Solidarity Breakfast

Coolaroo Fire Update by 3cr reporter Corey Green.http://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/Fred Fuentes give a much needed Left analysis on what is going on in Venezuela. Fred will be speaking at the Multicultural Hub in Elizebeth St, Melb on July 29th at Fair Go for Pensioners join with Friends of Public Housing around changes to Public Housing Victoria and call for housing for older and female cit...

Affordable housing and Public Housing in the spot light. Lousa Bessina (Social Alternative) looks at the Glenfell disaster in London and makes connects to public housing policies in Victoria and Australia. Kate Shaw  outlines the arguments against social mix and sell off of Victorian Public Housing assets based on outmoded neoliberal small government credo put forward by Victorian Housing Minister...

Sydneysiders have spat the dummy when it comes to the removal of trees for developers dreamings. They stood up for nature last week in a clarion call warning Australian's what is at stake and how they can become heros for nature. Solidarity reporter Don Sutherland gives us a view of the ACTU NextGen Conference - it was all about a campaign to change the laws that bind us. Kevin Healy brings us Thi...

The Respect Campaign. We look at perspectives on the campaign to bring Aboriginal Australia under the control of the Australian Constitution: has the Australian non-indignous community done enough to be able to make a fair deal with Aboriginal people. We speak with filmmaker Melanie Hogan about her film Kanyini made ten years ago and about to be re-released on iTunes (June 28) which is about the i...

We remember lost comrades - tributes to Trevor Grant, and Ellen Jose and John Clarke tells a joke. Big issues: Australian Unemployed Workers Union and Fair Go for Pensioners bring the social security scandal to our attention.  Sally McManus (ACTU) and the call for worker action. We hear some of the speeches that made our year Sawah Samahi at the No Netenayhu rally and Troy Gray (ETU) at Enough is...

Spain's Left Vote: Dick Nichols goes through the vote for Sanchez back to top job in centralist Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) after the establishment denied influence of Podemos http://links.org.au/catalonia-versus-spanish-state-battleground-independence-referendum. National Wages Case: Don Sutherland talks about the significance and role of the National Wages Case. He asks the question is the s...

RALLIES II WORKERS RIGHTS II WEEKLY ROUNDUP II ACTIVIST & THE LAWWe go to the National Union of Students' day of action in response to rising fees and lowering standards at Australian Universities after the Federal BudgetWe go to the Fair Go for Pensioners Rally responding to devasting attacks on all recipients of welfare payments after the Federal Budget. Don Sutherland talks about workers and th...

Amanda (Mandy) King & Fabio Cavadini from Frontyard Films talk about their film Time to Draw the Line documenting the history of Australia's shameful stance to the marinetime boundary between the two countries in pursuit of gas and oil reserves. Stephen Langton calls for the sacking of Amanda Vanstone from 'our' ABC.Kelli Whitmore gives an update on Team Doyle's #nohomelessban in the Melbourne CBD...

Emily Howie (Human Rights Law Centre) looks at Australian State Governments encroachment on public ability to protest. Jeff Fielder (Fair Go For Pensioners) talks about the Budgets affect on housing affordability. This is the Week that Was from Kevin Healy. Sally McManus at Feminism in the Pub.

International Workers' Day celebrations in Melbourne - vox pop, speeches, the choir and chants. HACSU rallied on Victorian Parliament steps in the middle of the week to call for a halt to privatising disability services for the sake of consumers and workers. This is the Week that Was for Kevin HealyCultivating Murder about land clearing, climate change and murder in NSW. Showing at ACMI.

Save Victoria Market from Melbourne City Council development plans rally held on April 21 brough a diverse set of people together against plans to turn Melbourne's fresh food market into a fine food and wine entertainment precinct. Stall holders have joined the National Union of Workers in an Australian first to combat what they see as social and economic vandalism. Don Sutherland lends his expert...

