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Sustaining union activity after strikes
Rank and File Lessons from Sydney Universities (This article is drawn from our rank-and-file activity at the University of Sydney (USyd) and University of New South Wales (UNSW). We don’t presume that organising is identical across other campuses and encourage comrades to consider and share their own organising experiences). About every four years, the enterprise…
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How The Left Should Understand ‘Modern Slavery’
In recent years, the Western world has seen a flurry of concern and subsequent legislation around the scourge of ‘modern slavery’. However, both the concept itself and the laws designed to prevent it remain vague and unclear, spoken about mostly discussed by bureaucrats, NGOs, and CEOs.
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National liberation and the struggle for socialism
Lessons from the history of anti-colonial resistance in Palestine and Ireland The eyes of the world are on Palestine. It is impossible to turn away from the horror of the second Nakba, but the ruling class ignores our cries for a ceasefire. In what seems like a hopeless crisis, it is our responsibility as activists,…
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Mutiny, Autumn 2024
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The fight for flags!
Within the ASU, many of us no longer, or have never, felt a strong union presence at work, and do not feel as though our union is democratically structured. Organising in rank-and-file fashion reminds us that a union should be its members… In the long-term, we aim to see a re-democratisation of our union with…
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Early childhood educators on the front lines of feminism
To put it all bluntly, we set up and pack up equipment, we handle shit and urine constantly, we clean up, we serve food, we do lesson plans, constant paperwork, get sick all the time, and then we get paid fuck all and looked down upon for having done this ‘essential job’. It’s a joke.
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No pride in genocide! Takeaways from the 2023 Mardi Gras AGM
On the 9th of December Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras held its annual general meeting. Since the creation of Pride in Protest, the organisation has contested and politicised the meetings by running radical motions and their own slate of candidates for the board. 2023 was no different. The previous year, Mardi Gras refused to…
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Free Palestine! Only the working class can end the carnage
2023 marks seventy-five years since the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli war, and the beginning of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Arabs from their homes in Palestine, an ethnic cleansing enforced through brutal violence. The purpose of this was to make way for the state of Israel, a colonial ethnostate…
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Celebrate Labour Day by taking direct action!
Labour Day is a strange public holiday: like the King or Queen’s Birthday, it comes and goes without much fanfare. People either enjoy the day off or enjoy the public holiday pay. Even for those on the left or in the labour movement, it tends to be a minor event, dwarfed by the main draw…