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Search Conference debates

You can now access many of the presentations from the Secure Jobs in a Green Future Conference held in Sydney on April 6 and 7 on the Search website http://www.search.org.au/projects/national-conference-2013-secure-jobs-in-a-green-future and by visiting the SEARCH Foundation youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchFoundation1 Read the Conference resolution here on Uniting the Left http://chriswhiteonline.org/2013/04/unite-left/ Read Australian Options On-Line digest [...]

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Further discussions on socialism

More from Lebowitz.A discussion on socialism Extracts: The effects of overaccumulation have been felt particularly in the United States, the European Union and all the old centers of capital. But is this a crisis of capitalism as a whole? Not if you look at China, India, Brazil and many other new centers of capital. Rather, [...]

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On the community assembly

Dave Kerin, veteran unionist, discusses ‘Community Assemblies’ with Chris White. CW: Good to talk to you. Your Enough! speech on Telstra was good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WMIvYGqhX4 DK: Thanks, people respond to Enough! CW: Union discussions about our rights to organise with Abbott as PM are central. I campaign on the lack of our right to strike and [...]

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May Day 2013

1. From Darwin Northern Territory Australia May Day Dinner • 7pm Saturday 4 May at Darwin Railway Sports and Social Club Parap. Guest Speaker Dr Chris Burns, 200 tickets at $50 per head are available from Darwin Railway Sports and Social Club Parap phone 08 8981 4171. Support APHEDA buy raffle tickets • Union Awards [...]

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Imperialist Battlefields, Response from South

The Battlefields Chosen by Contemporary Imperialism: Conditions for an Effective Response from the South by Samir Amin Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. “In the art of war, each belligerent chooses the terrain considered most advantageous for its battle for the offensive and tries to impose that terrain on [...]

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Innovation?

“Labor’s innovation plan provides hope for Australian manufacturing” by Roy Green, Dean of UTS Business School at University of Technology, Sydney from The Conversation 20 February 2013 My comment: Manufacturing plans could have been done 3 years ago and consequently be of some assistance – now, too late, as AbbottPM will close down industry and [...]

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Unite Left

Unite the left to defeat corporate power and win a better world April 10, 2013 – 9:46 am secure jobs in a green future … CONFERENCE STATEMENT Unite the left to defeat corporate power and win a better world Austerity, union busting, disempowerment and accelerating climate change are the policies coming from corporate capitalism in [...]

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Marx?

Review — From the April 2013 issue The Revolutionary Is Marx still relevant? By Terry Eagleton Discussed in this essay: Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life, by Jonathan Sperber. Liveright. 672 pages. $35. W.W. Norton. Not many of Karl Marx’s ideas were original. The concept of communism was known to the ancient world, while the notion [...]

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Thatcherism lives

Thatcher: silver bullets, garlic and a wooden stake by Humphrey McQueen Thatcher is not dead. She is not dead because Thatcherism is going strong. Thatcherism is not dead because capitalism is still fighting to expand. Thatcher was never more than the chair of one executive committee of monopolising capitals. Like Howard, Killard presides over a [...]

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