If someone took $20,000 from you, you’d probably want it back. And if you and every single one of your workmates had that kind of money taken out of your pay packets it’s pretty likely you’d expect your union to try to organise to win it back.
Far-right and outright fascist politics are on the rise across the West. Australia isn’t immune. The recent spate of far-right protests here is a wake-up call.
Politicians and newspaper editors are trying to convince us that the March for Australia rallies on 31 August were not far-right mobilisations by racist dogs, but decent folk motivated by legitimate concerns, who just happened to be duped by Nazis.
The argument that migrants are responsible for the housing crisis in Australia has no basis in fact and is propaganda in the service of the economic elites.
As long as there is a steady flow of government money, poorly enforced regulation and a ruthless, cost-cutting approach to staffing and conditions, capitalists will make a killing from the care industry.
Sunday, 3 August, will go down in history as the day that the whole political and media establishment and the pro-Israel lobby, which have spent nearly two years trying to convince us that Israel’s endless slaughter is justified, definitively lost the argument.
