Chris Harman’s death a tragic loss for socialist movement
Posted by Leonie, November 10th, 2009 - under Chris Harman.
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This article, by Sandra Bloodworth, is republished from Australia’s Socialist Alternative magazine. Chris Harman, one of the greatest revolutionary Marxists of recent years, has died at the young age of 67. This is a tragic loss for the revolutionary left. Harman was a revolutionary from his university days, and a leading member of the International […]
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Canberra refugee rally
Posted by Leonie, November 9th, 2009 - under Canberra, Refugees.
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Canberra Rally: let the refugees into Australia 5:30 pm Friday 13 November Petrie Plaza (near the merry-go-round), Civic. Instead of bringing refugees picked up by an Australian Customs ship to Australia, the Government has tried for four weeks to force them to get off in Indonesia. They had tried to come to Australia by boat […]
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: a love story
Posted by Leonie, November 9th, 2009 - under Capitalism: a love story, Michael Moore.
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Michael Moore is not a revolutionary socialist. But he is a great film maker and story teller, and this exposé of the sins of capitalism – of capitalism as a structure of sin almost literally at one stage in the film – is a clear indictment of the free market system in the US and the profit motive. I cried […]
We are the terrorists
Posted by Leonie, August 5th, 2009 - under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Crimes against humanity, George Bush, George W Bush, Imperialism, Iraq, John Howard, Somalia, Terrorism, War crimes.
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The major terrorists sit in Canberra and Washington.
Pilger peace prize
Posted by Leonie, August 5th, 2009 - under John Pilger, Marxism 2009, Marxism 2010, Socialist Alternative, Sydney Peace Prize.
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John Pilger has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. Pilger spoke brilliantly at this year’s Marxism 2009 organised by Socialist Alternative. CDs of all the talks, including Pilger’s, are available from Socialist Alternative. John has indicated he will be coming to Marxism 2010 next Easter in Melbourne.
Protests for same-sex marriage rights across Australia
Posted by Leonie, August 4th, 2009 - under Equality, Fighting back, GLBT, homosexuality, Resistance, Same-sex marriage.
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By marching for same-sex marriage on August 1 we forced Labor to acknowledge the issue, and we raised the murmurings of dissent that are rippling through society into a collective roar.
Rationality and reaction
Posted by Leonie, August 3rd, 2009 - under Capitalism, Environment, Marxism, Rationality, Reaction, Science, The enlightenment.
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Science must become the tool of those who can develop a democratic and planned society freed from the strictures of profit – working people.
A tale of two Labor jails: from abortion to the ABCC
Posted by Leonie, August 2nd, 2009 - under ABCC, Abortion, ACTU, ALP, Anna Bligh, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Labor Party, BlighBorg, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor jails, Labor Left, Labor Party, Reaction, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Strikes, Trade unions, Unions.
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Innocent people face jail under Labor’s laws for actions that should not be crimes. Abortion and industrial action are not crimes; they are rights.
Whatever happened to the ALP left?
Posted by Leonie, July 30th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Julia Gillard, Labor Left, Labor Party, Lindsay Tanner, Peter Garrett.
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Peter Garrett’s decision to approve more uranium mining shows the futility of joining the Labor Party to change the world. The party changes you.
Health care: reform or revolution?
Posted by Leonie, July 28th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Health care, Health reform, Inheritance tax, Kevin Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Wealth tax.
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Neo-liberalism, not need, drives health care reform. Let’s tax the rich to pay for universal health care as part of a move to a just and equitable society.