Guest article by Bec Barrigos, QTU rank and file and co-convenor of QLD Teachers’ Fightback

Union representation for teachers, nurses and others on the board of Workplace Health and Safety have been unceremoniously stripped by the Crisafulli government.… Go to Article

Two important actions for our readers!

1. Sign & share the e-petition to qld parliament:

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/petition-details/4656-26

This petition was created by Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (JFP) and is sponsored by Greens members for Maiwar, Michael Berkman.… Go to Article

‘Looking with both eyes‘ – Persian proverb meaning to look behind the facts.

Appeal court ignores Israel’s genocide in assault case

6 May 2024 — Labor Day function at the RNA Showgrounds — last words

Yesterday’s man, former premier of Queensland, Steven Miles, made a speech at the 2024 May Day celebrations ignoring the fact that assembled unionists had turned their backs on him because of his government’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza.… Go to Article

According to the series, Say Nothing, based on a book by Patrick Radden Keefe, Gerry Adams is a liar, a traitor, and a murderer.… Go to Article

F-35s are used in bombardment campaigns across Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen that have killed tens of thousands of civilians, including children, sheltering in schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.… Go to Article

The propagandists whose writings are in evidence in this case and terrorists who respond to their call (like the offenders now before the Court cannot  sensibly be regarded as mere anti-social deviants.… Go to Article

“The fish start swimming in a circle, they go round and round, others from the school join in, males and females.… Go to Article

Every time there is a violent incident or alleged terror event, a resistance movement is blamed. Sometimes those incidents are ordinary criminal acts.… Go to Article

“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro

After 14,700 kilometres, we have finally made it to Havana.… Go to Article

“We’ll have thee, as our rare monsters are,
painted on a pole,
and under it here
may you see the tyrant.”… Go to Article

July is International Zine Month (alongside Disability Pride Month), so people celebrated it by attending Mr Icarus’s zine making workshop and they raised funds for Justice for Palestine Magandjin’s Legal Defence Fund.… Go to Article

For the past three years, the Queensland Government has been complicit in the genocide in Gaza and has done everything it could to obstruct justice for the Palestinian people, even going so far as to accuse protest organisers of antisemitism.… Go to Article

Down our street, downhill into an adjoining suburb, people are not so neuter – not it people. They march in processions which shout No!… Go to Article

Five Ways of Regarding Homer

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Are you going to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey?
No, but I’ll re-read the book.
[With thanks to Guy Davenport, Geography the Imagination (New York: Pantheon, 1991), 333-4.]… Go to Article

All they need is dignity / a chance to be free / let them out of jail  / my people / stop pointing guns at my people.… Go to Article

“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro

International affairs are not the World Cup where there are rules and despite claims to the contrary the favoured team did not win.… Go to Article

Recently, Australia abstained in the United Nations General Assembly on the annual resolution entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”… Go to Article

We should go under the rain. We should wash our eyes, and we should see the world in a different way.… Go to Article

The AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Project is the most expensive government project ever undertaken by an Australian government, an enormously costly project that will seriously impact the Australian economy for decades.  … Go to Article

“Enclosure came and trampled on the grave
Of labour’s rights and left the poor a slave.” – John Clare

The land at Kurilpa Commons in West End was transformed by the Growing Forward community group during Covid in 2020.… Go to Article

… I will do such things –What they are, yet I know not; but they shall be

The terrors of the Earth

-William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 2, scene 4.… Go to Article

The film allows a one-time glimpse of video materials from the four children’s interrogations. Through the interrogations, the personal story of the children and their friendship is revealed, as well as the story of the refugee camp from which they come and the story of the Palestinian people struggling for independence.… Go to Article

“Albanese’s story has now become an international symbol of social redemption, tenacity and political passion. As a son who grew up in a rented flat…” – Corrieri Bari.… Go to Article