Direct Action – Winter 2012

Download Direct Action – Winter 2012 here: DAWinter2012-web.

Direct Action – Winter 2012

Download Direct Action – Winter 2012 here: DAWinter2012-web.

The Meeting: A Democratic Satire

We’ve all been there. Kahtia Lontis tells it like it all too often is. “Rolf, I am going slightly insane here,” Tibi said through her fingers, which were pressed against her face in exasperation. “Never mind that now, I’ve almost

The Meeting: A Democratic Satire

We’ve all been there. Kahtia Lontis tells it like it all too often is. “Rolf, I am going slightly insane here,” Tibi said through her fingers, which were pressed against her face in exasperation. “Never mind that now, I’ve almost

Wob Creative Corner

Occupy I’ve seen the power concentrated in the top 1% While the other 99% who got fucked are left In the dust through thuggery, corruption, corporate greed, and Dodging taxes, profit expectation, power/fortune seeking Control the world’s governments whilst making

Wob Creative Corner

Occupy I’ve seen the power concentrated in the top 1% While the other 99% who got fucked are left In the dust through thuggery, corruption, corporate greed, and Dodging taxes, profit expectation, power/fortune seeking Control the world’s governments whilst making

The Fremantle Lumpers’ Union

The Fremantle Lumpers’ Union The Fremantle Lumpers’ Union (F.L.U.), was the first known union of unskilled labour in Western Australia. It was formed in 1889 after a recruiting mission to the west by the Adelaide Lumpers’ Union and was inspired,

The Fremantle Lumpers’ Union

The Fremantle Lumpers’ Union The Fremantle Lumpers’ Union (F.L.U.), was the first known union of unskilled labour in Western Australia. It was formed in 1889 after a recruiting mission to the west by the Adelaide Lumpers’ Union and was inspired,

Zanon: Workers Control in Action

The theory and practise of economic democracy has gained new ground through the establishment of workers’s control at the Zanon (or FaSinPat) tile factory in Argentina. Franca Moretto reports. The concept of industrial democracy is broad in practice, but as

Zanon: Workers Control in Action

The theory and practise of economic democracy has gained new ground through the establishment of workers’s control at the Zanon (or FaSinPat) tile factory in Argentina. Franca Moretto reports. The concept of industrial democracy is broad in practice, but as

Occupy: From the Streets to the Factories

In the contemporary era of collapse, where corporate institutions as financially valuable as entire countries crumble, leaving world economies in their wake, the notion of occupation indicates a similar, yet in some ways different perspective to those of time’s past.

Occupy: From the Streets to the Factories

In the contemporary era of collapse, where corporate institutions as financially valuable as entire countries crumble, leaving world economies in their wake, the notion of occupation indicates a similar, yet in some ways different perspective to those of time’s past.

Terra Nullius: In response to incredible density

Terra Nullius (or ‘Land belonging to none’) is the legal fiction utilised to sweep the historical theft from and dispossession of indigenous people in the process of establishing the Australian state under the rug. Shilo Harrison examines it here in more

Terra Nullius: In response to incredible density

Terra Nullius (or ‘Land belonging to none’) is the legal fiction utilised to sweep the historical theft from and dispossession of indigenous people in the process of establishing the Australian state under the rug. Shilo Harrison examines it here in more

Neoliberalism shifts into high gear at La Trobe

Towards the end of June, La Trobe University in Melbourne’s northern subrubs announced plans for massive cuts to the humanities department, including the loss of 45 full-time positions, the reduction of available majors from 29 to 13 and the abolition

Neoliberalism shifts into high gear at La Trobe

Towards the end of June, La Trobe University in Melbourne’s northern subrubs announced plans for massive cuts to the humanities department, including the loss of 45 full-time positions, the reduction of available majors from 29 to 13 and the abolition

TAFE: The Right to Education Under Attack

Massive cuts to TAFE funding in Victoria signal another front opening in the class war against the rights and interests of the many in the name of serving the economic privileges of the few. Aron Micallef reports. An ideological offensive

TAFE: The Right to Education Under Attack

Massive cuts to TAFE funding in Victoria signal another front opening in the class war against the rights and interests of the many in the name of serving the economic privileges of the few. Aron Micallef reports. An ideological offensive

Around our Union

US Federal Judge Finds Jimmy John’s Guilty Of Illegal Firings of IWW members. A federal judge has ordered Jimmy John’s to reinstate six workers fired by franchise owners Mike and Rob Mulligan over a year ago for blowing the whistle on company

Around our Union

US Federal Judge Finds Jimmy John’s Guilty Of Illegal Firings of IWW members. A federal judge has ordered Jimmy John’s to reinstate six workers fired by franchise owners Mike and Rob Mulligan over a year ago for blowing the whistle on company