Senator Scott Ryan (Victoria) was sponsored by the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs council on a paid business class trip to Israel in August 2009.… Go to Article
Category: Workers Political Organisations
Unions, Rank and File & Workers Political Groups
‘One of the Great Scandals of Australia’s History: Aboriginal Labour in 20th Century Queensland’ — Dr Ros Kidd
“The money is ours but the government won’t give it back”
Ros Kidd spoke at the Queensland Council of Unions [QCU] about the thousands of indigenous workers who were paid a small fraction of award wages in Queensland during the 20th century — with full knowledge by government and protection authorities like Pat Killoran.… Go to Article
1919 Townsville Meatworkers’ Strike
G’day comrades,
I’ve always been bemused as to why the TOWNSVILLE MEATWORKERS ‘ STRIKE of 1919 hasn’t got more attention from materialist historian’s (sic).… Go to Article
ANTaR news – justice for Peter “Bo” Duncan! March on Labour Day!
Third justice rally for Peter ‘Bo’ Duncan
Time: 10 a.m. Date: Saturday 1 May 2010
Venue: Queens Park, Toowoomba (corner Margaret & Hume St.)
… Go to ArticleMay Day Celebration
Between 50 – 60 people from a variety of unions turned up on May 1st at the Paddington Workers Centre in Brisbane to hear some rousing songs, music and poems put on to celebrate May Day under the banner of “Workers of All Countries Unite”.… Go to Article
The Internationale
- Arise! ye workers [starvelings], from your slumbers;
- Arise! ye prisoners [criminals] of want.
- For reason in revolt now thunders
- And ends at last the age of cant.
Celebrate the International Day of the Workers
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Celebrate the International Day of the Workers
Saturday 1st May Paddington Workers Centre 5 pm Great food 6 pm Blackboard performances 7 pm guest artists Absolutely Scandalous Jumping Fences Phil Monsour Combined Unions Choir Sincopao Robbie Dunn Come along and join in singing The Internationale and Solidarity Forever
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May Day 2010
‘Radical Legend: Humphrey McQueen in Conversation’
Humphrey McQueen on this Sunday: Writers’ Hub – UQ Centenary Celebration Day – The University of Queensland, Australia]
Sunday 18th April
UQ Fryer Library,
Level Four, Duhig Building (Building 2)
Sunday 12:00
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Radical Legend Humphrey McQueen In Conversation |
http://www.uq.edu.au/centenary/celebration/writers-hub… Go to Article
The Paradigm Shift
We’re working the paradigm shift, but what the hell’s a paradigm and why would you want to shift it?… Go to Article
Video: ‘With Babies and Banners’
This video traces the role of the Women’s emergency brigade in the Labour movement and the formation of the United Auto Workers.
… Go to Article Report on Palestine
After only 7 hours on Australian soil Palestinian Sameh Habeeb gave his eyewitness account of what happened during the assault and the ongoing siege of Gaza since December 2007.… Go to Article
Chicka is our future
by Les Malezer
Many recipients of this email [/readers] will not need to be reminded of Chicka Dixon and his impact on Aboriginal affairs.… Go to Article
Mining windfall handed to union boss
Mining windfall handed to union boss
CLANCY YEATES, MICHAEL WEST AND ANDREW CLENNELL
March 18, 2010
A former union boss, John Maitland, has amassed a $9.8 million stake in a controversial coalmining project, after the state government granted an exploration permit through a deal which has been slammed as a favour to union mates.… Go to Article
People going to Work — North Korean art exhibition at GOMA
: Choe Yong Sun North Korea (DPRK) b.1958 ‘The construction site’ 2005
Linocut on paper 65.5 x 52.5cm Collection Nicholas Bonner, Beijing —One of the exhibits from Nth Korea at GOMA’s APT6
I thought the GOMA exhibit from North Korea was very good and urge people to go and see it.… Go to Article
Picket at Herron, Tennyson
Sigma Herron workers at Tennyson have been picketing 24hrs a day against a shit redundancy deal since last Thursday.
Management and scabs have started aggressively driving in and out through picket, couple of workers have been hit 1 seriously.… Go to Article
Direct Action presents: Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism…
Direct Action presents:
- Struggle, solidarity, socialism
Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism…
Photo exhibition and performance evening
Featuring performances by:
Phil Monsour
Jumping Fences
Mark Cronin
Ovideo Orellana
and more…… Go to Article
Support Fair Deal For Cleaners
City cleaners have been campaigning for better wages and conditions for more than three years.
Other major contractors have signed up to the Clean Start Collective Agreement which delivers better wages and conditions and higher cleaning standards in office buildings.… Go to Article
Protected: Queensland 1977 — how we got here from there
20th Anniversary of Melbourne Tramways dispute
by Peter Riley and Margaret Creagh
On the night (Saturday 30th January 2010) I brought along some memorabilia: photos, documents, clippings from news media from the time (of the dispute).… Go to Article
Vale Alistair Hulett — eulogy by David Rovics
“There’s a man in my bed I used to love him
His kisses used to take my breath away
There’s a man in my bed I hardly know him
I wipe his face and hold his hand
And watch him as he slowly fades away” — Alistair Hulett, “He Fades Away“
Alistair Hulett has has died.… Go to Article
What does the Left Want?
Every year my friends gather on New Years eve and try to predict what will happen in the coming year.
We place these predictions in a book and then in the following new year’s eve we read them to compare prediction with what actually happened.… Go to Article
Call for Union Boycott of Israel
BDS Movement requests international trade unions to build ties with Palestinian unions
A trade union boycott of Israel means that trade unions cut economic, social and political ties with Israel and build ties with Palestinian unions.… Go to Article
Communique from an Absent Future
Pamphlet associated with the occupation movement at universities in the state of California.
An introduction was included in some versions of the pamphlet, and not in others.… Go to Article
Many Ships to Mt Isa — an autobiography of Pat Mackie
by Greg Mallory
He (Pat Mackie) sees his own needs very simply, voices them fearlessly and becomes a phenomenally effective workers’ spokesman and trade union organiser, a power to be reckoned with in the industrial world.… Go to Article
Vale Pat Mackie
I have just read in the morning paper that Pat Mackie has died at the age of 95.
Pat was a great wobbly and to pay tribute to Pat Mackie’s life I have found this story ‘Red Cap’ about Pat written by Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article
Traditional Owners speak out – against mining on their land!
The world’s largest mining company – BHP Billiton – will be having its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Brisbane on November 26 (Thurs).… Go to Article
How a union survives
“There are plenty of examples of socialists who are not Marxists; but to be a Marxist, you have to be a socialist” — H.… Go to Article
Review of Palestinian Days Film Festival, Brisbane
“What is my life worth?” asks a child standing in the rubble of Jenin, Palestine.
Palestinian Days Film Festival was held in Brisbane’s Schonell theatre at the University of Queensland over the weekend 16-18 October 2009.… Go to Article
QRail not for sale!
A few weeks ago the State Government announced it wants to privatise Queensland Rail (other than passenger services), Queensland Motorways, the Port of Brisbane, Forestry Plantations Queensland and the Abbot Point Coal Terminal.… Go to Article