in 10 House districts, including that of Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Republican, focusing on out-of-control spending, inflation, and the $3 trillion tax increase proposed by Biden and the Democrats.

The ads will run for one week starting Thursday, the first phase of a $2 million campaign opposing the Democrats plan.

The Club for Growth said the ads will run in nine districts held by persuadable Democrats and by Mr. Kinzinger, citing his numerous occasions of supporting Mr. Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, on spending.

Washington is out of touch with America, said Club for Growth President David McIntosh. Democrats and even some Republicans need to realize that their constituents will roundly reject the out-of-control spending and $3 trillion increase in taxes.

The Democrats targeted in the ad are Reps. Stephanie Murphy of Florida, Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia, Jared Golden of Maine, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Susie Lee of Nevada, Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, and Vicente Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar and Filemon Vela, all of Texas.

Mr. Gingrich said the $3.5 trillion package is a gold mine of campaign ammunition for Republicans in 2022.

The next phase is just having to sit down and work through all of the things in the bill that prove that its a dramatic expansion of government into your life, he said. You begin to have sort of a cradle-to-grave government power over your life.

Democrats votes for the package have given Republicans the opportunity of a lifetime to brand the Democratic Party so it becomes a minority for a generation or more, Mr. Gingrich wrote in a separate commentary at Gingrich360.com.

The test is now on the Republican side and in the conservative movement to see if they can rise to the opportunity, he said.

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The disruptive potential of quantum computing is becoming a reality at an unprecedented rate, and there is now a need more than ever to start to demystify quantum. Its time tounderstandwhat it means for business,the impact it will have,and how to get itembedded intoemerging technology strategies within organisations.

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People are calling it a breakthrough, a new phase of matterGoogle's invention of Time Crystals has the science and tech scenes in a daze. No, we're not talking about one of six physics-defying stones evading the grasp of Thanos. This is actual science that apparently defies our current understanding of physics.

Here is a discovery that could move us closer to the most accurate and powerful atomic clocks, gyroscopes, and magnetometers to date, but that's just the icing on the cake. Who knows what other practical applications a discovery of this magnitude could have.

Within Google's Sycamore quantum processor, strange things are afoot. As theorised nine years ago by Theoretical Physicist, Frank Wilczek, a new state of matter has been achieved. By blasting strips of superconducting aluminum with microwaves, the system's qubitswhich encode the ones and zeros in quantum computingwere put into a kind of perpetual motion.

A report from Cornell University, named Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor, notes "We demonstrate the characteristic spatiotemporal response of a DTC for generic initial states. Our work employs a time-reversal protocol that discriminates external decoherence from intrinsic thermalization, and leverages quantum typicality to circumvent the exponential cost of densely sampling the eigenspectrum."

More simply put: "It just sort of flip-flops," explains Bournemouth Physicist Curt von Keyserlingk. "It doesn't end up looking random, it just gets jammed stuck. It's like it remembers what it looked like initially, and it repeats that pattern over time."

What this essentially means, is that it may be time to rethink the second law of thermodynamics. The second law basically states entropy (or disorder) will always increase. This is why perpetual motion machines still haven't been invented, at least, potentially until now.

In speaking to Live Science, Loughborough Physicist Achilleas Lazarides (who was part of the initial theory's discovery) describes time crystals as an ever-swinging pendulum. The second law dictates, "Even if you totally physically isolate a pendulum from the universe, so there's no friction and no air resistance, it will eventually stop." This 'thermalisation' just doesn't happen in the case of time crystals.

"Energy starts out concentrated in the pendulum's center of mass, but there's all of these internal degrees of freedomlike the ways the atoms can vibrate inside the rodthat it will eventually be transferred into."

Eventually, the discovery of Time Crystals could translate into supreme quantum computing technology. Right now, at least, while researchers are in very early stages of experimentation, it seems to point to some profound insights surrounding the workings of the universe. It's not concrete at this point, though, and quantum physics is not an easy thing to explain, let alone researchjust keep that in mind.

Now I just have a massive urge to play Bioshock Infinite.

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Time Crystals dodge the second law of thermodynamics, Thanos style - PC Gamer