Solidarity Breakfast

Sydneysiders have spat the dummy when it comes to the removal of trees for developers dreamings. They stood up for nature last week in a clarion call warning Australian's what is at stake and how they can become heros for nature.Solidarity reporter Don Sutherland gives us a view of the ACTU NextGen Conference - it was all about a campaign to change the laws that bind us.Kevin Healy brings us This is the Week that Was.The Watirna Caravan Park evictions gives a new complexion on the war on affordable housing.

The Respect Campaign. We look at perspectives on the campaign to bring Aboriginal Australia under the control of the Australian Constitution: has the Australian non-indignous community done enough to be able to make a fair deal with Aboriginal people. We speak with filmmaker Melanie Hogan about her film Kanyini made ten years ago and about to be re-released on iTunes (June 28) which is about the issues for Aboriginal people when it comes to moving forward in harmony in this country. We follow this with a powerful speech by Uncle Les Coe a Dubbo man who left the recent Uhluru meeting. He gives his reasons.We move on to This is the Week that was.Then Humphrey McQueen gives a fablous account of the six mainstream critques of Marxism and gives his score.

We remember lost comrades - tributes to Trevor Grant, and Ellen Jose and John Clarke tells a joke.Big issues: Australian Unemployed Workers Union and Fair Go for Pensioners bring the social security scandal to our attention.  Sally McManus (ACTU) and the call for worker action.We hear some of the speeches that made our year Sawah Samahi at the No Netenayhu rally and Troy Gray (ETU) at Enough is Enough Rally

Spain's Left Vote: Dick Nichols goes through the vote for Sanchez back to top job in centralist Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) after the establishment denied influence of Podemos http://links.org.au/catalonia-versus-spanish-state-battleground-independence-referendum.National Wages Case: Don Sutherland talks about the significance and role of the National Wages Case. He asks the question is the system broke?Vic Govt Public Housing Raid: the Victoria Minister in charge of Public Housing Martin Foley sells off public housing estates in a Developer win fall. We talk to Steve Jolly about a fight back.

RALLIES II WORKERS RIGHTS II WEEKLY ROUNDUP II ACTIVIST & THE LAWWe go to the National Union of Students' day of action in response to rising fees and lowering standards at Australian Universities after the Federal BudgetWe go to the Fair Go for Pensioners Rally responding to devasting attacks on all recipients of welfare payments after the Federal Budget.Don Sutherland talks about workers and the failure of the budget to reverse the trends already disempowering workers and what can be done about it.This is the Week that Was.Rob Starry at the launch of MALS and Amensty International new activist legal support network.

Amanda (Mandy) King & Fabio Cavadini from Frontyard Films talk about their film Time to Draw the Line documenting the history of Australia's shameful stance to the marinetime boundary between the two countries in pursuit of gas and oil reserves.Stephen Langton calls for the sacking of Amanda Vanstone from 'our' ABC.Kelli Whitmore gives an update on Team Doyle's #nohomelessban in the Melbourne CBDThis is the Week That Was.Humphrey McQueen on the upcoming anniversary of Das Kapital and the relevance for today.

Emily Howie (Human Rights Law Centre) looks at Australian State Governments encroachment on public ability to protest.Jeff Fielder (Fair Go For Pensioners) talks about the Budgets affect on housing affordability.This is the Week that Was from Kevin Healy.Sally McManus at Feminism in the Pub.

International Workers' Day celebrations in Melbourne - vox pop, speeches, the choir and chants.HACSU rallied on Victorian Parliament steps in the middle of the week to call for a halt to privatising disability services for the sake of consumers and workers.This is the Week that Was for Kevin HealyCultivating Murder about land clearing, climate change and murder in NSW. Showing at ACMI.

Save Victoria Market from Melbourne City Council development plans rally held on April 21 brough a diverse set of people together against plans to turn Melbourne's fresh food market into a fine food and wine entertainment precinct. Stall holders have joined the National Union of Workers in an Australian first to combat what they see as social and economic vandalism.Don Sutherland lends his expert eye over the meaning of Workers Unite as we finish a week of May Day celebrations around the world.Shane Howard gives us an update on community action against the use of Killarney Beach in the Western District of Victoria as a commerical training ground for race horses. This is a fight for public rights to public land over commerical interests bullying their way to a "free lunch".Speakers Simon Chapman and Jonica Newby at the the Sydney March for Science from a report from Vivien Langford.

The mass marches in the US is part of a ground swell of American resistance to Trump. We hear some eyewitness accounts.The Walk for West Papua is walking the 73 km from Geelong to Footscray the distance between West Papua and Australian Territory. They are talking to communities on the way about the genocide on our doorstep. We talk to Rebecca who is one of the walkers for an update.Kevin Healy puts a sycthe to the week.Humphrey McQueen mixes Chinese modern debt with the 100 year anniversy of the publication of Das Capital.