Archive for December 29th, 2013
A great big new tax on going to the doctor?
Posted by John, December 29th, 2013 - under Health care, Health care costs, Medicare.
Comments: 5
Capitalism is such a sick system today that it cannot provide free or even adequate health care to all those who need it. Right now our side should be shouting ‘Abbott, get your hands off Medicare’ and organising the fightback. We struck in 1976 to defend Medibank. We can do so again today to defend Medicare.
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Doubt all
Posted by John, December 29th, 2013 - under Doubt all, Engels, Karl Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Trotsky.
Comments: 2
We socialists are not and cannot be fundamentalists. We are scientific socialists and Marxism is the science of proletarian revolution, not the unthinking repetition of sacred texts.
Yachts of the rich are so last year
Posted by John, December 29th, 2013 - under 1%, One percent, Sydney to Hobart Yacht race, Yachting.
Comments: 2
I wrote this a few years ago and updated it last year. ‘The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is a race for the billionaires and multi-millionaires, the one percent. These people lead a very different life to us. They live off our hard work. They don’t and won’t mix with the rest of us. They […]
Top ten 2013: Report from Turkey – A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim
Posted by John, December 29th, 2013 - under Top ten 2013.
Comments: 1
Turkey erupted mid-year with struggles against the Islamist Erdogan government. They have broken out again recently over corruption. This is a link to my re-posting of a Turkish comrade’s report on the mid-year demonstrations. A snippet: This is not yet Tahrir. But demonstrations on the two continents of Istanbul, Asia and Europe at three in […]