En Passant

The Indonesian ruling class and their politicians are no more barbaric than Australia’s ruling class and politicians are or can be. Capitalism itself is barbaric. I doubt anything now will save the Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from the firing squad in Indonesia. The lesson I draw from their impending execution and from the violence that is a daily part of the capitalist system is that we need to overthrow capitalism to abolish the death penalty in all its forms.

Free jailed workers and all political prisoners in Iran! End executions! Demonstrate 12 Pm Thursday Parliament House NSW The Islamic Republic of Iran is speeding up the rate of execution, with tens of prisoners executed over the past few weeks alone. There are 3000 people of death row. Given economic crisis and widespread poverty, the […]

An innocent man, Troy Davis, will die to satisfy the blood lust of a regime hell bent on disciplining and controlling the ‘enemy’ within and the ‘enemy’ outside its borders. All to protect private property and profit. Abolish the death penalty.

The execution of the Bali bombers will be a crime against humanity. It reduces all of us to the level of the bombers, where life is cheapened in the name of ideology.