Class
"The laws they have at their disposal have no place in a so called democratic society like Australia and they use those laws freely to go after ordinary workers."Noel Washington
Fellow worker, Noel Washington is under threat of going to prison because he will not go before a commission where he loses:
His right to not answer questions His right to choose his lawyer |
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In the class war there can be no win win results. If the workers living standard rises a small amount while profits are elevated to obscene heights then this represents not a win but a loss to the working person. Why is it so? Because wealth is not a thing in itself but is an arbiter of power and changes in the rate of inequality cause the balance between the classes to shift. Howard’s Industrial Relations policies and the ABCC can be seen as the direct results of "win win" results of this nature in previous years. The tardiness of the new so-called “Labor” government to fundamentally repeal these same stems from the same root.
In the end workers need to fight for greater and greater proportions of the wealth they create not so that they can amuse themselves with bigger and better toys but because only in this way can democracy and freedom be preserved and extended. So who is keeping score in the great game? Well we rather thought that we should … |
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This great film concerning the class struggle is now available free via You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGgZRij1sWU
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Not a Wobbly Image per se, but pretty irresistable
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FW: Who or what will inspire the working class into collectively seizing the day? ******** Wobbly: You and I will, when we get organised ourselves and communicate to others and when they help to get their friends organised. This won't come out of nowhere. We're more or less confronted now with the force of circumstance e.g. the North Pole will melt this summer. We'll also become more and more aware that we already run the world; but we run it for some other class, for our rulers' interests. *******************
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Because this is 'the best
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Will is not the first conservative to believe himself an exile in hisown country. A sense of exclusion has haunted conservatism from thebeginning, when emigr's fled the French Revolution and Edmund Burkeand Joseph de Maistre took up their cause. Born in the shadow ofloss--of property, standing, memory, inheritance, a place in the sun--conservatism remains a gathering of fugitives. From Burke's lamentthat "the gallery is in the place of the house" to William F. BuckleyJr.'s claim that he and his brethren were "out of place," thecomfortable and connected have fashioned a philosophy of self-styledtruancy. One might say this fusion of pariah and power has been thekey to their success. As Buckley went on to write, the conservative'sbadge of exclusion has made him "just about the hottest thing in town."While John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville and David Hume are sometimescited by the more genteel defenders of conservatism as the movement'sleading lights, their writings cannot account for what is truly |
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New labour ie Blair & Rudd just like Margaret Thatcher and John Howard have a neo liberal outlook.
Gillard was quoted saying that they are going to bring in legislation to allow employers to spy on their employees emails. I suspect many employers do that already but it just shows how anti worker people like Rudd and Gillard are. Not only this Gillard has been egging on the Australian Building and Construction Commission to hit the CFMEU and its members on the job. The Crime - Industrial action or in the case of Craig johnston standing up for his members. |
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The following is from an interview with Glen Ford, editor of the online U.S. journal "Black Agenda". Doug Henwood is the editor of the "Left Business Observer" out of New York City. The interview was conducted on WBAI, a listener sponsored radio station in New York City. Y
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Office workers take notice. You are at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) from sitting immobile at your desks. A New Zealand study has uncovered the deadly details. The study to be presented at the annual conference of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand later this month has found prolonged immobility at work is, absolutely, the most common factor shared by DVT patients. One in three people attending an outpatient clinic reported sitting for eight hours or longer before suffering a venous thromboembolism. Office workers, IT workers and taxi drivers are amongst the absolutely most at risk according to the research from the Medical Research Institute in Wellington. Chances are, the stats are not going to change when you cross the Tasman. For the Great Fishes sake you evolved to wander and wonder and run across the wide savanna by day and spend the evening partying, feasting (or starving), telling stories and making love. Bit of hunting here: bit of gathering there. This lifestyle capitalism forces you into does you no good at all either physically or psychically. DVT is the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein, most commonly in the legs, which may cause death if untreated. |
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