Archive for September, 2010
The Commonwealth Games unravel
Posted by John, September 30th, 2010 - under Commonwealth Games, India.
Comments: 3
In India, we are seeing how this process of rapid-fire development on the quick has crossed the line that divides the development from the spectacle. Now not only are dissidents and workers endangered, the athletes themselves are imperiled as well. For the first time since the Second World War, the show may not go on. But this time, the war is the show and the show is the war.
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Safety on site
Posted by John, September 29th, 2010 - under ABCC, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, CFMEU.
Comments: 1
The ABCC is not about stamping out lawlessness but stamping out building unions, the one group of unions still committed to defending their membership by sometimes taking industrial action over shoddy work and safety practices and defending jobs and wages.
The ‘crime’ these unions commit is being real unions.
Why is the mass media so rotten?
Posted by John, September 28th, 2010 - under Media.
Comments: 2
The capitalist press is a mouthpiece not just for the media barons, but for the whole ruling class. It plays a role in promoting bourgeois ideology and suppressing ideas that challenge the system. This is neither straightforward nor conspiratorial, as bourgeois ideas are necessarily fragmented and contradictory.
Australian troops – killing in the name
Posted by John, September 28th, 2010 - under Afghanistan, Imperialism, Kopassus.
Comments: 2
Australian troops are the armed wing of Australian imperialism. They are in Afghanistan to further the interests of the Australian ruling class, that tiny minority that live off our sweat.
Making peace with genocidal Zionism
Posted by John, September 26th, 2010 - under Apartheid, Egypt, Fatah, Genocide, Hamas, Israel, Zionism.
Comments: 1
Zionism is not interested in peace with the Palestinians. It has only one goal – the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Palestine. It wants nothing less than the destruction of the Palestinians as part of the ultimate gaol of Zionism – an expansionist Jewish state across the region without Palestinians or their memory
The racist Commonwealth Games – Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, September 24th, 2010 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 3
Bashing Indians verbally and physically seems an Australian pastime. The Empire Games – quick change the name to Commonwealth games – reflect an era of colonialism and racism that continues in various guises to this day. None of this is to excuse the Indian elite who tried to build a Commonwealth games on the back of [...]
The two souls of socialism
Posted by John, September 23rd, 2010 - under Socialism, Socialists.
Comments: 4
Ultimately, only the ideas of socialism from below offer a way to break down the “muck of ages” and to produce a new society without class divisions. Only through the mass participation of the working class in a revolution – as the central actors, not just as passive supporters – can the working class become fit to rule. As it was put in the charter of the First International, “the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves”.
Where is Cuba headed?
Posted by John, September 22nd, 2010 - under Cuba.
Comments: 5
The Cuban government of Raúl Castro announced last week that it would push 500,000 workers out of state jobs next year. According to the official trade union at least half of the 500,000 workers would be given new licenses for self-employment, and another 200,000 would be absorbed into cooperatives. The layoff announcement marks the latest [...]
More blood on Gillard’s hands
Posted by John, September 20th, 2010 - under Asylum seekers, Concentration camps, Detention centres, Refugees.
Comments: 4
Julia Gillard is delivering death to those seeking liberty. Close down the detention centre concentration camps.
The myth of Labor’s ‘Light on the Hill’
Posted by John, September 19th, 2010 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Ben Chifley, Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Light on the hill.
Comments: 5
Labor’s ‘light on the hill’ was a lie in 1949; it is a lie now.