Category: Australia
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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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Legitimacy vs Aus-ROC
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Unfortunately as of July 2024, South-East Queensland IWW (SEQLD IWW) is in dispute with Australian Region Organising Committee IWW (Aus-ROC). SEQLD IWW have followed proper process, filed formal complaints that remain unanswered, while being on the receiving end of various of public misleading posts. So unfortunately we find it necessary…
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Touch One Touch All
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Touch One Touch All Last May Day in Toowoomba there were discussions amongst the Labor Day committee as to whether the CFMEU should march next to the 16-person bagpipe band, as their chants were drowning out the bagpipes last year. One thing is for sure in Toowoomba, and that is…
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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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Labour Day March Toowoomba and Flag Raising Ceremony
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The Labour Day March in Toowoomba was held on Saturday, 4 May 2024. It began with the Flag Raising Ceremony in Ruthven Park to remember all the workers who have died on the job. The Eureka Stockade Flag flew at half mast until after a minute silence was observed, and…
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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…