US cables show reliance on trade unions to suppress working-class unrest in Australia
Declassified US diplomatic cables from the 1970s have revealed the intense, daily preoccupation by the American State Department and its many informants throughout the Labor Party and trade union leadership with how to contain and quash the eruption of potentially revolutionary working-class rebellions in Australia and internationally. The extremely limited media coverage of a recently-published study of the documents has focused on the revelation that Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued and constant “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s.
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Australian unions demand Sydney COVID-19 lockdown reversal
Following New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s Saturday morning announcement of stricter lockdown measures in the Greater Sydney region, unions have led the charge for many of these restrictions to be reversed. The campaign by the unions, waged alongside big business, is a stark exposure of the thoroughly corporatised, anti-working-class character of these organisations.
Inner-west Sydney COVID-19 testing station (Photo: WSWS Media)
Berejiklian announced that residents of the Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool regions the local government areas (LGAs) at the centre of Sydney’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak would no longer be permitted to leave their LGA except for work in healthcare or emergency services. In addition, the state premier announced that all “non-critical” construction would be “paused” for two weeks.
Friday, 16 July 2021, 12:16 pm
An Essential Media poll released today shows that 62 per
cent of Australians believe the Australian government should
support the effort to temporarily waive World Trade
Organisation patent rules for COVID-19 vaccines to enable
quicker and fairer access to vaccines for low-income
countries. There was majority support across Coalition,
Labor and Green voters. Only 10 per cent were opposed, with
27 per cent undecided. Full poll results including
methodology are attached.
The poll was commissioned by
Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International, the Australian
Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET), the Australian
Council of Trade Unions, and Union aid Abroad