Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin I am not your Negro. ‘I am not your negro’ is a documentary about the failure of Americans to face … Continue reading →
Hawke was the first leader of the ACTU who did not come from the shop floor, he started a trend where workers were led by people from another class. Continue reading →
Paradigm Shift 17 May
2019 (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday at Noon)
This week we get a bit of an update on what’s happening to the environment in Western Australia. Hear about forests, fracking and uranium mining. Plus some of the best political music in the west.
Andy interviews Jess
Beckerling (WA Forest Alliance convenor ), Paddy Colin, K A Garlick (WA Forest Alliance),
Notes on West Australia – Forests, Fracking and Uranium.
Jess Beckerling who has spent 20 years of activism advocating for WA Forests which had a great bioversity which is being destroyed. Unique flora and fauna like Numbats (an insectivorous marsupial native to Western Australia) and Quokkas (wallaby unique to S-W Western Australia). 90% loss of original vegetation in places like the wheat belt. WA forests are unusual in that they have grown in isolation from the rest of the world through many millenia. There are ancient…
A rally of about 100 people crammed onto footpath at the top of Brisbane Square tonight to commemorate al Nakba, the catastrophe, for Palestine. Organisers were given a permit to use the square however no allownace was made by Brisbane … Continue reading →
News by CodePink from Venezuelan Embassy in Washington USA After several weeks of protecting the Venezuelan embassy in D.C., the ‘U.S. government’ has shut off the water to try to ‘smoke out’ Maduro supporters: CODEPINK. After the water was suddenly shut off in … Continue reading →
We reprint this eulogy by Ken Mansell from LABOUR HISTORY MELBOURNE – The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Thanks to Peter Gray from Radical Times Archive. Jon (Darce) Cassidy was probably not meant to become one of … Continue reading →
Artist / film maker Lucy Parker has been following the Blacklist Support Group with a camera for the past 4 years. Her film ‘Solidarity’ is now finished (trailer below). Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were … Continue reading →
In 1978, Bernie Dowling and I took this pamphlet down south to emphasise to people how dangerous populists like Bjelke-Petersen in the deep north could be. We went around Trades Hall in Melbourne, the International Bookshop, Australian Union of Students, … Continue reading →
On 15 May 2019, about 35 people marched from Speakers Corner at Parliament house to 1 William Street to seek an urgent meeting with the Minister for Child Safety, Di Farmer, to have the kids immediately released from the watch houses around Queensland. Continue reading →
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. On the same site you will find a link to the Public Notice inviting written submissions from members of the public. … Continue reading →
‘I felt like a professional beggar‘ – Joe Curr on working for the Joint Appeal Education for WomenThere was a time when fund raising in corporate philanthropy was not a career, at least not in the church. Everything was done … Continue reading →
Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane)General Meeting Tuesday 14 May 6.30 pmQld Council of Unions Building Level 2 16 Peel Street South Brisbane Welcome and AcknowledgementMay Day wrap-upNational Declaration regarding the Helms-Burton lawProject Fund-raising: Dream Circle – Children’s Theatre ProjectNext batch of Revolutionary Red Brigade promotion and information … Continue reading →
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. Dollar will become, “…quite ugly.” He delivered the lecture at Cambridge House’s Toronto Resource Investment … Continue reading →
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. The first tribute is from long time Land Rights activist, Gary Foley, and the second from … Continue reading →
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. They were there to enforce the ban on Street marches, demonstrations and … Continue reading →
Before Stevan Utah fled Australia in 2006, he was paid by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) to infiltrate the Bandidos motorcycle gang
In 2017, Mr Utah became the first known refugee from Australia when Canada gave him asylum on the basis that authorities in his home country blew his cover, then failed to offer him adequate protection
Freedom of Information documents show that neither the ACIC nor Australian diplomatic officials knew anything about this until it was revealed by the ABC Continue reading →
For this reason there will be no 4ZZZ Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) correspondent travelling to Israel nor any coverage of ESC this year on Queer Radio or any specific programs relating to the Contest on Zed Digital.” Free Palestine! Continue reading →
Political activists, Forum attendees and stall holders, Schonell movie buffs, Cement Box dramatists, 4ZZZ supporters, student leaders and student followers, we need you! Here is a call from the Save the UQ Union Complex for stories to demonstrate the heritage … Continue reading →
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. It is slavery that gave the colonies their value; it is the … Continue reading →
Consensus Politics The Australian Labor Party was formed by the unions to gain parliamentary political power. From its formation a debate constantly raged as to the extent of compromise acceptable to achieve this goal. In the 1980s and 1990s this … Continue reading →
At a time when religious antipathy is on the rise between Muslim and Christian, Francis, the ‘good’ pope, canonized the martyrs, placing into question his political nous. Who can save the catholic church, in so much turmoil over the predatory conduct of its priests? Not even the Martyrs of Otranto. Continue reading →
Recently WBT has been discussing Gross State Product, and what it means – particularly with respect to the mining industry in Queensland. Here’s some more discussion of the figures between renewables engineer, Trevor Berrill, and Ian from the Paradigm Shift (4zzz fm 102.1 Fridays at noon). Continue reading →
Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician On May 3rd, 1919, Pete Seeger was born. Many people in the more musical regions of my social circles are currently celebrating his life, for the occasion of what would have been his 100th … Continue reading →
Last Train to Mirabad Julian Assange took on the US Wikileak’d ten years war in Afghanistan Julian roams downstairs in Woolwich Court Thinking what would Pilger and Ellsberg do now? Waiting to be taken through tunnel to Belmarsh Prison Where … Continue reading →
In the lead up to the 2019 May Day celebrations we take a look at what it is like being a union organiser. Paul Petersen was a wharfie for 12 years and then went to sea. He then took on … Continue reading →
The Australian Labor Party was formed by the unions to gain parliamentary political power. From its formation a debate constantly raged as to the extent of compromise acceptable to achieve this goal. In the 1980s and 1990s this internal battle … Continue reading →
Dear residents, I’m writing to you because you came along to our Montague Road community forum on the weekend or have expressed an interest in the future of this road corridor and surrounding neighbourhood. Our forum on Saturday afternoon had … Continue reading →
Welcome to this website People from all directions.
A note to indigenous people, Workers BushTelegraph may contain recordings, images and songs of people who are deceased.
We address the following questions:
1. Industrial question: The Master/servant relationship. The struggle for Worker Control.
2. Ownership question: Who owns the land? Rights to the city, right to country. The struggle of indigenous people for land rights and social justice in Australia.
3. Political question: This is the class struggle. Who owns the means of production? Who governs? How are democratic rights won and shared.
'Rob Pyne - a far northern life' — sharing stories of Rob Pyne's struggle inside the ALP and his move to independence. Contains some excellent chapters about his stint in parliament.
Bent Banana Books — Save the Book - discussion on where books are heading and finding books which are different.
Apple Corey — Contains some excellent interviews on Indigenous, union, women, Occupy issues.
Rob Pyne - a far northern life — sharing stories of Rob's struggle inside the ALP and his move to independence. Contains some excellent chapters about his stint in parliament.
