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Archive for August, 2013
The prison that sets us free – songs for the band unformed
Posted by John, August 31st, 2013 - under Songs for the band unformed.
Comments: 2
We solve the future in table talk
Where many run we can but walk
For outside lurks new reality
The prison that sets us free
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Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, August 31st, 2013 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 1
There is still hope because the reality of capitalism creates the very need to fight back.
Abbott is the abomination
Posted by John, August 29th, 2013 - under Abbott, Education, Homophobia, Liberal Party, Schools.
Comments: 3
By launching at this school Abbott was sending a clear message to the education reactionaries and homophobes across the country – it will be open slather on quality education and gays under a Liberal government. It is time to divorce state funding from schools of hate.
Don’t bomb Syria
Posted by John, August 28th, 2013 - under Syria, US imperialism.
Comments: 8
As Bassem Chit, a revolutionary socialist in Lebanon, put it, “Socialists should not fall in the trap of choosing between the two tragedies of imperialism and dictatorship.
“The Syrian people and all Arab people can be free once we all stand in unison, from the Gulf to the Ocean, against dictatorships and imperialism.”
The extermination of the people in revolt: Statement of the Revolutionary Left Current, 21 August 2013, Damascus.
Posted by John, August 28th, 2013 - under Syria.
Comments: none
Our revolution has no sincere ally, except for the revolutions of the peoples of the region and the world and the militants who work to free themselves from obscurantist, oppressive and exploitative regimes.
Will the West never learn?
Posted by John, August 27th, 2013 - under Imperialism, Syria, US imperialism.
Comments: none
Western intervention in Syria, or anywhere else in the Middle East, would deny freedom and justice to its people and fuel greater displacement and war. It will exacerbate war and lead to greater casualties on all sides.
The Minerals Resource Rent Tax and Labor’s decline
Posted by John, August 27th, 2013 - under Labor Party, Minerals Resource Rent Tax.
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The paper argues that the poor health of the MRRT is a consequence of the nature of the Labor Party as a capitalist workers’ party, the shifts in power and influence within its material constitution and in essence the ascendency of capital in the capitalist workers’ party.
Australia’s mining barons stole the boom
Posted by John, August 26th, 2013 - under Boom and bust, Mining, Mining companies, Mining maggots, Mining taxes.
Comments: 3
The resources boom has been an El Dorado for big and dirty capitalism. Now that the capitalists see the writing on the wall, they are preparing to launch another round of attacks. Our side got nothing from the boom. We sure as hell shouldn’t have to pay for the bust.
How did politics get this low?
Posted by John, August 25th, 2013 - under Election 2013.
Comments: 1
If election 2013 tells us one thing, it is that it is far past time to build a political movement that can challenge the monstrous lie that the choice between Abbott and Rudd is the only choice we have.
Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, August 24th, 2013 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: none
30 years of neoliberalism means that not even a smiling gas and wind bag like Rudd can save Labor from a significant defeat, with the farting Messiah potentially suffering the same fate as his erstwhile enemy, John Howard. Rudd could be hoist with his own petard.