This statement came from the Independent Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) website

Media release: Friday 7th April, 2017

The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network urges Australian Government to work for a diplomatic resolution in Syria.

"The Australian government should adopt a policy of diplomacy to solve the ongoing conflict in Syria, rather than following the U.S. in escalating the conflict by missile or other strikes,"  said Jo Valentine, spokesperson for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN).

“The U.S. air strikes have the potential to trigger a major world war engulfing many countries.

Read more: Syria - Stop blaming, stop bombing

by Humphrey McQueen

A presentation given to Solidarity Breakfast on Radio 3CR, 4 March 2017

In introducing the second German edition of Capital, Marx refers to Hegel as ‘that mighty thinker’ who was being treated as ‘a dead dog’. Marx promises to distance himself that assessment by flirting with Hegel’s vocabulary. There’s never been a time since the publication of Capital 150 years ago this September when Marx was not also being dismissed as a ‘dead dog’.

The difference between the reputations of Hegel and Marx derives from Marx’s contributions to working people as an activist and as ‘the greatest living thinker’, to quote Engels at his graveside. Marx’s involvement with class struggles why ‘there’s life in the old dog yet.’ Yet his commitment to the weak and to the poor, to the oppressed and to the exploited, is also why forests have been felled to spread the allegation that Marxism is dead and ought to be buried along with him.

Read more: Marx as a ‘dead dog’

by Peter Curtis
Australian Education Union Branch Executive member, A.C.T.

(2014, 120 minutes)
Set in 1980s England, the film brings alive the true story of gay and lesbian activists who raised funds to help families affected by the British miners' strike. You can check out the trailer here.

I prepared this response in preparation for an event to be held by the A.C.T. Branch of the A.E.U.

Screening Pride as an A.E.U. event evokes the events that the film portrayed when a group of London gays and lesbians decide, not without internal dissent, to raise funds to assist miners in their struggle against Mrs. Thatcher’s shutting many of the nationalised pits in 1984. The Welsh village of Onllwyn on which they bestow their funds is not as ready as the Londoners had been led to believe. The arrival of the Sexual Revolution in a mini-bus is not the last tense interaction.

Read more: The movie Pride: a reflection

This article was a "Stop the War on Workers" leaflet distributed by Spirit of Eureka in a number of capital cities, March 9th.

THE WORKING PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA ARE UNDER ATTACK!

• Fair Work Commission’s decision to cut Sunday penalty rates

• Reintroduction of the ABCC

• CUB dispute

• China Australia Free Trade Agreement

• 2016 Building Code…the list goes on!

All these attacks are aimed at one thing…destroying the hard fought for pay and conditions of generations of Australian workers, and their unions!

Read more: Construction workers lead the fight!