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Traditionally, left politics have been based on collective action to challenge, and if possible, transcend structural injustice and systemic inequality. On this count, working class left politics stands in stark contrast to middle class liberalism, which has always understood progress in terms of individualism and upward class mobility; progress is…

By Jade Ingham When Australia’s Labor government overrode union rights — and justice — to place the construction union under administration, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese thought he’d played a trump card. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tens of thousands of union members and supporters of the Construction, Forestry and…

“SIX WAYS TO DO POTATOES” IS WHAT HE SAID TO ME PAT MENZ 24 NOVEMBER 1988 Toowoomba singer song-writer poet. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! All up! All up! The call rang out along the chain.  That was the call to let us know that there was trouble somewhere in the meatworks.…