Friday, November 13, 2015

Wobbly times number 192




This is where I was on Friday the 13th of November, 2015.

I was at two union demos yesterday. Comrade John Tattersall came over to my place at 6:45am and we took off in his car for the rally in the video below. I went home on public transit, had brekky and then off by bus and train to another union rally at Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash's office in West Perth.
The bourgeoisie are out to break the unions in Australia. Their polytricksters are putting in legislation to put downward pressure on wages and working conditions all the time.
Personally, I don't see much sense in making appeals to reason to bourgeois democrats in our government. What's needed is class conscious political and industrial action by rank and file workers. Considering the embedded leitmotif of social Darwinism which plagues our collective Mind, it's going to be a very tough road to hoe. My freedom equates with your unfreedom. I stab you in the back in order to get the job or the promotion or any of a number of other positions of political power over you.
I've known this for decades. My Hegel prof at Michigan State brought it to my consciousness. That was back in 1970. The reality hit me like a tonne of bricks yesterday as we waited for workers from BAE to come join us at the rally in front of the AFP guarding the office of Senator Cash.



Thanks to Jennifer Armstrong for editing this rather wobbly video.

2 comments:

  1. And when the school teachers tell you to get a college education for better opportunities, they don't tell you about the backstabbers...

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    1. Dominance and submission are considered to be part of "human nature". Backstabbing is taken for granted because freedom is associated with others' unfreedom. I get a leg up the ladder of success at the expense of you and your position in the hierarchies of political power.

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