Archive for 'Reaction'
Dutton and Turnbull enable Nazis
Posted by John, January 15th, 2018 - under Malcolm Turnbull, Nazis, Peter Dutton, Reaction.
Tags: African gangs
Comments: 3
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is Australia’s Donald Trump, I write in Independent Australia.
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Je suis Karen
Posted by John, September 27th, 2015 - under Karen, Reaction, Resistance, The Greens, Violence.
Tags: Anti-radicalisation booklet, Fighting back, Howard Zinn
Comments: 5
The real extremists sit in Canberra and in the board rooms across the country. It is not Karen who invaded Iraq, or Afghanistan. It is not Karen who is bombing Syria. It is not Karen killing black men and women in custody. It is not Karen driving Aboriginal people off their land to open it up for big mining companies. It is not Karen killing women in relationships or doing very little about it. It is not Karen increasing inequality and poverty in Australia. It is not Karen attacking Medicare. It is not Karen attacking penalty rates and wages. It is not Karen who is stopping equal love. It is not Karen locking up and abusing thousands of innocent people on Manus Island and Nauru.
Is Venezuela burning? A letter from Mike Gonzalez in Caracas
Posted by John, February 23rd, 2014 - under Reaction, Revolution, Venezuala.
Comments: 4
Caracas is seeing an uprising of the middle classes and the rich. The working class neighbourhoods remain loyal to the government, but also deeply cynical about the extraordinary corruption of the heirs of Chavez. Mike Gonzalez analyses this contradictory situation in revolutionary socialism in the 21 st century
Norway’s mass killer is sane, and driven by fascist ideology
Posted by John, August 25th, 2012 - under Islamophobia, Nazis, Nazism, Reaction.
Tags: Anders Breivik, Fascism, Fighting back
Comments: 3
This verdict is a blow to the Islamophobes who hoped to rehabilitate themselves after the Norway massacre shone a spotlight on their sickening propaganda. But it is not enough by itself. The capitalist crisis is already creating social conditions that can help the far right grow in Europe. We can see this most chillingly in Greece with the rapid electoral rise of Golden Dawn’s neo-Nazi thugs. All of this underlines that building resistance to austerity has to be combined with exposing and confronting those who share Breivik’s hateful beliefs.
Is Anders Breivik just John Howard with a gun?
Posted by John, July 28th, 2011 - under Reaction, Resistance, Right wing, Terrorism.
Tags: Anders Breivik
Comments: 8
There is little in the political concerns of right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik that would be out of place in Coalition Party meetings or the mainstream media and especially on the shock jock radio shows.
Breivik saw 3 threats to Western society – Islam, multiculturalism and cultural Marxism.
This is stock standard right wing discourse. Indeed some of his comments could just as easily have been made by Australian Labor Party Parliamentarians and certainly some members.
Labor: seeking refuge in reaction
Posted by John, April 26th, 2011 - under Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Reaction, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Gillard Government, Gillard Labor
Comments: 17
Labor is consolidating around a reactionary agenda and destroying itself politically as a consequence.
This is a government without political purpose, without vision, without morals, without principles other than ruling for the rich, but with a strategy to out-Tory the Tories.
With this sort of Labor trajectory the Conservatives could be in power soon.
Our task is to resist reaction of whichever hue and to argue for a fightback in our unions and in the social movements.
Australia day and reaction
Posted by John, January 25th, 2011 - under Reaction.
Tags: Australia Day
Comments: 3
Without a left-wing political or industrial focus some of the exploited, the forgotten and the marginalised have turned to nationalism and its twin, racism, as crutches for the loss of working class community and working class strength in action.
Feminism as a cover for reaction
Posted by John, July 12th, 2010 - under Julia Gillard, Reaction.
Tags: Feminism
Comments: 5
Julia Gillard’s ascension to the Prime Ministership has exposed the fault lines of Australian feminism between the liberals and the liberationists. Already some feminists are complaining that the attacks on Gillard are because she is a woman, not because she is a reactionary. Some committed women unionists have swung totally behind Gillard despite the fact her policies […]
Letters from Never Never Land: DLP saves Australia from communist Government
Posted by John, July 10th, 2010 - under Labor Party, Mark Aarons, Reaction.
Tags: Angela Shanahan, Communist Party, Democratic Labor Party
Comments: 3
Remember the Democratic Labor Party? Evidently they saved Australia from a communist Government. Don’t believe me? Let me quote from that font of all knowledge, Angela Shanahan, a ‘journalist’ with The Australian. ‘As a reader wrote: “What comes out of this book is not to praise the ‘stay-in-and-fighters’ (sic) (as Carr does) but those who sacrificed […]
Cricket and the loony left lie
Posted by John, January 11th, 2010 - under Loony left, Nick Dyrenfurth, Reaction, Red baiting, Soft left, Tim Blair.
Tags: Andrew Bolt, Cricket
Comments: 5
Why not pick out two sentences from hundreds of articles by a leftie and think that you have undercut all those crazy ideas about democracy and satisfying human need?