Industrial Workers of the World

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Will is not the first conservative to believe himself an exile in hisown country. A sense of exclusion has haunted conservatism from thebeginning, when emigr's fled the French Revolution and Edmund Burkeand Joseph de Maistre took up their cause. Born in the shadow ofloss--of property, standing, memory, inheritance, a place in the sun--conservatism remains a gathering of fugitives. From Burke's lamentthat "the gallery is in the place of the house" to William F. BuckleyJr.'s claim that he and his brethren were "out of place," thecomfortable and connected have fashioned a philosophy of self-styledtruancy. One might say this fusion of pariah and power has been thekey to their success. As Buckley went on to write, the conservative'sbadge of exclusion has made him "just about the hottest thing in town."While John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville and David Hume are sometimescited by the more genteel defenders of conservatism as the movement'sleading lights, their writings cannot account for what is truly

New labour ie Blair & Rudd just like Margaret Thatcher and John Howard have a neo liberal outlook.

Gillard was quoted saying that they are going to bring in legislation to allow employers to spy on their employees emails. I suspect many employers do that already but it just shows how anti worker people like Rudd and Gillard are. Not only this Gillard has been egging on the Australian Building and Construction Commission to hit the CFMEU and its members on the job. The Crime - Industrial action or in the case of Craig johnston standing up for his members.

The following is from an interview with Glen Ford, editor of the online U.S. journal "Black Agenda".  Doug Henwood is the editor of the "Left Business Observer" out of New York City.  The interview was conducted on WBAI, a listener sponsored radio station in New York City.

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Office workers take notice. You are at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) from sitting immobile at your desks. A New Zealand study has uncovered the deadly details.

The study to be presented at the annual conference of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand later this month has found prolonged immobility at work is, absolutely, the most common factor shared by DVT patients.

One in three people attending an outpatient clinic reported sitting for eight hours or longer before suffering a venous thromboembolism. Office workers, IT workers and taxi drivers are amongst the absolutely most at risk according to the research from the Medical Research Institute in Wellington. Chances are, the stats are not going to change when you cross the Tasman.

For the Great Fishes sake you evolved to wander and wonder and run across the wide savanna by day and spend the evening partying, feasting (or starving), telling stories and making love. Bit of hunting here: bit of gathering there. This lifestyle capitalism forces you into does you no good at all either physically or psychically. DVT is the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein, most commonly in the legs, which may cause death if untreated.

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Who are we? The IWW is an international union over a century old. The first Australian branch was formed in Adelaide in 1907. The Wobblies were the genesis of many of today's major trade unions. Many current unions organize on the basis of wobbly philosophies and using wobbly methods. The IWW is thoroughly democratic – all delegates are rotated, recallable and unpaid. We only have one modestly paid official worldwide. Unlike trade unions, the wobblies are syndicalist which means that we believe in independent, truly democratic organizing. We believe that every workplace has the right to determine their own actions and should not be controlled by top-heavy bureaucratic union bosses.