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Discussion of the New Left with Meredith Burgmann Q CPA position on Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia?

Discussion of the New Left with Meredith Burgmann

Discussion of the New Left with Meredith Burgmann Q Were the radicals in Melbourne, Maoists; in Sydney, Stalinists, in Brisbane, anarchists? Q What is the main proposition behind your book about 60s radicals? Q Can you tell us about yourself? Q You were involved in the anti-apartheid movement, why did boycotts work against South Africa but not against Israel? Q Why did you go on the First Australi...

Discussion of the New Left with Meredith Burgmann

Andy Paine song about same. Students who went to jail over Vietnam. (From left to right: Brian Laver, Gail Salmon and Mitch Thompson)

Today was the last day of the Assange extradition hearing before Judge Vanessa Baraitser at the Old Bailey Criminal Court. I do not share the optimism of some who say the Court of Appeal will overturn Vanessa Baraitser’s decision to extradite (if that is what she decides to do). What I do not understand is that the defence in Assange’s extradition trial does not appear to be arguing that you can’t...

Interview with Ciaron O'Reilly about Julian Assange's extradition trial. Nils Melzer, the UN Rapporteur on Torture has described the treatment of Julian Assange by the governments of the UK, the US and Sweden as torture. Nonetheless, Melzer has been ignored by these governments and the Australian government too. Much of the past week at Assange’s extradition hearing in the Old Bailey has been conc...

Paradigm Shift 25 Sep 2020 4 ZZZ Fridays at Noon Assange, Palestine and Isolation Big Ride Recap Another world is possible… While the Tour de France was coming to a close on the Champs Elysee in Paris, 92 bike riders and 15 teams were completing over 8000 km in Australia. That is roughly the distance from Paris across Europe and Asia to Seoul in Korea. Not a single media organisation cupboard the...

To help people through the pandemic Andy has come with a mixtape ... here is a selection.

To help people through the pandemic Andy has come with a mixtape ... here is a selection.

To help people through the pandemic Andy has come with a mixtape ... here is a selection.

To help people through the pandemic Andy has come with a mixtape ... here is a selection.

Scott Ludlam, former Greens senator, emphasises the importance of the Assange extradition hearing. Julian Assange’s extradition trial is now into its fourth week. We will here now of some of the events in that trial from reporter Dr John Jiggens and Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton.

Last week on the Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon) we played extracts from a webinar held by the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (the MEAA) on the Julian Assange extradition hearing, featuring Wikileaks editor Kristinin H. The MEAA regard the Assange extradition hearing as a profound threat to journalism and support Assange who is a member of the union. This week we feature anot...

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” about the Vietnam War, defended Julian Assange at his London extradition hearing on Wednesday. Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and other papers in 1971, told the court WikiLeaks’ disclosures had shown Americans how they had been misled about US action in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as his leaks, which also reve...

Like several members of the newsroom, Julian Assange is a member of the MEAA, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance. The MEAA supports Julian Assange, not only because he is a card-carrying member, but because of the important issues for journalism and the profound consequences for our profession that his case represents. The MEAA has called on the Australian and UK governments to oppose his e...

Wikileakes and Manning revealed atrocities and murder by US governments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq is in a terrible situation as a result. Recently a Khmer Rouge leader from Cambodia has been indicted for similar atrocities in that country. Pol Pot has gone down in history as a genocidal maniac. Why not the US government officials who gave Iraq similar treatment with shock and awe? Some will cl...

Kelly Higgins Devine (ABC) speaks with Pamela Curr from the Refugee Advocacy Network that has 120 people and 30 families offering accomodation to people in KP Prison, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Yongah Hill (WA) detention centres. #HomeSafelyWithUs I find that many ABC journalists come from a mainstream and right-wing perspective … for example the questions put to Pamela Curr assumed 1/ that r...

Ian talks with Dr. Olfat Mahmoud about Palestinian Refugee crisis in Lebanon after the explosion on 4 August 2020. Please register or sponsor the Big Ride for Palestine at https://bigrideaus2020.raisely.com/ian-curr Song Fairouz - Sanarjou Yawman - فيروز - سنرجع يوما We will return.

Given the events of the past week with the explosion in Beirut it is important to revisit a talk given by Olfat Mahmoud from the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organisation to unionists at Qld Coucil of Unions in 2018. Dr Mahmoud gives a short history of the struggle of the Palestinian people starting with the Balfour declaration in 1917. Refigees are denied the right of return to their towns, v...

Paradigm Shift by Corey and Ian about what is a real job. In this show we look at sustainable useful work, the feminisation of work, bullshit jobs and jobs that are socially useful but very exploitative. Playlist Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 Bob Marley - Work Dhopec - BLF Green Bans PeggySeeger - I'm Gonna Be An Engineer

Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon)interview with Ken Davis - a long-time unionist and social justice campaigner. He is a member of the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine in Sydney and works for Union Aid Abroad (APHEDA)projects in Palestine and Lebanon. Here Ian and Ken discuss how Australian unions attempt to assist civil society in Palestinian refugee camps. These camps hav...

Part of interview with Jamshied Kashkari about 'Kashmir Solidarity' in Brisbane. Here Jamshied briefly outlines failure of the process of de-colonisation for both Palestinians and Kashmiris. We go back to Lord Mountbatten and the failure of British and Indian governments to respect the independence of the Kashmiri people. Photo: 'Up in the Himalayan Range' - L. Hurse

Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) interview with Jamshied Kashkari on Indian government colonisation of Kashmir. More than 70 years after the last Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir signed up his princely state to be part of India, the issue of Kashmir's status has still not been resolved. Modi's Indian government has given citizenship to Indian nationals and is trying to change the demog...

Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon - 7 Aug 20 Today we talk about Pine Gap - the secretive US military spy base in the middle of Australia. We speak with Kieran Finnane who has just written a book "Peace Crimes" about the base and acts of resistance to it; and also to investigative journalist legend Brian Toohey about how Pine Gap affects Australia's sovereignty - and did it play a role...