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Crisis! What crisis?

By on February 13, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

Humphrey McQueen on Crisis! What crisis? Shortly after the Austrian aeronautical engineer Ludwig Wittgenstein arrived in Cambridge in 1911, he drove Bertrand Russell to distraction by refusing to admit that there was not a rhinoceros in the room. These days, I find myself sharing Russell’s frustration because so many socialist grouplets are unable to focus [...]

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Darwin Lincoln

By on February 13, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters by Humphrey McQueen. February 12 is the bicentenary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Their personal convictions towards slavery were pretty much the same. The name of the former is entangled with Social Darwinism as a doctrine about survival of the fittest. This distortion [...]

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Not much for the unemployed

By on February 9, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

Not much from Rudd for those losing jobs or coming onto the job market as unemployment is set to soar. Professor Bill Mitchell discussed the crucial question: What does the $42 billion do for the unemployed who will be worst hit by the current downturn? The answer is: not much. Bill Mitchell on ABC radio [...]

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Re-nationalising Communication

By on February 9, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

A new blog by Tristan Ewins Left Focus including paper on world economic crisis and Australia: The Case For Re-nationalising Communication January 30, 2009 Even now it does not seem so long ago that a genuine “mixed” economic model prevailed across nations the world wide. In the wake of Depression and World War II, the [...]

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FWB has to be changed to meet GFC

By on January 30, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Labour Law, Public Policy

The disastrous impact on workers in this global capitalist financial crisis requires changes to the Fair Work Bill now before the Senate to better protect workers’ rights. The government did not know about or develop this proposed labour law, the Fair Work Bill (FWB) as a response to this most severe global capitalist financial crisis [...]

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Globalization from Below

By on January 27, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Featured

Next Steps for Globalization from Below Earlier reports from Global Labor Strategies described the vision laid out in the “Beijing Declaration” on “The global economic crisis: An historic opportunity for transformation” and the specific proposals that make up its” transitional program” to move toward a “radically different kind of political and economic order.” This looks [...]

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Fabians in London

By on January 19, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

In London I attended a Fabian conference on Saturday 17th January. I am wearing my red rubber wrist band ‘fairness we can believe in’. It is clear that the capitalist crisis is severe and indeed the UK economy is in deep recession, as are Europe’s 27 countries. Despite earlier bail-outs and support, financial institutions are [...]

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Fair Work bill: unfair dismissal rights?

By on January 17, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

The Fair Work Bill has reforms for unfair dismissal for some…but there is still no reinstatement remedy for millions. The FWB abolishes the 100-employer threshold for taking unfair dismissal proceedings that under WorkChoices meant over 4 million employees could be dismissed at will – harshly and unreasonably. But millions could still miss out. A remedy [...]

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How bad can get it?

By on December 18, 2008 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

The Portuguese Communist and Nobel Prize-winning author, Jose Saramago published Blindness (1995) a novel in which an entire society loses the ability to see. Everything goes white. The blindness starts with a few cases, spreads, and becomes a pandemic. We can suppose that Saramago is thinking about ethical blindness. Nonetheless, for any moral to convince, [...]

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