Trade unions have been part of the worker’s struggle in Australia for longer than Australia has been a unified state. Post-invasion and colonisation, unions played a vital role in struggles for fair compensation, suffrage, workplace safety, and worker’s rights, and this continued after federation and into the 20th century. While not explicitly socialist organisations, theContinue reading “The Workers, United – A case for anarchist participation in mass unions.”
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Socialism Sundays!
From July onwards Geelong Anarchist-Communists will be hosting a monthly discussion group on socialist texts on the last Sunday of every month. For the first six months we’ll be running through introductory topics such as capitalism, the state, unions, imperialism, feminism, racism, strategy and organisation. All are welcome and no prior reading is required. WeContinue reading “Socialism Sundays!”
Francesco Fantin and Italian anarchism in Australia
Francesco Giovanni Fantin was an Italian anarchist who migrated to Australia in 1924. Less than twenty years later, in November 1942, he was murdered by a fellow detainee in Interment Camp 14A, Loveday, South Australia. Born in 1901 in the small town of San Vito in Northern Italy, Francesco Fantins life was exemplary of a number of migrant anarchists to Australia and their efforts to continue the anti-fascist and workers struggle abroad.
Anarchist Communist Federation - Geelong 