Tag: Exploitation
Our socialism or their barbarism? – a poem
Posted by John, May 13th, 2019 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Exploitation, my poetry, poetry
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The words, the article, the politics Cannot write tonight The not right of campaigns The pain of lies, untruths, sales By the men and women with snake oil Greasing our minds With thoughts to supposedly explain Our economic insecurity as gain But exploitation is insecure Systemically, crises are its cure, Unplanned, undemocratic Men in suits […]
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The theft at the heart of growing inequality
Posted by John, March 15th, 2015 - under Inequality, Theft, Wages.
Tags: Exploitation
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Danny Katch writes in Socialist Worker US about the increasing gap between the rich and the rest of us. He says in part:
The fact of the matter is this: The rising gap between the rich and the rest of us isn’t being caused by mysterious new forces, but by a very old-fashioned one: theft. The most significant of the crimes is the attack on wages.
Politicians: serving themselves, and their masters even more
Posted by John, October 24th, 2013 - under Rorts.
Tags: Abbott government, Expenses, Exploitation
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The expenses scandal in Australia grows deeper by the week. Yet the greatest crime of politicians is that, while serving themselves, they serve their masters more.
Cuba supports Tamil genocide
Posted by Leonie, June 1st, 2009 - under Oppression, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Tamils.
Tags: Exploitation
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I see Cuba, that great bastion of ‘socialism’ according to some sections of the Left, has supported Sri Lanka’s massacre of the Tamils. There is a brief discussion in this month’s Socialist Alternative. (Corey Oakley Stalinist states back Sri Lanka). Stalinism is not socialism, as John has written previously. (Cuba: Stalinism is not socialism). John is speaking on […]