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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In sad news, Ben Bartlett passed away this week. He was pivotal in the establishment of the workers health centres and contributing to the militant shop floor actions referred to here. His documentation of WHC history is indispensable. Not to mention his work in Timor-Leste and more. A big loss.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/08/2026

Australian friends, for our history map we are trying to find the location of what was 330 Castlereagh St in Sydney. It was the IWW headquarters in 1914. The street is still there, but looks like the building has gone and the numbers have changed. Does anyone know exactly where number 330 was?

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

so special to launch Crimes of Class in Canberra — I moderated with a reading child on my lap ❤️ @furiousaffects.bsky.social

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Proletarian health and working class environmentalism research and writing project level up

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Short note to say that crimes of class by Nick and I is in the world as a book, published by the excellent friends at @rosa-collective.bsky.social, available here rosapress.net/product/crimes…

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Short note to say that crimes of class by Nick and I is in the world as a book, published by the excellent friends at @rosa-collective.bsky.social, available here rosapress.net/product/crimes…

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Crimes of Class by Mark Gawne and Nick Southall is now available on the Rosa website! $25 plus shipping. Get your hands on this glorious book, typeset by Dennis Grauel and featuring a Preface by Chelsea Hart. One for the ages! rosapress.net/product/crim...

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Crimes of Class – Rosa Press

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/03/2026

#OtD 12 Mar 1977 authorities shut down Radio Alice, a radical pirate radio station in Bologna, during a rebellion in response to the police murder of Francesco Lorusso. The station had been an essential hub for workers, students, feminists & gay groups stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8419...

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ralf Ruckus in wollongong next month 1/2:

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...

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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR

The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

& friend of Rosa, Liz Humphrys says: "Essential reading for scholars, activists and the outraged, and for those who want to think more deeply about the chasm between legal notions of right and wrong and whose interests they serve."

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"...Gawne and Southall have an uncanny ability to connect the dots between personal and regional histories from below and capitalist backlash on a global scale. This book will become a classic of the Australian left."

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

friend of Rosa, @melindacooper.bsky.social says this about Crimes of Class: "...a truly moving work of political memoir and a profound reflection on the relationship between capitalism, crime and resistance..." (con'td)

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Rosa Press is very excited to announce that we will be publishing Crimes of Class by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall in March. A Sydney launch is planned for 3–6pm, Saturday March 28 at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.

Book Launch: Crims of Class. Mark Gawne & Nick Southall, published by Rosa Press. Saturday March 28, 3–6pm Frontyard Projects, 228 Illawarra Road, Marrickville. The flyer is typeset using the book's cover typeface and is on a background of pale blue, echoing the cover stock.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/12/2025

#OtD 20 Dec 1969 the funeral of Giuseppe Pinelli took place in Milan, Italy. The funeral was a mass demonstration in protest at the police murder of the anarchist rail worker as part of the strategy of tension stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1266...

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

a story of a proletarian, workers control iteration of workplace safety/environmentalism and its confrontation with the state, and a critique of OHS legislation as corporatist and technocratic while public health measures divert the struggles in the following decade

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I always really appreciated the viewpoint project. RIP Asad Haider: viewpointmag.com/author/asad-...

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Asad Haider, Author at Viewpoint Magazine

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/12/2025

#OtD 3 Dec 1916 seven members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World in Australia were sentenced to 15 years in prison for their anti-war efforts. Others were sentenced to 5 and 10 years. More about the Australian @IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e...

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Tomorrow I am giving a talk “no toxic jobs: working class environmentalism and proletarian health in the fight against capitalist toxicity at port Kembla”. I’ll be talking about workers health centres, a strike, deindustrialisation & the state. It’s 9am in Sydney & can share zoom if u are interested

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Helped write this piece for Heatwave (a new anarchist and communist publication from the US which we should support and follow). Thoughts and criticism of the article most welcome:

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

hey bluesky, if you've been sitting there thinking 'god I really need to hear some of Nate's thoughts on Marxism and labor history' then I have great news for you!!!! If not, uh, well, sorry I guess? lawcha.org/2025/03/27/w...

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Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go? | LAWCHA

I read the recent report on the Business History Conference by Michael Hilliard and Chad Pearson with great interest. I count myself among the

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Essential reading, by Bhandar and Toscano on Trump’s “real estate ontology”, the end of presumed relations btw sovereignty, territory, and property; and the place of Gaza in this naked imperium proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine

In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Not the most important part as such but the boomer-zoomer alliance comments were hilarious. >

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A— @guttermachinations.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

my favourite story on the history of Capital is Bakunin promising to translate it into Russian and then just pocketing the cash and not doing any work

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

working on a project drawing from Stefania Barca & Lorenzo Feltrin’s respective work on working class environmentalism & noxious deindustrialisation but in Wollongong. Was doing archives yesterday so here’s a few graphics & words (from The Iron Worker, Work Hazards, & Rank & File: Workers Health)

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Was prompted to look at this book again and now I thinking we should bring back letters as forum for debate etc (Also 2 dear comrades of my own gifted me this about 15 years ago and it was nice to read their messages in the cover again after all that time)

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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

“…this revolution is necessary, therefore…because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew…”

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