Humphrey McQueen read this inspiring poem below at the launch of the book:
“Our liberties had not been won by mining magnates or stock-exchange jobbers, but by genuine men of the working-class movement who had died on the gallows and rotted in dungeons and were buried in nameless graves.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: Here is another excellent story of how the workers of Kyneton, a central Victorian town, fought back against economic depression in the middle of the 19th century.… Go to Article
Sale of Queensland’s coal, rail, forests, roads and ports is an industrial issue.
It determines who will be in control of the workplace.… Go to Article
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
Democratic Labour Party – under construction 0.1 May 2011
Constitutional statement, why the Labour Party?
[Translated from the arabic @ Iraqi Beacon
We announce today the establishment of the Labour Party … a Party, which includes leaders of labor unions from different places and their allies of the poor peasants, professionals, craftsmen and intellectuals ..… Go to Article
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
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
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
Tony Mockeridge has asked that this song be dedicated to Lex Wotton. Accordingly this song goes out to Lex Wotton and his family for their courage in standing up for justice on Palms for the Bwgcolman people and for all the people of Queensland.… Go to Article
The Qld Council of Unions Labour Day Committee have organised a March and Celebration to be held on Monday 2 May, 2011.… Go to Article
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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
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
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
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File:Solidarity Park, Western Australia.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Solidarity Park is located opposite the Parliament House in Perth, Western Australia.
Multi-guess questions on political issues.
The main issues covered in this questionnaire are the Environment, the Economy, and Social Justice.… Go to Article
Posted below is a statement from the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Authority Union (RETA) published by British Socialist Worker.
As a one-time low-level Australian Tax Office worker and former member of the Community & Public Sector Union (CPSU), I am curious about RETA – the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Authority Union.… Go to Article
Come Bligh and Fraser
You didn’t heed the call
You sold the railway
You sold the hall
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin.… Go to Article
There are not many films about Australian strikes. This documentary is one of the very few. It tells the story of the Latrobe Valley Power Workers’ Strike in Victoria in 1977.… Go to Article
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
Paul Robeson sings for the workers at Sydney Opera House
paul robeson was the first great singer to sing at the sydney opera house to a worker audience.… Go to Article
Brisbane Premiere screening of Return to Gaza
Thursday March 31, 2011
7pm at The Schonell Cinema, University of Queensland
Featuring discussion with director Michael Weatherhead and Samah Sabawi – Australian-Palestinian writer, co-author of Journey to Peace in Palestine and a former executive director of the National Council on Canada Arab Relations.… Go to Article
By Ted Reithmuller
“It was the time Jimmy Beatson was going to burn his draftcard”, Alan said. “It was in 1965 or 66.… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleAli G: R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz?
Cabinet M.P.: Restecp?
Ali G: Yes, Restecp.
‘Owz anyone out there meant to restecp each otha?
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
Comrades and friends,
The previously notified presentation of the Eureka Australia Day Medal award to the Garners was postponed due to the recent floods crisis.… Go to Article
Dear All,
We have had a request for solidarity with a strike by South Korean university cleaners.
Could comrades please sign and circulate the petition below (partic to NTEU and union members contacts perhaps) and ask that signatures be sent to the
email address listed (contactcjpark).… Go to Article
In February 2011, Khalil is returning to Palestine.
As part of his trip, he is going to visit a refugee camp in Nablus where his family and many of the people from his village, Al Jammasin, fled in 1948.… Go to Article
We have been getting queries about flood affected areas in West End and South Brisbane. In short, it is 1974 all over again.… Go to Article
A comrade suggested that this dispute ( NUW members in Melbourne’s west battling the World’s biggest multi-national meat monopoly for decent wages and conditions) is akin to Mudginberri – well here is a description of the Mudginberri dispute:
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