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The job guarantee

By on February 9, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy

Professor Bill Mitchell’s power-point presentation at The Northern Institute CDU yesterday on how government’s can move towards full employment with the Job Guarantee.

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Anti-Rinehart

By on February 9, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Social justice, Workers Rights

Gina Rinehart is a mining heiress and the wealthiest person in Australia. Her fortune is worth an estimated $18-20 billion. by David McKnight She has started to amass a big shareholding in the Fairfax Media group, which publishes the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review. The Fairfax group is one of [...]

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Regional employment

By on February 7, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

‘Creating effective employment opportunities in regional Australia’ Professor Bill Mitchell Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) University of Newcastle in Darwin at CDU Thursday 9 February 2012 10.00am – 11.30am The Northern Institute Yellow Building 1, Level 1, Room 39 Australian regions face many challenges and at present regional policy development [...]

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Stories on insecure jobs

By on February 6, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Unionism, Workers Rights

Howe Inquiry submissions surpass 500 as workers share their stories about insecure jobs ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions 6 February,2012 Fact Sheet The Howe Inquiry into insecure work in Australia has been swamped with more than 500 submissions, including around 450 from workers eager to tell their stories. More than 100 of the submissions [...]

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Crisis, revolt and the left in Europe

By on February 5, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Workers Rights

Crisis, revolt and the left in Europe By Dick Nichols The class struggle may be more advanced in Europe, but I sorely miss what we have created in the Socialist Alliance, as should become clear later in this talk. My aim is to sketch the present phase of the class struggle in Europe, assess the [...]

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Canadian labour

By on January 18, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

Canadian Labour At The Crossroads? Doug Nesbitt A wage cut of fifty per cent. An elimination of pensions. Cuts to benefits. These demands have inevitably led to a major showdown at a locomotive factory in London, Ontario between the 700 unionized workers of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) and Caterpillar, a massive U.S.-based corporation. The workers, members [...]

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Union arrests in Greece

By on January 7, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism

On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Greek police arrested Nikos Photopoulos, President of the power workers’ union GENOP/DEI, along with more than a dozen of his fellow trade unionists. They will appear in court on Tuesday 10 January 2012 to face charges that could see them jailed for up to five years. They were protesting [...]

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The protester

By on January 4, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Occupy

“The protester 2011 in photos courtesy of the Murdoch press…worth a look.And in 2012 may the protests continue… http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/photo-gallery/gallery-e6frf94x-1226222780166?page=1″

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Socialism…

By on December 23, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Timor-Leste, Unionism, Workers Rights

Australian Options magazine no 67 out now editorial: Whither Capitalism; Whither Socialism? ‘AO founder Elliott Johnston posed “the question of socialism, however named” just before his recent death. The hundreds who attended his memorial service heard of a tireless campaigner for justice and social change on which to build a better world. Far from being [...]

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