Archive for 'The Right'
The Republican bigotry contest
Posted by John, January 3rd, 2012 - under The Republicans, The Right.
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The Republicans know that Obama is a vulnerable incumbent. Having presided over a jobless, anemic recovery from the depths of the crisis, the Obama administration has lost the benefit of the doubt with majority of the country. Obama’s actions in office have dampened the enthusiasm of millions who voted for him in 2008 with expectations of “change.” So the Republicans have a good shot at winning the presidency if they can nominate a semi-credible candidate.
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Gillard – another right winger in charge
Posted by John, June 24th, 2010 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Julia Gillard, Right wing, The Right.
Comments: 7
Labor has changed its leadership – it hasn’t changed its fundamentals. Gillard is a right winger who will rule in the interests of the bosses at our expense.
Tony Abbott: Is he Churchill or is he Spartacus?
Posted by John, December 17th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Bronwyn Bishop, John Howard, The Australian, The Liberals, The Right.
Comments: 3
Tony Abbott is by his own admission the political love child of Bronwyn Bishop and John Howard. With that image in mind, enjoy the rest of your day.
Barnaby Joyce and the economics of One Nation
Posted by John, December 12th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Barnaby Joyce, Fascism, One Nation, The Left, The Nationals, The Right.
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Sometimes those from small business backgrounds can rise above their curse and achieve bourgeois greatness. John Howard did. So too did Bob Menzies. Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke are Labor examples. What these leaders have in common is that in power they governed in the interests of big business, that small elite who make the major decisions about investment, wages, employment. [...]
Can the American right make a comeback?
Posted by John, December 5th, 2009 - under The Right, US politics, United States.
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There is a deep anger and frustration in the US population against a government that seems willing to spend billions for bankers while counseling patience to workers.
The bosses back Labor – the Liberals split
Posted by John, November 29th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Conservatism, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Socialism, Socialist Alternative, The Left, The Liberals, The Right.
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The bosses back the Labor Party. They have found in Kevin Rudd a man to carry out John Howard’s policies without the divisiveness. This lack of divisiveness partly reflects the illusions millions have in Labor as a party of workers, as a progressive party. It also reflects a long-term trend in the trade union and working class movement - class [...]
Crap Corner – Greg Sheridan from The Australian, again
Posted by Leonie, July 2nd, 2009 - under Crap Corner, Greg Sheridan, Iran, Media, Mousavi, The Australian, The Right.
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Greg Sheridan from The Australian is full of it. The Left has supported the masses in Iran. But unlike Sheridan we are not lining up behind butchers like Mousavi.
Queensland has class
Posted by John, March 22nd, 2009 - under ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian politics, Capitalism, Fighting back, Great Recession, Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Living standards, Neoliberalism, Public Service, Queensland, Resistance, Rudd, Springborg, Strikes, The Great Recession, The Right, Trade unions, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages, meat axe, sackings, unemployment.
Comments: 2
Working class voters decided Premier Bligh in Queensland could protect and create jobs. She can’t. Politics is about to get very interesting.
An early election
Posted by John, March 20th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian politics, ETS, Economics, Elections, Emissions Trading Scheme, Fair Work Australia, Labor Party, The Liberals, The Right, WorkChoices, WorkChoices Lite, sackings, unemployment.
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When Labor votes in the House of Representatives against the Senate amended Fair Work Bill, it is a clear sign there will be an early election. Unemployment is going to skyrocket over the next year (if not earlier) and Labor wants to do anything to avoid voter anger over that. Given 3 month Constitutional requirements – [...]
Booze, bingeing and bullshit
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under ALP, Alcohol, Alcopop tax, Alcopox, Alienation, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Economics, Family First, Fighting back, Great Recession, Grocery retailers, Jobs, Labor Party, Rudd's revellers, Senator Fielding, The Liberals, The Right, Wage slavery, unemployment.
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Let’s get drunk on our power, not their poison.