Archive for July 28th, 2015
The Australian Workers Union and Bill Shorten: The best friends Abbott and the bosses ever had
Posted by John, July 28th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Australian Workers Union, Bill Shorten, Class collaboration
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Solidarity magazine has a good article on the AWU and Shorten deals with the bosses and the failure of many unions to fight the bosses. It finishes off with this: ‘Rather than a “modern” class collaborationist model of unionism, which has failed workers and just lays the basis for the Liberals to attack further, we need to get back to the politics of class struggle, by mobilising rank-and-file members, who have no interest in cosy deals.’ To read the whole article click here.
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A people’s history of taxation – an abstract for a paper
Posted by John, July 28th, 2015 - under People power, Tax.
Tags: A people's history of taxation
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This is an abstract I have drafted for a paper on tax, war, democracy and revolution. It is early days yet – I have just started doing the research – and the Conference is six months away so I hope to be finished before then. The history is necessarily truncated, and so will be a potted history.
Each area of examination deserves its own much deeper and thorough analysis but that would lose the sweep of history I am trying to capture. And I only have about 30,0000 words. It will be an important part of my PHD. I would be grateful for any suggestions, thoughts, comments, especially about useful works on the various areas mentioned in the abstract below I am looking at.