The mass marches in the US is part of a ground swell of American resistance to Trump. We hear some eyewitness accounts. The Walk for West Papua is walking the 73 km from Geelong to Footscray the distance between West Papua and Australian Territory. They are talking to communities on the way about the genocide on our doorstep. We talk to Rebecca who is one of the walkers for an update. Kevin Healy...

The pointy end of neo-liberalism and community health with Simone White:The fabulous Lew Wheeler from Fair Go For Pensioners outlines what we should be expecting from a responsible Government Budget. Kevin Healey ties up The Week That WasAnnie & Kim talk Marxism 2017

The Honest History Book down sizes Anzac and looks at the diversity of Australian history for important influences to Australian character. David Stephens goes through some of riveting chapters. Donald Sutherland talks about the Award system and how knowing means workers can understand what is happening to their wages and conditions. Kevin Healy wraps up the week with This is the Week That Was. Al...

Dr Michael Perlin, Professor of Law Emeritus at New York Law School (NYLS), has spent more than thirty years working at the point where people with mental disability meet the Law. We chatted about key issues that affect these people when dealing with societies preconceptions. Liam Ward talks about the Chinese Furniture Makers Union in 1880's Melbourne looking at some of the issues of racism, work...

Weekly politics with your weetie.

Politics with your Saturday weeties.

A tribute to activist Trevor Grant. WRAW event Feminism in the Pub exerpts. Anne Learmonth from Fair Go For Pensioners talks about their submission to the Centrelink RoboDebt inquiry. Kevin let's it rip with This Is The Week That Was. Rousing speeches from March 9th Enough's Enough Rally in Melbourne: Lisa Chester & Paddy Crumlin.

Anne Summers gave a call to action speech during WRAW (Women's Rights at Work) at Victorian Trades Hall on International Working Women's Day. March 3 outside Melbourne Town Hall people spoke to us about the #Nohomelessban campaign and Dr David Giles talkes about a seminar March 17, 6-8pm at the Multicultural Hub in Elizabeth St, City. Kevin rounded up the week with This is the Week that Was. Humph...

We open with extraordinary words from the Melbourne No Netanyahu rally on Feb 19.Marilyn King from Fair Go For Pensioners gives an hands on report of dealing with the Centrelink Debt Debacle. Viv Marlo talks to Graham Dunstan outside a demonstration against Lockheed Martin & Melbourne University collaboration into weapons research. Jacab Grech talks about the Avalon Weapon's Show and Peace Camp Co...

We cover the opinions of people at the RTBU February launch to return Victorian Public Transport back to public hands - the fight back against privatisation takes form. The attack on renewables by the Federal Government after South Australian blackouts has led to Friends of the Earth (FOE) going to the streets we cover their message. Report from Vivien Langford from BZE.This is the Week that Was f...

Report inside and after the Melbourne City Council to ban homeless people from the CBD - features the voices of some very angry rough sleepers. Luke Sinclair talks zines and an every expanding hand make art world of photocopy art including some info about the Stick InstituteThis is the Week that WasThe return of Dr Noah Bassil about the state of the world.

Part 2 - Bill Mitchell talking taxes, social wage & solidarity. Anti Trump Rally Melb 3-2-17 featuring Kim Bullimore & Richard Di Natali. This is the Week that Was returnsHumphrey McQueen in converstion - "Is this the end of Capitalism as we know it? We can only hope." 

Bill Mitchell from Newcastle University in the first part of his talk given at the New International Bookshop in August, 2016. He takes us back to how and why of neo-liberalism's take over of Soveriegn Governments explaining how we have got into such a pickle - great stuff. We will be playing the rest of the talk over the next two weeks. Kelli & Spike from the Homeless Persons Union call for Melb...

Socialist Liz Ross chats to us about the affect of automation on work; Trevor Wilson President of  Fair Go For Pensioners gives a look at what this group is doing in the climate of attack on the rights of pensioners; Social Justice lawyer Katie Robertson was in America during the Trump ascendency and gives us some insights into his supporters and why women need to stand up at the march being held...