Archive for October, 2009
Socialism and “animal rights”
Posted by John, October 26th, 2009 - under Animal Liberation, Animal rights, Marxism, Socialism.
Comments: 4
To compare the condition of animals to groups of humans that are oppressed is to view the latter through a paternalistic lens, rather than a lens of human liberation argues Paul D’Amato in the US online daily Socialist Worker. OUR SOCIETY engages in practices that are cruel toward animals. The spread of capitalism worldwide has [...]
Fascists, free speech and fools
Posted by John, October 25th, 2009 - under BNP, Britain, British National Party, Fascism, Fighting back, Free speech, Nazis, Resistance, Social fascism.
Comments: 5
Out they come, the free speech fundamentalists, defending the ‘right’ of fascist leader Nick Griffin to appear on BBC TV. They shall have emblazoned on their banners ‘Free speech for fascists’ as the Nazis imprison them. And possibly, given their tendency to acquiesce to power, these apologists for capital and exponents of parliamentary cretinism will bow before Hitler’s children if they grow [...]
Razor wire and beatings: Labor’s ‘humane’ racism
Posted by John, October 24th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Humane racism, Labor Party, Racism, Razor wire, Refugees.
Comments: 1
Labor’s Indonesian solution is as brutal and inhumane as Howard’s Pacific solution. Don’t take my word for it. This is from Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian today (Saturday 24 October) in an article by Simon Kearney and Stephen Fitzpatrick called ” ‘Life of brutality’ in crowded lock-up“. A TOTAL of 78 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers on board an [...]
Alistair Hulett Traditions of Resistance
Posted by John, October 24th, 2009 - under Alistair Hulett, Marxism 2010, Resistance.
Comments: none
Alistair Hulett is playing tonight (Saturday 24 Oct) at Hermann’s Bar (cnr City Road and Butlin Ave near Sydney Uni) in a gig he calls Traditions of Resistance. It is to raise money for Socialist Alternative’s Marxism 2010 in Easter. For a night of left wing political entertainment, come along.
AN AESOP FABLE
Posted by John, October 23rd, 2009 - under Fascism, Social fascism, Trotsky.
Comments: none
Leon Trotsky What Next? Vital Question for the German Proletariat, 1932 * * * A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughterhouse. And the butcher came that night with his sharp knife. “Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns,” suggested one of the bulls. “If you please, in what [...]
Tuckey: Rudd’s bastard son
Posted by John, October 23rd, 2009 - under Australian Labor Party, Racism, Refugees, The Greens, The Left, The Liberals, Wilson Tuckey.
Comments: 2
There is no ‘humane’ racism. Kevin Rudd’s comments about ‘illegal immigrants’ and his Indonesian solution have fertilised the soil for Wilson Tuckey’s comments about terrorists being among the refugees wanting to come to Australia. Rudd’s seed has fallen upon the ground and out of his primal slime has crawled Wilson Tuckey. Racism turns everything on its head. Such [...]
We need fighting unionism, not a seat at the table
Posted by John, October 22nd, 2009 - under Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, Fighting back, Unions.
Comments: 1
Labor’s industrial laws are anti-union. To fight them we need to ditch the union leaders’ mantra of flexibility, productivity, wage restraint and what’s “good for the industry”.
Population growth is no threat to Australia’s environment
Posted by John, October 20th, 2009 - under Environment, Overpopulation.
Comments: 9
The problem is not consumption – it’s production. The problem is not people – it’s profit.
We’ve just begun to fight
Posted by John, October 19th, 2009 - under Equality, Fighting back, LGBTI, Resistance, homosexuality.
Comments: none
The 200,000 strong march for sexual equality was not just a turning point in the LGBT struggle. It kicked the door open for a civil rights movement for Equality Across America.
Cut and paste this, Australian
Posted by John, October 18th, 2009 - under Cut & Paste, The Australian.
Comments: none
I’ll admit it. I buy Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian most days. I like to see what the fruitcake faction of the bourgeoisie is up to. But I also religiously check out its Cut and Paste section to see if I am in there. Alas, no joy so far. For those who don’t know Cut and [...]