Category: Solidarity
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Class War: The City of Moreton Bay vs The Homeless
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In Queensland, the City of Moreton Bay used to be known as the Moreton Bay Regional Council. It is less of a city, and more of a bureaucratic conglomeration of Bribie Island, Caboolture, Deception Bay and Redcliffe. All traditionally poorer outer-suburban working class areas north of Brisbane. This is a…
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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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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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Interview with Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of IndustriAll Europe about the Far Right winning in France.
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On 1st July 2024, the first round of elections to the French parliament resulted in the far right wing National Rally party winning 33% of the vote. This gives them the potential to form a government, if they are successful in the second round of voting. Eric Lee of Labour…
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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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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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Netanyahu’s noose strangled the idea of peace
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History has embedded specific powers into objects. Every fork and spoon has a story, and Museums are full of objects that played a significant part in societal change—the spear that pierced Jesus’ side, the rope that hung Ned Kelly and Dundalli. Superstitions and folklore surround objects and places involved in…
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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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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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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…