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Issue No. 123 | 21 December 2001 |
The Unmaking of History
Interview: Braveheart International: Global Year in Review Unions: A Year at the Barricades Technology: Unions Online 2001 Republic: Terror Australis Economics: 2001: Annus Horribilis Campaign Diary: Melanie and Me Politics: Tony Moore's Final Word Review: You Are the Weakest Program Legal: The New McCarthyism
Unions Take Lead in Refugee Rethink Sparkie Snares Organiser of the Year Title Bosswatch Gets International Attention Bank Workers Get Serious in 2002 Qantas's Warfare Agenda Exposed Cabin Crew Stand Up for Themselves City Council's Tactics Rival Worst in the World
The Soapbox The Locker Room Trades Hall Tool Shed
The First Bastion Tom Collins' Christmas Wish
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the EditorThe First Bastion
Why are they are quiting the ALP? Leaving the grass roots far behind. Thats Why. DO NOT FORGET THE LESSONS OF HISTORY PAID IN BLOOD * Hitler.To businessmen he promised that he would control the Trade Unions. * Hitler says the German Trade Unions are the core of his opponents. * Mr Howard has recently made it clear that workplace reform is his proudest achievement ranking even more highly in his mind than tax reform The ALP leadership will not survive if it turns its back on the Trade Unions. The ALP is heading for an eventual split unless it reforms its internal practices. * It has often been remarked that the Trades Union Movement, where it does not go hand in hand with an independent political movement, democracy fails and tyrants rule. * Wage earners are in need of the foundation afforded by a powerful Trades Union Movement. Without a sound Trade Union Movement and genuine democratic political representation then exploitation increases and democracy takes a step backwards. * Without democracy within Trade Unions and Labour Political Parties any independent labor movement would be impossible, and the labor aristocracy organized in trades unions and Social Democratic Parties would be chained most tightly to the employers and forced on by its own interest to help the advancement of employer politics at home and abroad. Trade Unions and political power exercised in the interests of workers for effective use for protective laws are fundamental if deterioration of working conditions are to be avoided. Democracy should be able to rely upon a numerous army of organized trades unionists, on which rest the deepest and firmest roots of its power. Any Labour Party that ignores this will stagnate and perish. The Trade Union Movement is the first bastion of a Democratic Society. Mr I Ferguson
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