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If we don’t fight, we lose.
May Day 2024 Mutiny Special Edition – Editorial It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that things are fucked for working class people. The out of control housing crisis has depreciated our wages on a massive level. Combined with increases in the cost of food and fuel, our wages have been plummeting. As per…
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Fighting student poverty with a national placement strike
How Students Against Placement Poverty can force real change It’s time to end placement poverty. Students in a growing number of degrees are dropping out or being forced into poverty due to the insurmountable barrier of mandatory unpaid placements. Students Against Placement Poverty is a student-led campaign that has built opposition to this status quo…
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Why the May Day martyrs were anarchists – and why you should be too
“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” The last words of Haymarket martyr, August Spies. May Day began as a day of protest, a day to commemorate the legacy of the Haymarket martyrs – the revolutionaries who, in Chicago in 1886, were stitched up by…
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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.