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
Month: December 2009
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
Communique from a Past Vanished
by Ian Curr
There are truths so evident, so much a part of people’s knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.… Go to Article
Inside Indonesia’s detention centres
by Pamela Curr
This morning [16 Dec 2009] The Australian reports that the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has completed its assessment of the 78 asylum-seekers on the Oceanic Viking and designated all of them as genuine refugees.… Go to Article
Ill wind blows a power of good
[Editor’s Note: Every now and then you come across a well written, positive story in the mainstream press. Dale Webster and the ABC both put together the following stories about Aboriginal struggle for independence and self determination in Arnhem land.… Go to Article
Crimes of Remembrance
By Humphrey McQueen (first published in The Vanguard – a ‘paper that puts local working class struggles at its core’)
Throughout the ‘sordid trade war’ of 1914-18, anti-imperialists warned volunteers that capitalism was not in the business of providing homes fit for heroes.… Go to Article
How To Make Trouble And Influence People
This was a light hearted and graphic look at the history of protest in Australia.
I showed this book to some comrades and one said that there were a lot of anarchist stories but few from the rest of the Left.… Go to Article
Seize the Crisis!
by Samir Amin
Taken from the Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 @ Seize the Crisis
Contents
- From One Long Crisis to Another
- Behind the Financial Crisis: A Systemic Crisis of the Capitalism of Oligopolies
- It Is the Entire System that Henceforth Is in Difficulty
- Exiting the Crisis of Capitalism or a Capitalism in Crisis?