Dutch PM likens Theresa May to Monty Python’s limbless knight: ‘She goes on and on‘ Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte used a Monty Python movie reference to describe Theresa May’s tenacity on Brexit despite repeated defeats.… Go to Article
Muslim Lives Matter
The Maori community performing a traditional Haka at the end of the service at the Islamic College Karawatha, paying respects for their fallen sisters and brothers from Christchurch.… Go to Article
Student Strike for Climate
On 15 March 2019 thousands of school kids marched down George Street Brisbane to demand Climate Action. These are the placards and chants that they made.… Go to Article
Save Deebing Creek
Principal Petitioner Gary Duffy from EAST IPSWICH has called for a Commission of Inquiry into Deebing Creek Mission sale to developers.… Go to Article
The Great Society
‘We’re not going to beat Big Money with more Big Money’
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
What political system does AOC propose we organise towards?… Go to Article
Chelsea Manning Jailed for Contempt

Chelsea Manning has been returned to jail for refusing to co-operate with US Grand Jury pursuing WikiLeaks+Julian Assange – who US/UK plan to Bury alive!… Go to Article
Local journo man-handled during visit by NSW Premier
Editor’s Note: Jim Beatson was a founding member of 4ZZZ, Australia’s first FM community radio station. Jim is out their still doing the business nearly 50 years later.… Go to Article
No Modern Slavery at Chemist Warehouse
Hard words rang
across the factory floor
Juan heard the sound of hate
bitter words to injure
a shout that sent the signal
for the war to come
– ‘Brisbane Barrio’ by Jumping Fences

Disparity between rich and poor is growing.… Go to Article
Sins of the Centre
Turning and turning in the widening gyre… Go to Article
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ...
Dissent: The Student Press in 1960s Australia
Australia, no country for revolutionaries

Review: No Country for Revolutionaries: Italian Communists in Sydney 1971-1991: Their Activities, Policies and Liaison with the Italian and Australian Communist Parties.… Go to Article
Emma Miller Place to be closed?
In a corner of Emma Miller Place (Roma Street Forum) is a plaque that was laid in March 2016 after the murder of Eunji Ban nearby on the steps of Wickham Park on 23 November 2013.… Go to Article
Venezuela’s economic collapse is financial
In his critique of Chavismo in Venezuela, Chomsky claims that the Venezuelan government did not diversify its economy and failed to keep sufficient reserves when the price of oil was high.… Go to Article
Cuba fights climate change
Cuba has become the latest country to enshrine the fight against climate change in its constitution — provoking a mixed response from the scientific community.… Go to Article
When Israel’s Black Panthers found common cause with Palestinians
Gila learned about the Nakba long before she was ever introduced to her own history with Israel.
“I learned more about the Nakba from Israeli liberals than what they were willing to tell me about what Jews did to Jews, because they were all a part of it,” the 30-year-old Mizrahi Jew of Iranian descent said.… Go to Article
Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima
Solidarity with the Women of Cuba: International Women’s Day 2019
Women from the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society marched in solidarity with the women of Cuba in the Brisbane International Women’s Day Rally and March, held on Saturday 9th March.… Go to Article
IWD Brisbane/Meanjin 2019
Thanks to Lachlan Hurse (NTEU) for capturing International Women’s Day 2019 in Brisbane/Meanjin in pictures.
The fight for the future of union seafaring in Australia

| LISTEN NOW The fight for the future of union seafaring in Australia: Part 1 The shipping industry and conservative governments have been systematically manipulating laws so that bosses can fire their MUA seafarers, and directly employ non-union seafarers from south-east Asia. |
Women fight to end exploitation, inequality, violence and imperialist war
The 2019 International Working Women’s Day throws a powerful spotlight on working women’s lives and struggles in a period of global resistance to the increasing burdens and exploitation of capitalism and US imperialist interventions, invasions and coups.… Go to Article
IWD Fundraiser: ‘So, which band is your boyfriend in?’
Palm Sunday Rally for Peace and Refugees
JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES
PEACE NOT WAR
BRING THEM HERE
Speakers include:
Aran Mylvaganam, co-founded Tamil Council of Australia
Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer, Griffith University
Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens
Join us on Palm Sunday to stand up for refugees.… Go to Article
Swim for the Reef – revisited

Join the Wello Pointers Team
Sunday, 10 March – 9:30am
We are inviting you to be either a swimmer or supporter for the Environmental Defenders Office Qld’s (EDO Qld) fundraising effort called SWIM for the REEF.… Go to Article
On the basis of sex
In the lead up International Women’s Day 2019 Dendy has put on this excellent film about one of the victories of the women’s movement, in this case, that women should not be discriminated against in their employment on the basis of their sex.… Go to Article
‘Will no one rid me of this meddling priest’? – Paul Keating
There is a thought that has haunted me for a long time … it is to portray a wholly good man.… Go to Article
The future of labour is female
Cleaners and carers fight together in French protests

Romain Lafabregue · AFP · Getty
Women have put on yellow vests and joined the demonstrations, women who double-shift domestically and at work to keep the creaking social state going for modest wages, as nurses, home care assistants, nursery workers and cleaners, usually out of sight, in the background.… Go to Article
School Strike 4 Climate
Yellow vests don’t do politics
‘We debated for hours and decided nothing’

The weekly meeting in Branceilles (1) was starting as I arrived.… Go to Article
Armistice Day, making the world safe for Big Oil
11 November: Armistice Day
Or, Making the World Safe for Big Oil
The guns fell silent on the Western Front at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month while they continued to blaze on the Eastern Front, in the Far East and – above all – throughout the Middle East as they still do.… Go to Article
The Australian Green(s’) New Deal
The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place in Unit 6, at 20 Drury St, West End, at 7 pm on Wednesday the 6th of March. … Go to Article










