The US have allowed unfettered Israeli strikes against 200 targets in Syria and fired 800 missiles and mortar shells over the past year and a half.… Go to Article
Bill’s not Bob
2019 Federal Election in Australia
There was an expectation that Labor would win the 2019 federal election. Bob Hawke died on the eve of the poll and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said ‘let’s do it for Bob’.… Go to Article
The fire next time
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin I am not your Negro.… Go to Article
Bob Hawke – from dawn till dusk
For the last couple of days I have been reading a lot about what a great bloke Bob Hawke was. I’ve seen Queensland and ACTU union officials sing solidarity forever to pay homage to Bob Hawke as a great Labor leader.… Go to Article
West Australia – Forests, Fracking and Uranium
Will Federal LNP government approval for uranium and forest logging bring them undone in the West?
Remember al Nakba 2019
A rally of about 100 people crammed onto footpath at the top of Brisbane Square tonight to commemorate al Nakba, the catastrophe, for Palestine.… Go to Article
Venezuelan Embassy: Water Shut Off, Police Block Entry of Food
News by CodePink from Venezuelan Embassy in Washington USA
After several weeks of protecting the Venezuelan embassy in D.C., the ‘U.S.… Go to Article
Vale Darce Cassidy (1941-2019) – Journalist, Agitator, Organiser
We reprint this eulogy by Ken Mansell from LABOUR HISTORY MELBOURNE – The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.… Go to Article
Blacklisting
Artist / film maker Lucy Parker has been following the Blacklist Support Group with a camera for the past 4 years.… Go to Article
Queensland: Politics, People and International Capital
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.… Go to Article
50 years after the tent embassy – still keeping kids out of jail
‘Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.… Go to Article
Help Save UQ Union Complex
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.… Go to Article
Joint Appeal at UQ
‘I felt like a professional beggar‘ – Joe Curr on working for the Joint Appeal
Cuba friendship
| Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane) General Meeting Tuesday 14 May 6.30 pm Qld Council of Unions Building Level 2 16 Peel Street South Brisbane Welcome and Acknowledgement May Day wrap-up National Declaration regarding the Helms-Burton law Project Fund-raising: Dream Circle – Children’s Theatre Project Next batch of Revolutionary Red Brigade promotion and information night – 11 June If you have any other agenda items or queries, please send them to: lachlan@acfs-brisbane.org.au |
The Decline and Fall of the US Dollar
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.… Go to Article
Vale Darce Cassidy from ‘the Long March’
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.… Go to Article
Jackie’s how-to-vote in 2019
This federal election is very hard because there are so many fascists on the electoral role. Plus the advertising is pretty dirty.… Go to Article
To Fan the Flames of Discontent
A funny thing happened on my way to the bank …
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.… Go to Article
Man seeks asylum away from Australia
The Federal Government was blindsided by the case of the first known refugee from Australia, who found asylum overseas on the grounds that authorities blew his cover as a crime gang informant then failed to protect him.… Go to Article
Zed boycotts Eurovision in Israel
Community Radio 4ZZZ boycotts Eurovision 2019 in Israel
4ZZZ has highlighted Palestinian issues since commencing broadcasting in 1975, and we have decided that covering the Contest as had been done in recent years would be inconsistent with our relationship with Palestinian Australians and others who support the #BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement and its goals of freedom and equality for all Palestine people in the Occupied Territories.… Go to Article
UQ Union complex is part of our heritage
Political activists, Forum attendees and stall holders, Schonell movie buffs, Cement Box dramatists, 4ZZZ supporters, student leaders and student followers, we need you!… Go to Article
Born Free
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.… Go to Article
May Day 2019
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.… Go to Article
More violence against Hazaras in Quetta
Martyrs of Otranto
Otranto Cathedral
The fall of Constantinople to the massed Ottoman armies of Sultan Mehmed II on 29th May 1453 was a cataclysmic event, signalling the beginning of a crisis in the western and Mediterranean world.… Go to Article
Data shows ‘Boom and Bust’ in Queensland
Recently WBT has been discussing Gross State Product, and what it means – particularly with respect to the mining industry in Queensland.… Go to Article
Pete Seeger
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 birthday, had he lived past the age of 94.… Go to Article
Brisbane anti-war movement says ‘Free Julian Assange’
Last Train to Mirabad… Go to Article
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?
Profile of a union organiser
In the lead up to the 2019 May Day celebrations we take a look at what it is like being a union organiser.… Go to Article