From: Samuel Watson
Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 6:43 AM
URGENT NOTICE FOR ON WEDNESDAY THE 25TH. OF NOVEMBER TO START AT 7 PM SHARP – NO MURRI TIME, 7 PM SHARP !!!… Go to Article
Month: November 2009
Brisbane BHP Protest
… Go to Article“There must be some way out of here,”
Said the aboriginal elder to the thief,
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
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
Capital refined
by Humphrey McQueen
Introduction
Developing policies in the interests of working people calls for the precision about our enemy that Marx offered throughout Capital.… Go to Article
A ‘two-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestine conflict?
The following is a report of an ALP/Union Forum titled A two state solution to the Israel Palestine conflict held at Qld parliament on Remembrance Day, 11th November 2009.… Go to Article
Who will save Yungaba — ‘the land of the sun’?
by Ian Curr
“Job and me and Jesus sittin’
Underneath the Indooroopilly bridge
Watchin’ that blazin’ sun go down
Behind the tall tree’d mountain ridge
The land’s our heritage and spirit
Here the rightful culture’s Black
and we sittin’ here just wonderin’
When we get the land back”
— Kev Carmody ‘Thou shalt not steal’
If you walk underneath the Storey bridge you can see what has happened.… Go to Article