{"id":29913,"date":"2012-04-07T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T03:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=29913"},"modified":"2012-04-13T03:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:41:31","slug":"may-day-in-melbourne-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=29913","title":{"rendered":"May Day in Melbourne 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 \u201cfor migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace \u2013 and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights.\u201d The idea has spread through the Occupy movement. Occupy Wall Street in New York recently expressed solidarity with the proposal and called for \u201ca day without the 99%, general strike, and more!\u201d with \u201cno work, no school, no housework, no shopping, take the streets!\u201d Reactions are ranging from enthusiastic support to outraged skepticism. What form might such an action take, and what if anything might it achieve?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~ Jeremy Brecher, Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike<\/a>, Z, March 27, 2012<\/p>\n

In Victoria, ‘Labour Day’ is celebrated not in May but in March (on the second Monday). Elsewhere in Australia, May Day proper (May 1) is only celebrated in Queensland and the Northern Territory (on the first Monday). State propaganda proclaims that “Labour Day in Australia celebrates workers\u2019 contribution towards the nation\u2019s economy” while May Day is largely ignored and has been for some years. In Melbourne in 2001<\/a> a half-hearted attempt was made to revive the day but this soon ended, and for all the obvious reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This year, the VTHC will again be organising an Event on the first Sunday (May 6) following May Day, AAWL<\/a> has organised a rally at 5.30pm outside the State Library, on May 2 ASF Melbourne has organised a Sparks<\/em> retrospective<\/a> to be held at the Melbourne Anarchist Club<\/a> and I dunno what else is gonna happen on the Day (maybe you do?); a general strike, perhaps?<\/p>\n

LOL.<\/p>\n

Sparks<\/em> was published 1986-91 originally by ASF Melbourne and then the Public Transport Workers Association (PTWA-ASF) and became the most widely read anarcho-syndicalist paper in Australia with a circulation in excess of 5,000. A former editor of Sparks<\/em> will give a talk about the magazine and its impact in public transport industry in Melbourne as well as a brief history of the PTWA.<\/p>\n

Scanned copies of original front covers will be on display. Refreshments available.<\/p>\n

All workers welcome!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May Day 2012 also marks the sixth anniversary<\/a> of my blogging @ anarchobase.com. Thanks to a and D for the assist.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : May Day in Melbourne 2011<\/a> (April 27, 2011) | May Day 2010<\/a> (April 27, 2010) | May Day<\/a> (April 14, 2009) \/\/ May Day Melbourne 2009<\/a> | May Day \/ Labor Day \/ International Workers\u2019 Day 2008 \/ a sizzling BONK holiday<\/a> \/\/ Happy May Day!<\/a> (May 1, 2008) | Happy May Day!<\/a> (May 1, 2007) | Kyla Cassells, ‘Politics and meaning: Melbourne\u2019s Eight Hours Day and Anzac Day, 1928-1935’<\/a>, Marxist Interventions<\/em>, No.2, 2010 (PDF).<\/p>\n

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