This article is an edited and updated version of a talk given by Alison Thorne at a Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) meeting on 31 August 2005. Thorne is a workplace… Read more »
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Time to halt the race to the bottom: Defence of welfare rights is union business
In its last two sitting weeks for 2005, the Federal Parliament passed a series of laws that will deeply affect most Australians. In this period of war and vicious cutbacks,… Read more »
Mobilise for a national strike on 1 March – Make the anti-union laws inoperable!
The November 15 union and community protests against the Howard Government’s vicious anti-union laws were a magnificent show of working class anger and unity. More than 600,000 people mobilised to… Read more »
Cronulla Riot: Unions must mobilise against racism and fascism
Out of the sewer. Long time Nazi fanatic, James Saleam, founder of the thankfully defunct National Action, has rallied a small group of thugs, ultranationalists and racists into an outfit… Read more »
Bert Fagin 1926 – 2005: A life dedicated to working class struggle
Bert Fagin was a subscriber to the Freedom Socialist Bulletin and a visitor with his friends to big events at Solidarity Salon. We first met him at an FSP forum… Read more »
Mobilise now to kill the anti-union bills!
The June 30 union and community demonstrations against Howard’s planned Industrial Relations laws were magnificent. The Melbourne rally drew 120,000. More than 100,000 participated across New South Wales the next… Read more »
Your Say
Law change the tip of the iceberg It was great to read the article on provocation in the Freedom Socialist Bulletin. Rob Hulls and John Thwaites have made all the… Read more »
How the Howard Government used refugee policy to attack workers’ rights
Even the Murdoch newspapers called it a “bloody disgrace.” Cornelia Rau, an Australian resident, had spent 10 months in immigration detention. Despite the fact that she was listed as a… Read more »
Neoliberal policies produce a skills shortage
A little while ago, I attended a national meeting of rail industry representatives, called to discuss the development of a national code of operating rules. The fact that national rules… Read more »
Howard’s Industrial Relations laws CAN be beaten!
The Australian trade union movement currently faces two huge challenges. One is external. From 1 July 2005 the Howard Government assumes control of the Senate and plans to enact more… Read more »
