Links
Links
- LabourStart International union news and campaigns
Labourstart is where many union activists refer to for union news across the world. i recommend eric lee’s Solidarity alerts to join email campaigns against the repression of union activists by corporations and governments
- ACTU
ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions all the workplace and social issues, campaigns and union contacts.
- APHEDA Union Aid Abroad ACTU’s humanitarian aid agency
Is it fair that millions of workers, often women and children, all over the world are forced to work against their will?
- Your Rights at Work Worth Fighting For
YRAW campaign is to ensure new rights for workers and their unions to be able to defend and improve occupational. social and economic interests.
- Rights on Site
The unions campaign to abolish Howard’s repressive Building Industry Act and the ABCC.
- Amnesty International Australia
Fighting for human rights and freedoms
- Unions ACT
Canberra unions campaigns and actions
- Unions NSW
NSW unions campaigns and actions.
- Queensland Council of Unions
Queensland unions campaigns and actions.
- SA Unions
SA unions campaigns and actions.
- Unions TAS
Tasmanian unions campaigns and actions.
- Victorian Trades Hall Council
Victorian unions news and activities
- Victorian union campaigns
Victorian union campaigns
- Unions WA
WA unions activities and campaigns
- ITUC
International Trade Union Confederation President Sharan Burrow
- The International Centre for Trade Union Rights
International Trade Union Issues magazine worth subscribing to
- Union Education and Campaign Centre
Education and campaign support for unions
- Health and Safety in Australia
ACTU OHS unit for OHS prevention. See the Union Charter of Workplace rights for OHS and Workers Compensation
- Australian Institute of Employment Rights AIER
The AIER is an independent body formed by respected professionals involved in industrial relations. See new magazine The debate. The government should do more for fairness for workers engaged
- Evatt Foundation
The Evatt Foundation is the Australian labour movement’s leading policy research organisation.It is named in honour of one of the Australian labour movement’s great statesmen. See new book The State of Industrial Relations
- ALP
Australian Labor Party All the polices, what the Rudd government is doing, subscribe to the e-news, po
- Greens Rachel Siewart
Greens policies and actions on workers rights, Senate Inquiry into the ABCC
- Constructing Fear on Building Sites
Film DVD on Australia’s Star Chamber against building and construction workers standing up for their right to strike
- Australian Options
Left magazine on politics from Adelaide
- Political Economy
Australian Journal of Political Economy see no 56 on WorkChoices
- Superannuation Industry Funds
IFF Industry Funds forum on Superannuation
- Statewide superannuation
I was a founding Trustee and Director of SA’s Statewide Superannuation.
- Australian Conservation Foundation
Don Henry on the environment and ACF policies and actions
- Greenpeace
Activism direct action events
- ACOSS
Australian Council of Social Services. peak social justice organisation, submissions and actions.
- AFTINET
Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network criticises ‘free trade’ deals
- Monthly Review
US left analysis of politics and economics
- Don Dunstan Foundation
Social justice and politics from South Australia
- Steve Keen’s Oz Debtwatch
Finance economist analyses our debt problems
- Economist John Quiggin
Economist John Quiggin social democracy and analysis
- SIGTUR
Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights
- International Labor Rights Forum
ILRF advocates just and humane treatment of workers worldwide
- Global Labor Strategies
Global labor Strategies has good reports and analysis on global labor challenges
- Australian East Timor Friendship Association South Australian
As long-term supporter of East Timor and activist and now Patron AEFTA
- Catalyst
Catalyst is here to organise policy renewal and vision across the progressive left in Australia.
- Progressive Democrat Alliances for America’s Future
The Campaign for America’s Future is the strategy center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity and equal opportunity that our country was meant to be.
- Stand Up for the Burrup
Friends of Australian Rock Art campaign to save 30,000 year old rock paintings from capitalist development
- Search Foundation
The SEARCH Foundation seeks to contribute to efforts to develop a new collective and strategic set of values and ideas and a new collective political practice for a 21st Century alternative to capitalism.
- U.S. Labor Against the War
Strong anti-Iraq war movement campaings news and analysis with U.S. Unions support
- Labor Tribune
Politics and left analysis
- Humphrey McQueen
Freelance labour historian Humphrey McQueen’s writings. See his new history of OHS and the BLF
- Ozleft
Ozleft is an independent forum of strategy, tactics and history in the Australian left, green and labour movements.
- Money Free Zone
Money Free Zone Compact a bold idea for a sustainable future
- LASNET
Latin America Solidarity network, analysis and news and events
- Graham F Smith Peace Trust
In Adelaide i was a Trustee Now nearly 20 years old Working for peace through the arts
- Surplus value
Australian Marxian network
- Unite
Unite low paid union activists
- Dissent
promotes vigorous discussion on public policy
- US Talking Union
US talking union network for democratic socialists in America
- ON LINE opinion
Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate
- Get Up
national independent online political movement for a progressive Australia see the People’s Agenda for the new Parliament-social justice,sustainable environment and economic fairness
- Anti Nuclear
news and action in Australia and overseas anti-nuclear
- Friends of the Earth
FOE actions policies and news
- Serve the people
marxist lenist politcs and more
- Larvatus Prodeo
Social and political current analysis
- Change to Win
US change to win unions essential information on US unions and workers rights and the US election campaign
- AFL-CIO
US unions on workers rights and the US election
- Arena magazine
Left analysis of politics and social and cultural commentary
- Unions NT
Combined unions in NT
- Unions second life
This is a blog to help co-ordinate the Union Island project in Second Life. A number of trade union organisations from around the world are coming together to set up a home for unionists and union issues in the virtual world Second Life.
