to the webpage of the IWW in Australia.
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If you are a working person you might have noticed that there are a lot of things stacked against you. This little page is run by the Industrial Workers of the World; our aim is to even the odds.
Awesome audio-based metaphor for what he did to the rights of Australian workers under the Accord during the 1980s. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-17/hawke-sings-at-actu-congress/4016440 |
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The idea that Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan have launched a “class war” in Australia through last week’s federal budget is a huge joke. I don’t believe The Australian’s editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell even believes his own rhetoric. http://theconversation.edu.au/class-warfare-in-australia-we-should-be-so-lucky-6970 |
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“ANZAC Day has become a nationalist circus with little real reflection on why governments sent soldiers, sailors and airmen to their deaths. All we get is glib cliches and a perverse ‘cult of sacrifice’ where we’re told that it doesn’t matter why you are sent to war, whether your government lied to you or not, the greatest thing an ordinary Australian can do is die in a war. http://stopwarcoalition.org/veterans-group-condemns-hollow-remembrance-on-anzac-day/ |
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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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On the one side is the notion of making demands, trusting in representatives, and seeing our interests in terms of individual rights. Everyone has the right to work, and the right to starve to death if they do not work. On the other side is the notion of solidarity, of collective well being, cooperation and direct action. It is the understanding that we are a social species living on a finite planet, and our survival and happiness can only be understood when viewed collectively. http://strikeisaverb.net/?p=164 |
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Whatever their historic role, unions in general have become yet another bureaucratic layer between workers’ efforts to attain greater control over their workplaces and the state. Unions attempt to justify lining their coffers with workers’ money to suit their own cushy ends by complying with increasingly mediated and bureaucratic means of negotiating with employers. FWA arbitration, for example, requires unions to apply for “protected” industrial action, rather than workers directly fighting for better conditions. It’s hard to see how such complicated arrangements are in the interests of workers, who are understandably confused by all of these machinations and who meekly vote “yes” to whatever resolutions they’re spoon-fed at union rallies. This is not how I define industrial democracy. |
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Our friend Liberté Locke writes about what it’s like to work a ‘clopen’ in retail, to close the store late at night and get up early the next morning to open the store. Liberte’s story is the first in a series of stories we’re going to be running about work, sleep, and dreams. http://recomposition.info/2012/04/11/coping-with-clopening-retail-workers-most-dreaded-shift/ |
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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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