In 1980 or 1981, Bjelke-Petersen went to University of Queensland guarded by Qld Special Branch. Joh’s visit was controversial as the questions from the news media suggest.… Go to Article
Category: socialist forum
Feminism and the crisis in the British Socialist Workers Party
Freedom Socialist Party Statement
Toward the end of 2012, two members of the British Socialist Workers Party charged a national leader with rape and sexual assault.… Go to Article
May Day Forum: What’s Working? Organising collectively for lives of dignity and justice.
The May Day Group is hoping to contribute to the celebration of May Day by organising two events.
A Foco Nuevo gig on Friday 3rd May and a forum on Saturday the 4th.… Go to Article
Marxism 2013: African American civil rights campaigner and Black Panther
African American civil rights campaigner and Black Panther
BILLY X JENINNGS
Speaks at Marxism 2013 conference
Saturday 30th March, 2pm
University of Melbourne, Student Union Building
TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST!… Go to Article
Antonio Gramsci: Marxist ideas for difficult times
Sound recording of ‘Antonio Gramsci – marxist ideas for difficult times’ Antonio Gramsci: Marxist ideas for difficult times.
Antonio Gramsci: Marxist ideas for difficult times
Meeting with Martin Thomas, editor of the book “Antonio Gramsci: working-class revolutionary”
2.30pm, Saturday 23 March, at the State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, L4: Meeting Room 4.A… Go to Article
May Day 2013
May Day has long been an important day for the workers’ movement.
A day to celebrate and commemorate the struggles for the eight hour day and it serves as a time for all of us to gather together to strength our links of solidarity.
… Go to Article Potential Social Implications of Recent Developments in Evolutionary Theory
The last meeting of the 17 Group and the breakup for 2012 will take place on Wednesday the 5th of December at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End.… Go to Article
Hawks and Sparrows …
I once told a friend that ‘if you wait, eventually the world will come to you.’
She replied that ‘if everyone took that view, no-one would come.’… Go to Article
Interesting speakers about the 1972 recognition of China
Hi friends,
Next Saturday 24th November the Australia China Friendship Society is running a seminar and reception (free) to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Whitlam Government recognition of China.… Go to Article
Driven by competition with China, US escalates military presence in Australia
by Alison Thorne
U.S. President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Gillard shake hands and cement an alliance to boost the U.S.… Go to Article
Evading the class struggle
by Humphrey McQueen
The Socialist Alternative is committed to the self-emancipation of the working class. Its 2012 Marxism conference shows why that will be necessary.… Go to Article
17 Group: 7th of March Meeting
The March 2012 Meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 7th of March at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St in West End on the topic of energy policy in relation to the Queensland State Election.… Go to Article
Review: We built this country
Review: We Built this Country
We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions,
by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00
Review by Howard Guille
This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ labourers and their unions.… Go to Article
Whose side are you on?
The mundane decline of labour history
by Humphrey McQueen
Fifty-one years ago, a grouping of communists and ex-communists in Canberra set up a Society for the Study of Labour History and prepared a journal, Labour History.… Go to Article
Vale Bob Gould
Version in the Marxist Archive (Andy Blunden)
In 1991 Bob Gould sold me his last copy of Ernie Lane’s Dawn to Dusk – Reminiscences of a Rebel.… Go to Article
Humphrey McQueen on May Day
Speech by Humphrey McQueen – May Day Dinner, Adelaide, 2011
Although we are more than half way through our May Day dinner, it is never too late to say grace: ‘For the food and drinks that we are enjoying, we thank the working classes’.… Go to Article
Public forum: Reorganising Cuba
The Australia Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane)
invites you to a forum
‘Reorganising Cuba’
Ezequiel Morales,
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP)Cuba is embarking upon a massive reorganisation of its economy, following the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party, held earlier this month, with a drive to improve economic performance.… Go to Article
Port Adelaide Workers Memorial
(Speech by Humphrey McQueen (Order of Lenin), May Day, 2011)
One does good, neither from fear of punishment nor promise of reward, but because good is good to do.… Go to Article
New Australia: Wed May 4th Meeting of 17 Group
The Left on Labour Day 2011
Labour Day, Brisbane, 2011
Socialist groups missed an opportunity this Labour Day.
There has been a shift inside the Labour movement and the Left has not recognised it fully nor have they responded to it.… Go to Article
‘Reorganising Cuba’
17 Group discussion in May 2011
Race politics and reading practices: two as pects of the New Australia experiment.
Wide eyed romantics and a heartbreak dream
Your motives aren’t what they seem
You’ve got your feet caked in Australian mud
And you can’t deny what’s in your blood
Under Paraguay skies and the nights so cold
You can forsake your country and lose your soul — ‘Virgin Ground’ by Red Gum
The May meeting of the 17 Group will be on Wednesday the 4th of May at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article
Celebrate May Day in Canberra
Sunday May 1st
3 p m
Garema Place
with Civil Libertarians Greens Teachers Scientists Socialists Unionists
Peace activists in a FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE FESTIVAL OF THE OPPRESSED (An initiative of Workers Solidarity Network 0417283719 wsncampaigns@gmail.com… Go to Article
May Day 2011
See below for the story about the Haymarket Martyrs and a certain Chinese Chicken dish by Lachlan Hurse. Featured photo in the masthead depicts the Workers Self Management Group at 1971 May Day march (Fortitude Valley Brisbane) Photo: Graham Garner
The Brisbane May Day Celebration Committee
invites you to the
May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day
International Workers’ Day Concert
Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo
SUNDAY, 1st MAY, 6 p.m.
… Go to Article A Letter to America
… Go to ArticleTo the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.—
Railways and Capitalism
PREFACE
This pamphlet appeared in 1973 in Victoria, under the guidance of E F Hill, Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist).… Go to Article
Qaddafi in Defeat
"We came. We saw. He died"
- Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State,
when Muamma Qaddafi was murdered.**
The indigenous people of North Africa are the Berbers.… Go to Article
Alberto Granado es en el otro lado del río
Alas, comrade, you have left us to go to the other side of the river.
So many years after Che.
You have inspired many of us to follow your path.… Go to Article
1967/1977 street marches in Queensland — reasons for revolt?
… Go to Article“Here is a historically important film, recently rediscovered, that few people will ever have seen, and that commemorates an event that a lot of you will remember.
Ernie Lane: The making of a Queensland Rebel
OUT OF THE PORT NEW PERSPECTIVES ON QUEENSLAND HISTORY 
12:30pm, slq Auditorium 2, level 2, 16 February 2011
free, no bookings required
Ernie Lane: The Making of
a Queensland Rebel
see page page 4 of the State library of Qld summer magazine
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STATE LIBRARY ANNOUNCES 2010 AWARD WINNERS
Historian, author and University of Queensland librarian Dr Jeff Rickertt is the 2010 winner of the prestigious $20,000 State Library of Queensland John Oxley Fellowship.… Go to Article