En Passant

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, […]

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.

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.

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.

Union green bans on environmentally suspect developments show the potential the working class has to create a green future and green jobs.

On Saturday we demonstrated across Australia to reject the Rudd Government’s climate change ‘response’, which is a crime against present and future generations.

The same skills that make the gas guzzling SUVs can be used to make wind turbines, solar panels and hybrid buses.

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.

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.

Every strike contains the seeds of revolution. Therein lies our hope and our future.