Solidarity Breakfast

Part 2 of an interview with an Iranian activist on the state of contemporary Iran; Dean Mighuell former ETU Victorian Branch Secretary talks to Marcus Harrington; Humphrey McQueen talks about Capitalism.

Vivien Langford interviewing Manuel Acasio Portuguese radio journalist & Peter Murphy who used radical radio during Timorese liberation struggle in1975/76 . Rank & File with Dean Mighell discusses the Prices and Incomes Accord of the 1980's. Debbie Brennan from Radical Women on Anti Fascist Anti Racist Rally & Gary Foley why we should be there.

Lalith Chelliah talks with Iranian Left Activist about the background of Iranian relations with the US over nuclear power; Marcus Harrington talks with Graham Haines about the outcomes of the historic Robe River Dispute; Lalith talks withProf Nikos Papastergiadis is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne, about Greek crisis.

Julian Burnside on the Australian Border Force Act; Rank & File part 3 Robe River Dispute; This is the Week that Was; Dr Noah Bassil on Greece & the politics of fear

Hosted by Lalitha and Lynn this edition talks to Green Left European correspondent Dick Nichols on the rise of the left in Spanish elections, Rank File features Graham Haines part of the '80s Robe River Dispute, Kevin Heally sums up the week & Humphrey McQueen talks Neo Liberalism

Renegade Economist Karl Fitzgerald from Prosper talks about the housing bubble. Criminologist and journalist, Chowdhury Rashaam Raiyan illuminates the reasons behind the Rohingya fleeing Burma and Bangaladesh and how Australia is leading the race to the bottom when it comes to Refugee justice.

Everyone in the studio including calls from Dr Noah Bassil and Humphrey McQueen on this special Radiothon show to donate www.3cr.org.au/donate

Today Robert B Riech (blog robertreich.org/) discusses the importance of unions in reducing inequality; Chris White gives a roundup of the ACTU Congress; Kevin Healy rounds up the week; and Dr Noah Bassil discusses how Egypt has been reintergrated into the US world order.

Kim Doyle & Annie McLoughlin talk to Activist Liz Ross, author of Dare to Struggle Dare to Win, about the Abbot attacks on the CFMEU; Rank & File Radio features Dave Kirner from SA CFMEU on the legal action taken against them for having an anti suicide meeting on-site; Kevin Healy gives his pithy run down of the week; John Rainford, author of A Short History of Social Democracy, talks to Annie & K...

Black struggles with interviews from Emory Douglas former Black Panther Minister of Culture & Khury Petersen Smith from Black Lives Matter and from Australia WAR demonstration May 1 Melb featuring Gary Foley and others. Kevin Healy This is the Week that Was included.

Annie & Kim talk to Dr Robert Bollard, author of In the Shadow of Gallipoli, about the IWW home front which was far from united behind an imperialist war; Rank & File explains why there is a memorial for the fallen workers dieing at our workplaces; This is the week that was; Sam Castro reports from Lest We Forget the Frontier War March in Canberra.

Professor Bruce Scates speaking on the impact of war, A realistic assessment of what war does to people and familiesHumphrey Mc Queen discusses Capital and Surplus Value The regular contributions by Marcus Harrington and Kevin Healy

Features: Pro-Palestinian Israeli Journalist Amira Hass & Dr Noah Bassil on the Middle East with Rank & File and This is the Week that was.

Maziboku Jara is the spokes person and founding member of the New United Front in South Africa; This organisation is gathering over 500 groups, including farm workers, to  fight for their rights. He discusses the pathway being built for all these groups to challenge the status quo that is oppressing the majority of the people in Sth Africa. Its a fight back against the ANC that according to him is...

Annie & Kim talk to Shek, convenor of the Refugee Network Victoria, about the Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees and the wrong direction of Australian Refugee policy; Rod Quantock chats about comedy; Rank & File leaves the city to talk to the Secretary of the Mildura Trades & Labor Council; we look at the Socialist Conference over the Easter Weekend in Melbourne; Kevin Healey gives us the low down on...

Vandana Shiva in Sydney in February 2015 from Navdanya from India, a physicist spoke abouit GMO, the patenting of seeds and organising to change laws in different countries to allow farmers to own their own seeds. Regular guest Humphrey McQueen spoke on capital accumulation and why capitalism has a need to accumulate capital and how it uses the capital and its desire to increase surplus value by d...

Annie hosts todays programme. Filmmaker David Bradbury talks about famous Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett; Rank & File reports on the latest fatality at Blackwater open cut in Queensland; Kevin Healey gives us a look at the week that was; and Dr Noah Bassil returns from London with a view on the English political scene.

Annie hosts. Lalitha Cheliath talks to Kesan Vijayan (PS Malaysia Youth Wing) about increased student activism in Malaysia; Rank File Radio's Marcus Harrington talks to a ETU member who works 26 days on and 9 days off for Chrevon's site near Barron Island; Kevin Healey gives a look at the Week That Was; and Dr Noah Bassil talks about the Middle East and the Media.

Solidarity Breakfasts feastures Lalitha Chelliah's interview with Farooq Tariq (Pakistani Workers Party); Rank in File's Marcus Harrington reports from Ballarat Eureka Celebrations; Kevin Healy reviews the week; and Andrew Kelly (East West Link Picketer) goes through the effect on people action against government and big business after the defeat of the Napthine Liberal Government in Victoria afte...