May Day 2011

See below for the story about the Haymarket Martyrs and a certain Chinese Chicken dish by Lachlan Hurse. Featured photo in the masthead depicts the Workers Self Management Group at 1971 May Day march (Fortitude Valley Brisbane) Photo: Graham Garner

The Brisbane May Day Celebration Committee
invites you to the

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International Workers’ Day Concert

Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo

SUNDAY, 1st MAY, 6 p.m.

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‘Workers Embassy’

File:Solidarity Park, Western Australia.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

Solidarity Park is located opposite the Parliament House in Perth, Western Australia.

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A Letter to America

To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.—

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Know Your Friends, Know Your Enemies – 1977 Latrobe Valley Strike

There are not many films about Australian strikes. This documentary is one of the very few. It tells the story of the Latrobe Valley Power Workers’ Strike in Victoria in 1977.… Go to Article

Railways and Capitalism

PREFACE
This pamphlet appeared in 1973 in Victoria, under the guidance of E F Hill, Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist).… Go to Article

Alberto Granado es en el otro lado del río

Alas, comrade, you have left us to go to the other side of the river.

So many years after Che.

You have inspired many of us to follow your path.… Go to Article

Paul Robeson sings for the workers at Sydney Opera House

paul robeson was the first great singer to sing at the sydney opera house to a worker audience.… Go to Article

Mass demonstrations in Iraq against the occupation

A statement has been issued by the Shabaan Thuwaar Al-Iraq (= ‘Young Rebels’ but it includes people of all ages and different occupations).… Go to Article

Return to Gaza

Brisbane Premiere screening of Return to Gaza

Thursday March 31, 2011
7pm at The Schonell Cinema, University of Queensland

Featuring discussion with director Michael Weatherhead and Samah Sabawi – Australian-Palestinian writer, co-author of Journey to Peace in Palestine and a former executive director of the National Council on Canada Arab Relations.… Go to Article

Alan Doesn’t Get Arrested Again

By Ted Reithmuller

“It was the time Jimmy Beatson was going to burn his draftcard”, Alan said. “It was in 1965 or 66.… Go to Article

Eureka: Garner awards, Jiggens doco

Dear Friends

Eureka Australia Day Medals are awarded each year on December 4 (the anniversary of the Eureka stockade) by the Anarchist Media Institute to people who, through their activities, have embodied the ideas expressed in the Eureka Oath first sworn on the 29th November 1854.… Go to Article

1967/1977 street marches in Queensland — reasons for revolt?

“Here is a historically important film, recently rediscovered, that few people will ever have seen, and that commemorates an event that a lot of you will remember.

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Respect, the Census and unfair dismissal

Ali G: R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz?
Cabinet M.P.: Restecp?
Ali G: Yes, Restecp.
‘Owz anyone out there meant to restecp each otha?

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Solidarity with Egypt

Around 200 people gathered in Brisbane Square today to show their solidarity with the people of Egypt. Protesters heard many speakers from the Egyptian community about the struggle for democracy and supporters also spoke of the significance of the Egyptian people’s uprising to the peoples of the region.… Go to Article

Ernie Lane: The making of a Queensland Rebel

OUT OF THE PORT NEW PERSPECTIVES ON QUEENSLAND HISTORY

12:30pm, slq Auditorium 2, level 2, 16 February 2011

free, no bookings required

Ernie Lane: The Making of

a Queensland Rebel

see page page 4 of the State library of Qld summer magazine

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STATE LIBRARY ANNOUNCES 2010 AWARD WINNERS
Historian, author and University of Queensland librarian Dr Jeff Rickertt is the 2010 winner of the prestigious $20,000 State Library of Queensland John Oxley Fellowship.… Go to Article

Garners Eureka Australia Day Medal presentation

Comrades and friends,

The previously notified presentation of the Eureka Australia Day Medal award to the Garners was postponed due to the recent floods crisis.… Go to Article

Another Mudginberri?

A comrade suggested that this dispute ( NUW members in Melbourne’s west battling the World’s biggest multi-national meat monopoly for decent wages and conditions) is akin to Mudginberri – well here is a description of the Mudginberri dispute:

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Support NUW workers in Melbourne’s west battling multi-national corporation for decent EBA

NUW members in Melbourne’s west battling the world’s biggest multi-national meat monopoly for decent wages and conditions

140 NUW members at Swift Australia, a subsidiary of JBS, the world’s largest multinational meat conglomerate with head offices in Brazil and USA, have been locked out for more than 5 weeks because they refused to accept an EBA that increases working hours up to 12 hours a day, wipes out shift and overtime penalties and delivers a measly 2% annual wage rise.… Go to Article

Police violence in Rapa Nui ( Easter Island)

Friday, 21/12/10

Ten people were wounded and three of them are in a serious condition as a result of the police violence against to a group of Rapa Nui people who demonstrated at Government Square, Hanga Roa Centre and they were ejected.… Go to Article

Eureka Award for Grahame and Esme Garner

Dear Friends

At the recent Eureka Day in Ballarat, Grahame and Esme Garner were honoured for their lifelong devotion to political activity for workers self management and industrial democracy with an EAM (Eureka Australia Day Award).… Go to Article

Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge

From www.bdsmovement.net

By Phil Monsour

2010 may yet prove to be a turning point in the Palestine solidarity movement in Australia.… Go to Article

Eureka Day Celebrations in Adelaide 2010

Eureka Day Celebrations in Adelaide.

The Eureka Flag flew from Parliament house.

A delegation then attached the Eureaka Oath to the gates of Government House.… Go to Article

Eureka 2010: Stations of the Southern Cross

Stations of the Southern Cross – 156^th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion

On one level the Eureka stockade was a dispute over mining licences at Ballarat gold diggings in 1854.… Go to Article

Which side are you on?

Come all of you good workers, good news to you I’ll tell
of how the good old union has come in here to dwell

Last Saturday Brisbane anti apartheid activists disrupted business at the Israeli “Seacret” Cosmetics stall at Chermside Shopping Centre, one of Brisbane’s busiest suburban centres.… Go to Article

Direct Action Cinema: South of the Border (Oliver Stone), November 26

This Friday!, Don’t miss out, tell your friends…….

Direct Action Cinema presents:

South of the Border
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it.… Go to Article

ABCC law broken by mass action

Congrats ark tribe

there are too few comrades
With sufficient zeal & will
whence face to face
with an unyielding
ruling class obduracy

as well as turn a challenge
on its head & upset
their all too suggestive
Fashioned status quo
Power-over fashion
— Jim Sharp

Leaving the court, Mr Tribe pumped the air with his fist and vowed to fight for other workers if they faced charges under the laws.… Go to Article

A personal message from Ark Tribe

Friday 19th November 2010

A personal message from Ark Tribe

Dear Supporter,

This case is always on my mind. It’s not been a comfortable few years.… Go to Article

Support the City Hall construction workers

Support the City Hall construction workers.
by Owain Jones on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 1:48pm

Workers at Brisbane City Hall construction site have been sacked for attending a lunch time, off-site union meeting.… Go to Article

Rejection of the Communist Party Dissolution Act at the Referendum on 22 September 1951

Rejection of the Communist Party Dissolution Act at the Referendum on 22 September 1951

Following an informal discussion in Brisbane on Sunday 31 October, I offered to provide some background materials for activities around the 60^th anniversary of the victory.… Go to Article

Queensland Rail — in the Public Debt

Even England, the home of the 1980s Thatcherite ideas on public policy has come to realise the folly of many of those policies.… Go to Article