[Marxism] The best politicians money can buy?

2014-05-05 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The shocking revelations of late about politicians in Australia are not an

[Marxism] That QA protest in Australia - this is what democracy looks like

2014-05-05 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a magnificent student protest on ABC's QA on Monday night in Australia. Tony

[Marxism] The pension at 70 in Australia?

2014-05-04 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If we don't fight we will lose. The 25000 who turned up to the May Day Rally in

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-05-03 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some of my centre-left friendsin Australia have been talking about forcing a

[Marxism] The Australian Labor Party's long farewell to the working class

2014-04-27 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Those demanding modernisation of the Australian Labor Party want a party like the

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-04-25 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The bosses have grown fat on our labour. It is time we put them on a diet with a

[Marxism] Lest we forget: the war against Aborigines has never ended

2014-04-24 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == ANZAC Day, the supposed symbol and celebration of the 'nation' denies this most

[Marxism] Dear Tim, Australia's free speech commissioner

2014-04-20 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is a slightly edited version of a letter I have emailed to Tim Wilson, the

[Marxism] The article the Australian National University newspaper Woroni refused to publish

2014-04-20 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an updated version of an article I sent to to the editors of Woroni, the

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-04-18 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's the obverse of a bear farting in the woods. Everyone heard former New South

[Marxism] Lex Wotton to break his silence at Marxism 2014 in Melbourne

2014-04-15 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lex Wotton, the heroic Palm Islander who was jailed after leading protests against

[Marxism] Free Speech Sunday

2014-04-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If you are a public servant or anyone else who believes in the right to bag out

[Marxism] Why not tax the rich?

2014-04-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why aren't taxes on the rich in Australia on the agenda, instead of attacking

[Marxism] My interview on Razor Sharp on 8 April

2014-04-08 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is a link to my 30 minute interview with Sharon Firebrace on Razor Sharp on

[Marxism] Australian government to privatise the air

2014-04-08 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 'Only socialists and off with the fairies Greenies support free air,' Australian

[Marxism] For Australian public servants, criticising the Abbott government will soon be verboten - except here

2014-04-06 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It is time to stand up for freedom of expression, or real free speech. Public

[Marxism] Free speech Sunday is coming

2014-04-06 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In response to the Australian government's attempt to stop its public servants

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-04-04 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In Western Australia the Senate election re-run sees Joe Bullock as the number one

[Marxism] From the Labor Party to the Australian version of the US Democrats?

2014-03-30 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Breaking the link between unions and Labor, opening up the pre-selection voting

[Marxism] The Right is bigoted

2014-03-24 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Both the Liberals and Labor have embraced the racist Northern Territory

[Marxism] Cutting red tape or lining the pockets of the rich and powerful in Australia?

2014-03-23 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Cutting red tape or lining the pockets of the rich and powerful in Australia? This

[Marxism] Marches in March show there is hope

2014-03-17 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The fact that over 10 people turned out across Australia to demonstrate

[Marxism] Borders and the case for global freedom of movement

2014-03-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Nationalism acts as glue binding us to the very class that exploits us and demands

[Marxism] Second letter from Caracas: Mike Gonzalez

2014-03-11 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The mass movements in Venezuela have saved the revolution over and over again - in

[Marxism] The Hazelwood mine fire in Australia: privatising disaster

2014-03-10 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As Luke pointed out when speaking to Red Flag after the meeting, At the end of the

[Marxism] Company tax avoidance in Australia: is it just one bad Apple?

2014-03-09 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Company tax avoidance is not a failing of capitalism: it is its logical

[Marxism] Reclaim International Women's Day from the bosses

2014-03-07 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What better way to reclaim International Women's Day from the bosses than to

[Marxism] War in the Ukraine?

2014-03-03 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Alan Maass and Lee Sustar writing in Socialist Worker US provide the background

[Marxism] Australia's 'green army' will be paid poverty wages

2014-03-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can unemployed workers in Australia being conscripted into the green army organise

[Marxism] Is Venezuela burning? A letter from Mike Gonzalez in Caracas

2014-02-22 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Caracas is seeing an uprising of the middle classes and the rich. The working

[Marxism] The new McCarthyism and the Royal Commission into unions in Australia

2014-02-10 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paid trade union officials are the retailers of our labour power to the bosses and

[Marxism] The Butler did it

2014-02-09 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Looking at the Griffith by-election tea leaves in Queensland misses the much

[Marxism] Abortion rights in Australia: hands off women's bodies

2014-02-06 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It should be really simple: the state keeps its hands off women's bodies. Yet

[Marxism] Howes that? He's out

2014-02-05 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The way for Australian workers to avoid total defeat is to go on the attack now.

