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It’s not really about the video. The video is just the spark for an outpouring of deep seated hatred directed at the United States and its symbols. Why do they hate us? If you have to ask the question...

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Saturdays’ socialist speak out

There is much that can and will be said and written about the rape and murder of Jill Meagher. Let us say goodbye and recognise the grief her family is feeling. Our thoughts are with you. Here is one...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

Evidently Tony Abbott is a feminist because he has lots of women around him. On that logic Henry VIII is the father of feminism. One needs to look at the Liberals’ practice in the past and what they...

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In the grand tradition of killing satire that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is famous for, and drawing on the memory of such other hallowed peace makers as Henry Kissinger, Al Gore and Barack Obama,...

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Australia has won a seat on the UN security Council for 2013 and 2014.  While this is yawn material for the Australian working class, it is very important for our ruling class. It gives them an...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

The Greens were routed in last Saturday’s election in Canberra, losing 3 of their four sitting members. Labor and Liberals are tied on 8 seats each, giving Shane Rattenbury, the only remaining Green...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

Hurricane Sandy highlighted the wilful ignorance of Obama and Romney, the two puppets of big business, on climate change. Climate change has not been on the agenda at all in the Presidential...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

Barack Obama won 4 more years – 4 more years of austerity and outright war and increasing bellicosity; 4 more years of drone bombs killing kids; 4 more years of attacks on social security and jobs,...

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First, some good news. Tens of millions of workers in Europe went on strike this week against austerity. European General Strike in Palermo The ruling class will not budge, even when threatened with...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

There is a ceasefire. It doesn’t, won’t and can’t address the fundamental issue – the fact that the logic and practice of Zionism and the state of Israel is the genocide of the Palestinian people. The...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

Parliament has risen for the year and the tantrums and taunts about slush funds might die down. Meanwhile the business of exploiting the working class continues and a key part of that is using ideas...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

What is happening in the Australian economy? Unemployment in Australia fell to 5.2%. Growth, although slowing, is still a bit over 3% per annum. However it was just 0.5% in the September quarter. This...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

For Julia Gillard, is the precious, oh my precious, budget surplus dead?  Labor’s rhetoric has changed to give the impression they might be about to abandon the commitment to ‘fiscal responsibility’...

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America is about to fall over the fiscal cliff. Essentially this means higher taxes on working class people (the people US politicians mislabel as middle class) and cuts to social security. So the...

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Up to 100,000 people on the single parent payment will lose between $60 to $110 a week from 1 January thanks to this Labor government. The Gillard government is moving them from the single parent...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

Jenny Macklin has apologised for her ‘insensitive’ remarks asserting she could she could live on the dole of $35 a day. I have some news for this $900 a day Minister. You can’t live on an apology....

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

To lose one Minister may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Well, actually Mr Wilde, it looks more like rats leaving a sinking ship. Of course it is all about family. We...

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$126 million. It’s the number that should be engraved on the forehead of every Labor Party Parliamentarian. It is the 30 pieces of silver,  adjusted down by global uncertainty, the high Australian...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

Well, you’ve made a right mess of it, haven’t you Wayne? And Martin. And Julia. The fallout from the Minerals Resource Rent Tax – a whole $126 million in the first six months compared to a projected...

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Saturday’s socialist speak out

You may not have read about it in the ‘free’ press but in India there was a 2 day general strike on Wednesday and Thursday involving millions of workers. As IndustriALL put it: Workers from all the...

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