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Socialist in Geelong
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CFMEU member, Socialist Alliance member, contributor to GreenLeft.

Australia.
Worker at Inghams Chickes, many of whom earn around $25 an hour, are demanding a 6% pay rise or $1.50 an hour to keep up with the rising cost-of-living. Inghams’ current offer is 3.5% which is essentially a pay cut.

By Nova Sobieralski
Inghams Chickens workers strike for a decent pay rise
Striking workers, many of whom earn around $25 an hour, are demanding a 6% pay rise or $1.50 an hour as a result of cost-of-living rises. Inghams’ current offer is 3.5%. Nova Sobieralski reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
September 26, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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Australians are getting dudded when our gas is sold to multinational gas companies to export overseas.

Thanks to Chris Richardson for this great graph.
September 24, 2023 at 9:19 PM
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Gate's message on climate:
-Trees are dumb
-Carbon capture is good
-I happen to invest in carbon capture
-World will continue to warm
-I'll be ok
-People in warm countries are fucked
-lets not do anything until I, er, the world, figures out carbon capture
- my ego is massive
-please tax me
Bill Gates gets real about climate change: Planting trees is ‘complete nonsense’ but the end of ...
The billionaire says he’s “the person who’s doing the most" on climate innovation and solution and trees are a distraction. “Are we science people or are we idiots?”
fortune.com
September 24, 2023 at 7:24 PM
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It's Musk mem time
September 15, 2023 at 11:52 PM
AUKUS (Australia, UK, USA,) military alliance is a failure of foreign and domestic policy, while the Australian government is spending hundreds of billions on the military, there are growing cost of living concerns due to rising rent and greed-flation with little being done.

Jim McIlroy: GreenLeft
Stop AUKUS, a danger to us all
Anti-war protesters marked the second anniversary of the secretive AUKUS pact, calling for it to be stopped. Jim McIlroy reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
September 16, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Shawn Fain the United Auto Workers president calls for stand up strikes to roll out if a union contract is not reached in the next two hours. Restoring pensions for all workers, 32-hour work weeks and additional CoL hikes, as well as job security guarantees and an end to the use of temporary workers
Live from UAW Solidarity House in Detroit, MI | Live from UAW...
Live from UAW Solidarity House in Detroit, MI UAW President Shawn Fain Livestream Update 9/14/23
www.facebook.com
September 15, 2023 at 10:47 AM
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I hate this headline, because it dishonestly portrays the subject as having changed, when what really happened was reporters & editors went along with a heroic self-mythology rather than performing scrutiny and now realize what a mistake that was, w/o owning up to it.

See: Giuliani, Rudy.
September 13, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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A Proud Boys member who was the first person to smash through the Capitol windows in the Jan. 6 insurrection was sentenced to 10 years in prison
First Rioter To Smash Through Capitol Windows Sentenced To 10 Years
Dominic Pezzola is the latest Proud Boy to find out how long he'll be in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.
www.huffpost.com
September 1, 2023 at 5:13 PM
On the 50th anniversary of the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile it is important to recognize the damage done not only by the US government but also other governments as well, Federico Fuentes write about Australia's involvement in the article below.
Labor, Coalition block Greens motion outing Australia’s role in
Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather used the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile to propose we scrutinise Australia’s role in helping the United States overthrow socialist president Salvador
www.greenleft.org.au
September 14, 2023 at 12:24 AM
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September 10, 2023 at 10:43 PM
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From Mastodon's Radical Graffiti account
"Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia."
September 2, 2023 at 2:44 AM
Alex Bainbridge wrights that 'Both the official Yes and official No campaigns for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament referendum are based on conservative agendas.'

So what position gives grass root struggles the best footing?

www.greenleft.org.au/content/soci...
September 12, 2023 at 9:31 AM
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I love these hit pieces on unison and strikes that actually just reveal how workers are in such a strong position
September 12, 2023 at 2:35 AM