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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
tradeshallsydney.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/w...
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Workers Health Centre History
(poster by Chips Mackinolty) The Workers’ Health Centre is still going strong. It was established in 1976 in Sydney and Ben Bartlett was one of the driving forces. Chips Mackinolty and Earthworks C…
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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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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Happening in Wollongong early next year: gongcommune.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/n...
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No One Way Works (NOWW): Organisation and Struggle – Wollongong Convergence Feb 12-14, 2027
In the rivers and seas of emancipatory movement, futures of care and freedom are already being organised. Across the globe, waves of continuous struggle crash against and elude the forces of reacti…
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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
We had a good time launching it on the weekend
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And Liz and Melinda said very nice things about it which is lovely.
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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
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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 · 13/12/2025
The other thing I talked about: open.substack.com/pub/crimesof...
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The 'Muck of Ages' and the 'Scum of Humanity'
Crime, Class, Moralities of Contestation
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The other thing I talked about: open.substack.com/pub/crimesof...
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The 'Muck of Ages' and the 'Scum of Humanity'
Crime, Class, Moralities of Contestation
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hi Nate, thanks and yeah for sure - I have audio and slides. I’ll send them through shortly. I didn’t quite land everything in the talk but I think main points are there and hopefully I’ll wrote some of this up over the next couple of months in our summer. Hope you are well!
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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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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Small part of a larger story I’m trying to tease out
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
To me this story helps to illuminate areas where notions of working class environmentalism need to be developed further - namely in confronting the state.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Important stories here about the origins of health centres, proletarian health and environmentalism, and important lessons about the role of OHS law, public health as iterations of the state as mechanisms for decomposing the radical possibilities of the struggle.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The company is intransigent. The state responds slowly, and unsurprisingly in opposition to the workers, pushes a corporatist, technocratic, and managerial oriented form of OHS legislation, which which passes. Peak union body of NSW agrees to the corporatist model proposed by the state.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Importantly, the formation of workers health centres, oriented to the rank and file, contributes significantly to worker led struggles over health and environment. The circulation of information between the centres and the shop floor plays a key role in the struggle.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The class composition in both technical and social forms, generates a consistency of political composition across both “production” and “reproduction”.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Emerging from the mass labour of the steel works, and the neighbourhoods in the shadow of the stacks, this arrangement of re/production forms the basis of proletarian health struggles across each of these sites.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This strike is located within a cycle of struggle oriented to what can be understood as a form of working class environmentalism and proletarian health, emerging from shopfloor, neighbourhood and community struggles, between the mid 1970s to early 1980s
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
In 1980 there was a 4 day strike against exposure to cancer causing emissions by over 1000 coke ovens workers at the bluescope (then bhp) steelworks. Within a year there was a further 4 week strike on the same issue. Multiple measures are struggled for to improve conditions.
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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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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
Today one on class, crime and communism
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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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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
hey bluesky, I'd be grateful if you'd read this thing I wrote lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...
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Save Our History: Matewan, Memory, and the State Historical Society of Iowa | LAWCHA
I know you’re busy, dear labor history colleagues, so I’m going to put this ask right at the top even though it messes up the flow of my essay a little:
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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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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thanks! Will do
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Will it be recoded and online after by any chance?
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Working on Crimes of Class again so rereading Mattick’s the scum of humanity. Always found this but hilarious.
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Shiftlessness
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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
That first post should probably say weakness of labour struggle not class struggle, which has taken a range of forms in recent years beyond something immediately recognisable or reducible to something traditionally understood as a labour movement
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Which isn’t to let the business unions & in our case their beholdenness to the ALP off the hook, only that it shouldn’t mystify the organisational challenges faced or prevent assessing more soberly how those challenges impact the possibility of a new antagonistic class politics emerging >
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The comment at abt 25min on the causes of the weakness of class struggle & that it can’t primarily be attributed to the conniving of business unions but reflects deeper structural & organisational challenges that the far left/the class need to deal with resonates with australian context too >
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