By Humphrey McQueen The Anti-labour Party Federal Government held a Productivity gabfest in Canberra 19-21 August. Humphrey McQueen sets ‘productivity’ as a driver for the structured dynamics of how the exploitation of every wage-slave must be intensified if the rule of capital is to persist.  The drive for so-called productivity raises a central aspect of Marxism, namely, surplus-value. Militants need …

By Humphrey McQueen Behold, now behemoth … Behold, he drinketh up a river … The Book of Job, 40: 15 and 23. ‘Most of us don’t know 95 percent of what Amazon is doing,’ Amy Webb warns in her The Big Nine (2019). While Amazon Prime is diverting audiences with its rom-com, The Idea of You, the Australian Signals Directorate …