Tag: Bill Shorten
Right wing nut jobs, Bill Shorten is no Jeremy Corbyn
Posted by John, February 5th, 2018 - under Jeremy Corbyn, Right wing nut job, The Australian.
Tags: Bill Shorten
Comments: 2
Rightwingers think painting Bill Shorten as a radical will scare voters away from Labor. They’re wrong on all counts, I write in Independent Australia.
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Labor promised to fund services, but also backed cuts
Posted by John, July 31st, 2016 - under Labor Party, Solidarity magazine.
Tags: Amy Thomas, Bill Shorten
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Amy Thomas writes in the July edition of Solidarity: “Labor is back”, claimed a triumphant Bill Shorten in his election night speech. But in truth, the result was Labor’s second lowest primary vote since the 1930s. Of an overall 3.71 swing against the Coalition, only 2.27 per cent went to Greens and Labor.
Could Labor really win the 2016 election?
Posted by John, February 22nd, 2016 - under Labor Party, Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Bill Shorten
Comments: 2
The desire for a better world is engraved on the hearts of workers and that longing gives hope to Labor. They will dissipate that desire for a change away from business as usual politics if they don’t make their arguments in class terms. Bill Shorten is no Bernie Sanders, but he is also not Malcolm Turnbull ether.
Turnbull can smile and pontificate all he wants. Ordinary workers want to see government action that improves their lives and that of their kids. The dilemma for Turnbull is that if he does that he has no room for cutting taxes on business. His shine is wearing off as the class nature of his government becomes clearer to us all.
With those sorts of policies Justin Trudeau is clearly unelectable I tell you, unelectable
Posted by John, October 21st, 2015 - under Jeremy Corbyn, Justin Trudeau, Left-wing.
Tags: Bill Shorten
Comments: 5
I reckon Justin Trudeau is even more unelectable than that UK Labour bloke, Jeremy Corbyn. Thank heaven we in Australia have the very very electable alternative Prime Minister and Labor Party leader Bill Shorten and his party’s neoliberal, warmongering and racist policies.
Prime Ministerial deck chairs in Australia – what the hell is going on?
Posted by John, September 15th, 2015 - under Labor Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Protests, Resistance, Strikes, Tony Abbott.
Tags: Bill Shorten, Capitalist workers' party, Demonstrations
Comments: 1
Just as changing Liberal leaders won’t change the fundamentals, neither will dumping Shorten for a fake leftie like Albanese or Plibersek, or promoting a smooth right-winger like Tony Burke.
There is a message for activists and socialists in the fall of Abbott. It wasn’t Labor who defeated him. It certainly wasn’t Shorten. It was those Aboriginal, education, refugee, Medicare, feminist and other activists, the gay community and their supporters, the teachers, nurses, public servants, wharfies, building workers etc etc etc actually fighting against Abbott and his rotten policies and sending a message to the wider community about Abbott’s rotten policies and the fact you could reject them and resist them.
It is the same message we need to develop in fighting Turnbull’s neoliberalism and that of whoever is leading Labor at the next election. On to the streets to fight for equal love, against the closure of remote communities, against climate change, to free the refugees, for women’s liberation and so on. Close down our workplaces to defend jobs and wages.
Anything but the economy, stupid
Posted by John, September 10th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Abbott government, Bill Shorten, Canning by-election
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The two things Tony Abbott has going for him are that the opposition within his party hasn’t coalesced around one candidate, and the Labor Party Opposition has.
The Australian Workers Union and Bill Shorten: The best friends Abbott and the bosses ever had
Posted by John, July 28th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Australian Workers Union, Bill Shorten, Class collaboration
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Solidarity magazine has a good article on the AWU and Shorten deals with the bosses and the failure of many unions to fight the bosses. It finishes off with this: ‘Rather than a “modern” class collaborationist model of unionism, which has failed workers and just lays the basis for the Liberals to attack further, we need to get back to the politics of class struggle, by mobilising rank-and-file members, who have no interest in cosy deals.’ To read the whole article click here.
The problem is not just Bill Shorten; it is the Labor Party
Posted by John, June 18th, 2015 - under Socialism, Solidarity, Solidarity magazine.
Tags: ALP, Bill Shorten
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The process of the degeneration of the ALP from a capitalist workers’ party to a capitalist party is at best resulting today in a CAPITALIST workers’ party if not a capitalist party. Shorten is but one indicator of that process. Our task is to win over those who support reform to the side of revolution. Shorten and the rest of his rotten crew might make that task just a little easier.
Labor’s refugee petard
Posted by John, June 17th, 2015 - under Labor Party, National security, Refugees, Spies.
Tags: Abbott government, ASIS, Asylum seekers, Bill Shorten
Comments: 5
On asylum seekers Labor has been hoist with their own petard. It would be laughable if it were not so serious. The time has come for Labor to abandon the stink bomb that is their refugee policy and welcome those fleeing war, rape, imprisonment and persecution. I know that will not happen. It is up to refugee activists to continue our long fight to defend asylum seekers. Instead of Labor and Liberal lies, that means, as a start and as Red Cross has shown, telling the truth about our abandoned brothers and sisters and exposing Labor and the government for the liars and criminals they are. It means pointing out too that the government (of whatever neoliberal persuasion) that is attacking workers and the poor also attacks asylum seekers. We are all in this together.
Why no condemnation of the racist nature of the Reclaim Australia rallies Mr Abbott and Mr Shorten?
Posted by John, April 7th, 2015 - under Racism, Reclaim (whte) Australia.
Tags: Bill Shorten
Comments: 2
Why the silence on the racist nature of the Reclaim Australia rallies Mr Abbott and Mr Shorten? Could it be not only that you condone this racism but that your policies and actions have given it life and support? You can’t condemn your own children. Is that it?