You can now access many of the presentations from the Secure Jobs in a Green Future Conference held in Sydney on April 6 and 7 on the Search website http://www.search.org.au/projects/national-conference-2013-secure-jobs-in-a-green-future and by visiting the SEARCH Foundation youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchFoundation1 Read the Conference resolution here on Uniting the Left http://chriswhiteonline.org/2013/04/unite-left/ Read Australian Options On-Line digest [...]
Further discussions on socialism
More from Lebowitz.A discussion on socialism Extracts: The effects of overaccumulation have been felt particularly in the United States, the European Union and all the old centers of capital. But is this a crisis of capitalism as a whole? Not if you look at China, India, Brazil and many other new centers of capital. Rather, [...]
Good budget
What you won’t see in the Budget, unfortunately – from Professor Bill Mitchell. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=23752 This is my Fantasy Budget 2013-14, which will be part of Crikey’s Budget coverage leading up to the delivery of the Federal Budget on May 14, 2013. This blog is relatively short and more or less within the constraints I was [...]
On the community assembly
Dave Kerin, veteran unionist, discusses ‘Community Assemblies’ with Chris White. CW: Good to talk to you. Your Enough! speech on Telstra was good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WMIvYGqhX4 DK: Thanks, people respond to Enough! CW: Union discussions about our rights to organise with Abbott as PM are central. I campaign on the lack of our right to strike and [...]
McQueen at May Day
May Day, 2013 Canberra at Woden Tradies, speech by Humphrey McQueen. A month ago, Megalo workshop asked me to launch a book celebrating its thirty-three years of poster and print-making. Megalo had been set-up during 1979-80 as part of Jobless Action. At the time, under Fraser, youth unemployment in the ACT was around twenty percent. [...]
Abbott’s IR
As we know it matters little what Abbott actually promotes in his announced IR policy, but what the corporate lobbyists will, as they did with WorkChoices, enforce when Abbott is PM. This blog has much criticism of Howard/Abbott’s anti-union policies and laws. Update Ten reasons you can’t trust Tony Abbott at work http://robertcorr.com/abbott-industrial-relations/ Here is [...]
Hong Kong Dockers Claim Victory
Hong Kong waterfront workers win. Here is the background to the dispute http://chriswhiteonline.org/2013/04/hong-kong-dockworkers-strike/ Update: The victory, to my mind, is that casualized workers of multiple sub-contractors organized themselves against one of the world’s most powerful oligarchs, and held out for 40 days. No matter what the financial settlement (considerably less than their starting demand), the [...]
May Day 2013
1. From Darwin Northern Territory Australia May Day Dinner • 7pm Saturday 4 May at Darwin Railway Sports and Social Club Parap. Guest Speaker Dr Chris Burns, 200 tickets at $50 per head are available from Darwin Railway Sports and Social Club Parap phone 08 8981 4171. Support APHEDA buy raffle tickets • Union Awards [...]
Grocon OHS? & OHS International Memorial Day april 28th
GROCON SAFETY RALLY – Melbourne The B.I.G. Unions are conducting a rally and march regarding the developing and unsatisfactory situations concerning safety on Victorian building sites. Location: Swanston St, at Grocon Wall, opposite CFMEU Date: Tues April 30 Time: 10:00am Bring: Flags http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC9kLUVwBZY http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protest-brings-city-to-a-standstill-20130430-2ipwo.html Update Protest brings city to a standstill April 30, 2013 – [...]
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