Good ideas don’t just grow legs and start wandering around in the world, changing things for the better. History, for good and for ill, is made by organised political forces. Helping to build such a movement that can fight for socialism is one important reason for running electoral campaigns.
We should be proud that, all over the world, people will see that there are thousands of us prepared to stop the “business as usual” so necessary for mass killing.
Around the country, tens of thousands of the workers who build, tear down and rebuild our cities were out in the streets on 27 August. For a few hours, the workers who make our cities brought them to a halt.
Many of the recent media allegations against the CFMEU attempt to paint legitimate industrial tactics as criminal activity. However, not all the allegations can be so easily dismissed.
The 'normalisation' of trade and diplomatic relations between Israel and the surrounding Arab states has gone a long way to freeing both Israel and the US from any fear of significant real-world consequences for Israel’s wholesale slaughter.
