Archive for May 31st, 2015
Adam Goodes, ‘respectable’ racism and the fascists
Posted by John, May 31st, 2015 - under Reclaim (whte) Australia, Socialists, Stephen Jolly.
Tags: Fascism, Fascists
Comments: 1
The government’s racist and xenophobic attacks not only allow the respectable racists to come forth. They encourage the fascists and hard racists to not only air their filth but to attempt to mobilise around racism. The most recent example was the ‘United Patriots’ demonstration on Sunday in Melbourne which was an attempt to shut down socialist councillor Stephen Jolly. The left mobilised against the fascists and stopped them silencing Jolly. This is a victory for democracy.
The respectable racists have crawled out from under their rocks (often padded with copies of mainstream newspapers) to condemn the anti-fascist protestors. We have to confront not just the fascists but expose the respectable racists and the government which nurtures and provokes their racism too. We have to oppose the racists whenever they organise their Reclaim White Australia rallies. Just as importantly we have to challenge the governments which demonise asylum seekers, which attack Aborigines and point the finger accusingly at Muslims and which attack our jobs, or wages and our services.
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The fascist face of Reclaim Australia
Posted by John, May 31st, 2015 - under Reclaim (whte) Australia.
Comments: 15
This fascist is the real face of Reclaim Australia, photographed today at the ‘United Patriot Front’ storm trooper protest in Melbourne where 400 anti-fascists confronted the 70 Nazis. It is a consequence of Tony Abbott’s state inflamed racism, Islamophobia and anti-asylum seeker rhetoric and action.
The Canberra Times: to renew my subscription or not? Or how the mainstream media has gone to hell in a handbasket
Posted by John, May 31st, 2015 - under Media, Neoliberalism, Profit rates, Socialist democracy, The Canberra Times.
Comments: 2
The declining Australian economy means that whoever is in government in Australia will adopt and ratchet up attacks on wages, jobs, conditions, and social spending. To try to hide this reality the attacks on the manufactured ‘enemy within’ will intensify and broaden to more welfare recipients and perhaps on to the left. The terrorist threat will dominate our news when the biggest terrorists sit in Canberra and Washington.
The mainstream media will cheer on the multitude of attacks on the working class. Nowhere among the reams and reams of ’analysis’ of the economic issues facing ‘the nation’ will there be published alternative voices that identify capitalism as the problem and production organised democratically to satisfy human need rather than make a profit as the solution. This article will never see the light of day in the mainstream media.