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Bourke Street 150th

Locality: Goulburn, New South Wales

Address: Bourke Street 2580 Goulburn, NSW, Australia

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17.01.2022 The Battle of George Square Ninety-seven years ago this very night, January 31, running battles were taking place across the city after the police baton-charged... a peaceful, 60,000-strong crowd in George Square. The men, women, and children had hit the streets, and raised the Red Flag, to call for a 40-hour working week. This was no selfish fight. The men, who were working a 56-hour week, were horrified and ashamed that the soldiers returning from the First World War were being left on the scrapheap. They knew if they took a cut in their hours, and their pay, some of these returning 'heroes' - their brothers, fathers, and neighbours - could get back into the yards and the workshops and start providing for their families. Sadly, the bosses didn't see things the same way. They had coined it in during the war and weren't about to spend any of their millions on what they called 'Bolshevik scum' (That's your granny, your grandpa). With the Russian Revolution only 15 months old, and the Spartacist Revolution still raging in Germany, the ruling classes came down like a ton of bricks on Glasgow... but Glasgow fought back. After the first police charge, the crowd uprooted iron railings and charged the police line. As the battle moved to North Frederick Street, some poor bugger drove a beer lorry into the crowd. Sadly, it was full of empties but, rather than claim the cash back on the bottles, the crowd pelted the police with the bottles and drove them back. The crowd then reformed and marched to Glasgow Green where, again, they were attacked by the police. Now, with the help of an army of East Enders, who had flooded out of their tenement homes, they again routed the police. Across the city that night running battles took place; in Govan, Townhead and the old Garngad. Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air and War, and still smarting from the bloody nose the Turks had given him at Gallipoli, had already put the men of the HLI, at Maryhill Barracks, under lockdown. He was feart that the Glasgow soldiers would take up arms with their fellow citizens. He moved 1000 troops into the city from Edinburgh and Aberdeen, carefully weeding out every Glasgow man from the battalions. The next morning there were machine gun nests on the roof of the North British Hotel (now the Millennium Hotel) and the old central Post Office. There was a Howitzer positioned outside the City Chambers and six tanks, in the Gallowgate cattle-market, loaded and ready to roll on us. Tonight, we doff our bunnets to the brave men and women of 1919 Glasgow, who stood up to fight for their fellow citizens. They didn't want a revolution, they wanted a fair deal for all. Sadly, for many in our great and gallus city, some are still waiting for such a deal... See more

15.01.2022 The Battle of George Square Ninety-seven years ago this very night, January 31, running battles were taking place across the city after the police baton-charged... a peaceful, 60,000-strong crowd in George Square. The men, women, and children had hit the streets, and raised the Red Flag, to call for a 40-hour working week. This was no selfish fight. The men, who were working a 56-hour week, were horrified and ashamed that the soldiers returning from the First World War were being left on the scrapheap. They knew if they took a cut in their hours, and their pay, some of these returning 'heroes' - their brothers, fathers, and neighbours - could get back into the yards and the workshops and start providing for their families. Sadly, the bosses didn't see things the same way. They had coined it in during the war and weren't about to spend any of their millions on what they called 'Bolshevik scum' (That's your granny, your grandpa). With the Russian Revolution only 15 months old, and the Spartacist Revolution still raging in Germany, the ruling classes came down like a ton of bricks on Glasgow... but Glasgow fought back. After the first police charge, the crowd uprooted iron railings and charged the police line. As the battle moved to North Frederick Street, some poor bugger drove a beer lorry into the crowd. Sadly, it was full of empties but, rather than claim the cash back on the bottles, the crowd pelted the police with the bottles and drove them back. The crowd then reformed and marched to Glasgow Green where, again, they were attacked by the police. Now, with the help of an army of East Enders, who had flooded out of their tenement homes, they again routed the police. Across the city that night running battles took place; in Govan, Townhead and the old Garngad. Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air and War, and still smarting from the bloody nose the Turks had given him at Gallipoli, had already put the men of the HLI, at Maryhill Barracks, under lockdown. He was feart that the Glasgow soldiers would take up arms with their fellow citizens. He moved 1000 troops into the city from Edinburgh and Aberdeen, carefully weeding out every Glasgow man from the battalions. The next morning there were machine gun nests on the roof of the North British Hotel (now the Millennium Hotel) and the old central Post Office. There was a Howitzer positioned outside the City Chambers and six tanks, in the Gallowgate cattle-market, loaded and ready to roll on us. Tonight, we doff our bunnets to the brave men and women of 1919 Glasgow, who stood up to fight for their fellow citizens. They didn't want a revolution, they wanted a fair deal for all. Sadly, for many in our great and gallus city, some are still waiting for such a deal... See more

06.01.2022 "Kerri-Anne’s simplistic and crude attempt to divert attention away from Indigenous peoples successful and sustained resistance against colonial control and its... associated violence by demonising Indigenous peoples would be laughable if she didn’t have so much backing. She is not a lone wolf or bad apple, nor is her ‘heart in the right place’. She invoked the same tired narrative of Black inadequacy and dysfunction to undermine Black resistance and strength. She was able to maintain her claim of virtue because she supposedly cares about ‘our problems’ by insisting that our existence (including our acts of resistance) can only ever been known as a problem, thus rationalising the continued control over Black peoples’ lives and lands. Kerri-Anne, like her fellow panel members (excluding Yumi Stynes, of course!) and mainstream media more broadly are doing more than just their job. Every day, they are doing the work of the colony and we really shouldn’t be so surprised." - Chelsea Bond (academic, writer and host of 'Wild Black Women' radio show) More here: https://www.sbs.com.au//how-settlers-spin-black-inadequacy

02.01.2022 An internal government document highlighted by WikiLeaks reveals tactics of economic warfare and financial weapons the US is using against Venezuela in the name of furthering capitalism. https://grayzoneproject.com//us-economic-warfare-venezuela/