Archive for June 21st, 2012
Of course we want independent newspapers
Posted by John, June 21st, 2012 - under Australian Financial Review, Fairfax, Gina Rinehart, Independence, Journalism, Journalists, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald.
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A good first start to independence and to building it on the ground would be for Fairfax workers to strike against the planned 1900 job cuts.
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The legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Posted by John, June 21st, 2012 - under Rosa Luxemburg.
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The choice we face today is no less stark than that which Luxemburg saw confronting humanity at the height of World War I. The continuation of a system of capitalism built on violence, injustice and poverty for the vast majority of people. Or the struggle for socialism – a society and economy democratically and collectively controlled by workers, in which the vast capacities and resources of humanity are no longer sacrificed on the alter of the market, but can be turned to providing the things we need to live a decent life.
Free speech and racist cops
Posted by John, June 21st, 2012 - under Cops, Police, Racism, Victorian Trades Hall.
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To The Victorian Trades Hall Council: We are writing to object in the strongest terms to the arbitrary cancellation of our room booking for a public meeting on the issue of “racism and police violence” on Thursday 21 June. This meeting is in the best traditions of the Trades Hall Council and the Victorian labour movement, which has long been a defender, not a suppressor, of public debate. We urge you to continue that tradition.