Kurdish community centre launched
Peter Boyle reports on the opening of a newly-renovated Democratic Kurdish Community Centre in Sydney’s West.
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Peter Boyle reports on the opening of a newly-renovated Democratic Kurdish Community Centre in Sydney’s West.
Photo: Rojava Solidarity — Sydney/Facebook Australian groups participating in the international campaign for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned for 22 years in Turkey, held a webinar on April 16. Guest speakers were Clare Baker from the Unite Union in Britain, former Icelandic member of parliament Ögmundur Jonasson, Australian historian John Tully and Kurdish-Australian journalist and former trade union organiser Mansour Razaghi. The webinar was introduced and chaired by Sarah Hathway, an organiser with the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association. The webinar ...
The Unite Union has been instrumental in getting the British Trade Union Congress (TUC) to support the Free Ocalan Campaign. The webinar is organised by Australians For Kurdistan, Rojava Solidarity — Sydney, Solidarity With Rojava Network (WA) and Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society. Baker spoke to Green Left a week out from the webinar. Why is it important for the trade union movement to take up the campaign to free Abdullah Öcalan? The trade union movement has a long and proud history of supporting the struggles of workers and oppressed people around the world, we have fought for t...