to one and all the next meeting of the Sydney IWW is SAT 15th Sept 3pm Petersham bowling club, lots to get involved in, Dominos Pizza campaignr to start with. For info contact iww-sydney-gmb@iww.org.au |
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the Sydney branch will havr special meeting July 7th to discuss up coming ballot iotems. At our usual haunt Petersham Bowling and community club 3pm sharp. |
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Hi, Looking for antifascists around Canberra who are up to taking the immigration fight to the streets and lumping it back on the pollies. Contact here, antifaoz @ Libcom, deathdwarf@hotmail, punksitu77@gmail or annihilating angel on fb. cheers. |
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Gomeroi tribal people in the Moree area have been advised by their clans to stop paying rent for houses they live in as part of an assertion of sovereignty. |
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The sordid details of Craig Thomson and the Health Services Union affair reflect an institutional failure in the relationship between the ALP and the union movement that created it in the 1890s, and which has sustained it ever since. |
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The vibrant Sydney branch has it's next branch meeting and social this coming Saturday, 21st April at 3pm down stairs at the Petersham bowling club, every one is welcome and we promiss it is never boring and always a good catch up after in the bar. Contact Alex for more info sydneywobs@gmail.com |
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The Sydney General Membership Branch of the IWW is holding a concert and fund raiser on Friday the 13th April, at the Petersham Bowling Club in inner Sydney, kicks off at 7pm, list of local bands and the club has good food and drinks, For more go to |
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written with other FWs and comrades, for distribution at USYD:
The beginning of the university year, with students returning and classes beginning is a time when all parts of campus seem to swing into full gear. And while this is certainly the case in terms of undergraduate courses - which do provide the bulk of the student body - this appearance is not exactly the reality. For staff reading this, you will know that work continues even through the quieter summer months.General staff in campus infrastructure continue to maintain and upgrade facilities, the libraries remain open with staff doing their best to ensure all is ready for the return of students, ground staff are still required to ensure the upkeep of the university, administration staff have to process a new round of enrolments. These are just a few examples of the variety of roles of general staff within Sydney Uni. On top of this, there is of course the academic staff who continue research work as well as preparation of courses for the new semester over summer.
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Haw! You've got to hand it to Freddy...." and almost each particular section of the possessing class has its representatives in each of the two parties to a very large degree". What a guy! And today, we on the left with our Zeitgeists and populist rants about the Fed, supporting all kinds of nationalisms and very little, if any, class analysis, hear a voice from the past making a class analysis which brings clarity to the mess we're in: the rule of Capital. The bourgeois democratic electoral system is, of course, rigged to produce a consistent result: the continued rule of Capital. Reforms are modifications of this rule, to be sure; but they don't change the basic social relation based on the continued political servility of the working class i.e. wage labour. And as long as people like Engels can be put in the 'out of date' box, we'll have, "contempt for all theory....and be... |
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My impression is that the general purpose of private healthcare in Australia is to give the purchaser the right to jump the queue. The effect is to put the poor at the end of the line for healthcare. This is an example of the lack of morality which bourgeois individualism is based on: my freedom is your unfreedom and it's all tied up with commodification of need i.e. putting a price on human life. The commodity barrier is also key in keeping those without wealth away from political power and giving access to the political ears that be to the likes of Twiggy Forrest, Gina Reinhardt and their ilk. |
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