Archive for October, 2010
Electric cars in Canberra and the genocide in Palestine
Posted by John, October 31st, 2010 - under Better Place, Electric cars, Electric vehicles, Israel, Palestine.
Comments: 12
Better Place Australia has such apparently close links to Better Place Israel and will set up its network in Canberra based on the dispossession of the Palestinians that the local Canberra Labor Government should abandon its partnership with and support for BPA’s roll out of battery re-charge points in Canberra.
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Engels on nature and humans
Posted by John, October 30th, 2010 - under Engels, Humanity, Nature.
Comments: 4
Our mastery of it [nature - JP ] consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly. Engels
Have your say – Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, October 30th, 2010 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 7
Labor’s vote is collapsing across Australia and the Greens are polling close to 20 percent. Afghanistan is unwinnable for imperialism. Abbott wants a flat tax in which ordinary workers pay more and he pays less tax. Obama is leading the Democrats to oblivion in the mid-terms. The French working class challenge to Sarkozy’s pension plans [...]
9/11, Afghanistan and the lies of the establishment
Posted by John, October 27th, 2010 - under Afghanistan.
Comments: 13
The parliament is full of these nutbags with unsupportable views, but you wouldn’t know it from reading or listening to the mainstream media. For them, bullshit justifications for endless slaughter in the name of the prestige and standing of the US empire are the bread and butter of legitimate debate.
Yet anyone who dares question the motives of the killing machine is derided as somehow insensitive. What hypocrisy.
More zombie politicians than you can poke a stick at
Posted by John, October 25th, 2010 - under Labor Left, Labor Party, Social Democracy.
Comments: 6
What’s with all these former conservative politicians back in the limelight? Is there some sort of voodoo conference on bringing these political corpses back to life?
Engels on the withering away of the state
Posted by John, October 24th, 2010 - under Engels, Lenin, The state, Withering away.
Comments: 8
The state is not ‘abolished’. It withers away.
Afghanistan bipartisanship, bank bashing and class struggle in France – Saturday’s socialist speak out
Posted by John, October 23rd, 2010 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
Comments: 2
Overshadowing all this is the class struggle in France where workers are challenging the dictatorship of capital, at this stage inchoately, through strikes and demonstrations.
The revolt shaking France
Posted by John, October 22nd, 2010 - under Class struggle, France, Pension 'reform'.
Comments: 2
This is very possibly the beginning of a crisis for the regime in France, with a class fight in the form of strikes and demonstrations against the government on one side, and the working masses on the other side. The result will be key in Europe where the right wing, including the extreme right, has been on a political offensive.
Will the big miners dump Gillard too?
Posted by John, October 21st, 2010 - under Julia Gillard, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Mining, Mining companies, Mining taxes, Nationalisation, Resource Super Profits tax.
Comments: none
Nationalise the mines under workers’ control.
Occupez nos lieux de travail – Occupy our workplaces
Posted by John, October 20th, 2010 - under France, NPA, Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, Socialism, Working class.
Comments: none
If French workers do begin to occupy their workplaces, it opens up the possibility of a truly democratic society in which production is organised to satisfy human need.