- Jobs with Justice
US movement jobs with justice for job security, organising labour and workers rights
- Academic freedom
NTEU’s campaign for academic freedom is essential
- Canadian dimension
Canadian socialists
- World Social Forum
World Social Forum meets annually combining alternative social justice activist groups from all over the world
- War on want
UK Campaign of war on want to make global corporations pay tax
- UK Fabians
Fabians arguing that fairness does not happen by chance
- End UK child poverty
Campaign to end one in three children in poverty
- End child poverty in the UK
One in three children in the UK are in poverty
- Compass
Compass is the centre-left progressive group in the British Labour Party
- Left Focus
New blog by left social democrat Tristan Ewins
- COFFEE Centre of Full Employment and Equity
Professor Bill Mitchell on the job guarantee and full employment
- Bill Mitchell billy blog
Professor Bill Mitchell on the job guarantee and full employment
- Friends of Palestine
Australians support for Palestine
- Chavez and the Venezuela struggle
Solidarity with the Venezuela revolution
- Socialist Worker UK
Anti-capitalist UK reports
- US campaign for Employee Free Choice Act
The truth about the US Free Choice Act
- Fair Work campaign
The campaign for fair work continues despite the Fair Work Act sell-out
- Beyond Right and Left
Assoc Prof David McKnight Beyond Right and Left
- New unionism
New Unionism is unions setting agendas, rather than just reacting. This network unites supporters of four key principles: organizing, workplace democracy, internationalism and creativi
- Progressive governance
From Chile access to interesting references on the global financial crisis
- China Labor Bulletin
Hong Kong based Labor Bulletin on workers’ rights in China
- Alex White
Alex White Melbourne activist on politics and life
- Labor Environment Action Network
Grass roots ALP activists campaign on the environment crisis
- The Climate Institute
Research, educate and action on climate change
- Centre for Policy Development
Progressive Policy thinktank
- Work Life campaign
Work Life is an alliance of groups and activists to reform the workplace and welare.l
- Spirit of Eureka
For a just democratic and sovereign Australia
- Climate Action Canberra
Environmental action groups in Canberra
- SP Socialist Party
Socialist Party in Australia
- Australia Asia Worker links
Campaigning and solidarity with asian worker struggles
- Safe Climate Australia
New research and activist group on climate
- Critical consciousness
Radical teachers analysis
- The Red Wombat
Radical political blog
- Save our schools
Save our schools argues for equity in education
- Jubilee Australia – drop the debt
Campaign to eradicate extreme poverty and injustice – drop the debt
- Creative Unions
This site is an experiment in bringing together unionists to strengthen our collective knowledge and skills in communication strategies and design.
- AVAAZ
Web based world action
- Saving Aussie books
Campaign to protect the rights of Australian authors
- COWS
COWS is a national policy center and field laboratory for high-road economic development — a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable US democratic government.
- COSATU
Congress of South African Trade Unions
- Birch politics
Politics workers compensation
- National Film and Sound Archives
NFSA great collection of films and screenings in Canberra
- Green Institute
Green New Deal conference and environment research
- Labor first bloggers
Labor first bloggers
- Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition
Anti war activities
- Australian Peace Committee SA
Anti-war activities
- Stand Up Against Poverty
Make poverty history campaigns
- Socialist world
Committee for a Workers International
- Union renewal
Union renewal
- Radio 3CR Melbourne
Community radio
- The Australia Institute
Reseach from the progressive Australia Institute
- Australian Civiv Trust Water Action Coalition
Water Action Coalition (WAC) – A Sustainable Water Future without compomising the health of interdependent ecosystems
- Union Climate Connectors
ACTU and ACF climate connectors
- Inspirational cinema
Inspirational Cinema is in the business of creating and facilitating innovative and inspirational programs that explore personal, professional, social, cultural and environmental values through the use of traditional, digital and social media.
- Socialist Project
Canadian website socialist project
- Socialist Project
Canadian website socialist project
- Ark's Tribe
Ark’s Tribe Blogsite on struggle against ABCC
- Working Group for Aboriginal Rights
Working Group for Aboriginal Rights
- CLNT China Labor News
China Labor News Translations
- Maquila Solidarity
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labour and women’s rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life.
- Safety at Work
Safety at Work blog
- 350 organisation on the environmental crisis
Environmental action
- 350.org
Environmental action for 350
- Union Climate connectors – ACTU and ACF
Union and environmentalists Climate Connectors
- Communist Wombat
Left blog
- 21st century socialism
21st century socialism
- Union Communication Services
Books, information, activities from US union communication services
- Education for our future
Teachers AEU promote public education
- Clean Energy Jobs
Campaign for clean energy jobs
- Clean Energy Jobs
Campaign for clean energy jobs
- Journalist John Pilger
John Pilger’s reporting
- Socialist Alliance Voices
Socialist Alliance Voices
- Free West Papua
Free West Papua
- Red Pepper
Progressive UK magazine and blog
- Australian Civic Trust
Campaigns on water, River Murray
- Global Labour column
Global Labour University
- Climate Action Centre
Climate Action Centre
- Z communications
Resistance lives.
Contributors
- Left Focus
New blog by left social democrat Tristan Ewins
