En Passant

Australia does a thousands times more to Papua New Guinea and Nauru than what Turnbull et al are complaining China is trying to do to us through the likes of Dastyari.  Barnarby Joyce is even threatening New Zealand as part of this process.

Of course Chinese imperialism is a threat. US imperialism is our day to day reality.  But the main enemy is at home. Australian imperialism is the biggest enemy working people in Australia and the region have.

The action of governments of both persuasions in Australia in joining the US-led China containment program is more of a worry to the Chinese ruling class than the caterwauling of a few PUPs.

Having socialists involved in the struggles of the day, socialists with an understanding of the tasks necessary to win a better world here and now and into the future and coalescing around common ideas about socialism and democracy is an important part of the ultimate success of the liberationist project.

During 2010 the third phase of the global financial crisis – making workers pay – began to play itself out. Capital in Europe has used and is using its parliamentary dominance – it doesn’t matter whether reformists or conservatives are in power – to attack their working classes. While there have been magnificent strikes and demonstrations involving masses […]

The bourgeois and state attacks on Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange for the crime of exposing their lies are a further indication of the threadbare nature of the democratic veneer of capitalism.

Imperialism is the competition between the major economic states. That competition is economic, political and military, but ultimately rests on military strength and often resolves itself militarily.

Apparently it is OK to kill kids if you are the American ruling class. Only turning this upside down world right way up – working class revolution – can stop the murder of the innocents.

A non-binding, non-targeted piece of poly waffle is what both United States and Chinese imperialism wanted, to protect and extend their own power.