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May Day Unions NT

By on April 26, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Social justice, Timor-Leste, Unionism, Workers Rights

May Day 2012 Unions NT Magazine Unions_NT MayDay 2012

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Politics: Winner take all

By on April 21, 2012 in Book Review, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Social justice, US politics

Winner-take-all politics 20 February, 2012 – 12:51 Frank Stilwell Concern with economic inequality is making a modest political comeback. Barrack Obama has made it a recurrent feature in his speeches, while Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has copped flak for saying he is more concerned with the broad middle class than the very rich or [...]

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Reviving the strike

By on April 20, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, US politics, Workers Rights

‘Reviving the strike’ Book review http://evatt.org.au/news/reviving-strike.html

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TL Presidential elections

By on April 11, 2012 in Social justice, Timor-Leste

My opinion piece on Presidential elections in Timor Leste, most democratic. Remember we have an inherited Queen of England as our Head of State and we rejected an elected President! http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13488

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Caterpillar lock-out

By on April 11, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Unionism, Workers Rights

The Electro-Motive Lockout and Non-Occupation: What did we lose? What can we learn? Herman Rosenfeld Along with everything else, the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath created new openings and potentials for working people in the struggle against neoliberalism. A number of struggles initially opened up, including factory occupations, efforts to defend pensions and the [...]

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We Built this Country

By on April 10, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

SYDNEY BOOK LAUNCH “WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY BUILDERS’ LABOURERS AND THEIR UNIONS 1787 TO THE FUTURE” by Humphrey McQueen The book should be compulsory reading for new and old union officers and organisers; it will certainly challenge them to decide whether they are workers’ representatives or ‘workplace relations practitioners’. Howard Guille, former secretary of the [...]

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Rethinking the China campaign

By on April 9, 2012 in China

The Vancouver & District Labour Council session with Elaine Bernard from Harvard University on March 24th went very well with a good turnout and discussion. A number of people unable to attend wondered if there were handouts or if it was videotaped. The nature of the session was a conversation so it wasn’t recorded, but [...]

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Capitalist restoration in China and fall of Bo Xilai more

By on April 8, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, China, Social justice, Workers Rights

Dramatic events are unfolding as China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition gets underway. A serious schism in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top ranks has come into full public view – something unprecedented since the mass anti-government protests of 1989. Bo Xilai, standard-bearer of the neo-Maoist “new left”, has been dismissed as provincial party chief of Chongqing.

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Workers’ Control

By on April 6, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

“Ours to Master and to Own Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present” edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket Books, 2011) Review by Chris White This excellent series of essays is essential reading for anti-capitalist activists and all those who know that we do not need our bosses. Occupiers at night can [...]

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