There is a prevailing belief in the ALP that they can spin their way out of any situation. This sometimes works with people without ideology or class consciousness.… Go to Article
Category: political economy
Reigniting the Struggle- For a Brisbane Workers Assembly(Draft)
a meeting has been organised to discuss this proposal on 15th March at 5.30pm at Freedom House 69 Thomas St West End 4101
The accumulation of capital is Australia remains much stronger than that in much of the world – especially the global North.… Go to Article
Lock the Gate
Hi to all who may be about to come to Drew’s talk to the 17 Group on the 1st of February.… Go to Article
‘The Golden Age wound down during 1854…’
[Editor’s Note: Here is another excellent story of how the workers of Kyneton, a central Victorian town, fought back against economic depression in the middle of the 19th century.… Go to Article
Capital against Capitalism: a conference of new Marxist research
Fire Brigade Employees Union, Sydney, 25 June 2011
as reported by Humphrey McQueen
In memory of a life-long sparring partner – Bob Gould
[This report does not summarise all the twenty-one papers.… Go to Article
BOOK LAUNCH: Solar Electricity Consumer Guide by Trevor Berrill
INVITATION to BOOK LAUNCH
SOLAR ELECTRICITY CONSUMER GUIDE
by TREVOR BERRILL
Book launch speaker:
John Grimes the CEO for Australia Solar Energy Society.… Go to Article
Vale Bob Gould
Version in the Marxist Archive (Andy Blunden)
In 1991 Bob Gould sold me his last copy of Ernie Lane’s Dawn to Dusk – Reminiscences of a Rebel.… Go to Article
Questionnaire on political issues in Australia
Multi-guess questions on political issues.
The main issues covered in this questionnaire are the Environment, the Economy, and Social Justice.… Go to Article
Child Labour
by Humphrey McQueen
(originally published in The Australian, 18-19 July 1992, p. 22.)
John Hewson’s* plan for a $3-an-hour minimum wage for teenagers is yet another of his betrayals of economic rationalism.… Go to Article
Railways and Capitalism
PREFACE
This pamphlet appeared in 1973 in Victoria, under the guidance of E F Hill, Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist).… Go to Article
Oil and the double dip
Reports on ‘Bakken Oil’ discovery in North Dakota, USA
151 million barrels — United States Geological Survey (USGS) assessment 1995
2 Trillion barrels — Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006
3.65 billion barrels — United States Geological Survey (USGS) April 10, 2008
271 to 503 billion barrels — Leigh Price, Energy Information Administration (EIA) August 2000.… Go to Article
Prosperity without Growth
Prof. Tim Jackson’s Report “Prosperity without Growth” – a review and critique
By Trevor Berrill
Sustainable Energy Systems Consultant and Environmental Educator
Editor’s note: Just in case, this slide is a cartoon by Leunig,
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… Go to Article Qaddafi in Defeat
"We came. We saw. He died"
- Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State,
when Muamma Qaddafi was murdered.**
The indigenous people of North Africa are the Berbers.… Go to Article
The Arab Revolution: uprisings in Iraq, Yemen and now Oman
By Ray Bergmann
A lot of information to get out about the revolutions in Iraq and Yemen that started three weeks ago.… Go to Article
The Bligh Era: new cabinet, same policies
February 2011 brings a new lease of life for the Bligh government due a mix of floods, cyclones and more than a little jingoism by Bligh herself — “I know in my bones that Queenslanders are up to this, and that we can take it” – HC Magazine
There are many examples of systemic failure of government and its departments.… Go to Article
“Chinese Crackers”
[Editor’s Note: this article by Humphrey McQueen exposes the failure of market economists to reveal how fragile the Chinese economy is.… Go to Article
Edge of darkness: will flooding in Qld cause load shedding at power stations?
Floods and Coal Supply to Queensland Power Stations
Yes – coal supply is being affected by the floods at least to Stanwell and Gladstone Power Stations, and Stanwell has decreased its output to extend the life of its coal stockpile.… Go to Article
I am a middle-aged rail fan – ‘the trains that were murdered’
… Go to Article“This train don’t carry no con men, this train;
This train don’t carry no con men, this train;
This train don’t carry no con men,
No wheeler dealers, here and gone men,
This train don’t carry no con men, this train.”
QR National – where science meets spin
Queensland produces the largest amount of metallurgical or coking coal in the world.
Queensland Rail (QR) is the last publicly owned commercially viable freight rail system in Australian.… Go to Article
Queensland Rail — in the Public Debt
Even England, the home of the 1980s Thatcherite ideas on public policy has come to realise the folly of many of those policies.… Go to Article
China cascade: a review by Humphrey McQueen
This is a review by Humphrey McQueen of the follwing article published in the New Left Review
Peter Nolan and Jin Zhang ‘Global Competition after the Financial Crisis’, New Left Review, 64, July-August 2010, pp.… Go to Article
Will Marx help to understand the economic and social crisis?
Will Marx help to understand the economic and social crisis?
This will be discussed at the next meeting of the 17 Group.… Go to Article
In whose hands – public or private?
… Go to ArticleNo politician in Queensland today would advocate the selling of our railways to a syndicate. If it is right and beneficial for the State to build a line and run an engine on it, why should it be wrong and injurious for the State to build that engine or to mine for the coal it consumes?
The town that was murdered
Introduction
The capitalists are murdering towns, suburbs, farms, rivers and seas. They are killing people in wars and through environmental destruction.… Go to Article
Labor loses in Queensland
From where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet My window sill is level with the faces in the street Drifting past To the beat of weary feet while I sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street - Henry Lawson Faces in the Street
Labor will lose many seats in Qld in the 2010 Federal Election because of the failure of the Bligh State Labor government.… Go to Article
Straddie: miners & government ‘tore out his guts, stole his rich grains of sand’
But Minjerriba’s back is now broken;
Men came and tore out his guts;
Stole his rich grains of sand,
Stripped his cloak of cyprus and gum,
Drained water from his ageless eyes
And weakened this giant in the sun.… Go to Article
Democracy — who writes the script?
“It is not enough that some succeed, others must fail” — Gore Vidal
While hunting down the facts behind loss of lives of refugees near the Cocos (Keeling) islands I was confronted by the question “Who is writing the script in the lead up to the 2010 federal election.… Go to Article
‘Radical Legend: Humphrey McQueen in Conversation’
Humphrey McQueen on this Sunday: Writers’ Hub – UQ Centenary Celebration Day – The University of Queensland, Australia]
Sunday 18th April
UQ Fryer Library,
Level Four, Duhig Building (Building 2)
Sunday 12:00
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Radical Legend Humphrey McQueen In Conversation |
http://www.uq.edu.au/centenary/celebration/writers-hub… Go to Article
What does the Left Want?
Every year my friends gather on New Years eve and try to predict what will happen in the coming year.
We place these predictions in a book and then in the following new year’s eve we read them to compare prediction with what actually happened.… Go to Article
Communique from an Absent Future
Pamphlet associated with the occupation movement at universities in the state of California.
An introduction was included in some versions of the pamphlet, and not in others.… Go to Article