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Socialist Alliance national convenor Peter B
Luke Cooper: Reply to Paul Le Blanc
This is a response to Paul Le Blanc's reply to Luke Coop
Getting our priorities straight: Paul Le Blanc responds to Luke Cooper
Flint sit-down strike (1936-1937).
Debating 'Leninism': a reply to Paul Le Blanc
Paul Le Blanc. Photo by Alex Bainbridge.
Lessons of the Australian Prices and Incomes Accord
Former ACTU heads Bill Kelty (left) and Simon Crean (right), and former Labor PM Bob Hawke attend the Prices and Income Accord 30-year anniversary. Photo by Renee Nowytarger. Source: The Australian.
June 1, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal --The 30th anniversary of the Prices and Incomes Accord, signed by the Australian Labor Party federal government and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, has just been celebrated by the former employers, union officials and ALP politicians of the period. At the time, and again today, this class-collaborationist "social contract" was lauded as a tremendous step forward for workers and "the economy". The reality for Australian workers was the opposite and the lessons should never be forgotten.
Below is a talk presented to the political school of the South African Municipal Workers Union -- in Durban in 2001 -- by Norm Dixon, at the time editor of Green Left Weekly and a national executive member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (since merged into the Socialist Alliance). It is excerpted from the SAMWU Political Education Book, 2002-03.
"Speech by Lenin at a Rally of Workers", by Isaak Israelovitch Brodsky (1929).
Reducing production: How should socialists relate to struggles against capitalist growth
By Don Fitz
March 19, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The question is not should we advocate reducing production within capitalist society but rather: How do we best relate to those struggles that are already occurring? Activists across the globe are challenging the uncontrollable dynamic of economic expansion which threatens the survival of humanity. It has never been more urgent to provide a vision of a new society that can pull these efforts together.
Review: Paul Le Blanc and Kunal Chattopadhyay’s Trotsky selection ‘a missed opportunity’
Review by Michael Fisher
Is population control an anti-capitalist policy?
Poor peasants are to blame?
Paul Le Blanc: Leninism is unfinished
February 1, 2013 – The crisis in the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP