In the early 1970s Jack Mundey led a union of builders labourers that took strike action and imposed bans on developments that were then worth around $5 billion. At the time, Jack and his union, the Builders Labourers Federation, were intensely vilified. Death threats were common. The BLF [...]
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In August Laurie Carmichael, former AMWU and ACTU leader, former president of the Communist Party of Australia and one of the architects of the accord, died. In October commemorations of Laurie’s life were held in Melbourne and Sydney. I attended the Sydney event. It was very moving and [...]
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This is my talk on “Is there common ground between identity politics and class struggle?” given at the 2018 Historical Materialism Sydney conference.
This talk is underpinned by a commitment to the global struggle for a fairer, more just world, for transformative change, for a [...]
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