En Passant

What better way to start off 2019 than to subscribe to Independent Australia (IA) and give yourself, and me, a late Christmas present. I am the Canberra correspondent for IA and write a weekly column for them. My recent admission to the Press Gallery means I will be reporting, health willing, regularly on the events […]

Newly released ATO figures indicate that big business has avoided tax for the fourth year in a row, I write in Independent Australia. To read the article click here. 

I write in Independent Australia: ‘It’s time to go, ScoMo and any other government that puts profit before people. The task is up to us, not Labor or the Greens or the union leadership, but us — ordinary workers and others united in fighting for a just and equitable world socially, economically and politically and […]

It is likely Australian voters will put the Labor Party into power in 2019. Will they be any better than this full death rattle Morrison Government, I ask in Independent Australia. Click here to read the whole article. 

From John Mullen in Paris 9 December 2018 It is hard to count demonstrators spread out across thousands of mobilizations, but it seems that over half a million people were involved in « Act Four » of the Yellow Vest mobilization in France on Saturday 8th December. In Bordeaux a huge joint demonstration between university […]

John Mullen in France wrote this after the events of Saturday but before the back-down (at least for the time being) by Macron on imposing the fuel tax. He says, among other things: ‘Macron’s pathetic excuse for the fuel tax rises is the environment, whereas in fact he is busy closing down thousands of kilometres of regional railway lines, cutting the funding for local government, and slashing the social housing programmes which allow employees to live near their workplaces. So it would be good to draw the links.’

Government condemnation of a massive protest by students over climate change has shown us where the real intelligence lies, I write in Independent Australia.

This is a 29 November 2018 interview with John Mullen in Paris by Left Berlin. It gives a good background to and analysis of the yellow vest protests in France and their class nature. I will publish a second even more recent report by John in a day or two.