In this article in the IS Network Roobin and Richard Seymour look at the social forces, the ideologies and the political strategies being assembled behind the UK Independence Party’s bid to change British politics.
Here is a link to an article of mine in The Age Digital on taxing the rich.
We are often told socialism can’t work because people will not shift the way they think. John Molyneux in Socialist Worker UK shows how dramatic shifts are possible and have occurred in the past
According to Marc Corcoran on the ABC News website:
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So the obvious has become a reality. Australia’s predicted tax revenue is short $12 bn.
My prediction earlier in the year that the Budget deficit could be up to $20 bn looks on track. Of course now that Gillard has said nothing is ruled out, the actual budget deficit itself will be less than that as Labor makes us suffer death by a thousand cuts.
One of the many puzzles about the economic crisis is that people still listen to economists writes Alex Callinicos in Socialist Worker UK. Even the queen noticed that the economics profession failed to anticipate the financial crash of 2007-08. Indeed, the mathematical models constructed by mainstream economists effectively ruled out such a crash as impossible.
Multi-billionaire Clive Palmer, one of Australia’s richest men, has set up a political party, the United Australia Party. If the name sounds vaguely familiar that’s because it was a party formed in 1931 by dissident Labor members and conservatives. They united against Labor’s Depression policies and for austerity to address the Depression, and in 1932 former Labor minister Joe Lyons led the party to victory. He governed for 7 years, to be followed by Bob Menzies.
Canadian socialist and author John Riddell in Socialist Worker US reports on a recent important Ecosocialist Conference in New York City.
ANZAC Day is about forgetting. Who remembers that Gallipoli was a defeat? That a number of returning soldiers, scarred by the reality of war and what they had experienced, became socialists and communists to fight for a society where war no longer existed?
Who remembers that revolutions in Russia and then Germany ended the First World War?