(Archive for March 23rd, 2009
John Pilger at Marxism 2009
Posted by John, March 23rd, 2009 - under John Pilger, Marxism, Marxism 2009, Socialism, Socialist Alternative.
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Socialist Alternative’s Marxism is the biggest and best left wing conference in Australia. Held over Easter in Melbourne, this year John Pilger, one of the world’s great investigative journalists, will be having a question and answer session. For details see marxism2009.
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Should the Commissioner of Taxation resign?
Posted by John, March 23rd, 2009 - under ATO, CPSU, Commissioner of Taxation, Community and Public Sector Union, Privacy, Public Service, Tax, Tax Office.
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The ATO is a John Howard organisation. Let history judge its success in dealing with the Great Recession.
Bikies and the Great Recession
Posted by John, March 23rd, 2009 - under Alienation, Australian politics, Bikies, Capitalism, Class struggle, Fascism, Great Recession, Hanson, Jobs, Middle class, Pauline Hanson, The Great Recession, sackings, unemployment.
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The Great Recession is polarising politics. As the crisis deepens the extreme right will gain a hearing. Radical reaction is growing again in the womb of society. Pauline Hanson won 22 percent of the vote in one electorate in the Queensland election on Saturday. The Liberals are shifting further to the Right. Her supporters, to generalise, come from [...]
Will Rudd go early?
Posted by John, March 23rd, 2009 - under ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian politics, BlighBorg, Elections, HowRuddistas, Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Queensland, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Great Recession, sackings, unemployment.
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With the BlighBorg going to an early election and winning in Queensland, Rudd must be tempted to do the same thing and for the same reason – to avoid losing in 18 months’ time when unemployment is over 10 per cent. If the HowRuddistas hold strong to every detail of the Emissions Trading Scheme after [...]