FACING the threat to millions as furlough is ended, we hear about “job loss” every day, as workers — as a result of factors beyond their control — are thrown out of work, deprived of income and thrown into individual and collective community desperation and deprivation. “Job loss” is a weasel term. We might as well refer to wilful murder as “life loss.” It’s a term which avoids responsibility or guilt for the crime and presents disaster as an unfortunate but largely normal aspect of life. House keys and phones are lost. Jobs are not “lost” — they are destroyed by the crises of the economic system, by the policies and actions of those that own and control that economy, imposed by their tame politicians.