Solidarity Breakfast

Coolaroo rally II Live recording of rally from our reporter Marcus HarringtonSave Knox Lake II Richard Faragher explains why citzens of Knox are rallying to defend Knox Lake in the North Eastern suburbsBreak away Ambos Union II Danny Hill the secretary of the Victorian Ambulance Union explains why the newest Union went it's own way rather than joining the United Voice and NUW amalgamation. This is...

Coolaroo Community protest rally II this Saturday 10.30am outside Glass Recovery Services, 82-89 Maffra St, Coolaroo “the amount of flammable waste and lack of adequate fire protection are “a matter of lie and death” (Hume city officer the Age 22 Aug 19)The Witness K trial II Sister Susan Connolly explains the issues behind the Witness K trial, why we should be worried for our democracy and how hi...

Adani Protest Camp report II Bec Horridge from 3cr Earth Matters reports from the Adani Protest Camp in Queensland. The John Cummins Legacy II Di Cummings talks about the upcoming John Cummins Victorian Union Awards Night coming up on August 30th and about John Cummings role as an inspirational leader in the Union moverment.this is the week that was IIJust transition and the Aug 20 rally for clima...

Wage theft solution II Alex White from UnionsACT talks about a plan to use the ACT Industrial Magistrates Court to be a quick way to give workers access to the wages they have lost through wage theft. James Connolly Ass. Rally II Rally to bring English complicity in the maintenance of the partition in Ireland to the attention of the public held on Saturday 17/8 on State Library steps in Melbourne....

Homelessness Week II we speak to Zoe from the Roomination's Crew about how homelessness is a year round affair and public housing is the answerIPAN on peace II Shirley Winton speaks at the recent Fair Go For Pensioners conferenceWaste in the North of Melbourne II Sheridon from the Broadmeadows Progress Association speaks frankly about the waste management crisis in her area as the SKM class action...

Aust - Cuban Ambassador II The Aust Cuban Ambassador spoke at Melbourne celebrations for the 66th year since the start of the Cuban revolution. He talks about the situation now since Trump's US embargo on Cuban has been reestablished. Fiona Scott Norman gives a comic serve IIPeter Arndt on West Papua II West Papuan solidarity update with information about the ULMWP and the upcoming Pacific Island...

Save Footscray Park: angry Maribrinong residents were shut out of a council meeting discussing the handing over of parts of Footscray Park to the second riches sports club in Australia for a private soccer academy. Djab Wurrung sacred trees: a snap action outside the VicRoads offices in Melbourne brings the fight for the sacred birthing trees on the Western Highway outside modern day Ararat to the...

Anti-fascist found guilty of affray II Peir Moro talks about his recent court case resulting from his suffering an assault at the hands of fascists on the night of a demonstration against  Milo Yiannopoulos on December 4, 2017 at the foot of the Kensington flats. Shockingly Pier from found guilty of affray, assault (2) and rioting with his defense of self defence not accepted. He was fined $2,000...

Forge in Fire a memorial to 2009 Victorian Fires II Andrew Garton talks about his film Forged in Fire screening in the upcoming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (Mdff) July 19 - 30 at Nova Cinema & Backlot Studios. Aged Care Under the microscope II Rhonda Heel from COTA outlines some of the findings of the recent Royal Commission into Aged Care at the Fair Go For Pensioners Conference (FGFP).DP...

Free Julian Assange II Demonstration on steps of State Library marking Julian's 48th birthdayQueensland Mine Fatalities II Steve Smyth Disrict President CFMEU Mining and Energy Division Queensland talks to us about recent spate of fatalies in mining in Queensland coal. This is the week that was IIIsrael Folau by Humphrey McQueen II Humphrey thinks a workers rights to speak up rather than Folau's r...

'Waste to Energy' or 'Waste of Energy' - Incinerator plants as a solution to waste management. Public Housing Vigil report IINew Citizen War on Waste Action Coalition II The chemical fires in the Northern Suburbs and the devastation of the creeks in the Western suburbs have been the impetus for a new citizen's coalition to bring waste management to centre stage in Victoria. This is the Week that w...

Radiothon time when Solidarity Breakfast must raise $2,500 to help 3cr Community Radio stay on air for another year. We have to thank all our listerner friends for the rist $900 we have raised. To add to the tally just drop in or ring or go on line and press donate online at the top of the page to go to solidarity breakfast's crowdraiser page. Watch out for news of a forum around the issue of chem...

We report on the Federation Square commeration of Mabo Day June 3.We go back to Bernie Constable from the Shearers Union for a chat about the presnet day issues for shearers and their Union. Humphrey McQueen talks Australian Republic.

How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project. Fighting Facists Successfully: a report from the USAthis is the week that wasDon Sutherland talks about the recent Australian Federal Election

Behrouz Boochani: live link at Marxism 2019 to Manus with followup speech on refugee rights by session convenor Liam Ward.10 years after Tamil Genocide Sri Lanka: report by Rebecca from the steps of Victorian State Library to mark the anniversary of Sri Lankan Government murder of Tamil civialians. Fair Go for Pensioners: Joe Montero gives a perspective on the election and a reminder of their upco...

On the fifty year anniversary of the general strike in support of Clarrie O'Shea, RBTU official, Humphrey McQueen gives us a background to events before the official celebrations on May 15thThis is the Week that wasTen years after the genocide in Sri Lanka - Tamils speak.

Jono La Nauze, CEO of Environment Victoria, blows the whistle on AGL as it tries to water down our environment laws which will allow it to destroy the Western Port waters for a Massive Gas Import Terminal. Bruises gives us a Sail4Justice updateMarcus Harrington gives us a break down of the new Labour Hire Laws that have just come in in Victoria. This is the Week that WasFred Fuentes gives us a Ven...

Helen Razer leads a discussion about why we should stand in support of Julian Assange at Marxism 2019Marcus Harrington comes in to talk about the problem of waste and chemical fires in the Northern and Western suburbs of MelbourneThis is the week that wasBen Hellier's talk from Marxism 2019 on 10 years after the war in Sri Lanka.

Vic Socialist Fed Election Campaign Launch Speech II featuring Jerome Small's impassioned and impressive speech following the Campbellfield fire that is in the electorate he is aiming to represent. West Papua Update II This is the Week that was IIFood & Capitalism Humphrey McQueen looks at the effect of capitalism on our daily bread.

Vashti Kenway gives a fantastic speech at Marxism 2019 about standing up to the Far Right in AustraliaFair Go for Pensioners representative Ann Davies talks about the Federal Budget and the FGFP 's upcoming Up in the Air conference on July 10th This is the week that wasDon Sutherland talks about the importance of workers rights and the environment movements working together

Politics for the New Dark Age : staying positive amidst disorder Anthony Skews gives us a peek at his new book. Six Moments in Kingston working class history in a way you have never experienced. Dr David Cross explains.this is the week that wasIndustrial tibbits with Don Sutherland

Venezuela Update II Joe Montero a MEAA member went with a three person delegation of local supporters of the Boliva Revolution to see for themselves what is going on in Venezuela. LNP & Labor Report Card on Social Security policy II Abigail Lewis from PerCapita goes through what the LNP and Labor are taking to the Federal Election when it comes to social security policyThis is the Week that wasAut...

Automating Inequality II Virginia Eubank's book Automating Inequality: How hi-tech tools profile, punish & police the poor is a heart stopper. Listen and learn. So you want to be a candidate? II we speak to Jerome Small, socialist candidate in the upcoming Federal election about why and what it is like to put your hat in the ringThis is the week that wasWest Papuan flood update