In a speech on 21 March at the National Press Club, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus read the riot act to the Australian ruling class. If you forgive a couple short forays into lazy jingoism (‘the Australian Way of Life’), she presented an incisive and wide ranging attack on the ingenious ways that the powerful and rich have made conditions very good for themselves and increasingly difficult for the rest of us. It was a call to action addressed to all workers.