En Passant

  Rightwingers think painting Bill Shorten as a radical will scare voters away from Labor. They’re wrong on all counts, I write in Independent Australia.

Costa A nails it.  

My latest article in Independent Australia has just been published. To read the whole article click here to go through my blog site to the IA site. The Oz cartoonist Bill Leak sparks social media outrage for racist cartoon

What do facts matter, Gerard, when dissing the left?

As the Canberra Times continues its conversion to conservatism and its cost driven agenda of regurgitation, the time approaches when, if my current mood survives, I will bid it farewell and return to The Australian and the battle against that newspaper’s various opinions and ideas. It at least is a more worthy opponent. And for revolutionary socialist analysis there is always Solidarity.

I guess when your targeted audience is the Cory Bernardi faction of the Liberal Party rather than a wider, thinking audience, then ignorant tirades against a left wing opponent inspiring millions is about all we can expect in Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian. Laugh all you like Greg Sheridan. Current indications are that Corbyn will win the Labour leadership and the next British election.

The reform impasse arises because the essential social democratic desires of the working class, born of the necessity to sell our labour power to survive, conflicts with the needs of capital to extract even more surplus value from us in the form of profits and the like, a profit which we create but which the bosses purloin as our unpaid labour.

A variety of opinions? A contest of ideas? Only those writers imbued with the capitalist ethos are published in the mainstream media.

Thank heaven for The Australian.

Perhaps my problem of non-publication in The Australian is that I articulate my case too well. One solution might be to have a real socialist like me write a weekly column for the Australian. I offer Cater’s endorsement in support of my application. I know The Australian, like me, is committed to diversity of opinion. I look forward to your offer of substantial remuneration for a regular column.