Further update January 2017: Even though the TPP is dead without the support of the United States, PM Turnbull wants to push ahead with a vote on its implementing legislation in the Australian Parliament. Labor, the Greens and the Nick Xenophon Team have all declared they won’t support the dead TPP. But Labor said it […]
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Socialism now
What is Socialism for the Twenty First Century by Michael A. Leibowitz Posted from Monthly Review Press http://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-century/
Against wealth inequality
1. Evatt report, 2 HILDA ‘The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey’ report Evatt ‘Currently the poorest 40% of Australian households have effectively no wealth at all: about half of them actually have negative net wealth because of their personal debts. At the opposite pole, the wealthiest 10% of Australian households have more […]
A spectre is haunting capitalism: the spectre of debt
A spectre is haunting capitalism: the spectre of debt ‘A financial crash is much more likely than not during 2016. When it strikes, it will be far greater than in 2008. The entire global economy will seize up – as almost happened in October 2008.’ That’s how I began my February contribution to 3CR Solidarity […]
Campaign for the Right to Strike.
Unionists organising for the right to strike and for the effective strike Update July 18: From Don Sutherland Australia’s Penal Powers for the 21st Century The Australian workers of the twenty first century need a strategy that defeats the penal powers of the twenty first century. It is all about a deeper meaning of democracy […]
Michael Lebowitz on socialism
Marxist author Michael Lebowitz, who writes and researches the problems and possibilities of building a socialist alternative, gives a talk on what socialism might look like in this century and the differences with 20th century socialism as represented by the developments in the Soviet Union. http://links.org.au/node/4729 Speaking at the “Socialism in the 21st Century” conference […]
SA Nuclear waste dump questions
Nuclear un-clear: Some questions that need answers before South Australia becomes the world’s nuclear waste dump by Dr Tony Webb June 2016 See below for update. No Dump Alliance Sign the petition http://www.nodumpalliance.org.au Update 2017: Briefing Paper “Nuclear fuel waste storage targets SA’s iconic Flinders Ranges” (Jan 2017) by David Noonan, Independent Environment Campaigner. Over […]
Feel the Bern 4
Earlier post on Feel the Bern here http://chriswhiteonline.org/2016/05/feel-the-bern-3/ What happens now to the Bernie Sander’s campaign after the struggle at the Democrats’ Convention? Sanders on beginning the revolution Update October: Interview with Sanders On Our Revolution. Defeating Trump and then going local… I think Our Revolution is beginning to do what its goal was, and […]
Protest Pine Gap september 16 IPAN Peace conference October 1 2016
Melbourne meeting on Pine Gap Peace and War 14th september. Come for Peace to Alice Springs National IPAN Conference October 1 and Pine Gap Convergence September 26 to 30. Pine Gap is a joint US-Australia military spy base that occupies Arrente land near Alice Springs. Conference Program DL brochure draft RG 250716 Pine Gap is […]
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