Solidarity Breakfast

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...

Interview Owen Bennett from the Unemployed Workers Union  regarding the unemployed workers; A new Bill is to be discussed in the senate which is set out to penalise unemployed people for not attending appointments and many other minor issues;Dave Sweeney from the Australian Consrvation Foundation regarding nuclear waste dumping in South Australia; The ACF said that nuclear energy production is  a...

We talk with Charles Wilkinson director of Haida Gwaii a film that spotlights the potential of a balanced life economically and ecologically; Domenica Vavala talks Modrn Myths at the Counihan Gallery; Vince Emmanuel, activist and writer, talk.s to the issues leading up to the US federal election

Solidarity Breakfast talks sustainable farming with the filmmakers Lisa Heenan and Iseabella Doherty who have their film Polyface showing at the fifth Melbourne Transmission Film Festival. This is the Week that Was is back and we get to speak to US commentator and activist Vince Emmanuel in Chicago for an anylsis of what is really going on in the US primaries. This is Part one with a more positive...

Action packed show of issues. Former Secretary of the South Australian Trades Hall Council Chris White calls for action against the Royal Commission into Unions; Mark Zimzak from the Tax Justice Network makes the connection between tax and inequality; film Director Jared P. Scott talks about his film Death of the American Dream the last full lenght conversation with Noam Chomsky which will screen...

Features today Steph Price, editor Red Flag, discussing the Royal Commission into Unions & Humphrey McQueen on why we need to tax the rich.

In the final Solidarity Breakfast for 2015 Dr Noah Bassil joins us to look back over the year's political comlextion from the imperialist wars to the capitalist response to climate change; returned Labour member and supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, Rod Quinn reviews Corbyn's progress to the Prime Minister ship of UK; Prosper Australia reports the hidden level of vacant investment properties in Melbourn...

Francis Boyle http://www.bushtothehague.org/francis-a-boyle/ discussed the Palestinian issue over the decades; l His role being the legal advisor to the Palestinians for several decades; He shares the experiences in this process;Jim Mc Ilroy: journalist with Green Left Weekly speaks on the Venezuelan election and its impact on the region; Th political challenges for the Chavistas now that the righ...

Dick Nichols discusses the recent elections in Portugal that resulted in no clear majority; the President of Portugal has now in 23rd Nov 2015 has agreed to accept the left coalition to take power; Dick discusses the difficulties facing this newly appointed government; The recent history of the economic difficulties experienced by several of the EU countriesEllen Sandell the Greens member of the V...

Debbie Brennan one of the organisers of the Melton Anti Facist Rally talks about why it is important to make a stand against Facism and anti Islam sentiment, Associate Professor Peter Christoff explains the Aust Climate Change Targets and the inadequacy of the Turnbull 'Action Plan' ahead of the Paris Climate Conference; Kevin Healy blasts the Week that Was & Dr Noah Bassil gives us a considered v...

Interview with Daniel Nyberg co-author Climate Change, Capitalism & Corporations & Humphrey McQueen on Joe Hill anniversity with regulars Marcus Harrington & Kevin Healy