Archive for 'The Depression'
Is this 1929 or 1989, or both?
Posted by Leonie, April 17th, 2009 - under Jobs, Living standards, Marxism 2009, Occupations, Qantas, Resistance, Revolution, sackings, Strikes, The Depression, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Democracy, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Europe, Fighting back, Great Recession, Green energy, Green jobs
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Every strike contains the seeds of revolution. Therein lies our hope and our future.
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The Left, internet filtering and missing the point
Posted by John, March 28th, 2009 - under Internet filtering, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Living standards, Resistance, Right to organise, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Stephen Conroy, The Australian, The Depression, The Great Recession, The Left, unemployment, Wages, WorkChoices, WorkChoices Lite.
Tags: ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Capitalism, Class struggle, Communist Party, Democracy, Economics, Fair Work Australia, Fighting back, Free speech, Freedom
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The Left should encourage and join workers to fight for their jobs and livelihoods, and so help defend and extend our freedoms.
Welcome to the Great Recession
Posted by John, March 12th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, Marxism, Occupations, Reformism, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, The Depression, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ACTU, ALP, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Demonstrations, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Fighting back, Great Recession
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We are entering the Great Recession. These are the words of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, not some minor pamphleteer on the web. The IMF predicts global growth this year will fall, possibly by half a percent. Only six months ago the prediction was 4.5 percent growth. In fact, according to ABC […]
Australian unions: all ads, no action
Posted by John, March 9th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, The Depression, The Left, The Liberals, The Right, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ACTU, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian politics, Big business, Building industry, Capitalism, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Economics, Fighting back, History
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Amidst the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, the ACTU gives us pathetic grovelling ads.
Father Kennedy shows us how to fight back
Posted by John, February 23rd, 2009 - under Occupations, Religion, sackings, The Catholic Church, The Depression, unemployment.
Tags: Australian politics, Capitalism, Communist Party, Evictions, Fighting back
Comments: 5
There is a battle going on in Brisbane. No, not the phony Queensland election war between the political twins, both vying to show us who is the least incompetent. (By the way, will city people really vote for a not so disguised Country Party?) I am talking about Father Peter Kennedy from St Mary’s Parish […]