Construction workers campaign for equal rights

The ABCC has charged an VIC CFMEU official Noel Washington for refusing to give evidence on discussions with union members, join us in calling for the abolition of the ABCC and the dropping of charges against Noel Washington.… Go to Article

A question of opportunity missed, and a scoop lost

Quest Newspapers have published a second article (at left) about a group of people concerned about what an arms manufacturer is doing running a business in suburban Murarrie.… Go to Article

Raytheon 2 found ‘Not Guilty’

Raytheon goes to Water on Wilful Damage Charges

by Jim Dowling

An hour after a Wynnum magistrate found Lisa Bridle and I not guilty of “disobeying a police direction”, police rang my home to let me know that Raytheon did not wish to proceed with willful damages charges resulting form another (our third) exorcism at their Brisbane offices.… Go to Article

Poetry in Motion: Day of solidarity with Cuba

Australia–Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane) invites you to —

Celebrate the beginning of the Cuban Revolution — the 55th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks.… Go to Article

Foco Nuevo in July 08

Jumping Fences invites you to our next Foco Nuevo concert. We aim to provide an ecelctic mix of musical styles while continuing the folk tradition of highlighting lyrics which reflect the breadth of contemporary life.… Go to Article

Brisbane’s Radical Books

Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.
                                 - Angela Davis

“These students believe in democracy and most importantly they believe in the maximum participation for the individual” – Brian Laver (1967)

There have been a line of radical bookshops in Brisbane since Mick Healy, Dave Surplus and Gilbert (Geordie) Burns set up the Anvil Bookshop in a rundown premises in Elizabeth street in Brisbane in 1935.… Go to Article

‘Our Rights at Work’ not dead, yet

Victorian Trade Hall Unions back CFMEU official, Noel Washington

The Victorian Trades Hall Council has called a meeting of delegates from all unions to discuss the union movement’s response to the anti-union Australian Building and Construction Commission, which is attempting to jail CFMEU official, Noel Washington.… Go to Article

Who supports a market solution for Climate Change?

Prof Ross Garnaut told about 1000 people assembled in the Brisbane City Hall on 11 July 2008 that the ‘centrepiece of our [the federal government] response to climate change is an Emissions Trading Scheme [ETS].… Go to Article

‘Direct Action’ emerges from the Past

A Short history of ‘Direct Action’

What a strange period of the Left we are living through.

The latest Left paper, Direct Action, claims that it is ‘for socialism in the 21st century’, I am not sure what that is supposed to mean but I doubt that it is true.… Go to Article

NAIDOC Week 2008

Contents

Musgrave Park Family Fun Day
Book Launch at Avid Reader Bookshop – The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
Review of Liyarn Nigarin by Ciaron O’Reilly

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Venezuela solidarity

Eyewitness public forum
May Day in Cuba and Venezuela… Go to Article

A Diary of Resistance – behind the news

Iraqi Resistance now a popular revolution?

Compiled by Ray Bergmann

“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An’ the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing”
— Bob Dylan, Chimes of Freedom.

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