Dear friend, SEARCH Foundation decided at its last AGM to make building an alliance against the Right our main political priority for this year. On the 7th of April at the Secure Jobs Green Future Conference Sydney there is a panel plenary session on strategies for the left to which I will contribute as SEARCH [...]
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How to struggle for more secure work
The Baiada strike: lessons in the struggle for more secure work by Chris White I invite analysis of the NUW win for more secure work for low-paid migrant workers in the Baiada Victorian chicken factory. Signposts are for strategic planning for union and left activists with workers to win against insecure work. 1. The union [...]
US workers: Wisconsin Uprising 2
2—Capitalist Crisis and the Wisconsin Uprising ANDREW SERNATINGER Following from the introduction of the book “Wisconsin Uprising Labor Fights” back edited by Michael D. Yates see http://chriswhiteonline.org/2012/09/us-workers-the-wisconsin-uprising/ Excerpts from chapter 2: “Throughout February and March of 2011, I couldn’t help but wonder if I were living in a folktale: in a flash tens of thousands [...]
On the US police state – shootings and protests
I am back from America:my notes include – the police state. From the US National Safety Council “Americans are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist” I was staying in LA and on the local TV one night was a live for over an hour on the [...]
Jobs and the right to strike
ACTU CONGRESS 2012 Sydney See http://www.actucongress.org.au/site/ ACTU CONGRESS Fringe Event Public meeting AUSTRALIAN JOBS AND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE Discussion and Drinks: Mark Lennon, Ged Kearney, Brian Boyd, Dean Mighell, Len Cooper & more… Time: 5.15pm – 6.15pm Date: Monday 14 May 2012 Where: Unions NSW Atrium, Trades Hall
Occupy and black bloc debate
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 [...]
The protester
“The protester 2011 in photos courtesy of the Murdoch press…worth a look.And in 2012 may the protests continue… http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/photo-gallery/gallery-e6frf94x-1226222780166?page=1″
Occupy and the waterfront
December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown Occupy and Class Struggle on the Waterfront by MIKE KING ‘On December 12th, the entire Occupy movement on the West Coast will blockade their respective ports to shut down “Wall Street on the Waterfront.” This is both an effort to build a mass social struggle in the US against [...]
US unions, immigrants occupy
Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements by David Bacon, Truthout. Oakland, California – When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp “Planton Seattle,” camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the [...]
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