Solidarity Breakfast

Honduran activist Berte Caceres was murdered in March of this year. This event is one of the events that Antony Lowenstien talks about after a visit to Hondurasin Central America; Tess Dimos from the Monash Student Union talks about their victorious campaign to get permanent residency for Dr Banik, lecturer at Monash. Dr Banik and his family were first rejected after nine years in Australia becaus...

Outrages of the Week - a grab of news stories that raise  blood pressure to unhealthy levels. Ron Ipsen from Voices of the Valley talks about plans for the transition away from coal and the investigation into new ways of future-proofing the region's jobs and community well-being. Listen here. http://www.votv.org.au/transitionhttps://www.facebook.com/walkwiththevalley/Specialist in women’s health,...

We look at the great cross cultural adventure film Motorkite Dreaming with director/ writer Charlie Hill Smith & have a chat with one of the cultural protocals ambassadors for the film Carroll Karpany. We chat with Chris White about the threat that the ABCC still posesKevin Healy takes through the Week that Was. Vince Emmanuel talks about the state of America as it goes to the November Presdential...

Interview with Tian Chua, sitting parliamentarian for the Batu electorate in Kuala Lumpur, spoke about the current political situation in Malaysia and a new political party set to challenge the current government. Listen here.https://theconversation.com/profiles/thiago-rodrigues-126451Interview with Jorge Knijnik, lecturer in Education, researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society, Universi...

Rod Quinn is a rank file UK Labour member who returned to Labour with the rise of Jeremy Corbynn. Rod gives an account of the what is happening leading up to the September party leadership vote. Gaye Demmaneul from Boycott Wilsons Security gives us the background to Wilsons who hold the contract for the refugee detention centres and the actions they are running with WACA  against the company. Kevi...

Kate Hudson, General Secretary and campaigner for Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom, talks about the campaign and the debate about the nuclear weapons upgrade in her country, Jeremy Corbyn, trade unions and other issues. Listen here. Dr. Jeremy Smith, Senior Lecturer from Foundation University, Ballarat, talks about his work with Lynn Beaton, recently passed away, in researchi...

Preeminent Australian political wit John Clarke talks about his comedy; the CUB dispute at the steps of CUB head office; This is the Week that Was; Hayden Keenan talking Persons of Interest: the Asio Files.

Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly's European correspondent and Socialist Alliance member from Spain talks about the aftermath of the recent Spanish elections. Listen here. Sean Marler and three others paddled across Bass Strait in a kayak in the name of climate change, Sean talks about this expedition and raising awareness of climate change. Humphrey McQueen, Australian author, historian, and cultur...

Exerpts from Inside the Election Campaign event held at Melbourne University Wednesday before the Australian Federal Election; outside Sydney court June 29th for Stephen Langton's case for graffettting OMID RIP on Malcolm Turnbulls electoral office; This is the Week that Was election special; Tom Bramble, former senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at Queensland University, on Brexit for the En...

Lalitha Celliah presents;Friends Of Public Housing members, Fiona Ross and Jeremy Dixon talk about day to day practical issues which are not talked about in the current election campaigns by the major political parties. Listen here. Paul Duffill from the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network gives an update on the issues in the Palestinian region. Listen here. Louis, Louise and Adolf from the We...

Lalitha, Annie & Kim joined live by Humphrey McQueen & Kevin Healy with tantalizing snippets from previous shows. We still need money to make our target so get on board at 3cr.org.au/donate

Vince Emmanuel talks about the US political climate that makes Donald Trump the Republican canditate for President; Vivian Langford talks to author Tom Doig about the 2014 Hazelwood fire as owner Engie tries to off load their responsiblity for the clean up and the Greens call for closure; Kevin takes a satire knife to the Australian political scene; and Dr Noah Bassil talks about some worrying sig...

