Archive for April 18th, 2009
Sri Lanka’s war
Posted by Leonie, April 18th, 2009 - under Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Tamils.
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The Sri Lankan state is waging a brutal war on the island’s Tamil population. Yuri Prasad in the UK paper Socialist Worker looks at some of the background to the conflict. Sri Lanka’s war A vicious and increasingly one-sided war is taking place on the island of Sri Lanka – a few dozen miles off […]
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Explaining the toxic crisis of capitalism
Posted by Leonie, April 18th, 2009 - under Marxism.
Tags: Big business, Capitalism, Creative destruction
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Socialist Worker in Britain ran this article – Explaining the toxic crisis of capitalism – in September last year. It is well worth a read for a simple understanding of the crisis of profitability slowly destroying the system.
Stats sacks staff
Posted by Bill, April 18th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
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According to Satuday’s Canberra Times, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has begun to carry out its decision to sack 180 staff. This week 31 learned they are going. More will get the boot in the coming weeks. My union, the CPSU, has done nothing but talk. Only mass meetings of all CPSU members to consider indefinite strike […]