Archive for 'Mining maggots'
Me on the mining tax
Posted by John, September 2nd, 2014 - under Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Mining maggots, Mining taxes.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party
Comments: none
My article ‘The Minerals Resource Rent Tax: The Australian Labor Party and the continuity of change’ has been published in (2014) 27 (1) Accounting Research Journal 19. If you have University Library access you can have a read if your library has subscribed. It borrows from the ideas of Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn about […]
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Australia’s mining barons stole the boom
Posted by John, August 26th, 2013 - under Mining, Mining companies, Mining maggots, Mining taxes.
Tags: Boom and bust
Comments: 3
The resources boom has been an El Dorado for big and dirty capitalism. Now that the capitalists see the writing on the wall, they are preparing to launch another round of attacks. Our side got nothing from the boom. We sure as hell shouldn’t have to pay for the bust.
Is Clive Palmer mining nuts now?
Posted by John, March 22nd, 2012 - under Mining, Mining companies, Mining maggots, Rich, Rich maggots.
Tags: CIA, Clive Palmer, Communists, Democracy
Comments: 5
When the Sun kings of profit get challenged the ideology of their empires is threatened and the nudity of their worth stands for all ordinary working people to see. So having not lived in the real world of work, of labour, they do what they always do – invent a self serving story.
If the economy worsens or the Greens actually begin to exercise some power instead of being Democrats in waiting, what Palmer said about them will be a small taste of much worse to come as the rich maggots squirm and worm to protect their rotting patches.
More rich bastards rattle their pearls in protest
Posted by John, August 18th, 2010 - under Mining companies, Mining maggots, Mining taxes, Polluters, Rich.
Tags: Education, Election 2010
Comments: 2
It’s the interests of the rich schools, the rich miners, the big polluters and the other billionaire bludgers whom Gillard and her Labor Party serve.
Who really rules Australia?
Posted by John, August 17th, 2010 - under Mining companies, Mining maggots, Ruling class.
Tags: Elections
Comments: 3
For Marxists it’s not such much “whoever you vote for, the government always wins” but “whoever you vote for, the capitalists always win”. As Marx himself put it in The Communist Manifesto: “the bourgeoisie has…since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
A citizens’ dissembly?
Posted by John, July 24th, 2010 - under Julia Gillard, Mining companies, Mining maggots, Tony Abbott.
Tags: Citizens' assembly, Class struggle, Climate change, Global Warming
Comments: 3
The citizens’ assembly is a Rudd like trick to give the impression of doing something when not actually doing anything at all on climate change. Remember the 2020 summit?
Mining bosses win – we lose
Posted by John, July 14th, 2010 - under Julia Gillard, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, Mining, Mining maggots, Resource Super Profits tax.
Tags: Gillard Government, Gillard Labor
Comments: 4
$14 billion for the mining bosses, nothing for those in need; it shows you where Labor’s priorities lie and who they rule for.
The real face of the mining maggots
Posted by John, July 9th, 2010 - under Mining maggots.
Comments: none
Remember those nice mining company people who opposed the Resource Super Profits Tax for purely altruistic reasons – the economy, their workforce, mine workers’ jobs and wages? Xstrata workers have gone on strike and set up a five day picket line to win a decent deal from these caring sharing bastards.
The lies of the mining maggots
Posted by John, June 10th, 2010 - under Minerals Council, Mining, Mining maggots, Resource Super Profits tax, Rio Tinto, RSPT, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor.
Tags: BHP
Comments: 7
The mining maggots don’t give a toss about jobs. All they care about is their huge profits. During the global financial crisis guess who sacked tens of thousands of workers? The mining maggots. They got rid of 15 percent of their workforce. So much for their concern about jobs. Here’s how the head of the Treasury, Ken Henry, put it, […]
The mining maggots Part II
Posted by John, June 4th, 2010 - under Mining, Mining maggots, Tony Abbott.
Comments: 2
I agree with Tony Abbott! He said the Prime Minister should stop calling the mining maggots ignorant liars. That’s true. They are deliberate liars. Truth in politics is very important.