In Australia – No Right to Strike Qantas lockout, Nurses denied justice! Tuesday 6.30pm 28 February Socialist Alliance Public Meeting Resistance Centre Level 5, 407 Swanston St Melbourne City (opposite RMIT) Paul Gilbert, Asst Secretary, Australian Nursing Federation Baiada Chicken Factory Worker, 2011 strike participant Len Cooper, CEPU – Telecommunications State Secretary & founder of [...]
Canberra forum on strikes
Canberra: Strikes and the Right to Strike Forum 1pm Friday 24th February 2012 Place: Unions ACT Training room at 189 Flemington Rd, Mitchell Chris White reports on strikes and the right to strike for the Forum discussion. The National Right to Strike Campaign 2012 Unions resolve to ensure the Fair Work Act become ILO International [...]
Invading East Timor
Who really invaded East Timor in World War II by Clinton Fernandes posted by Jose Teixeira http://www.facebook.com/jteixeira.timor.leste/posts/3332701680568
Global Stagnation and China
Global Stagnation and China By John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney February 2012 — Monthly Review Five years after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–09 began there is still no sign of a full recovery of the world economy. Consequently, concern has increasingly shifted from financial crisis and recession to slow growth or stagnation, [...]
Protest Apple
From GetUp Our friends at SumOfUs are leading this global campaign to hold Apple’s treatment of its workers to the same high standards Apple demands of its products. Working conditions are terrible for the people who make, by hand, each and every gadget Apple sells. In extreme cases, people are literally dying while doing their [...]
Alcock on OHS
ARK TRIBE, THE ABCC & THE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS IN OHS&W by Andy Alcock Introduction I was asked by the members of the Eco Socialist Convergence in South Australia to prepare a pamphlet about the struggles by the union movement to have the most effective OHS&W laws in Australia to protect workers from death, disease and [...]
World without nuclear weapons
Follow the campaign Global Zero for a world without nuclear weapons. http://www.globalzero.org/en/about-campaign
Apple – conditions in China
This blog has followed the international concern about the conditions for workers in China assembling Apple products. Support this petition. Put China into my search http://sumofus.org/campaigns/ethical-iphone/?sub=fb
Why Darwin was bombed
From Rob Wesley-Smith 19th February 2012 is also the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Timor by Japanese forces. I hope Xanana knows this. Is ETimor commemorating this event which led to 50-60,000 ETimorese deaths ! At least the Japs didn’t burn the infrastructure down when they left/were forced out. I battled all last year [...]
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