Saturday’s socialist speak out
Asylum seekers are not the enemy. The real enemy is the dog whistling racist politician. Those who vilify refugees – the combined forces of the Liberal Party and Labor Party in Parliament – are our...
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Gillard and Abbott are using racism to try to win the vote of sections of the working class. Since Labor can’t win that support by badmouthing refugees and locking them up in concentration camps its...
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The Labor Party and the Liberals have the same basic neoliberal vision and program for Australia. Their policies are the same; their actions the same. Such is the degeneration of politics in Australia...
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Saturday’s socialist speak out
The two wings of Labor Party neoliberalism tore themselves apart last week, looking for a saviour to lead them away from the political oblivion that beckons on election day on 14 September. Instead of...
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The Minerals Resource Rent Tax. The carbon tax. The superannuation tax. Media regulation. Notice a pattern here? Capitulation to capital stands out as the key element of the Gillard Labor government....
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Margaret Thatcher dies and the ruling class celebrates her life. Those who suffered at her hands celebrate her death; a celebration of the fight against Thatcherism and its legacy of poverty,...
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As I write it looks as if the Boston bombers were Chechnians who had been living in the US for some time. The story will unfold over time, and the picture as it becomes clearer may involve the Chechen...
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Multi-billionaire Clive Palmer, one of Australia’s richest men, has set up a political party, the United Australia Party. If the name sounds vaguely familiar that’s because it was a party formed in...
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Wayne Swan delivered his last, final, ‘it’s all over bar the shouting’ Budget on Tuesday. It is a Budget the Liberals could have handed down in their second or third year, with little for most workers...
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Ford is closing its production plants in Australia in Australia, with 1200 jobs there to go. Many more in associated supply companies and more widely will disappear. The ‘solutions’ offered by...
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A group of yesterday’s men (they are almost always men) gathered, er, yesterday, to ‘celebrate’ the 30th anniversary of the Accord. This gathering of Labor and union sell outs like Bob Hawke, Simon...
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So Kevin Rudd has a warm soft welcoming heart for refugees does he? According to Lauren Wilson in The Australian Campaigning in Geelong, the high-profile Labor backbencher said Australians had learned...
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For foreign readers, let me introduce you to what passes for politics in Australia. On Thursday Howard Sattler, a shock jock radio ‘personality’, asked Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister, if her...
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In Australia our fake democracy is abuzz again with the Julia and Kevin comedy as a sideshow to Labor’s inexorable march to political death on 14 September. In Brazil 1 million people are...
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Kevin Rudd is again Prime Minister. It is the same policy cart – rule for the rich – just with a different driver. There were no battles over vision, over policy, over the future; just who gave Labor...
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The revolution in Egypt continues. The masses have bought down another dictator. The Army deposed Morsi to forestall a deepening of the revolution. It may at best be a temporary relief. The key now...
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There is lots to discuss. Rudd’s new Accord-like proposal for unions, business and government to get together on productivity; Telstra’s deal to supply all our information to US spy agencies; freedom...
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Hundreds in Sydney today sit down in protest against Labor's rotten refugee policies Reactionary Kevin Rudd has attempted to outflank reactionary Tony Abbott on asylum seekers by denying sanctuary in...
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I went to the rally in defence of refugees today in Canberra. The photo above is part of that demo outside the front of the venue where the ACT ALP was holding a conference. Some ALP delegates joined...
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The Rudd government’s illegal and racist deportation of asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea continues apace and the demonstrations against the abomination continue. This is true not just in Australia...
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