Workers' Liberty

Is it the industrial relations system that Howard is out to smash, or is it the industrial power of unions?

The Australian labour movement is in deep trouble. Not just the left wing, or the radicals, but the whole movement.

According to the ACTU: "Latest union membership figures show around 25% of them are in unions. Over the last two years union membership numbers increased by 24,500 members a year. Union membership currently stands at 1,902,700 members".

Bob Carnegie discusses union organisation. Read the article here.

The scale of the current crisis has as much to do with poverty and injustice as with 'nature'.

At the same meeting in which it decided to implement the disengagement from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government took an even more important decision: to complete the wall in the West Bank.

An appeal for Chinese worker activists

A Sydney group has been formed to raise money for and build links with Iraqi unions. In July a meeting initiated by Workers Liberty held at the Gaelic Club led to the formation of the Australia/Iraq Trade Union Solidarity group. Frustration with the refusal of most of the left to support the struggle of the workers’ movement in Iraq gave rise to this development.

Bosses seek longer hours, more exploitation, by Wayne Sonter, from Shorter Work Week News No. 26 Jan 2005

By Lynn Smith

Doug Henwood's book After the New Economy in review (New York, The New Press, 2003)

Reprinted from Solidarity 3/68