No one’s job is safe

As Rudd and Turnbull squabble tendentiously over the bones of the economy, it is not only politicians who don’t have a clue what to do. The trade union leadership in Australia has no idea either. What is its response so far to the looming economic catastrophe and jobs massacre?

The best these intellectual giants and class collaborationist pussy cats can come up with is a Buy Australian campaign.

If you don’t have a job that’s pretty useless. And if people spend more money on Australian goods than on comparable foreign goods they can logically only spend their finite income on less goods overall, adding to unemployment here, not lessening it.

China won’t buy our cheap resources if we don’t buy their produced goods.

I have a radical suggestion - what about strikes to defend jobs? What about a 30-hour week without loss of pay? What about a real wage increase to increase aggregate demand (the supposed problem with the economy)?

Come on you lapdogs of capital. Fight for jobs.

Or resign and let a new generation of leaders take over who will lead strikes to defend jobs.

Even more importantly, workers themselves must organise to defend their jobs. They can do that.

The real question is will they?