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The lock-out to go

By on October 30, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

I put a version of this on my Facebook page on why the lock-out has to go Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and Board Chairman Leigh Clifford from Rio Tinto militantly employed the mining sectors’ rightwing anti-union practices with the corporate union busting legal firm of Freehills. Qantas aggressive lock-out power was to defeat legitimate workers’ [...]

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OWS meets Brecht

By on October 26, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Music

Stacey Mickelbart: Brecht’s Imperfect Opera Meets OWS “If there’s one thing Occupy Wall Street demonstrates about most of us, it’s how desperately our minds seek order in civic affairs. That’s natural, since politics is the science of government. We demand clarity, and a movement as inclusive and haphazard as OWS throws us off balance. But [...]

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On strikes and their revival

By on October 26, 2011 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Book Review, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, US politics, Workers Rights

Book Review by Chris White of Joe Burns ‘Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America’ (2011 IG Publishing). I urge debate on reviving the strike. Joe Burns has a stimulating analysis and conclusion in his book ‘Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.’ Australia’s labour [...]

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OWS: Seeger…

By on October 23, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City’s tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny department stores. The 92-year-old Seeger, accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram, and bluesman Guy Davis, shouted [...]

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Workers control

By on December 2, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Workers Rights

How Workers Run Argentina’s “Recuperated Workplaces” From Global Labor Strategies In a previous post, we described the process by which workers in 200 workplaces in Argentina occupied their workplaces and began running them themselves. In this post we will examine how the workplaces are actually run and how their workers are dealing with the managerial, [...]

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Pensions and Superannuation

By on May 15, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

Pensions and Superannuation from the Search Foundation. What has happened? Total estimated superannuation assets decreased by 7.6 per cent in the period October December 2008 to $1.05 trillion. Over the 12 months to December 2008, there was a 14.8 per cent decrease. That is a loss of $183.3 billion in a year, with the biggest [...]

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Talk on capitalism’s ills

By on April 21, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Social justice

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

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