Archive for 'The Left'
Elections, struggle and building the left
Posted by John, October 24th, 2012 - under Elections, Strikes, Struggles, The Left.
Comments: 16
Why is there so little choice in Australian politics? The neoliberalism of all the parties is the surface answer; lack of class struggle the underlying answer.
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Animal Farm belongs to the Left
Posted by John, September 25th, 2012 - under Animal Farm, George Orwell, Socialist, The Left.
Comments: 3
Orwell was a committed socialist who wrote not to decry revolution, but to warn against its corruption
Greens – abandon Labor over refugees
Posted by John, May 1st, 2011 - under Asylum seekers, Refugees, The Left.
Comments: 6
For refugees, tomorrow is too late. We need action now, not in a few years time.
Greens, threaten to bring the government down over its cruel and inhuman treatment of asylum seekers. Organise mass civil disobedience to close all detention centres.
Bring your members and supporters onto the streets in their hundreds of thousands to demand the end to mandatory detention. Show some spine for a change.
Support left-wing Greens against the establishment’s attacks
Posted by John, April 2nd, 2011 - under BDS, Boycott, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Neoliberalism, Socialism, Socialists, The Greens, The Left, The Liberals.
Comments: 25
The battle against injustice is universal. In Australia it is the struggle against our own rulers and the injustices they perpetrate and perpetuate here and overseas. More power to the left of the Greens in their battles for justice, not just for Palestinians but for Australians too.
Is Labor’s decline terminal?
Posted by John, November 28th, 2010 - under Labor Party, The Left, Victoria.
Comments: 6
So why did Labor lose? Neoliberalism. The ALP is one of the two parties of neoliberalism, the idea that the market delivers the best outcomes for society.
Victorian Liberals preference Labor above the Greens
Posted by John, November 16th, 2010 - under Labor Party, The Greens, The Left, The Liberals.
Comments: 46
The way to break out of the cycle of hope and disillusion is to build a socialist alternative, an organisation committed to a new society in which the cartels of capital no longer rule.
Two Labor Party hacks defend a reactionary party
Posted by John, October 11th, 2010 - under Nick Dyrenfurth, The Left, Tim Soutphommasane.
Comments: 1
Nick Dyrenfurth is a leftist caricature. In an article in the Weekend Australian called ‘Still meaning left in old idea of the political spectrum’, Dyrenfurth and tag team mate Tim Soutphommasane conclude that the labels Left and Right (read Labor and Liberal) still have meaning. ‘There is a difference’ they doth protest. Well yes and [...]
The populist left today – some thoughts
Posted by John, October 2nd, 2010 - under Socialism, The Left.
Comments: 6
In the absence of class struggle in Australia both populist leftists (whatever that means) and the more serious social democratic apologists have little oxygen left as the fire of neoliberalism and its neokeynesian variants in practice and ideology engulf us. If there is any hope it lies with the proles.
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, [...]
Greens tack left as Labor continues to the right
Posted by John, July 27th, 2010 - under Julia Gillard, Labor Party, The Greens, The Left.
Comments: 5
Whether it’s about refugees, the war on Afghanistan, political correctness, same-sex marriage or the mining tax, in the month since Gillard won the Prime Minister’s job, she has continued, if not actually worsened, the rotten rhetoric and practice of her predecessor, Kevin Rudd. Gillard’s attacks on refugees have garnered the government the support of some [...]