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Articles by James Wyner
Vale ANZAC?
The anti-war ANZACs have died, but their views must be kept alive. From left: Hugo Throssel (pencil on paper by George Lambert, Egypt, 1918) and Alec Campbell aged 15 (top right, AWM) and at 103, photographed by Richard Simpkin “All that is solid melts into air, all that is Holy is profaned.” Should one need to illustrate the veracity of Karl Marx’s famous quote in the Communist Manifesto, one need to look no further that the current day hollow spectacle of ANZAC.
From ANZAC to AUKUS: More than a century of carnage and cowardice
In 1914, the global powers of the day declared war on each other, kick starting the Great Imperialist War. The mechanistic savagery and carnage unleashed on the participating nations and their imperial dominions have never been matched. The working class of Greater Europe and Britain, although hoodwinked by racist propaganda and false promises of ethno-nationalist glory, willingly signed up to what amounted to ritualistic class suicide in a bloody battle over imperialist spoils.
NSW Labor wins ‘battle of civility’ in lacklustre campaign
Labor has emerged the “winner” with 46 seats after the March 25 election in New South Wales, in a result with some parallels to last year’s federal poll. This is not the “landslide” talked up by the media, but it will be enough to ensure Labor can form a minority government, with an expanded crossbench holding 12 seats. Labor now holds power at both a federal and state levels in all but Tasmania. The Liberal and National parties, in government for 12 years, won 35 seats.
Preventing a PPE Shortage Before it Happens Again
The COVID-19 pandemic broke the nation’s PPE supply chain. To fix it we have to take proactive measures that prioritize domestic producers. Manufacturing facility producing domestic-made N95 respirators. By James Wyner, CEO, Shawmut Corporation Crises often reveal the vulnerabilities of our nation’s free-market system. Take the financial crisis of 2008.
How Radio Skid Row has survived
Radio Skid Row FM 88.9, one of Sydney’s most significant independent media outlets, began its 38th year of broadcasting with renewed confidence after surviving a funding shortage related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its inception in 1983, Radio Skid Row has given the marginalised a voice: the station’s first broadcasts were to Long Bay Jail and First Nations peoples and prison activists were among its first broadcasters.
The Challenge of Rebuilding U.S. Domestic Supply Chains
Massachusetts-based Shawmut scrambled to expand production to meet the soaring demand for N95 masks and hospital gowns during the pandemic. Its experiences illustrates a crucial point that policymakers should take to heart: Once a country loses its industrial commons points — the capabilities needed to support the development and production of many goods — restoring it is hard.
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