Rachel Evans

  • Urban poor organise in Manila

    MANILA — 3000 leaders of urban poor communities in Metro Manila met on April 25 at Trinity College, Quezon City, to declare their unity in demanding full employment and decent housing. The meeting is the

  • Strike at National Bookstore

    Strike at National BookstoreMANILA — Workers at the Philippines' largest book and stationery chain, the National Bookstore (NBS), have been on strike for over a month. Of the 1800 people employed in

  • Call for labour unity

    Call for labour unityMANILA — A press conference of six union organisations here on April 18 announced the formation of a Caucus for Labour Unity (CLU) with the aim of unifying the Philippines labour

  • Grosby workers demand jobs

    Grosby workers demand jobsMANILA — A picket of workers retrenched by the Australian-owned company Grosby GTP Footwear has been encamped outside the factory in southern Manila since losing their jobs on

  • Renewal of woodchip licences condemned

    MELBOURNE — Environmentalists have been sharply critical of the federal government's decision to renew 11 woodchipping company licences on December 22. The renewals came despite organisations such as the Wilderness Society and

  • Combative culture at poetry festival

    Ngara is an Eora Indigenous word meaning "listening". At Ngara: the Fourth Australian Poetry Festival on September 3-5, 450 people collectively listened to readings, workshops and performances. The 500-member-strong Poets Union,

  • Huge jobless numbers in Ballarat

    Huge jobless numbers in BallaratBALLARAT — Underemployment could be as high as 34.8% overall and over 50% among youth in this Victorian regional centre, according to a survey by the Ballarat University College and the

  • Woolloomooloo Radical Walking Tour

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    First Nations resistance, the militant class struggle events, women and queer organising, public housing battles and the Green Bans. All the people's history excluded from the annals of public memory because they challenge the order of colonial, then capitalist, governments.

  • Feminist Walking Tour

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Come find out in a COVID-safe tour, about Sydney's feminist history — the women, queers and the militant class struggle events excluded from the annals of public memory because they challenge the order of establishment patriarchal governments.

  • Save Our Koalas Day of Action!

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Koalas are on track to become extinct in NSW unless the government urgently acts to protect koala habitat. But they’re sitting on their hands and refusing to take action. That’s why we need to ramp up the pressure on those politicians with the power to act - NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the Minister for Planning Minister Rob Stokes. Join the Save Our Koalas Day of Action…

  • ACTION: We demand rent relief!

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    In NSW tenants are in dire need of rent relief. One in three Australians rent - some 2.5 million households. A 2019 survey showed 40 per cent of tenants are in rental stress - they pay more than 30% of their income in rent. In Sydney, one of the most expensive cities in the world, an extremely high 64% of all renters are in rental stress. This is all before the COVID19 crisis…