Solidarity Breakfast

Black struggles with interviews from Emory Douglas former Black Panther Minister of Culture & Khury Petersen Smith from Black Lives Matter and from Australia WAR demonstration May 1 Melb featuring Gary Foley and others. Kevin Healy This is the Week that Was included.

Annie & Kim talk to Dr Robert Bollard, author of In the Shadow of Gallipoli, about the IWW home front which was far from united behind an imperialist war; Rank & File explains why there is a memorial for the fallen workers dieing at our workplaces; This is the week that was; Sam Castro reports from Lest We Forget the Frontier War March in Canberra.

Professor Bruce Scates speaking on the impact of war, A realistic assessment of what war does to people and familiesHumphrey Mc Queen discusses Capital and Surplus Value The regular contributions by Marcus Harrington and Kevin Healy

Features: Pro-Palestinian Israeli Journalist Amira Hass & Dr Noah Bassil on the Middle East with Rank & File and This is the Week that was.

Maziboku Jara is the spokes person and founding member of the New United Front in South Africa; This organisation is gathering over 500 groups, including farm workers, to  fight for their rights. He discusses the pathway being built for all these groups to challenge the status quo that is oppressing the majority of the people in Sth Africa. Its a fight back against the ANC that according to him is favouring the white minority who continue to own the majority of the weath in Sth Africa.Madeline Rees is a British lawyer who is the secretary of the gender unit for the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR); she has spent almost 5 years in Boznia-Herzegovina during the massacres there. She has firm views about female role in politics and comments on the decision taken by the Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallstrom who refused to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. She has been attacked by somelarge manufacvtoring companies like Ikea and Volvo etc. as well as some "dignatories" in Sweden.

Annie & Kim talk to Shek, convenor of the Refugee Network Victoria, about the Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees and the wrong direction of Australian Refugee policy; Rod Quantock chats about comedy; Rank & File leaves the city to talk to the Secretary of the Mildura Trades & Labor Council; we look at the Socialist Conference over the Easter Weekend in Melbourne; Kevin Healey gives us the low down on The Week That Was; Dr Noah Bassil from Macquarie University talks about the NSW election.

Vandana Shiva in Sydney in February 2015 from Navdanya from India, a physicist spoke abouit GMO, the patenting of seeds and organising to change laws in different countries to allow farmers to own their own seeds. Regular guest Humphrey McQueen spoke on capital accumulation and why capitalism has a need to accumulate capital and how it uses the capital and its desire to increase surplus value by decreasing wages and mechanisation.Marcus Harrington speaks about class war and "war" interviews unionistsKevin Healy presents his regular a comical look at the week in politics for the past week

Annie hosts todays programme. Filmmaker David Bradbury talks about famous Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett; Rank & File reports on the latest fatality at Blackwater open cut in Queensland; Kevin Healey gives us a look at the week that was; and Dr Noah Bassil returns from London with a view on the English political scene.

Annie hosts. Lalitha Cheliath talks to Kesan Vijayan (PS Malaysia Youth Wing) about increased student activism in Malaysia; Rank File Radio's Marcus Harrington talks to a ETU member who works 26 days on and 9 days off for Chrevon's site near Barron Island; Kevin Healey gives a look at the Week That Was; and Dr Noah Bassil talks about the Middle East and the Media.

Solidarity Breakfasts feastures Lalitha Chelliah's interview with Farooq Tariq (Pakistani Workers Party); Rank in File's Marcus Harrington reports from Ballarat Eureka Celebrations; Kevin Healy reviews the week; and Andrew Kelly (East West Link Picketer) goes through the effect on people action against government and big business after the defeat of the Napthine Liberal Government in Victoria after only one term.