Workers Power

SEQUR's first campaign and the anti-anti-vaxxers

14 December 2021

This week we talk to Iswed from SEQUR and CARF about SEQUR's ongoing campaign against Little Real Estate, who left one of SEQUR's members without a working bathroom for months. We also talk about the work CARF does to counter the anti-vax movement.

Save Our Bowlo and the history of the IWW in Queensland

7 December 2021

This week we talk to Robyn from Save Our Bowlo about the campaign to stop the destruction of the East Brisbane Bowls Club, a community and arts centre which the council has deemed "underused and unnattractive". We also talk to Jeff from the Brisbane Labour History Association, about the history of the revoltionary union, the IWW, and the union organising it did in Queensland (starts at 30:40).

Organising in construction

30 November 2021

This week we talked to Andy, organiser with the CFMEU, about the work he does in the construction industry to fight for workers' rights.

A good day for a strike, comrades

23 November 2021

This week it's win after win, spit hoods are banned in SA, SEQUR shut down Little Real Estate for the day, Country Road were cowed by the strike, Modi was cowed by the farmers' blockade, and that's not even all of them.

Young Workers Hub

16 November 2021

This week we talk to Shae from Young Workers Hub to talk about the work they do supporting young workers to assert their rights in the workplace.

The Proletarian Review

2 November 2021

This week we talk to Duncan Hart from Socialist Alternative about his research into The Proletarian Review, a communist publication from the 1920s in Melbourne. In our second half Duncan stays on and Iswedd from Anarchist Communists Meanjin joins us to talk about an upcoming counter-protest to the anti-vax movement.

Protecting our homes

19 October 2021

This week we talk to Diane, who is a guardian of Djaki Kundu, about the battle of the Kabi People against the Department of Transport and Main Roads to prevent the destruction of their sacred site. In the second hour we talk to Sian from SEQUR, the South East Queenland Union of Renters, about the organisation and its fight for housing.

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