[Marxism] A government of liars in Australia

2014-02-04 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The real message from the SPC decision is that the Liberal Government wants

[Marxism] Many dead in Palestine (to the tune of Ohio by Neil Young)

2014-02-03 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tin soldiers and Zion's coming, Palestinians are on their own. This summer I hear

[Marxism] Tax cheats and union 'corruption'

2014-02-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why is there no royal commission into corrupt business people and their companies

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-02-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Maybe the time has come to organise freedom flotillas in which Australian citizens

[Marxism] Where to for Cuba?

2014-02-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It is this political vision advocating for the democratic self-management of Cuban

[Marxism] Defend Australia's unions

2014-01-29 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Abbott government has taken the gloves off and will wage war on workers and

[Marxism] Dark days in Egypt on the third anniversary of the revolution

2014-01-28 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On the third anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution the military is cracking down.

[Marxism] We are, our land

2014-01-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hear then this demand White man in the big house Of cattled coal and wheat We are,

[Marxism] Australia's National Union of Students day of protest

2014-01-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Students in Australia need to come out in a show of force against Pyne's callous

[Marxism] From Invasion to Resistance in Australia

2014-01-25 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This Sunday is Australia Day in the land down under, the day the majority

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-01-24 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One of the tags read 'F$%k Australia Day. No pride in genocide.' That isn't

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-01-17 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Will Indonesia start to turn back Australia's boats? By sending 3 boats to the

[Marxism] The war to end all wars didn't

2014-01-16 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Independent columnist Mark Steel points out that the war to end all wars didn't.

[Marxism] Football fans in Australia cry foul over crackdown

2014-01-15 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The corporate media and football (soccer) officials in Australia this summer have

[Marxism] Plibersek dumps principles, continuing the Australian Labor Party's fine tradition

2014-01-14 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A couple of years as a senior Labor Minister and now as Opposition spokesperson on

[Marxism] Income Tax in Australia: from Appearance to Reality

2014-01-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tax is ultimately an extraction from surplus value. Surplus value is the unpaid

[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg's legacy lives on

2014-01-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 95 years ago, on the night of 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-01-11 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Abbott government in Australia is a government of the market, by the market,

[Marxism] Ariel Sharon: War Criminal

2014-01-11 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ariel Sharon's death has prompted me to post this article by Hadas Thier from the

[Marxism] The new McCarthyism in Australia: defending the Stalinists

2014-01-04 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The best way to defend the Left from successful ruling class attacks in Australia

[Marxism] The degeneration of Socialist Alternative in Australia continues

2014-01-03 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Socialist Alternative is now a home for crude Stalinist hacks like James Crafti.

[Marxism] On free speech under capitalism again

2014-01-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The vast majority can only win free speech, its actual exercise, by overthrowing

[Marxism] Confronting the Stalinist Legacy

2014-01-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In this article in Marxist Left Review, Red Flag editor Corey Oakley in 2011 makes

[Marxism] Maurice Newman, climate change and the rationality of irrationality

2014-01-01 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When Maurice Newman displays his irrationality on climate change he is being

[Marxism] Will Australian unions fight to defend Medicare?

2013-12-30 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A clear and decisive victory by our side in defence of Medicare could force the

[Marxism] Top ten 2013: Victoria police viciously attack student demonstration

2013-12-30 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This article is one of the reasons I resigned from Socialist Alternative. I

[Marxism] A great big new tax on going to the doctor in Australia?

2013-12-29 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Capitalism is such a sick system today that it cannot provide free or even

[Marxism] Top ten 2013: First they came for the bikies

2013-12-29 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The increasing demonisation of the enemy within serves a purposes - to tighten

[Marxism] What is fascism?

2013-12-28 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The old forms of counter-revolution became less effective. The police were too

[Marxism] Top ten 2013: A report from Turkey - A taste of Tahrir at Taksim

2013-12-28 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Turkey erupted mid-year with struggles against the Islamist Erdogan government.

