[Marxism] Angalan: the story of a refugee in Australia

2014-05-25 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Meryl Antica talked recently to an asylum seeker in Australia about his life. This

[Marxism] Between the devasation of capitalism and the possibility of socialism

2014-06-01 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == European parliamentary election results highlighted both the long term disaffection

[Marxism] No more of dogf**ker 'humour'; bust the Budget instead

2014-06-09 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the circumstances of reformism's despair and degeneration in Australia, abuse be

[Marxism] France in 2014: the need for a united front against the fascists

2014-06-13 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At the end of May, the Front National results in the European elections sent a shoc

[Marxism] Whyis Iraq being torn apart?

2014-06-17 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ashley Smith in Socialist Worker US provides the essential background for understan

[Marxism] No nuclear waste dump for Muckaty Station

2014-06-21 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Plans to develop Australia's first nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Nor

[Marxism] Saturday's socialist speak out

2014-07-04 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Labor in Australia began this bipartisan descent into hell in 1992 when Paul Keatin

[Marxism] Where to now for 'Bust the Budget' in Australia?

2014-07-06 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Where to now for 'Bust the Budget' in Australia? Such has been the success from th

Re: [Marxism] Where to now for 'Bust the Budget' in Australia?

2014-07-07 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
Greens anathema. John is no longer a member of the Socialist Alternative, but he has yet to embrace fully this as a rupture with the so-called Leninism of the likes of Mick Armstrong. comradely Gary

[Marxism] It's the St Louis all over again

2014-07-07 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's the St Louis all over again In 1939 the US turned back the boat the St Louis w

[Marxism] Israel is a terrorist state

2014-07-12 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Israel is an aggressive nuclear power, an apartheid state backed to the hilt by the

[Marxism] COSATU Statement on Israel bombings of Gaza – Do unto apartheid Israel what you did to apartheid South Africa

2014-07-12 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == COSATU Statement on Israel bombings of Gaza – Do unto apartheid Israel what you did

[Marxism] Where's my household's $550 carbon tax savings Mr Abbott?

2014-07-14 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an Australian government which, like its Labor and Coalition predecessors o

[Marxism] The carbon tax in Australia is dead: long live a price on carbon?

2014-07-17 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The fact that capitalism in Australia and elsewhere is built on fossil fuel use mea

[Marxism] Palestine and the Arab counter-revolution

2014-07-23 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There are two things that are certain. One, the crisis of poverty and inequality an

[Marxism] The one-sided war on free speech in Australia

2014-07-24 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Free speech is important in Australia, but apparently only when you express conserv

[Marxism] A lesson from the Warsaw Ghetto: it is right to resist your oppressor

2014-07-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What courage, what humanity the Warsaw Ghetto Jews showed in resisting the monolith

[Marxism] Professor Noura Erakat: debunking Israeli lies.

2014-07-26 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sit down for a few minutes and read how Professor Noura Erakat one by one dismantle

[Marxism] Bashing the unemployed in Australia is about cutting wages

2014-07-31 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == All of these Australian government changes to the dole, as well as demonising the v

[Marxism] Marek Edelman: from the Warsaw Ghetto to Gaza

2014-07-31 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wrote this in 2010 in response to Jeremy Jones’ attack on me for writing the arti

[Marxism] Student politics and socialists

2014-08-06 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On the surface this deal with various Labor factions appears unprincipled and furth

[Marxism] A free and united Kurdistan can defeat the Islamic State

2014-08-17 Thread En Passant with John Passant via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The demand for a fully independent and unified Kurdistan, combined with the demand