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Crisis

By on May 22, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

Labor can deal with its crisis in a labour way by Rob Durbridge The crisis besetting the Federal Government looks like a rising Queensland flood, while Abbott and Co watch and wait for the Government to drown. It’s a crisis with multiple causes, linked by the failure of a leadership without a sense of identity [...]

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Strike debates

By on May 10, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control at the ACTU Congress 2012 by Chris White. Unionists need to organise for the right to strike, for the effective strike and for workers’ control. 1. Unions’ right to strike campaign is to repeal all Fair Work Act penal powers and for a ‘firewall’ protection for workers [...]

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Australian Options

By on April 26, 2012 in Book Review, Environmental crisis

Australian Options no 68 Magazine started by the late Elliott Johnston QC We need new subscribers $20 per year CONTENTS 2 Editorial: Searching for a better socioeconomic system 3 Fair reforms for growth and prosperity to all Dr Cassandra Goldie 6 Recognising Australia’s Indigenous Peoples in the Constitution Professor George Williams FOCUS: The Murray-Darling Basin [...]

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ACTU Congress 2012

By on March 26, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Social justice, Unionism, Workers Rights

Save the date: ACTU Congress 2012: 15-17 May, Sydney 26 March, 2012 | Media Release Almost 1000 delegates representing workers from every industry and sector in Australia will attend the ACTU Congress at the Sydney Convention Centre from 15-17 May. This is the largest and most important gathering of Australian unions. Delegates will debate and [...]

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MR on China

By on March 8, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, China

Monthly Review on China http://monthlyreview.org/2012/02/01/february-2012-volume-63-number-9

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Occupy and black bloc debate

By on February 13, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Occupy, US politics

Violence Begets Defeat or Too Much Pacifism? By Michael Albert Friday, February 10, 2012 from Z magazine “But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women [...]

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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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Struggles for climate justice

By on February 8, 2012 in Environmental crisis

Linking local and global struggles for climate justice by Geoff Evans Is Australia inevitably locked into fossil fuel-intensive economic future just because we have huge quantities of high quality, accessible coal? In the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, the home of the world’s largest coal export port, Newcastle, coalitions of residents, farmers, scientists, trade [...]

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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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