[Marxism] Top ten of 2013: I could live on $6321 a week

2013-12-27 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wrote this in early January 2013 after Jenny Macklin, the then Labor Party

[Marxism] On your Marx for the Boxing Day Sales

2013-12-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marx never went to a Boxing Day Sale. He didn't have the money. In recent years

[Marxism] It's the Tax Office the Australian left should be worried about

2013-12-23 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This may be the logic. Trickle down will increase revenue. The less tax we collect

[Marxism] The Australian Human Rights Commission: the respectable face of systemic abuse

2013-12-22 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The problem of human rights abuses goes well beyond the power of any government

[Marxism] (no subject)

2013-12-20 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Right wing 'libertarian' Tim Wilson has been appointed to the Australian Human

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2013-12-20 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While everyone on the Australian left is paying close attention to Tim Wilson's

[Marxism] Let's liberate Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott right now

2013-12-19 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If mass strikes to defend jobs, wages and conditions were to happen Tony the

[Marxism] I can write no more, Tonight

2013-12-09 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I can write no more Tonight The rage is gone A light, is dying gentle

[Marxism] (no subject)

2013-12-07 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paul D'Amato explains why those countries that call themselves socialist are

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2013-12-06 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The best way to remember Mandela will be to continue the fight against apartheid

[Marxism] Eleanor Morley: Why I joined Socialist Alternative in Australia

2013-12-03 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For me, joining Socialist Alternative (SA)in Australia has been a slow process,

[Marxism] Education spending in Australia: is it a backflip or 3 card trick?

2013-12-02 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It looks like the biggest back flip since Nadia Comaneci won gymnastics gold. The

[Marxism] School lessons from the Liberal barbarians in Australia

2013-12-01 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have a suggestion for Australian Education Union Federal President Angelo

[Marxism] When radical is the only reasonable

2013-11-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For 30 years the left has been incrementally lowering its sights, conceding

[Marxism] Kennedy's assassination: the dark side of Camelot

2013-11-25 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Mafia conspired to carry out an

[Marxism] FIFA and slave labour in Qatar

2013-11-25 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have brought to light the modern

[Marxism] Snouts in the trough: capitalism is corrupt

2013-11-21 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So to summarise, rorters on the system either reflect the drive for personal

[Marxism] Celebrity salaries are as easy as ABC

2013-11-20 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The exorbitant pay rewards the top Australian Broadcasting Corporation managers,

[Marxism] Refugee detention centres: Australia's concentration camps

2013-11-19 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Australian Immigration minister Scott Morrison has attempted to erect a wall of

[Marxism] Unity and organisation on the Australian left

2013-11-19 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Socialist Alternative: We spelt out our approach to unity in December 2012: We are

[Marxism] Australia's (spying) focus sure is Jakarta

2013-11-18 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Whistleblowing hero, Edward Snowden, has revealed that Australia's equivalent of

[Marxism] The Abbott Liberal Government in Australia: fools or f...wits?

2013-11-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Something I wrote in August before the Liberals in Australia under Tony Abbott

[Marxism] Labor Party - Philippines' statement on Yolanda's aftermath: They destroy, we suffer

2013-11-12 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Capitalism is destroying the planet. Now we suffer says the Labor Party -

[Marxism] Australian Attorney-General and his freedom commissars

2013-11-10 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == To make sense of the zeal of Australian Attorney-General George Brandis for

[Marxism] (no subject)

2013-11-10 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The ruling class warmongers have won the battle for the soul of Remembrance Day.

[Marxism] Police, horse dribblers and other merde

2013-11-04 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If there is any hope it lies in the proles. The most important battles in the

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2013-11-01 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Given Queensland Premier Campbell Newman's public direction to judges to harden

[Marxism] The gravedigger of Stalinism and the hope of the future

2013-10-30 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Having created its own gravedigger in the form of a powerful working class, is it

[Marxism] Victoria police viciously attack student demonstration

2013-10-30 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Students protesting against education cuts were attacked by police in Melbourne

[Marxism] If this is how the Liberal government in Australia treats bushfire victims, imagine what they plan for the rest of us

2013-10-28 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let's prepare right now for the conflagration the Liberal government in Australia

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2013-10-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just as the Abbott government in Australia doesn't care about climate change, they

[Marxism] Politicians: serving themselves, and their masters even more

2013-10-24 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The parliamentary expenses scandal in Australia grows deeper by the week. Yet the

[Marxism] Bosses are like slave owners: study

2013-10-23 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bosses claim that scientific management practices are a product of progress and

[Marxism] Conservative crapulence

2013-10-23 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is talking out of his arse to defend his

[Marxism] Love is in the air but the struggle for same sex marriage across Australia continues

2013-10-21 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Australian High Court will pay attention to what people are doing in the

[Marxism] First they came for the bikies

2013-10-20 Thread En Passant with John Passant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Abbott Liberal Government and their State counterparts in Australia will

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