Archive for August 29th, 2009
Football depression
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under St George Illawarra.
Tags: Football
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St George Illawarra have saved me from September angst by giving it to me now.
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A long hot summer of bushfires?
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Bushfires
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Driving back to Wollongong from Sydney today the sign said it all. Fires around Burrill Lake meant the Princes Highway was closed near there. ABC Illawarra radio has been interrupting the football with updates on the fire. Some residents are reporting they can see flames nearby. The advice was that if you could see flames […]
Canberra Labor – the political gay bashing continues
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Canberra, Canberra Greens, Canberra Labor, Gay marriage
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The ACT minority Labor Government is about to reject a Greens motion to legalise same sex marriage. They are going to vote against their own policy – a policy they took to the last election – because they don’t want to upset Kevin Rudd and the other reactionaries. CPSU affiliation to Canberra Labor has proved […]
The rise of Stalin: What really happened in Russia?
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under Lenin, Revolution, Russian revolution, Socialism, State capitalism, Trotsky.
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“We have got the dictatorship of the proletariat! … I rub my hands and chuckle with glee. May the day soon come when the proletariat of Western Europe does the same.” Morgan Philips Price, a Manchester Guardian journalist stationed in Russia in 1917, wrote these words to his wife. He didn’t have to wait long. […]