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May Day 2021 is coming to Melbourne
May Day is workers day in Australia and throughout the world since 1886. This is a time when the workers movement sums up its experiences and charts its course for the next period.
An ongoing demand in Australia, is the right to belong to a union and take industrial action to defend and progress the interests of all workers. Denial of this right has helped to drive down wages and working conditions, by weakening collective organisation.
In 2021 May Day will also involve the demands for an independent foreign policy, proper, humane, and welcoming treatment for refugees and migrants, support for Australians First Nations peoples, action on the climate crisis and more.
Take part in Melbourne’s May Day activities for 2021.
May Day events
- Thursday 29 April. Wreath Laying ceremony at the Eight Hour Day monument at 53.0pm. Corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets (opposite Trades Hall).
- Thursday 29 International Solidarity Event at 6 pm. This will be at Trades Hall.
- Sunday 2 May. The May Day March. Assemble at 1.30 pm at Trades Hall. March at 2pm and return to Trades Hall to hear more speakers.
May Day 2021 in Melbourne
MAY DAY MARCH AND SPEAKERS PLATFORM:
Sunday 2nd May. Assembling at 1.30 pm, outside Trades Hall March beginning through the city begins at 2pm
Solidarity with Venezuela
When we realize that the U.S. can’t control the World?
Margaret Kimberley (Black Agenda Report 7 April 2021) considers that the world of a single superpower imposing its will on the planet has gone, except that those who hold power in the United States and the Joe Biden administration don’t want to accept it and are launching a new cold war. But the more they do this, the more they create the conditions for those targeted as the enemy, to unite against their common adversary.
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New legislation helps to extend Murdoch monopoly into digital media
By Jim Hayes
Unknown to most citizens, the Australian parliament has passed legislation to compel tech companies to pay a fee for news content. Those familiar with the issue know that this is about helping Rupert Murdoch extend his monopoly into online media. Continue reading New legislation helps to extend Murdoch monopoly into digital media
Solidarity with Venezuela Forum
Wednesday 21 April 2021
MUA: 46-54 Ireland Street, West Melbourne
Registration Link: shorturl.at/hBGKR
Face to Face starts at 7 PM at the Maritime Union of Australia – 46-54 Ireland Street, West Melbourne.
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Attack on union rights results in rising death toll
By Joe Montero
When I was working for the Builders Labourers Federation back in the mid 1980’s, part of my responsibility was to research deaths and injuries in the Australian construction industry. Continue reading Attack on union rights results in rising death toll
Shell to be allowed to avoid resource tax obligations
Contributed
At a time when Australia’s addiction to fossil fuels should be wound back, fossil fuel extractors keep on enjoying perks that rank them at the top of no tax paying corporations operating in Australia. Continue reading Shell to be allowed to avoid resource tax obligations
Chauvin trial: systemic racist police violence, not Just “bad apples”
Marjorie Cohn wrote (Truthout 2 April 2020) about the danger that the trial of George Floyd murderer Derek Chauvin is that it will promote the idea, that this killing was the result of a ‘bad egg,’ rather than the existence of a police system deeply rooted in racism. The trial has Born this out so far, and the defence has concentrated in the usual by profiling George Floyd as the stereotype of a drug affected black man needing to be held down. The trial continues.
Continue reading Chauvin trial: systemic racist police violence, not Just “bad apples”