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25.01.2022 If only Murdochs Wall Street Journal gets truthy

25.01.2022 May Day is May 1st

24.01.2022 At Sydney University 26th and 27th March!

23.01.2022 Background to May Day: In 1884, unions declared that eight hours would constitute a legal days work from and after May 1, 1886. When workers went on strike at a factory in Chicago on May 3, 1886, police fired into the peacefully assembled crowd, killing four and wounding many others. The workers movement called for a mass rally the next day in Haymarket Square to protest this brutality. The rally proceeded peacefully until the end when 180 police officers entered the square ...and ordered the crowd to disperse. At that point, someone threw a bomb, killing one police officer and wounding 70 others. The police responded by firing into the crowd, killing one and injuring many others. Eight of the citys most active Anarchist unionists were charged with conspiracy to commit murder even though only one even present at the meeting was on the speakers platform. All eight were found guilty and sentenced to death, despite a lack of evidence connecting them to the person who threw the bomb. Four were hanged on November 11, 1887, Louis Lingg committed suicide in prison, and the remaining three were finally pardoned in 1893. Lucy Parsons, the widow of Albert Parsons, traveled the world urging workers to celebrate May Day and to remember the events of Haymarket and the subsequent government-sponsored murder of those fighting for the rights of all workers. Over time, May Day grew to become an important day for organising and unifying the international struggle of workers and their allies. Viva May Day!

22.01.2022 Today at 4:30pm until August 31 at 7:30pm Everywhere Ring up or email Glenroy Exhaust and tell them what you think of them. (03) 9308 0310... 12 Dennis Street, Campbellfield Victoria 3061 Email : [email protected] http://www.smh.com.au//457-worker-told-to-fork-out-pay-to-

21.01.2022 We agree. See here for plenty of tips: http://libcom.org/tags/sabotage

20.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Industrial-Workers-of-the-World-Melbourne/189281074449517?ref=hl

20.01.2022 Greece is still da word.

19.01.2022 http://www.socialistalternative.org/publications/fastfood

17.01.2022 http://www.gregoryfarnum.com/Pizza.html

17.01.2022 Its hard to keep count sometimes...

14.01.2022 The bottom is falling out of the world economic system

14.01.2022 http://www.usnews.com//15000-gold-fields-miners-strike-in-

13.01.2022 M1s affinity is built around four principles: 1) a commitment to revolution 2) a working class orientation 3) a non-doctrinaire anarchism 4) a non-sectarian and multi-layered approach to organization... Mission We, therefore, organize ourselves as an anarchist force to collectively analyze situations, determine revolutionary strategy, promote anarchist methods and solutions and collaborate on projects within the working classes and social movements with the aim of overthrowing all authoritarian social relations. [from Our Organization http://m1aa.org/wp-cont//2011/04/Our-Organization-2.01.pdf ] Description First of May Anarchist Alliance (M1) We are a new organization with its members having a much longer history of collaboration, in some instances reaching back to the 1980s through an array of revolutionary anarchist organizing. With the creation of M1 we move from the informal affinity to being an established organizational presence; fully engaged with the broader anarchist, revolutionary and social movements. As individuals and as members of M1, we are active in our communities and workplaces, within the labor unions, and through formations such as the Industrial Workers of the World and Solidarity & Defense. We do not see our selves as a regional organization. We instead seek broad trans-national alliances. Nor do we see ourselves as a necessarily permanent grouping. We aim for a fluid organization capable of responding to given circumstances while maintaining a committed membership based on core anarchist and revolutionary perspectives. Given needs and demands of the movement, we will reconceptualize and remake our organization(s). In short, there is nothing static in the realm of struggle; we are open to the possibilities that all we create today will have to be transformed tomorrow. M1s affinity is built around four principles. These are: 1) a commitment to revolution; 2) a working class orientation; 3) a non-doctrinaire anarchism and; 4) a non-sectarian and multi-layered approach to organization. The M1 colors represent our commitment to anarchism, the revolutionary social struggle, and an ecological perspective black, red and green. For Dignity, Justice and Freedom Against Capitalism and the State! For Anarchy!

