Posted by John, November 19th, 2011 - under Saturday's socialist speak out.
enpassant.com.au
Obama has been and gone and the Australian sycophancy parties wet themselves. Actually, that is being unfair to sycophants.
US imperialism is establishing a beachhead in Darwin for its containment policy against China, a beachhead far enough away from China’s missiles for any accuracy. Both Labor and the Liberals – the parties of the one percent – support this because it is in the interests of Australian capitalism, although mining capital might be a little worried.
Nurses continue their magnificent fight for better wages and conditions in Victoria and despite threats of fines and jail re still going strong. A mass meeting on Monday will determine the direction of the struggle. More action can win them real pay increases (something in the order of what the Victorian government paid their thugs, the cops, would be appropriate) and defend nurse/patient ratios.
The crisis in European capitalism and hence for world capitalism continues, with the IMF and German and French leaders imposing unelected governments on Italy and Greece.
Their task is to do the bidding of French and German capitalism and impose austerity measures on Italian and Greek workers. They are destroying the economy to save it.
It may not work as global finance capital circles French markets too, perhaps starting the same destabilising processes for French capitalism as it has done for Greek and Italian capitalism.
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