Tag: Green jobs
Adani: an injury to one planet is an injury to all workers
Posted by John, June 17th, 2019 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Adani, Adani mine, Cost of living, Green jobs
Comments: none
Adani tells you everything you need to know about politics in Australia. The decisions by the Queensland and Federal Governments to give Adani various approvals to effectively mine a massive amount of coal is irrational. It makes no sense economically. It makes no sense environmentally. But to those involved it makes perfect political sense. Jobs, […]
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Jonathan Moylan, stunts, the working class and fighting climate change
Posted by John, January 11th, 2013 - under Jonathan Moylan.
Tags: Climate change, Coal, Global warmng, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
Comments: 2
Stunts like Moylan’s will draw attention to the issues at least momentarily and I defend his actions. But to really address climate change, to stop the mining of fossil fuels and to move rapidly to a totally renewable energy society requires the working class entering on to the stage of history and overthrowing the impediment to real change – capitalism. The working class has to be our focus for fundamental change.
Stop work to stop the bosses’ war on the environment
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2009 - under The Greens.
Tags: Civil disobedience, Climate change, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: 3
We must turn the world upside down until the polluters and their politicians back down and begin the urgent task of moving to a renewable energy economy and creating hundreds of thousands of high wage green jobs for those displaced by the end of killer coal.
Green jobs now
Posted by John, December 13th, 2009 - under Walk against Warming.
Tags: Australian politics, Global Warming, Green jobs
Comments: 6
The campaign must move to the left and become more radical in both its demands and actions and appeal to workers as workers to join us, for example around the slogan of green jobs now.
Green jobs: not uranium and bombs
Posted by Bill, July 18th, 2009 - under Nuclear power, Peter Garrett, Uranium mining.
Tags: Australian Workers Union, Big business, BLF, Cap and trade, Capitalism, CFMEU, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, Global Warming, Green bans, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: 3
Union green bans on environmentally suspect developments show the potential the working class has to create a green future and green jobs.
Penny Wong: an insult to demonstrators and intelligence
Posted by Bill, June 14th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Penny Wong, Resistance, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, The Greens, The Left.
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, CPRS, Demonstrations, Emissions Trading Scheme, Fighting back, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
Comments: 2
On Saturday we demonstrated across Australia to reject the Rudd Government’s climate change ‘response’, which is a crime against present and future generations.
Why bailing out General Motors could help save the environment
Posted by Bill, June 14th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Capitalism, Environment, General Motors, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: none
The same skills that make the gas guzzling SUVs can be used to make wind turbines, solar panels and hybrid buses.
Obama’s message to his puppets and dictators: business as usual
Posted by Leonie, June 5th, 2009 - under Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Obama.
Tags: Afghanistan, Arab world, Capitalism, Fighting back, Green jobs
Comments: 2
Obama is a competent and charismatic George W Bush. His speech to his puppets and dictators in the Muslim world was one of sophistry and deceit.
The Minerals Council: mining bullshit
Posted by Bill, May 24th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Minerals Council, Mining, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, unemployment, Unions, Workers.
Tags: Australian politics, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, CFMEU, Climate change, CPRS, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Global Warming, Great Recession, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases
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Employment in the mining industry will double over the next decade. Scaremongering about job losses is so the bosses can get even more money out of us.
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.