En Passant

A friend on facebook sent me the following quote from Mark Twain about the French Revolution.  Have a read too of Tom O’Lincoln’s article on him in Socialist Alternative online. The radical side of him is buried among the hubris of celebration.   Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever […]

Sartre’s life and work was characterised by a deep and passionate commitment to change.

Guess what? It is OK to fly through plumes of volcanic ash. Independent investigators, also known as European airlines, have made this amazing discovery. The finding has nothing whatsoever to do with the tens of millions of dollars each airline is losing daily because of the Eurocontrol ruling that it is not yet safe to fly. […]

Almost everything this Rudd Labor Government does is reprehensible to me. There is not a shred of human decency in this pack of Labor political criminals parading as ‘my’ Government. From its dirty war in Afghanistan where Australian troops execute innocent Afghans to its Workchoices Lite threat to jail building workers and attack teachers, this Labor […]

The Tea Party can bide its time. When the bourgeoisie needs a battering ram to take on labour and massively attack living standards, it will be ready.

Here in Canberra local Labor Party Education Minister Andrew Barr has threatened teachers who impose any NAPLAN test bans with the loss of four hours pay under Rudd’s workchoices law, the Fair Work Act. Can somebody explain to me again what exactly the difference is between Labor and the Liberals? The Australian Education Union’s response does […]

THE OBAMA administration is out to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal and pressure world leaders into imposing sanctions against countries–like Iran–that allegedly harbor ambitions to develop nukes of their own. That’s the agenda behind the Washington summit on nuclear security, which followed the announcement of a supposedly less belligerent U.S. nuclear strategy and the signing […]

Socialist Alternative stall and speakout for refugees at the University of Canberra Socialist Alternative will be holding a stall and speak out for refugees at the University of Canberra this Thursday 15 April on the Concourse from 12.30 for an hour. Join us at the stall and speakout.    At 1.30 pm or so we will go to […]

Labor will attack teachers. When it does the teachers have the opportunity to defeat the league tables by striking and smashing Labor’s penal powers.

Labor is relying on the majority of the population to remain silent on same sex rights. With people all around the world demonstrating on May 15, it is a perfect opportunity to make some noise, to drown out their prejudice.