En Passant

Andrew Bolt expresses and inflames the reactionary propaganda and race hatred of a section of Australian society — a section who are exploited by politicians such as Pauline Hanson, particularly during times of economic stress, I write in Independent Australia. Click here to read the whole article. 

The exorbitant pay rewards the top ABC managers, interviewers, commentators and news readers for playing the bourgeois game so well and guarantees they continue to do so. It also removes the celebrity journalists from the working class. Someone on $75000 in the ABC right now could do the job these over paid voices do so well for their masters and do it better because they would not be, at least initially, part of the bourgeoisie’s club.

According to Andrew Bolt yesterday I am one of ‘Breivik’s useful idiots’ for daring to suggest in an article in July last year on my blog that ‘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 […]

The short term embarrassment of racists like Bolt might turn into a longer term strategic disaster for the left. Certainly I will celebrate the Bolt’s loss, but the left needs to be careful. We might unleash the Right on their terrain – the bosses’ courts. Far better for us to fight on our ground – in the workplaces and the streets to stop racism.

Ultimately of course only a democratic working class revolution can sweep away the capitalist roots of racism. The struggles of today however can force the beast back into its lair for a while and help too to build the struggle for that new world of democracy and production to satisfy human need.

A Face Book friend has told me Andrew Bolt personally attacked me today. As I wrote previously here when he did it once before ‘I have been bolted’… It looks like he’s done it again.  I wear it as a badge of honour.

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?

Ruling class warrior Andrew Bolt outed me today.  At last. It took my cricket article – Cricket’s imperialist masters beaten – to prompt his interest.  And he gave  Socialist Alternative a free plug.  This presumably in Andrew’s mind is enough to dismiss my arguments and analysis out of hand. When I looked at lunchtime there were 116 […]