Solidarity 373, 19 August 2015

The two Trotskyisms

This month marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the murder of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist USSR’s secret police. Next month, Workers’ Liberty will publish a second volume of documents from the movement which kept alive and developed the revolutionary socialist politics Trotsky fought for. Just before Trotsky’s death, the American Trotskyist organisation split after a dispute triggered by Stalin’s invasion of Poland. The majority was led by James P Cannon, the minority by Max Shachtman. Shachtman’s “heterodox” side, would later repudiate Trotksy’s analysis of Russia as a...

Australian dockworkers win a first semi-victory

On the evening of Thursday 13 August, the Federal Court ordered reinstatement of 97 dockworkers whom Hutchison Ports summarily sacked with immediate effect at their Brisbane and Sydney container terminals by email at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday 6 August. It was a first semi-victory, but only that. In the small print the Federal Court decision says only that the 97 must be on payroll until 31 August, not that they get back into the workplaces. And it looks now as if Hutchison is trying to move out all the containers they have in the terminals so that they can shut down the business temporarily or...

Our MUA is here to stay!

Our MUA Is Here To Stay! Our precious land, our coat of arms, no backward step be taken, Touch one, touch all, comrades in arms, will never be mistaken, For some corporate lie, their jelly shake, perhaps a hollow wave, For this, our birthright fire tested, tis cradle to the grave. Like bands of gold, we stand the line, beside our comrades true. Your pain is mine, to ensure a time, when love ones comfort you. This sacred place, your vows affirmed, will see the light of day. By those before, who carried the flame, cannot be stripped away. So Hutchison, where’s your mind, and where’s your soul...

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