Category: Australia
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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…