En Passant

Without a left-wing political or industrial focus some of the exploited, the forgotten and the marginalised have turned to nationalism and its twin, racism, as crutches for the loss of working class community and working class strength in action.

A great video about invasion day on 26 January.

In Melbourne Indian students are 2 1/2 times more likely than non-Indians to be beaten up or knifed. Indian student societies claim they are less likely to report assaults than non-Indians. If as appears likely that is the case the figure blows out even further. Why are Indians so much more likely to be attacked? Let’s go back a bit. Education is one of […]

Our hope at the moment must be that the apparently growing number of strikes and other industrial disputes in Australia boil over into a generalised campaign for wage increases, social services and jobs.

Out of the primordial swamp of hatred have crawled Rudd’s progeny, given breath by his vilification of the other. These are your dead Mr Rudd.

Remember that censorship is not just something the State does. The struggle for free speech is just as often against private as well as State interests.

‘The Liberal Party is currently led by people whose conviction on climate change is that it is ‘crap’ and you don’t need to do anything about it. Any policy that is announced will simply be a con, an environmental fig leaf to cover a determination to do nothing.’                                            – deposed Liberal Party leader […]

Tony Abbott is by his own admission the political love child of Bronwyn Bishop and John Howard. With that image in mind, enjoy the rest of your day.

Climate change denier Tony Abbott is about as fair dinkum an environmentalist as Kevin Rudd. Abbott won leadership of the Liberal Party with the support of Nick Minchin, the man who denies global warming at all and claims the whole thing is a left wing plot to de-industrialise Western society. Abbott’s victory over pro-ETS leader Malcolm […]

On Friday and Saturday night thousands of thugs took over inner city streets across Australia and New Zealand. These hooligans harassed, locked up and arrested hundreds. The police called it Operation Unite and claimed its aim was to curb drunken and violent behaviour in the early morning in known drinking spots. We are , they pompously proclaimed, sending […]