Solidarity Breakfast

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

Malcom X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz spoke at the Melbourne Town Hall on Oct 9th this is a part of that speech; Marcus Harrington talks to Peter Marshall fromt the United Fighter Fighters Union who is still waiting for the Victorian Government to settle their EBA; Kevin Healy ignites the airwaves with This is the Week that Was; reports from the the Economic and Social Outlook Conference which gave...

This program contains an interview with Arutchelvan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHL9S91RSYwho was the secretary of the Socialist Party of Malaysia; he is now an active member;He discusses the current events where Khalid Mohammed was arrested for posting political matters and criticisms of the current government on face book;He has not been granted bail which unusual in cases like this; Despit...

Ian Watson talks about his book "A Disappearing World, Studies in Class, Gender and Memory"; Davy Thomas goes to CFMEU to support relatives of Aboriginal people dead in Police custody; Kevin Healy lets rip on what has happened in the past week; Blak Douglas,  the first identified Dhungatti Aboriginal artist to have been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize, taks about his work and the por...

Lalitha remembers Bill Deller on the 1st anniversary of his passing; Humphrey McQueen explains how the stock market is used to rule our lives.

Dr Joe Toscano talks about why Public Interest Before Corporate Interest (PIBCI); Sam Castro talks the problem with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP); Humprey Mc Queen talks about Geoff Sharp from Arena.

Lalitha & Lyn Beaton chat with Kate Hudson General Secretary of Left Unity, UK about the Jeremy Corbyn phenonen; Dick Nichols from Green Left Weekly Europe talks through the recent Greek elections.

Clare Land has recently released her ground breaking book, Decolonizing Solidarity, looking at how supporters of indigenous struggle can prepare themselves for working with indigenous people; Rank & File marks the anniversary of the West Gate Bridge disaster ; This is the Week that Was; Bendigo Action Collective prepares for United Patrotic Front rally Oct 10 and ask for support against this fasci...

Host Lalitha Chelliah talks to a Union representative from Indian General Strike; Marcus Harrington continues his talk with union activist Davey Thomas; Kevin Healey sums up the week; Humphrey McQueen sums up neo capitalism.

 We shine a light on Australian 'Black Areas' in the Refugee detention centre system with Victoria Martin from Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) in WA; Christine Craik from Aust Assoc. of Social Workers AASW talks about the Aust Border Force Act; Dr Noah Bassil talks about how refugees are the give away that the system is broke.

Lalitha Cheliha speaks with Anton Marcus from General Services Union of Sri Lanka; Dr Mathew Mitchell on the TTP; Sue Bolton on the closure of an important Aboriginal site in Glenroy.

Prof Jude McCulloch reviews the progress toward militarising the Australain police Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia & the move to pre crime Pre-Crime: Preemption, precaution and the future; Rank & File & This is the Week That was; Lex Wotton speaks about his arrest for incitment after the death in Police custody on Palm Island.

Sri Lankan election | Jimmy O Connor CFMEU case | This Is the Week That Was | Humprey McQueen dissects Capitalism

Clare Ozich from Australian Institute of Employment Rights talks about George Brandis' "Freedoms Inquiry' out of the Australian Law Reform Commission; Steven Jolley talks up at the No Room for Racism Speak Out Melbourne 7-8-2015; Bob Carnegie about the MUA - Hutchinson Dispute; This is the Week that Was; & Dr Noah Bassil on power, imperialism & change.

Lalitha Chelia takes us to a current Malaysian corruption scandal that is causing the establishment to tremble; a Tamil electoral hopeful explains what is happening in Sri Lanka in the build up to the next Sri Lankan general election; Climate change and the policy responses in Australia with Dr Andrea Bunting.

Pacific Games, Street Medics attacked @ July 18 anti fascist rally Melb, Rank & File & the ALP turn the boats back decision inspected through speeches given by Kon Karapanagiotidis from ASRC & MP Tony Burke.