Ciaran Tully discussing the notion that 3D printers can solve the social ills of the community; This view continues to support Capitalism and has no understanding of the social relations that determine society. He discusses how the proponents of this view fail to explain how exactly the 3D printers can and will help people buy food for example; 3D printers cannot print food. Scott Jordan from Save...

NZ Law professor Professor Jane Kelsey describes how they got 25,000 people on the streets against the trans Pacific Partnership earlier this year. Chris White brought us material from the April Chicago Labor Conference. This is part of a panel discussion about how Black Lives Matter and Labor can work together. This is the Week that was gives us all we need to know about what happened on the poli...

Dr Deborah Gleeson from Latrobe University talks about research done around Heatlh outcomes for Australians with the Trans Pacific Partnership; we hear from people at the Melbourne May Day event at Victorian Trades Hall; This is the Week that Was; Dr Noah Bassil talks about the importance of Public Education.

Interviews:Dick Nichols, Greenleft Weekly Newspaper correspondent from Europe updating news about the political events in Spain and Europe. Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director from the Climate and Health Alliance talking about how climate change is affecting our health. Mark Anthony Dotson & Mathis Dührsen from the USA, currently living in Australia and talking about organising the primaries in th...

Khury Petersen-Smith updates us on the Black Lives Matter movement in the US; Kim reveals the importance of the Panama Papers; Kevin gives us the Week that Was; and Antony Loewenstein discusses his book Disaster Capitalism and his upcoming documentary.

Interview with Ian Angus: Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism. He founded and edited the Socialist History Projectand was an editor of Socialist Voice. He was a founding member and Coordinating Committee Member of Ecosocialist International Network, a member of the Canadian Dimension editorial collective, advisory editor of Socialist Resistance.[2] In 2007 he was a co-founder of the Ecos...

Today we hear from Jess Lenehan who spoke about Time at Marxism 2016; we spoke to Spike & Kelly from theVictorian Homeless Persons Union about the sit in at empty houses in Bendigo St Collingwood; This is the Week that Was followed by a look at Pine Gap on its 50th Anniversary http://www.closepinegap.com/

Michael Moore from the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA ). Discussing Public health and private health cover, the importance of a preventative model as opposed to a solely treatment model, siting examples of such preventative campaigns, discussing the importance of social determinants of health. The politicising of health and the disservice to the public health system by the way privat...

Spotlight on Marxism 2016: Sandra Bloodworth talks about Engel's views about the family, private property and the state; Farah Kobaissy from Lebanon talks about the revolt inspired by rising garbage and the state of the people's struggle in the Middle East; Kevin Healy gives us the benefit of his wit in summing up the past weeks political carry on; Mandla Nkosi, an activist since 1976 as an adoles...

Interview with Beverly Bell, a long time colleague of Berta Caceres Flores, founder of the organisation http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/ the world known environmentalist from Honduras who was killed 2 weeks ago in Honduras. Berta was the winner of the world's highest and most prestigious award for the environment in 2015.The second interviewed was Sarah Eleazer from Pakistan. Well known jour...

Kim and Annie talk to Jerome Small about his upcoming talk at the Marxism Conference 2016 about the Trade Union Education League in America during the 1930s; they talk to Graham Willet from Melbourne Union branch of the NTEU about the 5 year plan for Melbourne Uni that discusses the idea of getting rid of live lectures; then its down to a political tour of Bolivia, Chile and Ecquador form Denis Ro...

Dick Nichols a journalist for Green Left Weekly discusses the update of the elections in Spain last December 20th. The fact that the elections did not result in a clear winner has created a state without a government for several months. Professor Ian Anderson a highly experienced medical doctor an administrator discusses the Close the Gap Report, He is the foundation Chair of Indigenous Higher Edu...

First we talk with Lou Wheeler for a Fair Go for Pensioners' perspective on life and then Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer's idea. O'Dwyer outlines the Government's Super plans and that the Unions are right 'They're Are Coming For Your Super'. Duncan Hart talks about his case against Coles & SDA deal which takes away penalties by stealth. Kevin Healy proves again that the dirty world of politics...