University gave Joh doctorate after sacking SEQEB workers

In 1985 during the SEQEB dispute, 1005 workers were sacked by the Bjelke-Petersen government and replaced by fewer people on contracted labour.… Go to Article

May Day

May Day – Workers Have the Power
On 1st May workers around the world gather to show solidarity with people’s struggles and hopes for a better life.… Go to Article

Oligarchs of Ukraine

Oligarchical topography of Ukraine.
Andrei Fursov – Sociologist, Historian – 14 April 2014

Many domestic and foreign interests coincided to create the Banderite coup d’état in Ukraine.… Go to Article

Qld Dossier

Radical Times brings us yet another historic video.

This time it is a documentary shot in various places around Queensland in 1978 linking Bjelke Petersen’s ban on street marches with the State’s repression of opposition to uranium mining and Land Rights (44 minutes).… Go to Article

‘Sorry’ doesn’t mean taking our children

On 27 March Pru Goward and the NSW Government passed the most dangerous legislation against vulnerable children and families since Federation.… Go to Article

Bring our stolen children home

“On 27 March (2014) Pru Goward and the NSW Government passed the most dangerous legislation against vulnerable children and families since Federation.… Go to Article

Wed 7th of May meeting of the 17 Group

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

Red tape (again) and Obama’s support – Melbourne’s Workers’ Memorial Day 2014

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1982 Commonwealth Games – Land Rights

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The (Ex)Secretary’s Speech: Jobs Plans, Unemployment And Illusions of the Future.

Thus capital presupposes wage labour; wage labour presupposes capital. They reciprocally condition the existence of each other; they reciprocally bring forth each other.(… Go to Article

The Coup Leadership in Ukraine is Fascist

No commentator has doubted that the 22 February 2014 coup would not have succeeded without the paramilitary violence of the far right that met police blockades with firearms and improvised explosives on 18 February 2014.… Go to Article

Wed 5th of March Meeting of 17 Group

The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 5th of March at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article

Interesting forum on working lives for May 3rd

The May Day Group has organised a “workers inquiry” in association with the May Day celebrations.

It is to be held on Saturday May 3rd, and should be a new direction for those of us interested in developing the working class movement and struggles during the coming few years – which look like being some fierce attacks on workers and thier organisation.… Go to Article

the black diggers and anzac history

last friday, anzac day, i again made the decision to forgo the main anzac march in the city as i have done for many years.… Go to Article

Anzac – the hiss of a spent lie

[Anzac – the hiss of a spent lie was broadcast on PShift (4zzz fm 102.1 fridays at noon) on 25 april 2014]

 Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass
in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder
shaking the orchards, waking
the young from a dream, scattering like glass
the old men's sleep; laying
a black trail over the still bloom of the orchards.

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Aboriginal activists to go to Turtle Island

Brisbane based Aboriginal activists Boe Spearim and Callum Clayton-Dixon will travel to Canada in August this year using Aboriginal passports.

As representatives of the Aboriginal Provisional Government, we hope to develop ties with the Native peoples of Turtle Island (Canada).… Go to Article

May Day Forum — Workers Inquiry

To our friends and comrades

Our lives are dominated by work, but our experiences as workers is most often ignored by mainstream politics and the media.… Go to Article

Racial Discrimination Laws – a political twist

[Editor’s Note: A Sydney Uni professor, Jake Lynch, who supports the Boycott Divestment and Sanction Campaign against Israeli settlements is being prosecuted under section 18C (and other sections) of the Racial Discrimination Act by a pro-israel group, Shurat HaDin.… Go to Article

Acland Sustainable Energy Plan – An alternative to coal mining

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Please find attached a revised version of my Acland Sustainable Energy
Plan – An Alternative to the New Hope Acland Coal Mine.… Go to Article

‘Won’t get fooled again’?

Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,

Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives;
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honours at their feet.

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Prime Minister held captive: the Zionist Lobby under fire in Oz

Now after the Labor Government’s defeat, Carr is once again in retirement,
and his published diary tells the whole story re UNESCO, and the power of
the Zionists over Gillard, albeit she was their willing ally.… Go to Article

Why we need warrior societies

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Don’t take your children to Vegemite Town

Told us what to do and say
Told us all the white man's ways
Then they split us up again
And gave us gifts to ease the pain
Sent us off to foster homes
As we grew up we felt alone
Cause we were acting white
Yet feeling black
— Archie Roach,
Took the children away

The music industry says it is the home of country music.… Go to Article

Orwell guilty of terrorism?

If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006.… Go to Article

Take action: tell Bill Gates to divest from Israel’s torture prisons#StopG4S

In June 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private charitable foundation in the world, purchased shares in G4S worth $172m, making it one of the company’s biggest shareholders.… Go to Article

Peace and Nuclear Disarmament on Palm Sunday 13th April

For the Global Day of Action on Military Spending.docx… Go to Article

Refugee letter from Nauru

As we hear today that the UN Rapporteur on Arbitrary detention has been un-invited from visiting Nauru, we are not surprised.… Go to Article

Rallies for Refugees and Peace

Hello everyone

Hope you can come along and join The Cloudland Collective at both these rallies – Stop the War on Refugees 12/4 and Palm Sunday Peace Rally 13/4/2014.… Go to Article