Friends,

On Tuesday morning, Brisbane ABC Radio did a story on our heritage application and then ran a poll. The response was very heartening.… Go to Article

Queensland man Jeremy Lee worked for a company called Superior Wood and he successfully represented himself after he refused to sign-on and sign-off using a finger print scanner.… Go to Article

Any stories, memories, or images that you have about Schonell theatre, Zed, the Forum, Refec and UQ Union send them into the Heritage department for why we should save the UQ Union centre.… Go to Article

In the wake of a dismal result in the 2019 Federal Election people are asking where to now. As a contest of ideas the election was a failure.… Go to Article

The association of graduates in Cuba adopted a statement by which it demands the end of the blockade against our country and joins the international rejection of the new sanctions imposed by the American government against Cuba, especially against the activation of Title III of The Helms-Burton law.… Go to Article

2019 Federal Election in Australia

There was an expectation that Labor would win the 2019 federal election. Bob Hawke died on the eve of the poll and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said ‘let’s do it for Bob’.… Go to Article

For the last couple of days I have been reading a lot about what a great bloke Bob Hawke was. I’ve seen Queensland and ACTU union officials sing solidarity forever to pay homage to Bob Hawke as a great Labor leader.… Go to Article

News by CodePink from Venezuelan Embassy in Washington USA

After several weeks of protecting the Venezuelan embassy in D.C., the ‘U.S.… Go to Article

We reprint this eulogy by Ken Mansell from LABOUR HISTORY MELBOURNE – The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.… Go to Article

Artist / film maker Lucy Parker has been following the Blacklist Support Group with a camera for the past 4 years.… Go to Article

The Save the UQ Union Complex Committee’s (SUQUC) heritage application is now online on the Heritage Department’s website – https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/heritage/register/applications#enter.… Go to Article

‘I felt like a professional beggar‘ – Joe Curr on working for the Joint Appeal

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Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane) General Meeting  Tuesday 14 May 6.30 pm Qld Council of Unions Building Level 2 16 Peel Street South Brisbane  Welcome and Acknowledgement May Day wrap-up National Declaration regarding the Helms-Burton law Project Fund-raising: Dream Circle – Children’s Theatre Project Next batch of Revolutionary Red Brigade promotion and information night – 11 June If you have any other agenda items or queries, please send them to: lachlan@acfs-brisbane.org.au

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Canadian billionaire businessman Ned Goodman predicts the end of the U.S. Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. He says the transition out of the U.S.… Go to Article

Here are two tributes to Jon ‘Darce’ Cassidy who participated in the 1974 Long March to North-West Cape and Charlie Perkins’ 1965 Freedom ride.… Go to Article

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I first met Jim Dowling when I was 17 & we spontaneously linked arms to march out of King George Square into a mosh pit of Queensland cops.… Go to Article

The Federal Government was blindsided by the case of the first known refugee from Australia, who found asylum overseas on the grounds that authorities blew his cover as a crime gang informant then failed to protect him.… Go to Article

Political activists, Forum attendees and stall holders, Schonell movie buffs, Cement Box dramatists, 4ZZZ supporters, student leaders and student followers, we need you!… Go to Article

Direct slavery is just as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery, you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry.… Go to Article