Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
The Mass Arrests, the Security State and the Toronto G20 Summit Socialist Project The massive police presence in Toronto over this week has been officially justified on the basis of protecting the leaders of the G8 and G20 countries meeting in Huntsville and Toronto. We were told that the creation of the fenced-in fortress, the [...]
The challenge facing Julia Gillard http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2010/06/legacy-rudd-labor-and-challenge.html
Amnesty appeal on Iranian unionists in jail http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=701
See my earlier post on the Ark Tribe trial. Paddy Hill and Gerry Conlon are in Australia to give solidarity to CFMEU member Ark Tribe’s trial in Adelaide and have been touring Australia. At the rally they were very powerful, passionate speakers in defence of political prisoners and those who the law won’t protect. Remember [...]
Book preview of a left labour activist and a conviction politician. The Best Hated Man in Australia The Life and Death of Percy Brookfield 1875 – 1921 by Paul Robert Adams They don’t make politicians like ‘Jack’ Brookfield anymore. From mining underground in Broken Hill he ‘rose like a meteor in public life’ to be [...]
I add my support for the view that Rudd would have failed my ANU Introduction to Politics essay on the differences between the US Presidential and the Australian parliamentary political systems. Much academic literature explores the similarities and differences between the US/Australian/UK/European political systems. At the ANU, I was a sessional Politics tutor. Students debate [...]
Congratulations to Sharan Burrow on her election to head the global union movement 26 June, 2010 | Media Release Australian unions warmly congratulate ACTU President Sharan Burrow on her election as the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. http://www.ituc-csi.org/second-ituc-world-congress.html Ms Burrow was elected to head the global union body at its Congress in [...]
Not only does Abbott claim Rudd’s scalp, but so do the miners, and as claimed in SMH by Clive Palmer mining magnate. Who rules, the Gillard government or the Minerals Council? We shall see. Labour as well as left ANU political analyst Rick Kuhn in the Canberra Times argued the superprofitstax was for the benefit [...]
