En Passant

As the brutalisation of refugees on Manus Island becomes obvious, more and more Australians want them brought here, I write in Independent Australia

The Turnbull Government is in complete disarray and every day brings some revelation of further incompetence, I write in Independent Australia​.

  The marriage equality battle seems all but won, but the fight against reaction and for equality in many other areas goes on, I write in Independent Australia in an article called the onward march to equality.

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The s44 fiasco has highlighted the born-to-rule incompetence of the Turnbull Government and its lack of policy and action. This is a crisis of neoliberalism, I write in Independent Australia.

The promise of the Russian Revolution–its example of mass democracy in action, reaching into every corner of society–shows its relevance for us 100 years later argue the editors in Socialist Worker US.

Manus Island shows us there can be no “business as usual” anymore. Shut down our cities to shut down the concentration camps. Bring them here.

Enough!   The island is quiet, tonight The overlord stalks the fence Enforcing the peace that is not Through water, food, Electricity, and denial   Despair remains And determination To fight, to dream, to win We see you from our balconies Of love and fear We are not there But here And nothing changes, yet […]