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Future of Steel Production at Whyalla Raises Issues about the Nature of Australian Independence
Ned K.
The future of steel production at Whyalla in South Australia is uncertain with Arrium being in administration and governments at state and federal levels looking for a bail out that will delay big job losses past the next election cycle.
Women Workers in the Health Sector Lead the Way in Rebuilding Unionism in Australia
Ned K.
The Friday 8 April edition of the Australian Financial Review included an article headed "Nurses buck unions' long term demise". It explained that while overall union membership density in Australia continued to decline, union membership among nurses grew by 12% in the last two years and the AN&MF ...
Building and Construction Workers Stay Strong Despite On-Going Attacks from Big Business
Ned K.
Nearly 30 years to the day (Wednesday 13 April) of the de-registration of the BLF, construction workers at a Lend Lease construction site in Brisbane went on strike when Lend Lease removed the workers' Eureka flag (symbol of their union CFMEU) from the site.
Whyalla steel a casualty of free trade agreements and global over production
Max O. Australia's steel producing industry may soon come to an end with Arrium steel company's collapse in Whyalla. The steel company's $4.3 billion debt caused its bankruptcy and put it into voluntary administration. Now 2,000 jobs in the South Australian regional city of Whyalla are endangered, with 7,000 workers ...
“The day is coming when we can replace teachers with IPads and computers,” a corporate education spruiker told Angelo Gavrielatos, Project Director with Education International, a while back.
The Australian Tax Office, under increasing pressure from community groups and unions to shed light on tax evasion by the corporate sector, has once again published data on companies privately owned in Australia.
The Weekend Australian Easter edition in the Business Review contained a revealing article about the deceptive marketing ploys of multinational owned wineries in Australia.
Malcolm Turnbull said earlier this year that there was never a more exciting or never a better time to be an Australian. I would have to agree with him and go one further by saying that there was never a better time to be (as Marx saw himself) ...
The Irish Liberation Struggle: some issues arising
Josh S.
1916 is the100th anniversary of the Irish Easter rebellion. It is timely to explore some of the lessons and implications of the Irish revolt and subsequent liberation struggle and independence negotiations.
Education corporations 'want to mine our kids for profit' says campaigner
Louisa L.
“Global capital is on the move and it wants to take over education,” Angelo Gavrielatos, Project Director with Education International (EI), the peak body of the world's teacher unions, told the state Council of the NSW Teachers Federation on March 12.
"The Greyed Depression" and Downward Pressure on Wages
Ned K.
"The Greyed Depression" was the heading of an article in the Adelaide Sunday Mail on 13 March this year.
The article referred to statistics from DOME, a state government funded organization that provides training and employment services to people over 40 years of age.
The decline of US imperialism and the rise of Donald Trump.
Nick G.
A reader has asked for our opinion on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The reader observed that “he is not afraid of going to war to achieve his goals” and asked “If Donald Trump comes into power and is the same type of person as Adolf Hitler in ...
Remember Aboriginal Women Workers Struggles On International Women's Day
Ned K.
8 March 2016 is International Women's Day. This is an appropriate time to remember that Aboriginal women workers were taking action on women workers' rights before the emergence of the Suffragette movement in Australia in the 1890s and early years of the 20th Century.
AUSTRALIAN SUBMARINES AND UNITED STATES MILITARY PLANNING FOR THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
(Contributed)
Editorial note: A reader has sent this article on US pressure for a Japanese build of the new Australian submarine fleet. Our position is that the submarines will most certainly be used to serve the predatory interests of ...
White Paper locks Australia into US confrontation with China
Bill F.
The Turnbull government’s recently released Defence White Paper could easily have been called the Offence White Paper, since it virtually places Australia’s military forces at the disposal of US imperialism and its aggressive foreign policy agenda in the Pacific region.
Nick G. Just over a year since Jorge Castillo-Riffo was crushed to death in a scissors lift accident on the Royal Adelaide Hospital building site, another worker has lost his life. Like Jorge, he was crushed in a scissors lift, caught between the lift platform and the top of a ...
The world enters a third wave of economic crisis, with more to come!
Max O
In November last year The Economist , that foremost economic journal of capitalism, stated that "The world is entering a third stage of a rolling debt crisis...". The first one centred on the US with the collapse of the real estate market (2008), the second one centred on ...
