Unions, Rank and File & Workers Political Groups
‘… in my view populism is what we need, roughly speaking hanging bankers from the lamposts …’
– prof john quigan speaking
at the cloudland committee
inaugural forum
on 28 nov 2013
[1:07:37] in PShift
recording below
Review of talk given by prof quigan and organised by the cloudland collective.… Go to Article
From http://freewestpapua.org/
November 26, 2013
Indonesian police have today arrested a total of 41 KNPB activists in Timika, Jayapura and Sorong ahead of planned mass actions across West Papua this weekend for West Papua independence day.… Go to Article
1. RED ALERT – LAUNCHING A CIVIL LIBERTIES CAMPAIGN IN QLD Nov 27
2. MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY – THIS SATURDAY!
3.… Go to Article
The Airport Link tunnel project in Queensland. Picture: Liam Kidston Source: The Australian
FOR Andrew Ramsay, it was the plethora of shiny, green, energy drink cans that told him all was not right on Brisbane’s Airport Link tunnel project.
***STOP PRESS*** Stop Work from 12:30pm on Tuesday 19 November 2013 in the Great Court at the University of Qld ***STOP PRESS***
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) voted unanimously yesterday for further industrial action at the University of Queensland (UQ).… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleNow. I am a Capitalist. And all these raw materials belong to me. Don’t matter for now how I got hold of them, or whether I have any right to them.
A revival of interest in the dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975 is focusing on who advised the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.… Go to Article
The Construction Safety Campaign are organsing a wreath laying and minutes silence for Richard Laco, the worker killed last week on the Laing O’Rourke building site at Kings Cross.… Go to Article
THE first sitting of the new federal parliament will see the Abbott government move to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission.
In 1977 Bjelke-Petersen tried to stop the anti-uranium movement by banning
street marches. Unionists and students launched a defiant campaign which
gained community support.… Go to Article
“Taking to the Streets – two decades that changed Brisbane 1965 – 1985” – Museum of Brisbane Exhibition 2006.
The exhibition was opened on 6 April 2006.… Go to Article
Source: Thanks to The Radical Times Archive for Debra Beattie’s doco Manufacturing Dissent.
“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.”… Go to Article
Are we there yet
Now how we gonna get there, we don’t even have boats
And how we gonna get there when we’re not winning votes
We will never get there while the pollys speak their spokes
Garden party circus clowns wooing kids with their jokes
Another death in custody to a suicide fatality
This is how it’s supposed to be, in a capitalist society
People on the top and people on the bottom
And people in the middle who don’t wanna know what happened
– The Last Kinection – ‘Are We There Yet’ featuring Simone Stacey
by Julian Burnside
It is a great privilege to be giving a talk in honour of Barry Jones.… Go to Article
Victor Jara was a Chilean songwriter, poet, teacher, theatre director and political activist. He was a central part of the Nueva Cancion movement, which regenerated Andean folk music in a new form of protest song in the sixties.… Go to Article
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.… Go to Article
I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;
‘Good speed!’ cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
‘Speed!’… Go to Article
Under camouflage of anti-bikie (accepted by the Labor party) and sexual offenders legislation, Qld Attorney General, Jarrod Blejie, took away workers rights to a safe work environment and took away rights to privacy of their health history and cover.… Go to Article
The video you see was put together after the Queensland state election in 1977.
The video you see was shot and edited under difficult circumstances over 35 years ago, after the Queensland state election in 1977.… Go to Article
It’s time for the Left to work out how to co-operate during this period of austerity and financial crisis.
I think that we should discuss Left co-operation – how do people from campaign and educational groups work together – groups like tent embassy (BASE), Cuba Friendship, Brisbane Anarchist Summer School (BASS), Radical Education Forum, Brisbane Free University (BFU), the May Day Group currently organising a forum on working conditions and expectations.… Go to Article
by Humphrey McQueen
Dickens got it half wrong in Bleak House when he has detective Bucket observe that, while murder could be done by amateurs, thieving needed professionals.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: This forum was put on by Caxton Legal Centre Inc, Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University and The University of Queensland]
Thursday, 26 September 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Banco Court
415 George Street
#Ground floor
Brisbane, QLD 4000
Australia
G20: dissent, police powers and international reviews of security implementation – You need to register at http://g20.eventbrite.com.au/… Go to Article
The Australia–Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane) invites you to a video showing:
The Trial: The Untold Story
Wednesday 25 September 2013
6.30 p.m.… Go to Article
Capital can’t be reasoned with … the importance of affective politics by Joseph Kay
Sep 19 2013 10:10
When we limit ourselves to reasoned critique we cut ourselves off from the everyday experiences of life under capitalism from which any revolutionary rupture must grow.… Go to Article
by Steve Riggall,
Reporter & Co-ordinator
4ZZZ News fm 102.1 Brisbane
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 – 12:51pm
After striding into office after a comfortable election victory, Mr Abbott and his team are invoking that magical political word much beloved by many politicians: mandate.
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
In 1982 there was a demonstration in Brisbane King George Square to protest the Sabra and Chatilla Massarce [Arabic: مذبحة صبرا وشاتيلا.]… Go to Article
[PShift (4zzz fm102.1 fridays at noon) 12 noon Friday 30 Aug]
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”… Go to Article
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