Archive for 'unemployment'
The spectre haunting Australia – unemployment
Posted by John, January 22nd, 2012 - under Underemployment, Unemployed, unemployment.
Comments: 6
A spectre is haunting Australia; the spectre of unemployment. Because this is a crisis of profitability in the developed countries, pussyfooting around and kowtowing to capital won’t work. In the words of the BLF: If you don’t fight, you lose.The time to fight unemployment is now, not when it hits six or seven or eight percent. A 30 hour week without loss of pay would be a start.
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Bill Shorten is much more offensive than Teresa Gambaro
Posted by John, January 11th, 2012 - under Bill Shorten, Newstart allowance, Teresa Gambaro, The dole, Underemployment, Unemployed, unemployment.
Comments: 4
The last few days have shown us that the Liberals are scapegoating immigrants. Labor is scapegoating the unemployed. Both scapegoat refugees. None of these people are to blame for the crises of capitalism. Fight the system, not its victims.
Attack the real bludgers, Gillard
Posted by John, April 14th, 2011 - under Disabled, Dole bludgers, Gillard, Gillard Government, Gillard Labor, Underemployment, Unemployed, unemployment.
Comments: 60
We live in an unjust society. This is a society where bosses take as their own the profits we create. Labour creates value, not capital.
The owners of capital are the real bludgers. But Gillard won’t attack them. She is, like the rest of the ALP, their servant.
Obama: making the Republicans look good
Posted by John, January 21st, 2010 - under Health Insurance, Health care, Health reform, Massachusetts, Obama, War, unemployment.
Comments: 11
People weren’t voting for the Republicans in Massachusetts. They were voting against Obama’s business as usual administration.
US racism: the game stays the same
Posted by John, January 12th, 2010 - under Barack Obama, Game changers, Harry Reid, Obama, Racism, US politics, Underemployment, United States, unemployment.
Comments: 4
Obama now heads the racist machine. As he destroys the illusions millions had in him, the lesson seems clear. Change comes not from changing who runs the system but from changing the system.
They party; we get the sack
Posted by John, September 17th, 2009 - under Australia, Capitalism, Economic crisis, Economics, Profit rates, Recession, Underemployment, unemployment.
Comments: none
While we face increasing unemployment and less working hours, the bosses party. What a sick society. What a rotten system.
Wall Street bonuses back with a vengeance
Posted by John, August 23rd, 2009 - under Bonuses, Wall Street, unemployment.
Comments: none
In a society based on exploitation, a crisis isn’t something that affects all layers of society equally. The bosses will try to make workers pay for their crises.
Unemployment and the lies of the bosses
Posted by Leonie, July 13th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian politics, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages, minimum wages, unemployment.
Comments: 3
There are some eternal laws of capitalism. The rich will always blame the rest of us for the problems of their system. Wages are too high they will parrot. We are only trying to save jobs they will lie. The Fair Pay Commission decision to freeze Australia’s minimum wage at $14.31 an hour shows this [...]
Cut profits, not wages
Posted by Leonie, July 7th, 2009 - under ABCC, ACTU, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building unions, Capitalism, Classes, Fair Pay Commission, Industrial action, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Keynesian neo-liberalism, Keynesianism, Labor Party, Labor wage cuts, Living standards, Neoliberal Keynesianism, Neoliberal unionism, Productivity, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Strikes, Unemployed, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Workers, unemployment.
Comments: 1
The reality for the working class is that to defend jobs and living standards they will have to strike, despite the opposition of Rudd Labor and the ACTU.
Is Labor getting ready to go early?
Posted by Bill, June 11th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Capitalism, Election, Emissions Trading Scheme, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, The Great Recession, Unions, unemployment.
Comments: 5
All the tea leaves point to an early election so that Labor can avoid the electoral fallout from rapidly rising unemployment and introduce a horror Budget in 2010.