Godfrey Moase
@godfreymoase.bsky.social
United Workers Union Director, co-founder CoPower and Overland Journal board. Activist and sometimes scribbler. Views are mine! Check out my newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/godfreymoase
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For the last day of our Subscriberthon we have set aside something *very* special: a gallery of stunning portraits of Palestinian activists by Tia Kasambalis, with an introduction by Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak.
Here’s PORTRAITS OF RESISTANCE.
Here’s PORTRAITS OF RESISTANCE.
Portraits of resistance - Overland literary journal
Tia’s Portraits of Resistance are a radical break from this assault against being a Palestinian settler in Australia. In these drawings we meet Palestinians, young and old, who found themselves holdin...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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The need for more cooperatives has never been more urgent. Great write up by @godfreymoase.bsky.social on @graceblakeley.substack.com
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate
Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The need for more cooperatives has never been more urgent. Great write up by @godfreymoase.bsky.social on @graceblakeley.substack.com
@graceblakeley.substack.com is just one of life’s good comrades. It’s a real privilege writing a piece on cooperatives for her newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate
Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@graceblakeley.substack.com is just one of life’s good comrades. It’s a real privilege writing a piece on cooperatives for her newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Capitalism is a system which exhausts people and planet. If you feel exhausted, you feel capitalism.
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Capitalism is a system which exhausts people and planet. If you feel exhausted, you feel capitalism.
So proud of what the Grill’d workers have started here. This is just the beginning.
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After paying its staff less than minimum rate for years, Grill’d buckles under union pressure
We are a movement of people, workers, union members, standing together for a just and equitable Victoria.
A Victoria where all people are respected and valued, and all working people are organised, ...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
So proud of what the Grill’d workers have started here. This is just the beginning.
www.weareunion.org.au/after_paying...
www.weareunion.org.au/after_paying...
Latest post up on the newsletter. Here’s a bit of a discussion about worker power and strategy.
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Chapter 2: The Solidarity Wedge
Part I. Understanding worker power.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Latest post up on the newsletter. Here’s a bit of a discussion about worker power and strategy.
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Union workers drive equality
Chapter One: Humanity and its Horrors Part V
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October 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
September 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Latest newsletter post. Australia’s definition of freedom of association has it all wrong and it impeded the cause of human freedom.
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Freedom and Unions
Chapter 1: Humanity and its Horrors Part III
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September 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Latest newsletter post. Australia’s definition of freedom of association has it all wrong and it impeded the cause of human freedom.
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Of course, this opens up a new form of protected industrial action where workers vote up a ban on compliance with social media policies and basically @ the dictatorship.
Australian workers are getting warnings from Australian-owned corporations for expressing opinions on US politics.
September 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Of course, this opens up a new form of protected industrial action where workers vote up a ban on compliance with social media policies and basically @ the dictatorship.
Australian workers are getting warnings from Australian-owned corporations for expressing opinions on US politics.
September 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Australian workers are getting warnings from Australian-owned corporations for expressing opinions on US politics.
New post coming Friday on freedom and unions.
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
New post coming Friday on freedom and unions.
The potential for daily life beyond capitalism
Chapter 1: Humanity and its Horrors Part II
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September 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Next post in the newsletter dropping Friday
September 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Next post in the newsletter dropping Friday
Chapter 1: Humanity and its Horrors
Part I. The horror of daily life within capitalism.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If you value the arts, creative writing and free artistic expression now is the time to subscribe to @overlandjournal.bsky.social people.
September 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If you value the arts, creative writing and free artistic expression now is the time to subscribe to @overlandjournal.bsky.social people.
This is a political attack on the free expression of writers and artists.
Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is a political attack on the free expression of writers and artists.
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By her own definition, with apologies to Douglas Adams, she should now have her office funding cut and disappear in a puff of logic
One could be forgiven for being confused about current definitions of anti-semitism.
September 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
By her own definition, with apologies to Douglas Adams, she should now have her office funding cut and disappear in a puff of logic
New post in the newsletter coming tomorrow.
September 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
New post in the newsletter coming tomorrow.
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NEW: Australia's Future Fund increased its holdings in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems by 469% in 2024, deepening Australia's financial ties with companies profiting from the Gaza genocide.
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Exclusive – Future Fund’s investment in Israeli arms firm skyrockets
Calls grow for Australia's sovereign wealth fund to divest from companies linked to Israeli atrocities
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August 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NEW: Australia's Future Fund increased its holdings in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems by 469% in 2024, deepening Australia's financial ties with companies profiting from the Gaza genocide.
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It's not a 'clash' if it's neo-Nazis storming a group of people - it is an attack. Also, it's always ok to punch a Nazi. Hope that helps.
August 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It's not a 'clash' if it's neo-Nazis storming a group of people - it is an attack. Also, it's always ok to punch a Nazi. Hope that helps.
Elon’s ongoing breakdown is quite the case study in why the capitalists themselves need liberation from capitalism.
August 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Elon’s ongoing breakdown is quite the case study in why the capitalists themselves need liberation from capitalism.
This is the last post for the Introduction where I outline the solidarity wedge itself which rests on organising at work, organising for ownership and political organising.
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Introduction Part V
Introducing the solidarity wedge
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August 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is the last post for the Introduction where I outline the solidarity wedge itself which rests on organising at work, organising for ownership and political organising.
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Whenever I hear any labour movement leader making it about themselves or any other single leader, I think of these words from The Internationale:
“No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver”
“No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver”
August 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Whenever I hear any labour movement leader making it about themselves or any other single leader, I think of these words from The Internationale:
“No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver”
“No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver”