THE GREAT FINANCIAL CRISIS CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff (Monthly Review Press, New York, 2009, out in paperback) is a good critique of this period of the financialization of capital in crisis. Based on their earlier Monthly Review analysis of what was happening in the crisis of capitalist development with [...]
30% increase for all allowances?
The Welfare Rights Centre rightly says the $90 for MPs a week from the 30% increase in electorate allowance was what a young unemployed person had to pay for food, rent, transport and bills each week. Pensioners are pushing for $30. ‘We know politicians work hard for their money but the timing of this increase [...]
Tax reform
Julian Disney at the CrunchTime conference summarised the case for tax reform. (If I can access a link to his presentation I will post it). He is Professor and Director of the Social Justice Project at the University of New South Wales. He is Convenor of TaxWatch. He is Chair of the National Affordable Housing [...]
Honour the dead, fight like hell for the living”.
If one central thing can be drawn from reflecting on Anzac Day, it is this: In war, the best offer their own lives, the worst offer the lives of others. Andy Alcock continues. Graham Cornes should be congratulated for his story in SAWeekend Magazine on 25.4.2009 about returning to Vietnam. It reminded me of a [...]
New direction on environment crisis
John Connor CEO of The Climate Institute at the Crunchtime Conference gave a devastating critque of the Government’s plans to give 58 billion to polluters, with their inadequate targets for CO2 reduction and the failure of the private market ETS model. Details were given of a new direction needed for investmet in clean energy and [...]
Labor Environment Action Network
I attended this week the CrunchTime Policy Conference in Sydney put on by leading Progressive ThinkTanks. http://www.crunchtime.org.au/ In the coming blogs, I report on the speakers and organisations. Here LEAN, the Labor Environment Action Network. http://www.lean.net.au/ I had heard of LEAN in NSW and recently in Victoria, but it was the first time to experience [...]
Talk on capitalism’s ills
Michael Lebowitz marxist economist on ills of capitalism. http://links.org.au/node/995 Lebowitz is part of the US Monthly Review group, that I recommend. On this blog I recommend a reading of his Path to Human Development Capitalism or Socialism? Here it is published in MRP http://www.monthlyreview.org/090223lebowitz.php
May Day book
May Day 2009 by Eric Lee May Day is perhaps the only holiday celebrated by both Israeli and Palestinian workers. In many countries it is an enormously significant day, celebrated by millions. In others, it has never been particularly important, or has long been in decline. I think that the revival of May Day is [...]
Refugees, again
Andy Alcock contributes on the QANDA PROGRAM 16.4.09 – REFUGEES, again! Well, those who wanted to justify the inhumane and callous attitudes of John Howard were certainly out in force tonight! Last week, The Age ran an article about an Afghani asylum seeker who managed to get to Australia and spent a period in detentiion. [...]
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