(Archive for May, 2011
The point of the Slutwalk protests
Posted by John, May 31st, 2011 - under Slut Walk.
Comments: 4
While the call for these demonstrations does argue for re-appropriating the word slut, the primary emphasis is on a rejection of victim-blaming, breaking down sexist stereotypes and demanding sexual freedom for all women.
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It’s not about actors; it’s about screwing workers
Posted by John, May 30th, 2011 - under Carbon tax, Climate change, Fighting back.
Comments: 12
Julia Gillard is not the Laurence Olivier of politics. She is more like a snake oil salesman who can’t convince the audience of the magical qualities of her carbon price product. A shit sandwich is still a shit sandwich no matter who is spruiking its benefits.
We work and the bosses profit
Posted by John, May 29th, 2011 - under ABS, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Profit rates, Profits.
Comments: 21
The latest figures on industry income and profits from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirm Marx’s argument that it is workers who create society’s wealth through their labour and the bosses who steal it through their ownership of the means of production. Of course we have to be careful using the bourgeoisie’s figures because they don’t use Marxist methodology [...]
Taxing solar panel income
Posted by John, May 28th, 2011 - under Solar panels, Tax, Uncategorized.
Comments: 7
In my view payments for solar panel generated electricity, and I would add credits of such payments against consumption, are assessable income.
Saturday’s socialist speak out – have your say
Posted by John, May 28th, 2011 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 5
The Government’s own climate commission warned this was the decade of decision and the two parties dither. It’s time for a mass movement to force action on climate change now. The Business Council has accepted the need for a carbon tax, but at $10 a tonne and with many many exemptions. Ah yes, that’s decisive [...]
Super rich woman smashes the glass ceiling?
Posted by John, May 26th, 2011 - under BRW rich list, Fighting back, Industrial action, Resistance, Strikes, Tax the rich.
Comments: 15
It’s time for workers to fight for real wage increases to end the obscenity of the super rich wallowing in their untaxed billions.
Reining in the revolution
Posted by John, May 25th, 2011 - under Arab revolution, US foreign policy, US imperialism.
Comments: 8
BOMBS and bribes, promises and threats. That’s Barack Obama’s formula for derailing the revolutions in the Arab world and keeping the region under U.S. domination.
Climate change: the critical decade
Posted by John, May 24th, 2011 - under Climate change, Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Liberal Party, The Greens, The Liberals, Tony Abbott.
Comments: 1
As the revolutions across the Arab world show, ordinary people have to seize their future. We can begin by arguing in our unions for real action on climate change that makes the bosses pay for their pollution and moves us to a renewable energy economy by 2020.
Saying YES? Unions should be saying no to a carbon tax
Posted by John, May 23rd, 2011 - under Carbon tax, Climate change, Unions.
Comments: 7
As the debate over climate change solutions hots up, the focus now seems solely on a carbon price and ruling class squabbles over their share of compensation, while any real talk of jobs or developing a sustainable renewable energy sector has disappeared. Labor and the Greens’ determination to drive climate solutions through a market-based scheme – the carbon tax – has been decisive in focusing the debate.
The Arab spring spreads to Spain
Posted by John, May 22nd, 2011 - under Demonstrations, Fighting back, Reformism, Resistance, Spain.
Comments: 15
The complete bankruptcy of reformism in Spain is plain to see for many many workers. Without the dead hand of the union bureaucracy to crush their dreams and demands the spread of the fightback against neoliberalism into the workplaces is possible.
The Arab spring has spread to Spain and opened up the possibility of the Spanish working class entering on to the stage of history.