Fcuk the Labor Party
What does Labor stand for? Nothing I believe in or want, even this side of the revolution. War? Yes, from East Timor to Afghanistan Labor is a party of warmongers. Imperialism? Yes. Its support for...
View ArticleAnd so this is Christmas
Christmas both contributes to and interrupts the profit system. For many retailers and tourism providers in Australia Christmas is their most profitable time of the year – a time when emotion rules...
View ArticleThe good war in the Pacific?
Sometimes an historian will challenge one of the key ideological myths of Australian capitalism. Henry Reynolds does it in his work on the colonial treatment of Aborigines, a treatment some go so far...
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Afghanistan: the disguised defeat
From Gallipoli to Vietnam, from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Australian ruling class and their defence forces have a long history of military defeats. In the case of Gallipoli the defeat is swept away by...
View ArticleHolmes and Obama: a tale of two mass murderers
President Obama has gone to Aurora to comfort the families and friends of those slain in the Aurora cinema killings. James Holmes is accused of murdering 12 innocent people and wounding up to 50...
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Free speech, Afghanistan and treason
For 40 years I have been raging against the capitalist machine in all its manifestations – war, genocide, poverty, human rights abuses, working class exploitation, economic crises and the racism,...
View ArticlePoppies help our rulers forget
Every year it is seemingly compulsory for every politician and even anyone who appears on television to wear a poppy. It is presented as a mark of respect for those who have died in war, wrote Simon...
View ArticleObama’s drone wars
Eric Ruder in Socialist Worker US reports on a new weapon of choice in U.S. wars around the globe – drones. THE FIRST drone strike authorized by President Barack Obama took place in Pakistan just...
View ArticleWhy capitalism is a failure
We are taught that the laws of the market are as certain as the law of gravity, that capitalism is the natural order of things and that the system generally works. But while a tiny few are doing very...
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Lest we forget: the war against Aborigines has never ended
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...
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Nairobi shopping mall horror is the high price of Western intervention
Behind the facade The horror in Kenya is a direct product of Western intervention writes Ken Olende in Socialist Worker UK. The shocking attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya’s capital Nairobi...
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Australia cuts and runs from Afghanistan
Australia is cutting and running from Afghanistan, along with the US. Brothers in arms Abbott and Shorten, in their joint and brotherly trip to the forces withdrawing from Afghanistan, dressed it up...
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Ruling class warmongers and Remembrance Day
The ruling class warmongers have won the battle for the soul of Remembrance Day. Under the guise of remembering the dead, they ready the next generation of working class warriors to die in defence of...
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Lest we forget – the war against Aborigines has never ended
I wrote this a few years ago and have updated it slightly. John ______ ANZAC Day is about forgetting. Who remembers that Gallipoli was a defeat? That a number of returning soldiers, scarred by the...
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Australia in the Great War: Myths and ambitions
In commemorating the Great War, which broke out 100 years ago next month, we recall one of history’s greatest crimes writes Tom O’Lincoln in Red Flag. Sixteen million dead and 20 million wounded. Such...
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Capitalism’s first world war and the struggle against it
John Riddell is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922. Here, in an article...
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Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war
Marcus Antonius And Caesar’s spirit, raging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war, That this...
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The United States won’t fix the disaster it caused in Iraq
The emergence of ISIS is the result of the violence unleashed by U.S. imperialism write the editors of Socialist Worker US. War criminal Barack Obama BARACK OBAMA and the U.S. political...
View ArticleThey’ll be home before Christmas in this war to end all wars
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Prometheus in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Masque of Pandora”. The latest cabal of war mongers – the US, the UK and Australia plus the other...
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