Archive for October 9th, 2012
Gillard, Abbott, sexism and single mums
Posted by John, October 9th, 2012 - under Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Peter Slipper, Racism, sexism, Single mothers, Tony Abbott.
Comments: 19
Instead of taxing Gina Rinehart, the world’s richest woman, Labor is attacking single mums, some of the least well off women in Australia. Maybe it’s time for the social media crowd to defend them in a massive campaign against Gillard.
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Chavez re-elected in Venezuela despite mounting problems for his Bolivarian revolution
Posted by John, October 9th, 2012 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Bolivarian revolutions, Bolivia, Chavez
Comments: 1
The immediate question for the left and for activists, Chavez supporters or not, is the need to rebuild organisations on the ground that will be able to act independently of their rulers, whoever they are. Such organisation would enable the Venezuelan masses to defend their own class interests—and to deepen a revolution that still has far to go.