Activists took to the streets in Sydney at the March in March raising a number of聽issues including Aboriginal rights, refugee rights, to stop WestConnex, to save Sydney College of the Arts, to stop Coal Seam Gas聽and to defend penalty rates.
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Residents, unionists and supporters marched and rallied on March 19 in Millers Point, to protest the continuing eviction of remaining public housing tenants of the Point, Dawes Point and the iconic Sirius Building. The event, which attracted about 200 people, was sponsored by the Millers Point Community Working Party and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).
鈥淭he fight to remain in our community goes on. The fighting spirit of the elderly, the frail and the vulnerable continues the struggle,鈥 publicity for the action stated.
Massive mobilisations involving 1 million people across Brazil and a mood for general strike unlike anything seen in some time marked March 15, as various organised sectors came onto the streets to protest a packet of pension and labour聽reforms proposed by the government of President Michel Temer.
A public forum on March 17 discussed the implications of Melbourne City Council's proposed amendments to Activities Local Law 2009.
The changes would broaden the definition of 鈥渃amping鈥 to mean people currently sleeping rough could be forcibly moved on by police and face fines for possessing a piece of cardboard or bedding. The city of Melbourne would be effectively criminalising homelessness.
The childcare workers鈥 strike on International Women鈥檚 Day caused me to reflect on the long journey towards equal pay and my personal experience over 50 years of my working life.
My first job as a student was as a conductor on Sydney buses from 1964 to 1966. Bus conductors and teachers were the only jobs that paid women the same rates as men, because there were 鈥渕anpower鈥 shortages in these industries. However, it was not until late 1966 that women conductors could be promoted to drivers.
The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) was dealt another embarrassing blow on March 21.
The Federal Court dismissed all claims against the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) after finding prosecutors had made a deal with a confessed blackmailer to give evidence for the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) in return for staying out of jail.
On Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal聽readers can find an interview with leading ecosocialist voice Daniel Tanuro as well as聽articles looking at the ongoing fallout of the Brexit vote聽and the origins of arguably the most famous slogan in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!"
You know how it is when you go to the movies. Sometimes the sequel has a bigger impact than the original.
The announcement by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that she would bring forward proposals for a second referendum on Scottish independence may prove another example of this phenomenon.
There is a real feeling across Scotland, in Westminster and the media, that this time the Yes side could win and Scotland could break from the 鈥淯nited Kingdom鈥.
The federal Labor Party decided on March 21 to tip the scales dramatically in favour of Adani鈥檚 $22 billion coalmine in Queensland when it agreed to support the Coalition鈥檚 bid to in favour of the corporations.
Here we go again. The second version of the Omnibus bill that the Turnbull government is trying to drive through parliament 鈥 the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017 鈥 promises yet more savage attacks on welfare recipients and the working poor, and we haven't even seen the 2017鈥18 budget yet.
One hundred years ago, on March 14, 1917, the Social Democratic Interdistrict Committee (Mezhrayonka), supported by the Petersburg Committee of Socialist Revolutionaries, issued the following appeal to soldiers to elect representative committees all along the chain of command, for officers to treat soldiers respectfully and asserted the Soviet's primary influence over soldiers by stating that they should obey only Duma commands that did not contradict Soviet resolutions.
Foreign Correspondent鈥檚 鈥淰enezuela: A nation on the brink鈥, screened on the ABC on March 21 was a straight out piece of US State Department propaganda.
It was also more evidence of the ABC鈥檚 rightward trajectory under ex-Murdoch executive and CEO Michelle Guthrie.
鈥淰enezuela is a disaster,鈥 reporter Eric Campbell and producer Matt Davis begin. 鈥淚t has the biggest oil reserves on the planet. But instead of living like Middle Eastern sheiks, many Venezuelans are on the brink of famine.
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