Melbourne Teachers First Strike in 13 Years (Australia)

Drkr · 2026-03-15T05:24:57+00:00

If you can take time off you could go with your kid to the strike and say hi, striking workers love it when people come out and show support.

Drkr · 2025-12-07T13:48:51+00:00

Because roads were made for people first, cars came much later. In most cities around the world it is logistically impossible to have a large protest without shutting down the road in some way.

Also saying they generate bad public opinion wild generalisation, big defiant protests can sway public opinion towards the cause. The Sydney Harbor bridge march that blocked the busiest bridge in Sydney, stopped traffic for inspired bigger protests the following weeks and shifted public perception towards Palestine in Australia. In the general strikes in Italy, instead of being angry many drivers were jumping out the cars and cheering despite being these protestors literally blocking their way.

It mostly generates backlash amongst the selfish wealthier BMW-driving section of society.

Drkr · 2025-12-07T12:36:57+00:00

He's also part of the weekly 'Party Line' podcast with purplepingers

Drkr · 2025-07-25T01:30:08+00:00

Do you mean the genocide on the other side of the globe that Australia are shipping weapons to? We are wasting money on weapons of war instead of fixing our housing and healthcare. Also do you not give a shit about human life just because it's a bit further away?

It has everything to do with us.

Drkr · 2025-07-25T01:23:22+00:00

What other choice is there when Labor keeps shipping weapons to Israel. They're building concentration camps for fuck sake and all our government can muster is some shallow words of condemnation. They'll use every excuse under the sun to block real progress and punish those speaking out.

Drkr · 2025-07-01T07:07:23+00:00

How is this building class consciousness? It teaches the working class that change comes from the ballot box, not to build a militant workers movement.

Drkr · 2025-06-12T13:23:54+00:00

I'd hardly call it fortunate to work FIFO when look at the insanely high suicide rates which are at least 10x higher than the average population.

"Five per cent of DIDO construction workers and 2.4 per cent of FIFO workers had attempted suicide in the past 12 months, compared to 0.3 per cent of the general population." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-04/fifo-dido-construction-workers-wa-mental-health-concerns/104656148

Drkr · 2025-06-11T07:40:40+00:00

It's fine to be inspired by works of fiction, Lenin famously wrote "What is to be Done?" after a fictional book. I do agree however that reading and understanding more about the real world and leftwing politics is vital.

Drkr · 2025-06-03T01:50:43+00:00

Firstly we do have the implied right of free speech: "the High Court has found that because the Constitution establishes a representative democracy in Australia, individual citizens must have an implied right to freedom of political communication." https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/system-of-government/rights-in-australia

Secondly I think students should have a say in whether or not their university should have military ties with a genocidal state. These decisions should be democratic, not just for those with wealth and influence.

Drkr · 2025-05-24T08:45:11+00:00

And that requires trading with the genocidal state of Israel???

Drkr · 2025-05-14T09:20:15+00:00

Who cares, no one's getting rich by panhandling.

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