Category: Solidarity
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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…