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Strike debates

By on May 10, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control at the ACTU Congress 2012 by Chris White. Unionists need to organise for the right to strike, for the effective strike and for workers’ control. 1. Unions’ right to strike campaign is to repeal all Fair Work Act penal powers and for a ‘firewall’ protection for workers [...]

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May Day

By on April 30, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Social justice, Workers Rights

May Day is remembering socialist ideals – popular self-government and the economy run democratically by working producers to meet people’s needs and no more war. Chomsky on May Day http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/29-4 Photos May Day http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/may-day-2012-big-photo-galle.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/may/01/may-day-rallies-pictures Leo Panitch on May Day http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/MayDay.html The claiming of May 1 as a day for political protest grew out of [...]

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Australian Options

By on April 26, 2012 in Book Review, Environmental crisis

Australian Options no 68 Magazine started by the late Elliott Johnston QC We need new subscribers $20 per year CONTENTS 2 Editorial: Searching for a better socioeconomic system 3 Fair reforms for growth and prosperity to all Dr Cassandra Goldie 6 Recognising Australia’s Indigenous Peoples in the Constitution Professor George Williams FOCUS: The Murray-Darling Basin [...]

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ACTU Congress 2012

By on March 26, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Social justice, Unionism, Workers Rights

Save the date: ACTU Congress 2012: 15-17 May, Sydney 26 March, 2012 | Media Release Almost 1000 delegates representing workers from every industry and sector in Australia will attend the ACTU Congress at the Sydney Convention Centre from 15-17 May. This is the largest and most important gathering of Australian unions. Delegates will debate and [...]

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Kerin: Enough

By on March 9, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Unionism

Dave Kerin from the new community group Enough has helped run a daily picket outside Telstra’s Collins St office in Melbourne for the past three weeks. The picket is a protest against Telstra’s decision to send hundreds of jobs offshore. Kerin is also an activist with the Socialist Alliance. A speech Kerin gave at a [...]

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Bans for the barrier reef

By on March 8, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

In light of the current alarm about dredging and dumping in the Reef, it is worth recalling how it was saved by union action which is now illegal under the Fair Work Act. This interesting extract from Humphrey McQueen’s new book reminds us how important trade unions have been in protecting Qld coastline and the [...]

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Fair Work Act Review

By on February 15, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Labour Law, Right to Strike, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

Fair Work Act Review Submission by Chris White I recommended two changes for more secure work to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have a real right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a [...]

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Occupy and black bloc debate

By on February 13, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Occupy, US politics

Violence Begets Defeat or Too Much Pacifism? By Michael Albert Friday, February 10, 2012 from Z magazine “But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women [...]

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The job guarantee

By on February 9, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy

Professor Bill Mitchell’s power-point presentation at The Northern Institute CDU yesterday on how government’s can move towards full employment with the Job Guarantee.

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