Archive for May, 2014
Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, May 31st, 2014 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: none
Given my health isn’t one hundred percent, I’ll throw the forum over to you with these thoughts:
Tony Abbott is off overseas to talk to Obama, Cameron and Hollande. No doubt he’ll impress them as much as he has impressed us.
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Stop work to stop the bosses’ Budget and the war on building workers
Posted by John, May 29th, 2014 - under Budget, Budget cuts, CFMEU, Penal powers, Strikes.
Comments: 11
We can force the government and Fair Work on to the back foot today if one of the few unions that really fights for its members were to lead strikes against the bosses’ attempts to destroy workers through its Budget and through Fair Work action against workers who have gone on strike. A call to strike to bust the budget and defend striking unionists could inspire workers across Australia. Light the fire. Stop work to stop the bosses’ Budget. Stop work to defeat the attacks on building workers.
John Passant is unwell
Posted by John, May 29th, 2014 - under John Passant.
Comments: 5
With apologies to Jeffrey Bernard, I am unwell – no, not alcohol but genuine medical issues – and will either not post anything or re-post material from other sites.
Occupy our Universities?
Posted by John, May 28th, 2014 - under Abbott government, Demonstrations, Occupations, Picket, Protests, Students, Universities.
Comments: 1
It is time for students, staff and the public to reclaim our Universities from the snake oil sales men and women of neoliberalism. Occupy our Universities. Close them down to win a new era in higher education.
Of course protests don’t work, and they definitely don’t have majority support either
Posted by John, May 27th, 2014 - under Abbott government, Budget, Budget cuts, Fighting back, Protests, Strikes.
Comments: 10
The next time someone tells you protests don’t work and lose public support, you have an easy answer. Christopher Pyne has already begun the first small steps to backing down and the student protests have overwhelming public support. To beat the Free Budgeteers we need to increase the passion and the protests and begin organising strikes.
Is the Australian media regressing to a crabby stone age?
Posted by John, May 26th, 2014 - under Media, Protests, Students.
Comments: 6
The strength of the protests has surprised the ruling class and their media mouthpieces. They thought their neoliberal project had turned and was turning young people into obedient automatons. The tens of thousands of students and others demonstrating show that the apathy is on the surface but that a spark, like the Budget attacks, can catch fire across the country. Our task as socialists is to fan the flames of resistance and rebellion wherever we can.
Angalan: a refugee’s story
Posted by John, May 25th, 2014 - under Asylum seekers, Refugees, Sri Lanka.
Comments: 1
Meryl Antica talked recently to an asylum seeker about his life. This is his story.
Is the Abbott government the worst ever?
Posted by John, May 24th, 2014 - under Abbott government, Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 35
I am turning this Saturday’s socialist speak out over to a poll of Australian readers.
Is the Abbott government the worst government you have ever experienced? If so why? Is Labor the answer? If not, why not?
News Corpse: starring Gerard Henderson as one of the many walking dead
Posted by John, May 24th, 2014 - under Gerard Henderson, News Corp, News Ltd.
Comments: 3
That Henderson views the exercise by the downtrodden of their right to be heard as some sort of repression of free speech shows how thoroughly imbued he is with the right of the one percent to dominate all public discourse.
Murdoch against Palmer: when thieves fall out
Posted by John, May 24th, 2014 - under Clive Palmer, Murdoch, Profit, Tax, The Australian.
Comments: 5
I love it when thieves fall out. The front page of The Australian today (Saturday) has analysed the tax position of Clive Palmer’s companies. They haven’t paid tax for 6 years. I am so looking forward to the Australian’s forensic analysis of the tax position of News Corpse both in Australia and globally. Black kettle […]