Australia

Response to the views of Mia Freedman on sex work

Submitted by bounce on May 7 2013 18:16
Mia Freedman

A sex worker's response to columnist Mia Freedman's blog in which implied that she does not respect the right of women with mental illness to become sex workers.

Sparks #21

Issue of anarcho-syndicalist public transport workers' bulletin Sparks from January 1990. Importantly this was a special issue produced during the Melbourne tram lockout, where anarcho-syndicalist-influenced workers took over the tram system before bosses cut the power.

Notes for an understanding of class deals be they social democratic or otherwise

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Mar 4 2013 13:12

A few notes on the idea of class deals

Australian Capitalism: Crisis and Response

This article makes an attempt to draw the basic outlines of the general environmental, economic and social crisises enveloping Australian society, to understand their true causes and to outline a response that is both meaningful and effective to the extent that it manages to avoid setting it within the parameters of the problem, arguably the greatest pitfall of social and workplace justice movements anywhere.

No jobs and no workers? Strange contradictions of capital accumulation in Australia

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Feb 1 2013 10:31

An attempt to grasp what recent reports of both rising unemployment and a skills shortage means tells us about capital accumulation in Australia

Anarchism in Australia - Leigh Kendall

A survey of current debates in the Australian anarchist movement by Leigh Kendall, first published by Melbourne anarcho-syndicalists in April 1986.

Welfare changes and the critique of political economy

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jan 11 2013 11:47

This piece is a critique of an argument around the welfare changes put forward by prominent Australian socialist blogger John Passant and suggests an alternative way to understand them

Towards a platform for Australian class struggle anarchists

Draft text of a platform for class struggle anarchists in Australia. Aims to establish a clear basis for anarchist communist organising in Australia, particularly where using anarchist intersectionality to establish a clear link between various forms of privilege and the oppressive and unjust heirarchies they give rise to is concerned. UNPUBLISHED BY REQUEST

A new start? Welfare changes and the labour-power shortage

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jan 6 2013 02:16

An attempt to understand the changes to welfare in Australia by looking at the impact of the labour-shortage caused by the mining boom.

Debt in the banana republic

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jan 5 2013 01:09

An exploration of the reasons for austerity in Queensland, Australia and a critique of those arguments that would reduce the cause to one of 'ideology'.