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The new year: have your say in Saturday’s Socialist speak out
Posted by John, December 31st, 2010 - under Hope, New year, Optimism, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary Party, Socialism, Socialism from below, Socialist Alternative.
Comments: 8
A new year brings thoughts of a better world and renewed optimism to the fore among many many people. As the new year begins, let us join together, united by our hope for a new world, one free of war, poverty, racism, sexism and homophobia. Let us continue our daily, systematic, unglamourous work towards, as Trotsky wrote, a society cleansed of all evil, oppression and violence.
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Afghanistan – Australians terrorising the population
Posted by John, December 30th, 2010 - under Afghanistan, Catch or kill, Operation Phoenix, State terrorism.
Comments: 2
Almost 18 months ago I asked: ’Are our troops [in Afghanistan] engaged in assassinations of villagers similar to Operation Phoenix in Vietnam?’ (See Operation Phoenix: rising from the ashes in Afghanistan?) Operation Phoenix was a special campaign of assassination and torture in Vietnam aimed at destroying networks of Vietcong sympathisers in the South. I answered the question in the affirmative, […]
Facebook down?
Posted by John, December 30th, 2010 - under Facebook.
Comments: 1
Is facebook down – 14.30 Australian Eastern Summer Time Thursday 30 December (about 10+ hours GMT)?
Ashes to ashes
Posted by John, December 29th, 2010 - under Cricket, The Ashes.
Comments: 3
It is time for a revolution in cricket in Australia. Let’s grab our game back from the exploiters. The grass roots should rise up and take over its running in the interests of every kid and adult playing, watching or otherwise participating in local cricket.
2010: a class odyssey
Posted by John, December 28th, 2010 - under 2010, Capitalism, China, Chinese imperialism, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Fighting back, Resistance, Ruling class, United States, US imperialism, Working class, Zionism.
Comments: 4
During 2010 the third phase of the global financial crisis – making workers pay – began to play itself out. Capital in Europe has used and is using its parliamentary dominance - it doesn’t matter whether reformists or conservatives are in power – to attack their working classes. While there have been magnificent strikes and demonstrations involving masses […]
Have your say: Summer days’ socialist rave
Posted by John, December 27th, 2010 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 3
It is the holiday season, with the aspirations of billions for peace and love coming up hard against the reality of a society of war and hate. This is systemic. No amount of wishing or praying for something is going to make it happen. A mass movement of the majority of the class that produces the wealth for a […]
And so this is Christmas
Posted by John, December 25th, 2010 - under Christianity, Christmas, Love, Peace, War.
Comments: 8
When production is organised democratically to satisfy human need, we, the producers of society’s wealth, will have no interest in killing each other. Then every day will be Christmas.
Wikileaks and rape
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2010 - under Julian Assange, Rape, Wikileaks, Women's oppression.
Comments: 6
The left must defend Wikileaks and its role. But we must accept that Assange needs to address and answer the allegations against him in a way that does not put him at risk of US retribution for unrelated matters, namely publishing their lies.
Why socialist organisation is necessary
Posted by John, December 21st, 2010 - under Party, Socialist organisation, Socialists.
Comments: 12
We must begin the task of getting organised around revolutionary ideas today if we are to make the most of the inevitable reaction against the horrors and inequalities of the capitalist system in the future, and to overthrow it for good.
Fcuk the Labor Party
Posted by John, December 20th, 2010 - under ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Labor Party, Julia Gillard, Julian Assange, War.
Comments: 14
What does Labor stand for? Nothing I believe in or want, even this side of the revolution. War? Yes, from East Timor to Afghanistan Labor is a party of warmongers. Imperialism? Yes. Its support for the US Alliance is a logical bourgeois analysis of what is in the best interests of Australian capitalism. Attacking aborigines? Yes, […]