by Ian Curr
There are truths so evident, so much a part of people’s knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.… Go to Article
Category: political economy
Seize the Crisis!
by Samir Amin
Taken from the Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 @ Seize the Crisis
Contents
- From One Long Crisis to Another
- Behind the Financial Crisis: A Systemic Crisis of the Capitalism of Oligopolies
- It Is the Entire System that Henceforth Is in Difficulty
- Exiting the Crisis of Capitalism or a Capitalism in Crisis?
Direct Action Cinema presents: Power of Community
The Bligh Era – ‘we are all economic rationalists now!’
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” — Muhammad Ali
In Queensland, a state with the first elected woman premier, the government does not have a women’s honour roll but does acknowledge women in hard hats.… Go to Article
Group of 17: Obama – yes, we can?
The April Meeting of the 17 Group on Wednesday the 1st of April at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End will be addressed by Merv Partridge, who is not long back from the United States where he closely observed and recorded on videotape the recent election campaign of Barack Obama.… Go to Article
Federal Government bails out yet another renegade company
Community radio station 3CR has done an interesting interview about 338 Drive Train workers sacked without pay or entitlements.
DriveTrain management has stripped $17M in assets from company using the time worn technique perfected by Corrigan in the Patricks dispute of 1998.… Go to Article
Michael Lebowitz
By Humphrey McQueen
(5 March)
Profits and surplus value
This is the second item in a sequence spotlighting elements in Michael Lebowitz’s ‘Marx’s falling rate of profit: a dialectical view’ from the Canadian Journal of Economics, IX (2), May 1976, pp.… Go to Article
Michael Lebowitz: ‘A dialectically materialist critic of political economy’
By Humphrey McQueen
28 February
Yea! Michael Lebowitz is coming to a conference near us. At Easter, this Canadian Marxist will address the DSP’s Sydney conference, ‘World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century’.… Go to Article
Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters
By Humphrey McQueen
12 February 2009
February 12 is the bicentenary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Their personal convictions towards slavery were pretty much the same.… Go to Article
Workers BushTelegraph going into recess till Invasion Day, 26 Jan 2009
‘Something is rotten’ in the state of Victoria, in its University?
… Go to ArticleFriends of Victoria University invite you to join National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members in largest ever
mass-redundancy in Australian university history – 31 October 2008
industrial action.
On the wane
by Jim Sharp
but in the meantime
the earth trembles beneath
the foundations stones
tearing at the charter laid down
by the empires founding fathers
spectral ancestors & decadent descendants
screech & howl & squeal like terrified
stuck pigs at slaughter as the bare bones
edifice along with all their dreams of a
worldwide imperium disintegrate painfully
‘On the Crisis’ — Humphrey McQueen
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
— Leonard Cohen
Publisher’s Note
Published below are a series of articles about the current crisis in capitalism by Humphrey McQueen ‘to remind people of what used to be obvious’.… Go to Article