Archive for 'The Great Recession'
Crisis and the Left in Australia
Posted by John, January 16th, 2010 - under Marx, Marxism, Socialist Alternative, The Great Recession, The Left.
Tags: Australia, Economic crisis, Economics, Economists, Economy
Comments: 12
I am a fairly excitable person. I can mistake the moment for the month; the ephemeral for the eternal. But I am not alone there. Capitalism regards itself as immutable,as something that will exist forever. It mistakes now for the future and ignores the contradictory dynamics contained within the system. It also views the past through […]
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Is Labor getting ready to go early?
Posted by Bill, June 11th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, The Great Recession, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: Australian politics, Capitalism, Election, Emissions Trading Scheme
Comments: 5
All the tea leaves point to an early election so that Labor can avoid the electoral fallout from rapidly rising unemployment and introduce a horror Budget in 2010.
Rudd and refugees: the new racism?
Posted by Leonie, April 19th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Racism, Refugees, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Great Recession.
Tags: Aborigines, Afghanistan, ALP, Australian politics, Capitalism, Economic crisis, Great Recession
Comments: 2
Rudd has developed a new racism – a balancing act which gives the impression of even handedness but attacks refugees who have dark skins.
Commonwealth Bank cuts workers’ wages
Posted by Bill, April 19th, 2009 - under Jobs, Living standards, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: Australian politics, Banks, Big business, Bonuses, Bosses pay, Capitalism, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Finance Sector Union, Great Recession
Comments: 1
Commonwealth Bank management salary cuts are tokenistic posturing aimed at convincing staff to accept a real wage cut.
Stats sacks staff
Posted by Bill, April 18th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: none
According to Satuday’s Canberra Times, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has begun to carry out its decision to sack 180 staff. This week 31 learned they are going. More will get the boot in the coming weeks. My union, the CPSU, has done nothing but talk. Only mass meetings of all CPSU members to consider indefinite strike […]
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
Comments: none
Every strike contains the seeds of revolution. Therein lies our hope and our future.
Social democracy rules, OK?
Posted by Bill, April 14th, 2009 - under Jobs, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Maternity leave, Nationalisation, Neoliberalism, Obama, Occupations, Paid maternity leave, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Social Democracy, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Australian, The Great Recession, The Left, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, United States, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Work hours.
Tags: 30 hour week, ABCC, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Building industry, Capitalism, CFMEU, Class struggle, Creative destruction, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: 13
Social democratic controlled burning won’t prevent the firestorm of the Great Recession from destroying hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. Rudd Labor will fan the flames.
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
Comments: 2
The Left should encourage and join workers to fight for their jobs and livelihoods, and so help defend and extend our freedoms.
Greed, gender and jobs
Posted by John, March 25th, 2009 - under Julia Gillard, Quentin Bryce, The Great Recession, The Queen, Women workers, Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: ALP, Anna Bligh, Feminism, gender politics
Comments: none
For women workers around Australia Gillard and Bligh are the enemies, not allies. A boss is a boss, no matter what their gender.
The bosses’ wage terrorism begins
Posted by John, March 24th, 2009 - under Labor Party, Living standards, The Great Recession, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages.
Tags: ALP, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Bonuses, Bosses pay, Capitalism, Hours
Comments: 1
What an obscenity. The rich and powerful are telling the poorly paid that a wage increase would be bad. Not bad for the poorly paid mind you, but bad for the rich and powerful. Hard to imagine isn’t it – Australia’s CEOs as caring sharing types worried about job losses? Don’t laugh. Evidently they care about […]