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By Fightback
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
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The recent Australian national elections have delivered a hung parliament with no party being able to claim a majority in either Houses of Parliament. Turmoil continues at the highest levels of Australian politics as the counting drags out in knife edge seats but at the moment no one is guaranteed a majority. Nobody yet knows who, if anyone, can form a viable government and the circus has only just begun.
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By Fightback
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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The former Labor Prime Minister of Australia was right about one thing when he said on 23rd June 2010, that Labor should not and by implication could not, win a “Race to the Right” with Tony Abbott. |
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By Isa Al-Jaza'iri
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 |
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In the middle of the night of the 31st of May, 64 km off the coast, Israeli commandos rappelled down from helicopters onto the 6 ship flotilla. Activists say they boarded the ships firing. The Israeli government decided to use deadly force to maintain their blockade of the Gaza strip, provoking waves of protest. These events have exposed the policy of Israeli imperialism to the masses everywhere: Gaza is a ghetto, kept in starvation conditions, and no one may interfere. This will have effects across the world, even in Israel itself. |
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By Editorial Board of “Marxistiki Foni”
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
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A s they resort to the “rescue plan” of the EU and the IMF which is usury of the worst degree, the government, the bourgeoisie and their political mouthpieces in the media cultivate a climate of unprecedented psychological terrorism towards the working class. Every day, they are trying to persuade us that the crisis was caused by the “affluent lifestyle of the Greeks” and its our duty to “lower our standard of living for the benefit of our country”. Never in the last 30 years has there been a campaign with such huge and blatant lies and hypocrisy. Indeed the crisis was caused by the affluent lifestyle, the lifestyle of the capitalists in Greece and worldwide. It was the greedy and exploitative nature of capitalism in the past decades that plunged the workers into misery on a world scale and led the economy to a dead end.
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By Gerry Ruddy
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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There is a lot of talk about normalising the statelet in the North of
Ireland. But what has been “normal” here for the past century has been
precisely civil unrest, sectarian violence and armed resistance to
British rule. The way out of this impasse is to be found in directing
discontent towards the road of class struggle.
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By Marie Frederiksen
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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One hundred years ago today, 99 women from 17 different countries
attended the Socialist Women's Conference held in Copenhagen in the
House of the People. In this first part, we look at the origins of
Women's Day, the origin of women's oppression in class society, how
capitalism lays the material foundations upon which the question of
women's emancipation can be tackled as part of the struggle of the
working class for the emancipation of the whole of humanity from class
oppression.
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By Marie Frederiksen
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Biological differences between the sexes are often raised to justify all kinds of reactionary concepts, such as supposed differences in intelligence. These are also used to justify confining women to the four walls of the home, as if this were somehow biologically inbuilt. In reality, these ideas reflect material forces that have emerged as a result of the development of class society, where one class oppresses another. |
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By Fightback
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Monday, 09 November 2009 |
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More than 300 desperate Tamil refugees are being refused asylum by the Australian authorities, with the connivance of the Indonesian authorities. While governments leave these people in a terrible state, workers in Australia and Indonesia have expressed support and solidarity. Join the them! |
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By Michael Roberts
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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World stock markets are now down over 20% from their highs
set just last November. That technically is called a ‘bear market'. Stock
markets have had their worst start in a year for 30 years and in the case of
the US
and the UK,
the worst start ever since records began! Australia's main share indexes plunged more than 7% — the worst one-day fall since 1989.
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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The Venezuelan revolution has inspired the
workers, peasants and youth of all Latin America
and on a world scale. Over the past decade the revolutionary masses have
achieved miracles. But the Venezuelan revolution is not completed. It cannot be
completed until it expropriates the oligarchy and nationalizes the land, the
banks and the key industries that remain in private hands. After almost a decade
this task has not been accomplished and this represents a threat to the future
of the revolution.
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By Fred Weston
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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For
eleven years John Howard, the leader of the conservative Liberal Party, had
dominated his country's politics. But he was thrown out in last week's
election. It was a humiliating end to the career of this right-wing reactionary
and stooge of George Bush who led Australia
into a war against Iraq
and resisted efforts to curb global warming.
Yet many on the left of Australian politics fail to draw the conclusions from Howard's defeat and proclaim themselves and their phantom parties to be the alternative to Labor. Here we reprint an article from marxist.com where we analyse the outcome of the election.
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By Simon WIlliams
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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This is a review of a book which
deserves a wide audience. Jeff Sparrow has chosen to write a short
history of Marxism in Australia, in the form of a biography of one of
its more colourful characters, Guido Barrachi: bohemian, womanizer
and lifelong communist militant. Born in 1887 into a solidly
bourgeois background, the son of famous astronomer Pierro Barrachi,
Guido attended the elite Melbourne Grammar School, before moving onto
the equally elite Melbourne University. Unlike many young men from a
similar background, who flirt with radical politics in their youth
only to settle into a surly conservatism in their middle years,
Barrachi’s politics moved in an increasingly radical direction.
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