En Passant

  The election has delivered a savage blow to Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition government write the editors of socialist magazine Solidarity. Turnbull’s attempt to convince voters he could offer jobs and stability has failed. His corporate tax cuts and his attempt to use Brexit and global uncertainty to push up the Coalition vote went […]

My article in Independent Australia today on the election. John Passant discusses Australia’s close election result and what is says about our disengagement with out of touch politicians.

The ruling class is going berserk. Their strategy to smash the building unions and more generally to slash and burn social services and social welfare to pay for tax cuts for them is in tatters. Even if he manages to hobble together a government of sorts Malcolm Turnbull as the sword bearer for the ruling class is a dead man walking.

Drinking game for tonight. Every time a commentator or politician mentions capitalism, wage slavery, abstract socially necessary labour time, exploitation, alienation, or surplus value, [fill in your own favourite Marxist expression here] have a big slug of grog. By the end of the night you will be completely sober.

The 3 sentences plus one of spin that announce the Government’s priorities – making pensioners pay for multinational tax cuts. It is all about attacking the poor to give the big end of town more, and more, and more.

Drive past Trades Hall up until the election and you might be shocked to see a giant Malcolm Turnbull head jump out at you. This billboard sums up the choice facing working Australians at this election – do we support a government promising $50 billion in corporate tax cuts while trying to undermine penalty rates, or do we #puttheliberalslast?

Dutton offends every Australian migrant, AFP raids highlight the disaster that is Turnbull’s NBN and Labor’s fairness mantra endures — John Passant analyses week two of the election campaign in Independent Australia.

The real enemy is Peter Dutton and all he represents, not asylum seekers and refugees.