Archive for January 5th, 2016
Prime Minister Turnbull: If you really respect women, sack Dutton now
Posted by John, January 5th, 2016 - under Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Dutton, Racism, sexism.
Tags: Homophobia
Comments: 4
All the members of the Turnbull government share the antediluvian delusion that austerity – cutting government spending on workers and the poor, cutting wages, sacking workers for example – will solve the economic problems of capitalism. This is their bedrock and the sexism, racism and homophobia of this government (and in varying degrees of the Labor Opposition) flow from this deep well of ruling class essentialism. The sexism, racism and homophobia, by distracting and dividing workers, help reinforce the government’s capacity to achieve its economic agenda of shifting more and more wealth and income from labour to capital. It is no accident that the government which attacks unions attacks women, Aborigines, refugees and gays.