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To strike or not to…

By on December 3, 2011 in Book Review, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Labour Law, Right to Strike, US politics, Workers Rights

My book review of ‘Reviving the Strike’ now also posted at Left Focus here http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2011/12/important-book-review-reviving-strike.html Also posted on the new Evatt website http://evatt.org.au/news/reviving-strike.html

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Troops out of Afghanistan

By on November 30, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, US politics

Send letter to delegates at ALP conference http://stopwarcoalition.org/sign-on-letter-to-pm-julia-gillard-troops-out-of-afghanistan/

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Occupy: union lessons

By on November 29, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, US politics, Workers Rights

What Can Labor Learn? It won’t be easy for union leaders to accept the Occupy movement’s most important lesson. BY Mike Elk Unions’ ability to take full advantage of the Occupy movement will hinge on their ability to embrace social movements, and their willingness to take bold actions in smart strategic campaigns and to stick [...]

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Elliott Johnston speaks

By on November 20, 2011 in Aboriginal, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Labour Law, Public Policy, Social justice, US politics, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

Elliott Johnston’s title was ‘the rule of law’ but he soon turned to capitalism and politics and cites Don Dunstan and supports self-determination for aboriginal people, the environment and workers rights and more… Public Forum on the 5 October, 2004, to a packed Elder Hall University of Adelaide. Organised by Australian Options with the support [...]

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On Obama

By on November 17, 2011 in Public Policy, US politics, Workers Rights

Put Obama into Detention Speech outside Parliament House, Canberra, Thursday, 17 November 2011 by Humphrey McQueen. Ten years ago, we were told that we were going to chose who came here. Today, we are exercising that choice by protesting at the arrival of the war and economic criminal Obama. In saying that he and his [...]

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Obama in Darwin

By on November 11, 2011 in China, Timor-Leste, US politics

From the Wall Street Journal Move Aimed at Countering China in Asia, Clarifying Free Access to South China Sea and President Obama comes to Darwin for the military build up…read here

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BlackRock Inc and powerful corporations

By on November 3, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, US politics

The financialisation of global ownership by David Peetz and Georgina Murray Griffith University “We sociologically investigate how deeply embedded finance capital is within very large global corporations, by asking the following questions: Is ownership of very large global corporations dispersed amongst a wide variety of individuals, families and shareholder types? Or are there common patterns [...]

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US 400 richest

By on November 3, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, US politics, Workers Rights

400 richest in US http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/11/01/how-rich-are-the-richest-heres-how/

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Capitalist networks

By on October 31, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Social justice, US politics

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world from New Scientist ‘AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The [...]

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