The Workers Solidarity Network meets regularly and would like your involvement.
-> Workers Solidarity Network Meeting, 2pm Sun 27 Feb, at Jura.

Sydney Anarchist Summer School will be an educational conference and convergence happening on the 18th-20th February 2011, at Jura Books, Black Rose Books and other community venues in Sydney (to be confirmed). Anyone is welcome to come and learn and be part of the discussion.

The summer school is being organised by a collective of people with backgrounds in radical reading groups and student environmental groups, and various anarchist collectives in Sydney.

There will be three days of workshop and forums on different aspects of anarchist theory and practice. Some current topics that are proposed are: classical and modern anarchist theory, autonomous Marxism, the overlap and differences between anarchism and socialism, mutual aid, anarchist influence and involvement in social movements, and different streams of anarchist thought and action.

The organising collective would like to hear your ideas on what you would like to see happen at the convergence, what topics you would be keen to learn about, and to invite you to submit workshops that you can run. You can submit your ideas and workshop plans by emailing anarchistsummerschool [at]gmail.com or by submitting a short form at
http://anarchistsummerschool.weebly.com/

Interested folks are also invited to join the organising collective. The collective meets weekly to organise things like venue, program content and workshops, and food.

On the final day of Summer School, anarchist groups and collectives are invited to an assembly on the anarchist movement in Australia, where groups can exchange ideas and plan new ways of working together in the future.

And it's all FREE!

See you in February!

http://anarchistsummerschool.weebly.com/

Come to the monthly Workers Solidarity Network (WSN) meeting. Discuss ideas and actions around building networks of rank and file militants and community allies. The aim of which is creating genuine democratic control of our workplaces, outside of hierarchical business/corporate and union controls.

The Juran People's Committee for Propaganda & Culture presents another film screening and discussion afternoon. This time we'll be screening 'Rocking the Foundations: A Film by Pat Fiske on the NSW Builders Labourers Federation 1940-1975'.
"An outstanding historical account of the Green Bans first introduced by the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation in the 1970s in response to community demand to preserve inner- city parkland and historic buildings. One of the first women to be accepted as a builders labourer, filmmaker Pat Fiske traces the development of a quite singular union whose social and political activities challenged the notion of what a union should be."

Construction worker from South Australia facing six months in jail. He has been charged with not attending an interview with the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). Ark was working on the Flinders University site in Adelaide. Conditions were so bad that workers drew up a petition calling for safety improvements, on a handtowel. One by one workers from the site were called before the ABCC.

The penalties for those who don’t cooperate with ABCC investigations are frightening - fines of up to $22,000 for things like stopping work to make sure workers are safe and jail for up to 6 months if you don’t answer their questions.

His next court dates are 15, 16, and 18 June. Nationwide demonstrations planned.

Initiative of anarchists and antiauthoritarians for information, discussion, and coordination of actions in solidarity.

NEW TIME - 6pm TUES 8th June

ome and join in a new reading group at Jura. The first book is Malatesta's 'Anarchy'. It's short and copies are available for loan from the Jura library. It's also online here: http://libcom.org/library/anarchy-malatesta and in the libraries of UWS, Macquarie Uni and Sydney Uni. In 'Anarchy', Malatesta seeks to explain the fundamental tenets of, and provide a persuasive argument for, his version of anarchism. The text has been published in more than fifty-five editions since 1892. Read it and come along to discuss it, or just come along - someone will give a short summary of the book to start the discussion.

Jura is hosting a special talk on "Anarchist workplace organising in Aotearoa New Zealand".
Simon is a unionist and anarchist organiser from across the
Tasman. He will talk about his experiences in a number of successful
worker-run organising campaigns:
- Supersize My Pay youth rates campaign
- Warehouse - organising a retail chain for the first time in 20 years
- Pak n Save - organising workers in a company owned by a right wing libertarian think tank
Discussion will follow around the questions of being an anarchist and
an organiser; organising with, without and despite trade unions; and
how will workers build a revolutionary movement to save the planet.
> Anarchist workplace organising in Aotearoa New Zealand, talk and discussion, 6pm, Thurs 29th April at Jura.

Seeing through Empire’s new clothes is a conference that will be held from September 12-13, 2009 at the Redfern Community Centre in Sydney.29 Hugo Street, Redfern. 5 minutes walk from Redfern Station.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLG_enCH314CH314&hl=en&t...

The conference is free to attend, however we would appreciate donations to help cover the costs of the venue and transportation.

Join the facebook event as well: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135405350308&ref=share

We will aim to critique the wave of responses to capitalism’s current predicament. It is an opportunity to collectivelly analyse it’s ‘new clothes’. As ordinary people ourselves, it is a chance to strategise together for solidarity with emerging and ongoing struggles for workers’ autonomy and control, peoples’ freedom of movement, sustainability, sovereignty and self determination.

For more information and to see the full program: http://crisisconference2009.wordpress.com/

What form should anarchism take in the 21st century? What relevance does the last 150 years of anarchist history have? What's the difference between anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism? What do anarchist ideas have to offer in light of the current economic and climate crises? What about the tensions between employment, unemployment, and re-employment? Come and consider these questions with us (and raise more) at the first of a series of Jura Talks - Left Libertarian Discussions. Our first talk is on 'Anarchism in the 21st Century'. Sid Parissi will give a half hour presentation, and then there will be political discussion for an hour or so. Hope you can join the conversation.

The Sydney Class Struggle Discussion Circle is an open coming together of workers, students and unemployed from different backgrounds and class struggle political tendencies. It is a meeting place open to all who wish to break down the barriers of political isolation and discuss and debate political question from radical perspectives in a fraternal atmosphere.

The goal of the Sydney Class Struggle Discussion Circle is the political clarification of its participants. The discussion of the group thus seeks to analyse the current struggles of the working class, draw out and reappropriate the positions and historical lessons of the revolutionary workers movement and to develop a revolutionary perspective to address the challenges facing the working class and humanity as a whole today against exploitation, oppression and the horrors of capitalism.

Meeting details:

Topic: The Economic Crisis: Class Responses and Solutions
Where: Jura Bookstore, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
When: Sunday, 28/06/09, 2pm
Additional information: Short presentation to be given, followed by a couple hours of open discussion

All welcome!

For more information, questions or anything else please contact:

Nic
Email: n.rossi[at]live.com.au