13.01.2022 "They have bottling plants in Colombia because thats where the best bottle trees grow. And paramilitary groups simply disagree with the unions over some heated baseball matches. " http://m.guardian.co.uk//20/jul/24/marketingandpr.colombia

12.01.2022 http://libcom.org//direct-unionism-discussion-paper-090520

12.01.2022 RECLAIM THE NIGHT (Peggy Seeger) ... Though Eve was made from Adams rib Nine months he lay within her crib How can a man of woman born Thereafter use her sex with scorn? For though we bear the human race To us is given but second place And some men place us lower still By using us against our will If we choose to walk alone For us there is no safety zone If were attacked we bear the blame They say that we began the game And though you prove your injury The judge may set the rapist free Therefore the victim is to blame Call it nature, but rapes the name CHORUS: Reclaim the night and win the day We want the right that should be our own A freedom women have seldom known The right to live, the right to walk alone without fear A husband has his lawful rights Can take his wife wheneer he likes And courts uphold time after time That rape in marriage is no crime The choice is hers and hers alone Submit or lose your kids and home When love becomes a legal claim Call it duty, but rapes the name And if a man should rape a child Its not because his spirits wild Our system gives the prize to all Who trample on the weak and small When fathers rape, they surely know Their kids have nowhere else to go Try to forget, dont ask us to Forgive them -- they know what they do (CHORUS) When exploitation is the norm Rape is found in many forms Lower wages, meaner tasks Poorer schooling, second class We serve our own, and, like the men We serve employers -- it follows then That bodies raped is nothing new But just a servants final due Weve raised our voices in the past And this time will not be the last Our bodies gift is ours to give Not payment for the right to live Since weve outgrown the status quo We claim the right to answer "No!" If without consent he stake a claim Call it rape, for rapes the name (CHORUS)

12.01.2022 Glenugie NSW CSG Free Action - 6Feb (Metgasco CSG drill site): The TRAUMATRON - a Mad Max style vehicle the locals have made of ploughs and farm steel has stor...med the gates of the Metgasco CSG Drill Site and locked on! This marks the beginning of the end for the CSG industry in the Northern Rivers. Please Share! See more

12.01.2022 a government that does THIS, a police state like THIS, that faces popular dissidence that is that peaceful, is AFRAID! We are not! And we wont be stopped nor silenced. Madrid today during the #25S protests. (you need to log in to watch video, somehow rated for the violence). Solidaridad con la pea en Madrid. Mucho amor!

12.01.2022 "The general strike is the key that fits the lock to freedom."

10.01.2022 The historic joint rally of Victorian Catholic and State School educators who stopped work on Wednesday,5th September 2012.

06.01.2022 Sydney wobblies April meeting

06.01.2022 Postering in English and simplified Chinese to build awareness about the strike- thank you to translators!

05.01.2022 Cairo protesters breach palace barriers LIVE=> http://www.ontv-live.com/live/ More than 100,000 protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi swarmed ...the square in front of his Cairo palace on Friday evening, breaking through barbed wire barriers protecting the compound. A cordon of soldiers prevented the crowd from nearing the main palace gate in the Egyptian capital, but elsewhere protesters sprayed graffiti on the outside walls, telling Morsi to "Go" and leave power. "The people want the downfall of the regime" and "Leave, leave," they chanted, using slogans from the uprising that toppled Morsis predecessor Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Climbing over tanks of the Republican Guard, protesters streamed toward the palace as night fell, crossing a no-go zone set up around the compounds perimeter. Tensions high There was no visible violence, but tensions were high after clashes at the same spot on Wednesday between pro- and anti-Morsi supporters left seven people dead and more than 600 injured. Several army tanks were stationed in the square and nearby but made no movement against the protesters, some of whom clambered atop them to declare the army was "hand in hand" with them. http://www.dw.de/cairo-protesters-breach-palace/a-16438349 Photographer Mahmoud Khaled, of Egypt protesters vs. Rep. Guard Revolution News

01.01.2022 http://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress.com//a_rebel_workers_