Archive for August, 2010
Strikes rock South Africa
Posted by John, August 31st, 2010 - under General strike, South Africa, Strikes.
Comments: 1
There is something truly inspiring about seeing thousands of mostly black South Africans blockading roads and hurling rocks at police in Soweto, Johannesburg, again, writes Ben Hillier in Socialist Alternative. In the same district that saw the historic June 1976 uprising, which was the beginning of the end for apartheid, dissent and rebellion is once [...]
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Systemic racism against Aborigines
Posted by John, August 30th, 2010 - under Aborigines, Racism, United Nations.
Comments: 6
A long term solution must involve recognition of prior ownership and sovereignty, paying the rent and negotiating a treaty with aboriginal people.
Paul Hogan and Departure Prohibition Orders
Posted by John, August 29th, 2010 - under Departure Prohibition Orders, Paul Hogan, Tax.
Comments: 9
Newspaper and other reports are describing the Australian Tax Office’s action in issuing a Departure Prohibition Order against Paul Hogan, an order preventing him leaving Australia, as draconian, heavy handed, and even that it makes Australia a police state. It seems I am the voice of reason in all of this, having been quoted in [...]
Election ‘instability’ – Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, August 27th, 2010 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 7
‘Independent MPs will do nothing to solve the problems facing workers and students in Australia today. Instead, we need a clearly left-wing alternative that is prepared to stand up for workers’ rights, against racism and war, and which will resist the pro-capitalist policies of Labor and the Liberals.’ So wrote Corey Oakley in Nothing positive about [...]
Greens: make the Parliament unworkable
Posted by John, August 26th, 2010 - under Election 2010, The Greens.
Comments: 10
The Greens, and the vast majority who voted for them, see the Party as being to the Left of the ALP. With the balance of power in the Senate now is the time to prove it.
Teachers, terrorism and the dead in Afghanistan
Posted by John, August 26th, 2010 - under Afghanistan, Teachers, Terrorism.
Comments: 11
We are the terrorists. Bring the troops home.
Uncertainty and instability – isn’t that what capitalism is all about?
Posted by John, August 25th, 2010 - under Certainty, Election 2010, Stability.
Comments: none
Their stability is the stability of the gun and the dollar. Their certainty is the certainty of more profit for themselves. Let’s give them our stability and our certainty and rock their rotten sytem to its core.
Australia shifts left – Labor dead; Greens revitalised
Posted by John, August 23rd, 2010 - under Election 2010, Labor Party.
Comments: 5
Jack Waterford (‘Don’t blame the messengers, Julia’) points out in the Canberra Times of 23 August that Labor lost ‘even more [votes] to its left’. The swing to the Greens of 3.8 percent was more than double that to the Conservatives. But I disagree with Jack that this means what Labor needs is a makeover of Julia Gillard as [...]
Labor’s rightwing policies opened the door for Abbott
Posted by John, August 23rd, 2010 - under Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Tony Abbott.
Comments: 4
Labor has done so badly in these elections because Labor’s appalling right-wing policies offered nothing to its working-class supporters.
The Greens: Opportunities for the Left?
Posted by John, August 22nd, 2010 - under Revolutionary Socialism, Socialism, The Greens, The Left.
Comments: none
The swing of 3.7 % to the Greens gives them almost 12% nationally. It offers the left an opportunity to argue our case with those who will become disillusioned with the Greens and their incapacity to fundamentally change anything. They support the profit system which is the root cause of our problems – climate change, [...]