syndicalism - IWW and SAC -Dave Kerin n Gabriel Kuhn 2009 - Reason in Revolt

Recorded on 27 November 2009, at Trades Hall, Melbourne for the "Reason in Revolt" project - a fantastic source for the unsung history of social change in Australia. find out about them at: http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/index.html Reason in Revolt publish under a "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Australia License" to be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ A discussion with Dave Kerin and Gabriel Kuhn on syndicalism in Australia and Sweden. It mainly focuses on the experiences of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in Australia but also makes some comparison with the case of the SAC (Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden, an anarcho-syndicalist federation). Topics include: History of the IWW in Australia; experiences of the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) with green bans (in the 1970s) and deregulation (in the 1980s); Union Solidarity - an organisation coordinated by Dave Kerin in the 2000s in Melbourne which mobilised unionists and community members to set up picket lines and other actions in support of aggrieved workers; aims, tactics and philosophy of the IWW; the principles of SAC; the relevance of syndicalism today and in the future for unionism and activism in anti-globalisation, global justice, and climate change movements; developing a worker-owned social sector; and the relationship of syndicalist unions to political parties.