Archive for September 5th, 2009
Tobin tax bombshell splits ruling class
Posted by John, September 5th, 2009 - under Tax, Tobin tax.
Tags: Crisis, Economic crisis
Comments: 1
A Tobin tax won’t address the fundamental and systemic problem of capitalism – the crisis of profitability.
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Even in France the economy is ‘not out of the woods yet’…
Posted by John, September 5th, 2009 - under Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, NPA.
Tags: Economic crisis, France
Comments: 1
This article, by Stéphanie Treillet, was first posted on the French New Anti-Capitalist Party site and can be found here. It is called Economie: pas de sortie de crise. Given Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan’s penchant for talking about Australia’s economy not being out of the woods yet, I have used their hackneyed phrase in my loose translation […]
Aborigines, education and Cuban teams
Posted by John, September 5th, 2009 - under Northern Territory Intervention.
Tags: Aborigines, Cuba, Cuban educational teams, East Timor
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Cuban educational teams in East Timor have improved literacy at low cost there. Considering they run at about 30% of the cost of other NGO, UN etc programs which may not have the same success, imagine what could be achieved through funding the Cuban teams to the same extent. If the Australian Government invited them […]
Freeing meaning
Posted by John, September 5th, 2009 - under Reflections.
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The point is not to capture meaning; it is to free it.
Rise up against US war criminals and their fundamentalist lackeys
Posted by John, September 5th, 2009 - under Imperialism, US imperialism.
Tags: Afghanistan
Comments: 3
This is a statment made in May by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan after a US bombing killed 150 civilians. Their website has a graphic photo of what ‘women’s liberation’ under US forces in Afghanistan really means. The link is here. As the US occupiers continue killing our innocent and sorrowed people without […]