Category: Workers Political Organisations

Unions, Rank and File & Workers Political Groups

Book Launch at the New International Bookshop: Humphrey McQueen, ‘We Built This Country’

You are invited to attend the launch of historian Humphrey McQueen’s
seventeenth book:

*We Built This Country: Builders’ Labourers and Their Unions*
(Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011)

At* The New International Bookshop*
Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St Carlton, Vic
*Wednesday 30th November 2011
6.30 to 7.30pm*

Humphrey McQueen is a freelance historian and cultural commentator who has written extensively on Australian society, culture and the labour movement.… Go to Article

‘Poultry’ pay not OK: Baiada workers on why they’re striking

‘Poultry’ pay not OK: Baiada workers on why they’re striking
By Sue Bolton
From Green Left Weekly, Saturday, November 19, 2011

The main slogan on the Baiada workers’ picket line in Melbourne’s western suburbs is “No more $10!… Go to Article

“Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” by Adrian Caneris

From: WPSQ Brisbane Branch
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 9:45 PM
To: brisbane
Subject: “Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” by Adrian Caneris

Hi,

This Tuesday night we have our last presentation for the year “Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” By Adrian Caneris, Managing Director, Biodiversity Assessment and Management, 7.30pm, at RGSQ.… Go to Article

BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin

fyi
contention & collusion
betwixt & between the imperium
& its pretender are looking more than a tad hot
jim

BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin
By John Helmer

MOSCOW – The share price of OM Holdings, one of the few pure manganese miners in the world to be listed on an international stock exchange, fell 9% the day after the Australian and United States governments signed a new military pact, inviting 2,500 US Marines to a base in Darwin, and threatening China with as yet undisclosed new military measures.… Go to Article

Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C. Davis, California

From: Ciaron OReilly
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 7:56 PM
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Subject: Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C.… Go to Article

Local coalition to oppose US military presence in Australia and an independent security policy for Australia?

Hi friends,

you may be interested in a new initiative which JustPeace is launching – a coalition around US military presence in Australia and an independent security policy for Australia.… Go to Article

#OccupyBrisbane Rally today! 12 noon

ya estan matando a Chilenos
and now they are killing Chileans
in the Greek sports stadiums
too
they are showing
how they define
spoils
justice
live to fight
fight to live
‘To the Victor belongs the Spoils‘ by Daniel del Solar

As the #Occupy Movement grows around Australia and throughout the world, a number of obstacles have been put in our path.We… Go to Article

View from Grassy Knoll

Following the lead of the Arab Spring, ordinary people around the world occupied squares near big companies — places like Wall Street, the London Stock Exchange, financial districts of Berlin, Toronto, Martin Place in Sydney, City Square in Melbourne and Post office Square in Brisbane — arguably where the real power lies.… Go to Article

Communist party organised in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on 1 May 2011

Democratic Labour Party – under construction 0.1 May 2011
Constitutional statement, why the Labour Party?
[Translated from the arabic @ Iraqi Beacon

We announce today the establishment of the Labour Party … a Party, which includes leaders of labor unions from different places and their allies of the poor peasants, professionals, craftsmen and intellectuals ..… Go to Article

40,000 years and a handful of sand


Tony Mockeridge has asked that this song be dedicated to Lex Wotton. Accordingly this song goes out to Lex Wotton and his family for their courage in standing up for justice on Palms for the Bwgcolman people and for all the people of Queensland.… Go to Article

17 Group discussion in May 2011

Race politics and reading practices: two as pects of the New Australia experiment.

Wide eyed romantics and a heartbreak dream
Your motives aren’t what they seem
You’ve got your feet caked in Australian mud
And you can’t deny what’s in your blood
Under Paraguay skies and the nights so cold
You can forsake your country and lose your soul — ‘Virgin Ground’ by Red Gum

The May meeting of the 17 Group will be on Wednesday the 4th of May at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article