The Guardian Podcast

Taking Issue with Privatisation

greepo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:52:48 +0000

Members of the Communist Party of Australia marched through the streets of Sydney last weekend to protest against the Rees Government and their plans to sell of a raft of publicly owned assets.

Taking Issue with the ABCC

greepo — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:36:38 +0000

On average, one building worker is killed in Australia every week. If it weren’t for unions like the CFMEU keeping employers in check, this statistic could be even worse. But thanks to Howard-era anit-worker policy, unions are finding it more and more difficult to organise on the job.

In this, the first of a three-part series, we take issue with the Australian Building & Construction Commission (ABCC) and its use of coercive powers against building workers and their unions. CFMEU National Secretary Dave Noonan talks to us about the ABCC and its role as a virtual secret police force in the building industry.

Wage, Labour & Capital

greepo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:41:47 +0000

The writings of Karl Marx are as relevant today as they were when this was written in 1847. Printed in the U.S.S.R by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in 1981, Wage Labour & Capital is a must read for anyone looking for a thorough understanding of the role and place of labour and “labour power” in a capitalist economy.

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Taking Issue with Rann’s water plan

greepo — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:04:58 +0000

While its supporters argue that Mike Rann’s state government has no choice but to build a desalination plant at Port Stanvac in the Gulf of St. Vincent, the plant’s opponents argue that its impact on the marine environment alone is reason enough to pull the plug on the project. They maintain that there is an obvious alternative. Tune in to find out more.

Taking Issue Episode 2

greepo — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:11:05 +0000

In this episode we discuss the sacking of 1850 workers by Australian company Pacific Brands.

The Guardian Podcast: Taking Issue

greepo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:42:43 +0000

The first in a new series of podcasts from the Communist Party of Australia (SA). In this episode we speak with CPA State Secretary Bob Briton about the recent bushfires in Victoria and the subsequent response from the community.

Guardian Podcast 8 June 26th 2007

greepo — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:27:25 +0000

This week’s edition of the Guardian Podcast is now available to download or stream from our ‘box’ widget on the right of the page. You can also download it via our podcast page. To subscribe to our iTunes feed click here. In this week’s edition we discuss the situation in remote Aboriginal communities and the reactionary response from the Howard government. We also talk about the relationship between the ALP and the trade union movement and we pay tribute to Cuban revolutionary Vilma Espin Guillois.

Guardian Podcast 7 June 21st 2007

greepo — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:35:39 +0000

In this week’s Guardian Podcast we speak with South Australian Correspondent Bob Briton about the United States and Australia’s complicity in the torturing of war prisoners under the US policy of ‘extraordinary rendition’. Bob also gives us some background on the way the Australian government spends it’s foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region. You can subscribe to the online edition of the Guardian here.

Guardian Podcast Episode 6 June 06 2007

greepo — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:05:29 +0000

In this week’s episode of the Guardian Podcast we preview articles on the ALP’s backdown on the total scrapping of the ‘Work Choices’ legislation, the current investigations into the deaths of the five journalists known as the Balibo Five, who were murdered in East Timor in 1975 and we briefly discuss the controversy surrounding the shutting down of anti-Chavez TV station RCTV in Venezuela.

Guardian Podcast Episode 5 30th May 2007

greepo — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:54:03 +0000

This week we discuss some issues around Sorry Day and the lack of improvements in Aboriginal helath care during the rein of the Howard Government. We discuss the political advertisements and the use of taxpayers money to spend up big prior to elections and also on the subject of health care we discuss Cuba’s role in assiting the East Timorese over recent years.

Guardian Podcast Episode 4 25th May 2007

greepo — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:46:24 +0000

In this week’s Guardian Podcast we discuss the lawsuit being lodged by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society against the Federal Government, the military expenditure of the Howard regime and the upcoming visit to Australia of the Dalai Lama. Hope you enjoy the preview!

Guardian Podcast 3 16th May 2007

greepo — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:27:30 +0000

This week’s Guardian Podcast is now available to download. This week we preview articles on the 2007 Federal Budget, the sad passing of Port Adelaide Aboriginal Elder Aunty Veronica Brodie and the rise of racist policy in Estonia. The Guardian is an independent weekly newspaper which relies heavily on donations. If you read the Guardian and would like to see it continue as Australia’s longest running Marxist/Leninist paper then please consider subscribing to the online or hard copy edition of the paper or donating to the press fund. You can click on our donation box on the right hand side of the page which will allow you to donate via PayPal. Alternatively you can visit the Guardian’s Online Press Fund.

Guardian Podcast Episode 2 10th May 2007

greepo — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:54:50 +0000

Listen to the Guardian podcast for discussion on some of the feature articles in this week’s edition. We discuss the recent May Day weekend of festivities, the new so-called ‘help-line’ set up for pregnant women by the Howard Government amognsts others.

The Guardian Podcast Episode 1

greepo — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:54:57 +0000

The Guardian Podcast is now available for download or streaming

Reds Under the Bed 2

greepo — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:16:51 +0000

In this our first episode of Reds Under the Bed for 2007 we speak with Vinnie Molina from the CFMEU on the plight of the 107 workers who have been fined huge sums under the reactionary Work Choices regime. We also take some time to speak with Jorge Navas from the HSU in Adelaide to learn more about the role of the union in the area of health care professionals. We’ll have some cool music from Alistair Hulett who happens to be performing and the Adelaide Fringe at the end of next month (March). On top of all this we will give away some very cool prizes in our first ever listeners competition.

We hope you enjoy the show and feel free to email us with any comments you have about it.

Johnno.

Reds Under the Bed…

greepo — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:49:47 +0000

This page is dedicated to the official podcast of the Communist Party of Australia (SA) ‘Reds Under the Bed’. We will be uploading shows as regularly as time permits (every month or so we hope). We hope you find the podcast enjoyable and informative.

This week we broadcast a report given to the West Adelaide Branch of the CPA on the work of Cuba’s medical brigades. The Cuban Government has more medical staff working around the globe than any other country and more than the World Health Organisation (WHO). Tune in for an interesting report and some great music from Dick Gaughan and Inti illimani.

Venceremos!