Archive for 'Repression'
Climate activists in Paris defy state ban and police brutality
Posted by John, November 30th, 2015 - under Repression, Resistance, State of emergency.
Tags: Climate change, Cop21, France
Comments: 1
Protesters filled the streets of Paris on the eve of the United Nations Cop21 climate change summit–despite president Francois Hollande’s best attempts to keep them away writes Dave Sewell in Socialist Worker UK from Paris.
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Australian Border Force: first they came for Mojgan
Posted by John, August 29th, 2015 - under Mojgan Shamsalipoor, Refugees, Repression.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Australian Border Force, Authoritarianism
Comments: 3
First it was Mojgan, then it was Melbourne. This is the real face of Australian Border Force.
First they came for the bikies
Posted by John, October 20th, 2013 - under Repression.
Tags: Bikies, Freedom
Comments: 10
The Abbott Liberal Government and its State counterparts will ratchet up their strategy of vilification and demonisation against the powerless, the poor, refugees, bikies, indigenous Australians. This lays the groundwork for turning on social welfare recipients – so called dole bludgers and the like – and then on to the defensive organisations of labour, unions. They will ramp up the rhetoric of union thugs and attacks on unions.
An injury to one is an injury to all. To keep and improve current pay, conditions and jobs we will have to fight back against reaction, against all demonisation and vilification, against attacks on unions. If there is hope it lies in the proles.
Operational reasons
Posted by John, October 8th, 2013 - under Repression.
Comments: none
For operational reasons this blog will be closed until further notice. Eric Blair, Secretary, Department of Home Affairs.
Free speech, Afghanistan and treason
Posted by John, September 8th, 2012 - under Repression, Resistance, War.
Tags: Afghanistan, Fighting back, Free speech
Comments: 11
For 40 years I have been raging against the capitalist machine in all its manifestations – war, genocide, poverty, human rights abuses, working class exploitation, economic crises and the racism, sexism and homophobia which act as a glue for the system and the Labor party and trade union leadership which are its staunchest defenders and the rock on which it survives.
If recent calls in Australia for the further criminalisation of dissent mean that I’ll have to write my blog from a prison cell then so be it. I won’t be the first and I certainly won’t be the last revolutionary imprisoned for their views.
‘Turning back the boats’ means attacking the Tent Embassy and all it stands for
Posted by John, January 31st, 2012 - under Julia Gillard, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Turn back the boats.
Tags: Aboriginal Embassy, Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Comments: none
The duality of racism in Australia means that when Abbott inflames racist tensions by attacking refugees he lays the groundwork for more and more brutal attacks on our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters, including the Tent Embassy.
Between revolt and repression in Iran
Posted by Bill, June 23rd, 2009 - under Iran, Repression, Revolution.
Comments: 2
Real democratic change in Iran won’t come from U.S. intervention, but from a broadening and deepening of the protest movement.
Iran: between reaction and revolution
Posted by Leonie, June 20th, 2009 - under Iran, Islam, Reaction, Reform, Repression, Resistance, Revolution, Shoras, Workers' councils.
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Capitalism, Class struggle, Classes, Democracy, Demonstrations
Comments: 1
The demand for democracy has the potential to unite the poor with the better paid workers and drive the Iranian dictators into the sea.
The return of the one-state solution
Posted by Bill, May 7th, 2009 - under Imperialism, Israel, One-state solution, Palestine, Repression, Resistance.
Tags: Fighting back
Comments: 2
A democratic and secular Palestine for all who want to live there is gaining support.
Egyptian Tax Officers fight back, and win!
Posted by Leonie, May 3rd, 2009 - under Repression, Resistance, Strikes, Tax Office, Unions.
Tags: Egypt, Fighting back
Comments: 2
Through strikes and demonstrations Egyptian tax collectors won a 325% pay increase and have now formed an independent trade union.