Antifascist Solidarity

'Chinese Labor’, Honesty, Melbourne, August 28, 1887.

Honesty was published from April 1887 to November 1888. It was the first anarchist newspaper in Australia, produced by the Melbourne Anarchist Club. Contributors included David Andrade, his brother Will (later well known as a radical bookseller), J.A. Andrews and Chummy Fleming.

https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=34116

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People’s History of Australia
Ep 21 – Radical Chinese workers in Australian history
November 28, 2024

'Throughout Australian history, non-white migrant workers have consistently been stereotyped as docile, submissive, and willing to work for extremely low wages. Nowhere has this been more true than for Chinese workers in Australia, who from the 19th century until the present day have been demonised for their alleged enthusiasm for undercutting white workers and happily embracing terrible working conditions.

Fortunately, these racist myths are precisely that – myths. From the arrival of the first Chinese migrants in the early 19th century, Chinese workers in Australia have an extraordinary history of rebelling, resisting, going on strike, and collectively fighting against their employers for better wages and better working conditions. Chinese workers conducted what was possibly the first strike in the history of Queensland, were active participants in the mass goldfield rebellions of the 1850s, formed unions and went on strike again and again, and consistently declared their solidarity with the struggles of working people across Australia and across the world ...'

https://www.peopleshistory.com.au/ep-21-radical-chinese-workers-in-australian-history

https://www.mup.com.au/books/drawing-the-global-colour-line-paperback-softback

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Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — #billionaires like #ElonMusk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel — avoid #taxes. Here are 10 of their strategies.

#Finance #Law #Tech #Journalism

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