Allen Myers

  • Arguements for Socialism: The Olympics business

    An editorial in the Financial Review over the January 16-17 weekend adopted a rather plaintive tone regarding the scandals that have recently shaken the Olympics. Headed “Cash tarnishes Games goal”, the editorial began by

  • Calls for trial as Khmer Rouge surrender

    Calls for trial as Khmer Rouge surrenderIn late December, two of the three remaining top leaders of the Khmer Rouge announced their defection to the Cambodian government and were welcomed in the capital, Phnom Penh. The surrender

  • Where does the money come from?

    Where does the money come from?When we consider the huge wealth of people like Kerry Packer or Westfield tsar Frank Lowy or corporations like BHP, the question naturally arises: where and how did they get all this money? The

  • Learning from the IMF?

    Learning from the IMF?The International Monetary Fund's assessment of the Australian economy, announced on November 17, gave treasurer Peter Costello an opportunity to pat himself on the back in public for what the IMF called the

  • Arguments for socialism: Legal remedies and non-remedies

    Australian big business has a new worry, according to a feature article in the October 27 Bulletin. It's the "class action" lawsuit. A class action suit is one in which all the people deemed injured by some action jointly sue the

  • Arguments for Socialism: Another 'theory' wears thin

    Another 'theory' wears thinThe Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party on October 11 announced plans for the government to spend ¥67 trillion rescuing and/or taking over banks threatened with collapse by massive bad loans.

  • Arguments for Socialism: Elections, democracy and beyond

    Despite the Coalition having received only a minority of votes in the federal election, John Howard is claiming that winning a majority of seats in the House of Representatives gives him a "mandate" to introduce a GST. Howard's claim

  • An aid to insight

    Marxist Economics: a handbook of basic definitions, published by Resistance Books, was first developed by renowned Belgian economist Ernest Mandel and English economics writer Alan Freeman for the Fourth International's cadre school

  • 'Asian' crisis goes global: Was Marx right after all?

    Karl Marx's analysis of how capitalist economies operate has never been popular with newspaper owners, other capitalists or the politicians who serve them. This remains the case even when they have to make use of his insights,

  • Anti-racism movement: young people can change the world

    Anti-racism movement: young people can change the worldThe reaction of the establishment and its media to the secondary students' movement against racism has been divided.Some, especially supporters of One Nation and reactionaries

  • Losers try to overturn Cambodian elections

    Since elections to Cambodia's National Assembly were held on July 26, leaders of the two losing opposition parties — Funcinpec and the Sam Rainsy Party — have campaigned against the result, charging that the government used

  • Resistance: 'Why we are socialists'

    Resistance: 'Why we are socialists'Resistance, the socialist youth organisation, has become well known in recent weeks for its role in organising actions against racism by secondary students and other young people. Students from