En Passant

I long for the day when we are all superstars, drunk on our collective power and rich beyond our means.

A zombie bank is worthless but it continues to operate because of government support. So the dead are having a terrible effect on the living.

Michael Jackson was bigger than God, richer than Croesus and – without a doubt – the biggest celebrity the world had ever seen. Thriller was released in 1982, hitting St Louis – where I was living at the time – like a nuclear explosion.

The HowRudd Government is giving CEOs at least an extra $41 a week in tax cuts, but has nothing for those earning less than $34,000. That is Labor for you.

Labor’s women parliamentarians support rape in marriage because they support the West’s imperialist adventure in Afghanistan.

John has published a piece on the revolutionary party on Left Focus.  His basic argument is that the building of a revolutionary party with its roots in the working class and as part of the class is an historic necessity.  The democratic socialist revolution can only be successful with such a party. This is not about […]

Who makes a judgment as to what disempowers women? If burqas, why not bikinis?

Corrupt primary producers – Farm gate. Corrupt chiropractors – Back gate. Corrupt police – Investigate. Corrupt and angry pest controllers – Fumigate. Corrupt ship builders – Frigate. Corrupt lawyers – Litigate. Corrupt water providers – Irrigate. There are hundreds more.  Add your favourites. (Malcolm Turnbull at a gate?) Enough I say! Enough of this ‘gate’ crap! Join […]

I went to the union demonstration yesterday outside the Iranian embassy in Canberra. There were about 200 people – some of whom were Shah supporters. The buses from Sydney with unionists from the CFMEU, the MUA and others sure helped. We could agree on some slogans – death to the dictator and death to the […]

Chavez supports the Iranian dictators as an expression of his bourgeois nationalist policies. I’m with the Iranian protesters and the nascent Iranian revolution.