En Passant

While we are focused on the non-threat from the ‘other’, in this case asylum seekers, the bosses can put their hands deeper into our pockets. The immediate task for the left and for others concerned about Labor’s attacks on the most vulnerable must be to relate to the anger many decent Australians feel and help build the demonstrations scheduled over the next week and make them as militant as possible. As Martin Luther King has said “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” To that I would add unjust actions of government. That can only come about through mobilising people now in the fight and making the arguments for seriously challenging the injustice that is this rotten Labor government policy of deporting asylum seekers.

Kevin Rudd is once again leader of the Labor Party writes Mick Armstrong in Socialist Alternative. But the ALP remains an absolute disaster zone. Labor is still likely to face a devastating defeat in the upcoming elections – defeat at the hands of Tony Abbott, one of the most despised Liberal Party leaders ever. If Labor can’t beat a disgusting reactionary like Abbott, whose whole social outlook is completely out of kilter with the mass of workers in Australia, then it should immediately be put out of its misery.

The polls show Labor could lose the next election, due within six months. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s popularity is in free fall since his decision to ‘postpone’ his Emissions Trading Scheme. Will Labor lose? Is this just a blip or is there a fundamental shift away for Labor? Hit the comments button to have your say […]

The mining maggots don’t give a toss about jobs. All they care about is their huge profits. During the global financial crisis guess who sacked tens of thousands of workers? The mining maggots.  They got rid of 15 percent of their workforce. So much for their concern about jobs. Here’s how the head of the Treasury, Ken Henry, put it, […]

Last year the mining magnates on Business Review Weekly’s Rich List increased their net wealth $9 billion.  Rudd Labor’s Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) will raise $9 billion in its first year. It looks to me like the filthy rich mining bosses can afford the tax. But what is Labor going to do with the […]

Almost every policy Labor has or adopts is geared to improving the profitability of Australian capitalism. That is the Party’s essence.

Labor Party Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen has asked possible protest voters if they really want to wake up the day after the election with a Tony Abbott government. They are getting desparate. We already have a Tony Abbott Government. Cutting wages through its award modernisation program, attacking unions (teachers, building workers), demonising refugees, doing nothing […]

Health Minister Nicola Roxon has said that a universal dental health care scheme would cost $4 billion and this Labor Government just doesn’t have the money. She’s lying. The Government next year will spend $26 billion on ways to kill people overseas. In fact Rudd Labor is increasing defence spending by 3 percent in real terms a year until 2016. $1.1 billion currently […]

Taxing the rich and their businesses must be the policy of the left.

Almost everything this Rudd Labor Government does is reprehensible to me. There is not a shred of human decency in this pack of Labor political criminals parading as ‘my’ Government. From its dirty war in Afghanistan where Australian troops execute innocent Afghans to its Workchoices Lite threat to jail building workers and attack teachers, this Labor […]