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Rudd’s message: all power to the casino capitalists

Kevin Rudd spent over 6000 words in the Fairfax press giving us a simple message. Everything will go up, except for wages.  The working class will pay for the crisis of capitalism. Interest rates will...

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Health care: reform or revolution?

Health care reform across the world is built on a lie – the lie that the market can satisfy human need.  As John Lister puts it in the UK weekly Socialist Worker in a discussion of his book Health...

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Whatever happened to the ALP left?

Peter Garrett’s decision as Environment Minister to approve the Four Mile uranium mine in South Australia in July was the last straw for many. Can this be the same man who in the 1980s sang about...

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A tale of two Labor jails: from abortion to the ABCC

In Cairns nineteen year old Tegan Leach took some smuggled-in RU 486 and another abortifacient to end her eight week pregnancy.  The Labor Government’s police force in Queensland has charged Tegan...

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Rationality and reaction

Socialist are not only the children of the enlightenment. We keep alive its kernel - the idea of human rationality. The enlightenment did not grow in a vacuum. As the burghers began the long process...

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Protests for same-sex marriage rights across Australia

This article, by Liam Byrne, first appeared in this month’s Socialist Alternative.  Liam is National Queer officer in the National Union of Students. The August 1 national day of protest for same-sex...

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We are the terrorists

You call me a terrorist but I’ve never killed anyone in my life. You send troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to kill innocent people. This is what Wissam Mahmoud Fatall yelled in a Melbourne court...

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Michael Moore’s Capitalism: a love story

Michael Moore is not a revolutionary socialist. But he is a great film maker and story teller, and this exposé of the sins of capitalism – of capitalism as a structure of sin almost literally at one...

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Canberra refugee rally

Canberra Rally: let the refugees into Australia 5:30 pm Friday 13 November Petrie Plaza (near the merry-go-round), Civic. Instead of bringing refugees picked up by an Australian Customs ship to...

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Chris Harman’s death a tragic loss for socialist movement

This article, by Sandra Bloodworth, is republished from Australia’s Socialist Alternative magazine. Chris Harman, one of the greatest revolutionary Marxists of recent years, has died at the young age...

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