Archive for 'Resistance'
Union organising is not a crime: Support Johnny Lomax
Posted by John, August 3rd, 2015 - under Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Resistance, Union rights, Unions.
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CFMEU building union Canberra organiser Johnny Lomax has been arrested. His crime? Negotiating and securing improvements in working conditions and wages for union members. This is a direct attack from the Abbott Government on our ability to protect our wages and our safety at work. We will be gathering outside the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday at 8.40 am to cheer Johnny on in solidarity as he enters to face these malicious and outrageous charges. See you there. If you are in Canberra or nearby come along to support a union which actually fights for its members and help stop this blatant attack on unions and their ability to organise.
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Is electing socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the British Labour Party the way to beat austerity?
Posted by John, July 29th, 2015 - under British Labour Party, Fighting back, Jeremy Corbyn, Reform, Resistance, Revolution.
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The support for Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign is a very good sign but British Labour isn’t the answer, argues Charlie Kimber, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Socialist Worker UK
A letter to disillusioned Labor Party supporters
Posted by John, July 25th, 2015 - under ALP, Asylum seekers, Australian Labor Party, Fighting back, Refugees, Resistance, Sellouts, Socialism, Solidarity, Solidarity magazine.
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The decision by Labor’s National Conference on Saturday not to ban turning back asylum seeker boats has shocked, outraged and upset many members and supporters. And so it should. It puts Labor on the same moral dung heap as the Liberals. I want to work with all those good activists who are or were in or near or supportive of the Labor Party and who are now reviewing their membership or support. Let’s work together in fighting for a better Australia here and now and in doing that learn the lessons flowing from this latest Labor leadership betrayal, not as a one off but as a consistent pattern. I am a member of Solidarity, one of those small revolutionary socialist groups. At least check us out here. Consider coming along to our Keep left Conference in Sydney on the weekend of Saturday 22 August and Sunday 23 August. Click here for details.
Melbourne Street Medics’ Statement on police attack on July 18 anti-racist/anti-fascist demonstration
Posted by John, July 18th, 2015 - under Fascists, Fighting back, Melbourne Street Medics Collective, Racists, Reclaim (white) Australia, Resistance.
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Victoria Police should rightfully be condemned for the deployment of chemical weapons, the targeting of medical personnel, casualties and medical treatment spaces with such weapons and, most of all, doing this in order to facilitate a public rally of racists and overt fascists and neo-nazis. Any assessment of the actions of antifascist protesters will conclude that they were inherently defensive: against threats of violence and the use of weapons by fascists and nazis as part of the United Patriots Front, and against the violence of racism and systematic oppression on the parts of Reclaim Australia, the United Patriots Front and Victoria Police.
Greece defiant
Posted by John, June 29th, 2015 - under Fighting back, Greece, Resistance.
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Lee Sustar writing in Socialist Worker US explains the background to the announcement of a July 5 referendum on austerity measures in Greece – and how it will affect the struggles to come.
Baltimore rises up against deadly racism
Posted by John, April 29th, 2015 - under Baltimore, Fighting back, Racism, Resistance, United States.
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The anger provoked by Freddie Gray’s death has been building for years – the result of entrenched racism and economic inequality, not to mention the long history of police brutality and killings, mainly of African American men.
Farewell Ray Jackson, tireless fighter for justice and Aboriginal rights
Posted by John, April 27th, 2015 - under Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Ray Jackson, Resistance.
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Paddy Gibson writes: Uncle Ray was a key link binding together many groups and struggles here in Sydney, across Australia and indeed across the world. His compassion and patience welcomed many people into the struggle and ensured they had a meaningful role to play. His passing is a tragic blow. But he lives on in the struggle. Solidarity sends its condolences to all Ray’s friends, family and comrades. Rest in Peace with your ancestors my dear Uncle, you have earned this rest more than anyone.
Lest we forget – Aboriginal resistance to genocide
Posted by John, April 22nd, 2015 - under Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Genocide, Resistance.
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Let’s unite and fight to stop the brutal war against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders now. Let’s start by stopping the genocidal closure of 150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. Let’s resist.
Reclaiming (white) Australia and the fascists
Posted by John, April 6th, 2015 - under Fascism, Fascists, Racism, Reclaim (whte) Australia, Resistance, Strikes.
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A strong vibrant and active left and trade union movement, with a clear understanding of the nature of capitalism and the threat respectable racism and its hidden guest, fascism, pose to the left and to working people, could act as a pole of attraction offering hope for these middle and working class people currently driven by fear. Building such a left must be our long term goal. In the medium term it means rank and file workers winning back their unions and building strikes to defend workers’ interests. In the short term we have to confront the racists and their fascist bed fellows every time they poke their slimy necks out from their sewers of hate.
British workers rebelled against the First World War
Posted by John, April 1st, 2015 - under Resistance, Strikes, Workers, Working class, World War I.
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Tom Orsag in Solidarity explains how the sacrifices demanded during the First World War produced mass resistance and opposition among the British working class.