Author: Wildcat Wob
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On ALP deflection from crimes against humanity
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As the historical example of the Nazis shows, totalitarianism is characteristically deflective. Collective tantrums over the wheels falling off the bandwagon of endless upward mobility reject any concept of social responsibility as a matter or course, preferencing hiding behind freedom like cowards over standing in front of it and defending…
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Banks Stole Money From Dead People. Why Weren’t They Put Into Administration?
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Australia has one set of rules for white collar crime, and a whole other set of rules (and sanctions and penalties and public floggings) for blue collar crimes… particularly when a union is involved. Lawyer Alana Heffernan weighs in on the obvious hypocrisy. In the last week, officials of the…
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Reflecting reality or affecting it? Australian corporate media simps for genocide
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For the last 8 months, Murdoch papers like The Australian and Sky News have taken on the ridiculous task of labelling anybody who cares about the massacre of the Palestinians in Gaza as ‘antisemitic.’ So reader, do you want to hear about the father in Gaza holding the burnt body…
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We should unionise domesticity to combat domestic abusers collectively
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I worked at RMIT as a research assistant for 5 years, the link below is something I came across in my travels. My bosses at RMIT were all feminists; we were wearing our jaws on the floor reading this. ‘It is clear from these data on labour inputs that the…
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Movement Narcissism: A Warning and A Guide
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Narcissistic abuse is most often discussed in interpersonal relationships, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. However, I would venture that narcissistic abuse is not just contained to romantic relationships, but that narcissists find their platonic targets in social and group environments. Within progressive social movements, this is unfortunately true.…
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So You’ve Sexually Harassed Or Abused Someone: What Now?
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There is a path forward, past denial and scandal and shame. Are you a man who has been outed as a sexual harasser or abuser? Are you a man who is reading about all these rich and powerful men being brought down by their past transgressions and hoping and praying that…
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Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red-Green Vision
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Most approaches to Red and Green (labour and environmentalist) alliances have taken Marxian perspectives, to the exclusion of anarchism and libertarian socialism. Recent developments, however, have given voice to a “syndical ecology” or what some within the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) call “green syndicalism”. Green syndicalism highlights certain…
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The Syndicalist Platform for Indigenous Rights
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A transnational study of settler-colonialism, White Laborism and the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia and South Africa. This thesis considers the legal stasis triggered by the 2007 “Northern Territory National Emergency Response‟ and suggests clarification can be found in the historical precedent of settler-colonialism. Through a trans-national exploration…
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A Workers’ Guide to Direct Action
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Direct action is any form of activity that cripples the boss’ ability to make a profit and makes him/her cave in to the workers’ demands. The best known form of direct action is the strike, in which workers simply walk off their jobs and refuse to produce profits for the…
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Unpaid domestic care labour: Free market capitalism loves a handout
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Free-market capitalism can’t function without colossal subsidies from unpaid domestic care work We hear a lot about the superior virtues of the market economy, like independence and self-reliance. We are told about threats to these values from the politics of solidarity, mutual aid, sharing and co-operation over competition at the…
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Direct Action
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Emile Pouget was one of the most outstanding militants of the early French labour movement. Together with that of Fernand Pelloutier, his was a crucial influence at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries. “Direct Action … implies that the working class subscribes to notions of…
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Basic Syndicalism
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These texts are excerpts from a pamphlet published in 1998 by the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Anarcosindicalismo: Basico. The pamphlet is a training manual for new union members, to help them understand the CNT and how it functions. They first appeared in English in the…