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The most recent article is by respected Australian Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen which responds to a view that talking of an impending crisis of capitalism is “crying wolf”.
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Latest Posts
Solar-Thermal Power Plant Win
John C.
On the 14th August 2017, the South Australian premier, Jay Wetherill announced that the construction of a concentrated solar-thermal power plant has been given the go ahead. This is a monumental step forward in the transition to 100% renewable energy.
Australian bourgeois parliamentary politics has left the people with an embarrassing legacy of expressions of subservience to imperialism. They come from both “sides” of politics. Actually, the parties of the two-party system are on the same side: that of imperialist domination of Australia and of service to capitalism. ...
The ICBM “old boys” network’s board of directors — more formally known as the UN Security Council permanent members — has, along with its temporary members, unanimously agreed that the socialist ‘rogue’, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), must be prevented from joining the network at all ...
International Auto Workers Forge Unity Across Multinational Corporations
(Our second and final excerpt from a June 2017 newsletter of GM and PSA auto workers. In this excerpt, the forging of links between workers in the different corporations and in different countries is highlighted.)
Longford gas plant dispute reflects the current stage of Australia’s revolutionary struggle
Danny O.
For over 40 days maintenance workers have been camped outside the gates of ExxonMobil’s gas plant in Longford, Victoria. While being typical of the recent attacks on Australia’s working class, their fight is also a focal point of the current stage of the Australian peoples’ struggle for independence. ...
Fight the Business Council of Australia, Make the Rich Pay
Jamie C.
This article extends, with permission, Spirit of Eureka member Richard Buckdale’s Facebook commentary of the 31st July. The additional analysis however is entirely mine.
The poster on the left, published by the CFMEU on its Facebook page, exposes the reality today in the land of the “fair go”. ...
Report on Developments in the International Auto Industry
(We are printing two separate excerpts from an international newsletter of workers in the General Motors and Groupe PSA corporations. The latter is a French multinational incorporating Peugeot, Citroen, and DS Automobiles; after its 2016-7 acquisition of Opel and Vauxhall Motors from GM, it became Europe’s second largest auto manufacturer. ...
The recent ABC Four Corners exposure of grand water theft from the Murray Darling river system has left many Australians gobsmacked and angry. A recent Vanguard article about it can be found on this website.
The Future is Bright for Young Workers Who Take the Path of Struggle
Ned K.
The other day I had conversations with two people who made interesting observations about the current low level of private sector union membership. The conversations followed statistics released a couple of months ago by the Bureau of Statistics about union membership levels in Australia.
Superannuation: The big swindle kills the illusion of the golden nest-egg
Max O. Recently the media reported on a superannuation study entitled, "Not So Super" by Per Capita, a social justice think-tank, whose survey showed that Super earns better for those on high incomes (mainly men) but not those on low to no incomes (mainly women). Under capitalism superannuation is the ...
Stop finance capital’s unacceptable trade in water rights!
Nick G.
Last night’s ABC Four Corners program revealed that billions of dollars in tax payers' money, poured into rescuing the rivers and streams of the Murray-Darling Basin to save it from environmental collapse, had instead benefitted a handful of wealthy cotton growers. Aided by corrupt officials in the NSW ...
Three hundred members and supporters of the CEPU, the SA branch of the Electrical Trades Union, rallied outside the Adelaide office of the Australian Building and Construction Commission yesterday.
Two events of note occurred within a week of each other in London England recently. The outcomes of these events are as relevant to Australia and other similar countries as to England.
Indian diplomacy: proxy for Western “Defence” and “Security”
(Contributed)
Recent high-level diplomacy between India with the United States and Israel reveals the extent of a changing balance of forces in the Asia-Pacific region.
Syrian army winning ground against terrorism and imperialism
by Bill F.
In the past month the Syrian government forces have recaptured vast areas of the Syrian countryside, routing the murderous ISIS fanatics and liberating thousands of people from cruel oppression, hunger and misery.
The annual China Story Yearbook 2016 has been released by the ANU based Australian Centre On China In The World. The 2016 yearbook is headed with the Chinese character “zhi”, most commonly translated by western China watchers as meaning "CONTROL".
Despite recent announcements about expansion of renewable energy generation and storage, the South Australian government remains committed to destructive coal seam gas ventures.
Nick G. South Australia’s decision to impose a copy-cat levy on big bank superprofits has been met with howls of outrage by the banks. It follows the federal government’s recent announcement of a 0.6 percent tax on the liabilities of the big five banks, the Commonwealth, Westpac, ANZ, NBA and Macquarie. ...
The current struggle around the proposed Adani Coal mine in the Galilee basin of Central Queensland is taking place in a complex social and economic situation.
