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Oct 226 min read
Unemployment and poverty: the week after Anti-Poverty Week
Right now the JobSeeker unemployment benefit is about 1.49% of the base salary - about $26,346 - of the chief executives of the top 200...
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Dec 10, 20216 min read
Food supply workers hooray! Heroes they truly are.
“Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.” (from “Solidarity Forever”) Who, truly, reproduces society? The corona virus...
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Dec 10, 20217 min read
Restoring Solidarity Bargaining: is it possible?
Earlier this week, as the ACTU pointed out, the government’s mid year economic update (MYEFO) confirmed that the Morrison government...
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Dec 10, 20218 min read
We defeat the “Ensuring Integrity” Bill: tactical victory or strategic breakthrough?
How should union movement activists define the first defeat of the Ensuring Integrity Bill (EIB)? A major strategic breakthrough or a...
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Dec 10, 20212 min read
Dependence on private corporations to fix inequality and climate change will be a dead end
Global economy faces $19tn corporate debt timebomb, warns IMF Here we have the IMF warning the capitalist class, and the governments that...
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Dec 10, 20212 min read
Talking about the big picture …
www.afr.com/news/world/north-america/economy-at-risk-aides-warn-chaotic-trump-20190823-p52k5n … learning how to is critical for “rank and...
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Dec 10, 20213 min read
The “logic” of Morrison’s LNP new old-fashioned attack on workers’ rights
It should come as no surprise to anyone that a new LNP government would go after workers and union rights after winning an election....
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Dec 10, 20217 min read
Annual Wage Review decision: class warfare continues
Last Friday the Fair Work Commission (FWC) handed down its decision arising from the Annual Wage Review (AWR). This annual Review is...
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Dec 10, 20211 min read
Wages, wage suppression and crocodile tears
House price falls are not the economy’s biggest worry Reserve Bank governor Dr Philip Lowe had more sensible things to say in three hours...
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Dec 10, 20215 min read
Socialism’s Relevance Here and Now in Australia
Talking about socialism here and elsewhere Dr. Tristan Ewins consistently seeks, from within the ALP, as an open socialist to the left of...
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Dec 10, 20212 min read
Understanding exploitation
https://portside.org/2019-01-26/erik-olin-wright-1947-2019 This obituary for Erik Olin Wright makes me regret not paying more attention...
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