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Turmoil at the Top!
By Fightback   
Thursday, 26 August 2010

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.

 

 
Labor Loses the “Race to the Right”
By Fightback   
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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.
 
Flotilla massacre exposes criminal blockade of Gaza
By Isa Al-Jaza'iri   
Sunday, 06 June 2010
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.
 
Greece: Resistance to the terrorism of capital! There is another road!
By Editorial Board of “Marxistiki Foni”   
Wednesday, 19 May 2010

AAs protests continue, left needs to show way  out. Photo from 1 May in Thessaloniki by apαs.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.

 
The North of Ireland - A Normal State!
By Gerry Ruddy   
Saturday, 13 March 2010
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.
 
Women’s struggle and class struggle – Part One
By Marie Frederiksen   
Saturday, 13 March 2010
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.
 
Women's struggle and class struggle - Part Two
By Marie Frederiksen   
Saturday, 13 March 2010
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.
 
Allow the Tamil Refugee in: Joint Statement from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia
By Fightback   
Monday, 09 November 2009
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!
 
Panic!
By Michael Roberts   
Wednesday, 23 January 2008

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.

 
The Venezuelan Revolution at the crossroads
By Alan Woods   
Wednesday, 16 January 2008

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.

 
The meaning of the landslide victory for the Australian Labor Party
By Fred Weston   
Friday, 04 January 2008

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.

 
Communism: A Love Story
By Simon WIlliams   
Thursday, 27 September 2007

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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