I’m glad the activists made an effort to clarify to the employees that the action is targeting the company’s contract and not the workers.
A big mistake of some activists is to overlook the importance of workers in our industries and risk alienating them or even blaming them for systematic issues. One of the great things that the Port Botany ZIM protests did was have socialist groups use MUA links in the CPA and Solidarity (+ possibly other groups?) to make sure the employees knew beforehand the reasons for the protest and that the shift-blocking protests wouldn’t impact their pay due to how their contracts worked. This meant that employees generally either approved of or tolerated the protests. We saw something different happen in Melbourne, where in later days some of the activists seemed to want to fight against the employees who were going to work (unless I misremembered). And some anti-coal activists also neglect the importance of working with coal employees, luckily some of the groups emphasise demanding the government to adopt transition plans for training coal employees for other energy jobs. That way, you’re not needlessly making enemies of the working people and allowing in-routes for bosses’ propaganda.
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The nutters are the operators of the place.
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Albanese says it’s “nonsense”, and that not sending F-35 parts to Israel is it denies the Israeli government ownership of their own actions.
What an incredibly weak excuse. He’d never use that excuse to try and explain sending weapons to Russia: no, we just sanction them.
Albanese says not sending non-lethal parts to Israel would mean that Australia withdraws from a 16 or 17 country supply chain for the F-35 aircraft.
Ok. Then withdraw. There should be no excuse for abetting genocide. Certainly not one as incredibly paper-thin as that.
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Russia is our enemy though
That’s the point. Any country committing genocide should be “our enemy”, and treated as such. The constant pro-genocide takes from Albanese and yourself are infuriating.
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I draw a hard line at genocide. There is no excuse for trading with genociders. None. Never. No nuance. Anyone who disagrees with that is a fucking disgusting piece of shit who accepts genocide. End of story.
Albanese says not sending non-lethal parts to Israel would mean that Australia withdraws from a 16 or 17 country supply chain for the F-35 aircraft.
Yes.
It would be an honour to be the first country to do so, and I hope we do it regardless of what our government demands. Just like we did when Robert Menzies told us to keep sending pig iron to Imperial Japan in 1938.
We’re not risking Australia’s future defence because of a war between two middle eastern countries
They’re risking Australia’s internal security by participating a genocide in our name. They’re risking Australia’s external defence by pretending the US is an ally and not a hostile competing imperial power. Look at how the US is treating Ukraine just like all its other proxy cannon fodder. Look how the US is treating close 5EYES partners like Canada. Look at how the US is treating us. That’s the future they’re choosing. And if that leaves us a tad more exposed to Indonesia or New Zealand invading us then it still beats the position we’re in now.
As for the laughable “contract” rhetoric, all I have to say is AUKUS subs.
Funnily enough, a certain other place did have private security who they tried to call on demonstrators. The security team were Lebanese and clearly didn’t try once they saw the protesters lol
