182 Barkly Street Footscray Post Office
The community cavalcade starts here; called by CEPU members Postal workers and locals.
The Delivery centre will be closed and moved to West Sunshine in July.
Saturday May 10th 10.30am
Posties State Secretary Joan Doyle spoke about being refused right of entry by Managers; the bosses plans to casualise workforce, cut pay by 15% an hour when they employ new starters on 4 hours a shift; the turn over of staff will thus see a reduction in quality of service by wrong deliveries and delayed mail.
Source: Union Solidarity

This coming week is the anniversary of the Paris Comune. Here we reproduce a short pamphlet to remind working people of our world history. It is being produced by some members of the Melbourne Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, PO Box 145, Moreland VIC 3058.

Hard copies will be distributed at a commemoration organised by the @narchist Age Weekly and the www.seditioncharter.org crew outside the French Consuls Melbourne Office 150 Queen Street, Melbourne (cnr- Bourke & Queen Sts) 12.30pm Wednesday 28th March 2007. Roll up and collect your own copy!!

A brief history of the world's first socialist working class uprising.

The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own interests based on workers' councils. They could not hold out, however, when more troops retook the city and the rich ordered the massacre of 30,000 workers in bloody revenge.

May Day 2007
National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers!

A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and
justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building
new civil rights movement!

http://www.MayDay2007.org

Points of Unity

- No to the anti-immigrant legislations from Congress
- No to militarization of the border
- No to criminalization of immigrant communities
- No to the planned immigrant crackdown across the country
- No to the guest worker program
- No to the Employer Sanction

- Yes to amnesty for undocumented immigrants

Hello friends of the Spanish Revolution,

To celebrate the 70th Annniversary of the beginning of this special time in history, some postgraduate students from the Department of Political Science at Melbourne University gathered at Baretto's Cafe, Grattan St., on Wednesday 19th July 2006. The following motion was put to the gathering:

"We honour those who were killed and wounded, their families, collectives, unions and descendants and all those who struggled and continue to do so for the cause of land and freedom." The motion was passed unanimously.

The students then proposed a toast to those who, in 1936-39 demonstrated that a worker - and peasant - controlled society was possible. Most drank coffee whilst a minority drank water in honour of the Spanish peasants and working class who found coffee too bourgeouis.

Justice for Ciaron O'Reilly and the Pit Stop Plowshares

PIT STOP PLOUGHSHARES VIGIL

Friday 14th 12.30 - 1.30 pm
Outs ide Consulate General of Ireland
400 George St Sydney

Cnr King and George Sts

Before the illegal invasion & bombing of Iraq, five
members of the pacifist Catholic Worker movement made
their way into Shannon Airport and non-violently
disarmed a U.S. navy war plane in the early hours of
February 3rd. 2003. Their actions were inspired by the
vision of Isaiah 2:4 to 'beat swords into
ploughshares.'

The Pit Stop Ploughshares Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop,

Today at the IR Rally in Melbourne approximately forty members of the "General Strike Block Fiesta" met at the Bourke St Mall to call for a General Strike and a real campaign of industrial action to defeat the IR Laws.
A nice position was found for the block in front of the stage. They carried placards such as "General Strike", "More strike - less talk", "It worked in France - strike!". As we waited for the rally to begin we warmed up with drums, whistles and chants. Various soccer chants and even the odd Cliff Richard song were adapted into calls for a General Strike. Soon the rest of the marches arrived and along with them came a veritable sea of ALP and Union Leadership hacks. Bracks, Burrows and Beazley all took to the stage to lecture the crowds on how voting for the ALP at the next election is their only hope of salvation. Throughout these speeches members of the block heckled and kept up their chants for a General Strike. This succeeded in bringing the wrath of various slick and scary looking “Young Labor” types who attempted to cover our signs from the cameras with their ALP signs, manhandling a few of the block and telling us to “get a job” and other sophisticated strategies. One hack told me to shut up during Brack’s lame speech on the grounds that it was a “privilege to hear the Premier”. Despite this harassment and the wave of ALP electioneering from the stage ourspirits remained strong.

About 1 month ago, a para military siege of 3000
police was had on a demonstration of 300 in Atenco,
Mexico. The demonstration was defending an
established market space for indigenous flower sellers. About
180 people where arrested and jailed, 2 people killed,
houses raided and 39 out of 40 women arrested where
raped or assaulted.

Only 2 weeks after this, another para military
operation on a teacher’s strike of about 750 000
occurred in Oaxaca, Mexico. Here, it is estimated
that between 4 and 11 people where killed, including
children, around 100 people injured, with countless

http://www.con-census.org/

http://www.resist.com.au/forum/

You can refuse to take part in the upcoming Census. Why?

Many people feel uneasy, frustrated, and even helpless with our involvement in the illegal war in Iraq, our treatment of Asylum Seekers, the recent introduction of the new Anti-Terrorism and Sedition laws, and other post-9/11 related events at home and abroad.

Witnessing death, destruction and human suffering day after day, compels us to seek a change.

Our government hasn't been listening. Instead of attending to our needs - the reason why it was elected - the government continues to act outside of our interests and many people are suffering as a direct result.

Friday June 30, 12 noon at CCI 180 Hay St
Which employers are using the new IR laws to undercut wages and
conditions? Join our ‘Scum Bag Employer’ tour of Perth, lead by a Perth
comedian and have a laugh with us!
unionswa

Source: The West Australian - Employers are being urged to sign up
workers on five-year Australian Workplace Agreements on the eve of the
next Federal election in a bid to circumvent Labor's plan to abolish
the individual agreements.

Leading business groups said yesterday that companies and employees
could protect themselves against Kim Beazley's industrial changes for