Archive for February 9th, 2014
The Butler did it
Posted by John, February 9th, 2014 - under Abbott government, Griffith by-election, Labor Party, Terri Butler.
Comments: 2
Looking at the Griffith by-election tea leaves misses the much bigger plantation. Butler’s victory won’t stop a witch hunting Royal Commission into unions or the loss of thousands of jobs in Shepparton if SPC closes. It won’t prevent the re-establishment of the dictatorial Australian Building and Construction Commission. It won’t save car jobs or the Barrier Reef.
Her election won’t defend Medicare.
Electing Butler won’t address climate change or the increasing inequality that both Labor and the Liberals have engineered. It won’t dismantle the racist demonising of asylum seekers. The cops will continue to kill or injure Aboriginal people in custody. We won’t win marriage equality by asking the Butler.
These immediate goals of the Left plus defending jobs, wages and conditions, will have to be built on the back of big strikes and mass demonstrations. If we don’t fight we lose.