Why WBT?

Workers BushTelegraph is primarily for original articles, original news, stories you can’t read elsewhere, original verse, original pictures, videos and music.

We will not publish racist or anti-worker sentiments.

We do not seek ‘balance’ in reporting when it favours the wealthy and powerful, the bigoted or the sectarian — readers will have to go to the mass media for that.

Workers BushTelegraph publishes stories, articles, poems, music, songs, videos relating mainly to three questions, they are:

1. The Master/servant relationship. The power of boss over worker. We are on the side of the worker over the boss. More can be found out about this at the LeftPress Website – After the Waterfront – the workers are quiet
2. The struggle of indigenous people for land rights and social justice in Australia. We favour the return of land to first nations people and where that is no longer possible we support equality and social justice for the first nations people everywhere.
3. The role of government. What enterprises should government own and run. Why and how? We support a public sector under worker control.

Workers BushTelegraph has been going in one form or another since the early 1990s. It is primarily for original articles, original news, stories you can’t read elsewhere, original verse, original pictures, videos and music. Author’s names always appear at the end of their article.

The purpose of Workers BushTelegraph
“Working people of all countries, unite
Side by side we for freedom will fight
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain” — Joe Hill

Workers BushTelegraph is a website for workers and their organisations. It discusses current and past events, books and film with the aim of promoting worker political organisation.

Each week WBT publishes a feature article that must be an unpublished original work. If you wish to submit an article, poem, video, cartoon please contact the editor.

We are currently looking for reports on current issues of your choice to be published on Workers Telegraph in the Features section (above) each week.

Click images (below) to read features published so far this year.

Ian Curr
Editor
+61 407 687 016
workersbushtelegraph@gmail.com

Place a link to Workers BushTelegraph on your website — http://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/

This website is dedicated to rank and file unionists.

One such worker was Vern Sunfords who died in May 2006 at age 65.

Vern came up with the name BushTelegraph and what is more put it into practice, circulating BushTelegraph on his employer’s intranet for many years. For Vern, Bush Telegraph was an underground publication for workers.

We are not so sure but we are careful what we publish to make sure it cannot harm workers. If you wish to discuss submission of articles, photos, cartoons, reviews, videos etc please phone or email Workers Bush Telegraph at the address below.

Our aims are less clear, they depend on what decisions workers wish to make about our future.

We look to our contributors for some direction with how Workers BushTelegraph is organised.

Comments are welcome.

Contact: Ian (Editor)
Email: workersbushtelegraph@gmail.com
Web: Workers Bush Telegraph