Dear friend, SEARCH Foundation decided at its last AGM to make building an alliance against the Right our main political priority for this year. On the 7th of April at the Secure Jobs Green Future Conference Sydney there is a panel plenary session on strategies for the left to which I will contribute as SEARCH […]
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Socialism
Socialism: the Goal, the Paths and the Compass by Michael A. Lebowitz [Presentation of El Socialismo no Cae del Cielo: Un Neuvo Comienzo†at the 2010 Havana Book Fair, 18 February 2010.] ‘There’s an old saying that if you don’t know where you want to go, any road will take you there. As I’ve said […]
Vietnam holiday 2010
A holiday in Vietnam. A first visit for us both. 2-weeks January 2010 leave, with the Lonely Planet guide. Vietnam lived up our to our expectations and stories we heard. I like to start with cities. So for those who have not been to Vietnam, this introduction is as a tourist, inner-city Ho Chi Minh […]
Dialectics
Humphrey McQueen on a ˜A dialectical view of laws and tendencies.” This item is the second in a sequence to spotlight aspects of Michael Lebowitz’s dialectical critique of political economy. The exercise aims to add to the intellectual weaponry at the disposal of the working class as we confront the crisis of the accumulation of […]
AT LAST A HOME! The Need For Public Housing: 2004
Update: In the debate on homelessness here I did not record the speech of Bob Day who wants to privatise the SA Housing Trust and drive down wages and defeat the building unions – now ex-Senator Day. In November 2016, there is worse homelessness and is not addressed by our political elite. Housing action groups […]
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