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Direct Action #40 (May-June 1987)

Issue #40 of Direct Action, with an article about the Ardbride/Laura Ashley strikers breaking with the T&GWU union, YTS schemes and vocational…

Direct Action #35 (December 1986)

Issue #35 of Direct Action, with articles on privatisation, nationalisation, and workers' control, TUC "realism", print trade unionists…
People involved in green bans

Green bans people 1971-75

Historical information about many of the key individuals and groups involved in the "green bans" by Australian construction workers in the early…
Green bans map

List of green bans, 1971-1974

A list and map of green bans in New South Wales from 1971, compiled in June 1974. Green bans were refusals of construction workers to work on…
Striking nurses march, 1986

Victoria nurses' strike, 1986 - Liz Ross

The history of the second state-wide strike of nurses in Victoria, Australia against cuts and over wages, conditions and staff/patient ratios,…
Kelly's Bush

1971-1974: Green bans by builders in Australia

A history of the massive campaign of industrial action by building workers which protected the environment and local communities by enacting…
women demonstrate to save Kelly's Bush

The Kelly's Bush green ban, 1971

A short account of how construction workers saved the Kelly's Bush area of park land in Australia from development by refusing to work, and …

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