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25/06/2026

Celeste Liddle on the necessity of an international workers movement, at our Class Struggle for Indigenous Liberation panel.

21/06/2026

Arc Up thanks you for coming to our event! We hope you enjoyed it despite the typical melburn weather, it was great to meet so many people with similar commitments. Thanks to our speakers Kalimna from Blak Nurses and Midwives ANMF VIC and Celeste Liddle public, you were both funny and insightful, we loved hearing about your stories and experience. Thanks also to Teachers and School Staff for Palestine - Vic Anarchist Communist Federation - Melbourne for stalling, AuntyAlmaTs GatheringPlace for the space and 3CR 855AM for audio recording💖

18/06/2026

What to expect if you’re coming this Saturday❣️ Attendee Info🎟️

Ticket check-in: 12.30–1pm
Panel discussion starts: ~1pm

About our venue: Aunty Alma Thorpe’s Gathering Place at Dardi Munwurro in Preston was opened in honour of Aunty Alma Thorpe, a strong Gunditjmara woman and leader in Aboriginal healthcare.

Dardi Munwurro is a specialist Aboriginal family violence service. Delivering programs to break the cycle of inter-generational trauma in Aboriginal families and communities.

Image of the venue and the outdoor marquee we’ll be under on Slide 2. Dress for 13°C, partly sunny weather!

After the event please feel free to hang around and have chats with people, grab a hot drink and a bite to eat.

There will be a few stalls by rank-and-file unionist organising projects to check out too :)

09/06/2026

Access info! 13 tickets left💖

The panel discussion will take place outdoors in the large undercover marquee.

Public transport:
Buses 552, 553 have stops on High St.
~10 min walk from Regent Station on the Mernda Line
~10 min walk from Wood St/Plenty road tram stop on 86 line.

Parking free on the main road during our event, plenty of parking on side streets, also car park behind Preston Hotel across the road.

Enter from High St. Location features a flat entry. There are ramps for bathroom with wheelchair accessible door frame.

Stay home if you’re sick or if you’ve been exposed to someone who’s sick. We will also have some N95 masks available.

We’ll have some snacks, tea, cold drinks there. Cafe will be open for coffee on donation.

No remote attendance sorry!

07/06/2026

📣Speaker bio for our panel event - Class Struggle for Indigenous Liberation?

Kalimna Jackomos is a Yorta Yorta Erub, Zenadth Kes Winyah registered nurse, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) member and job rep. She currently works part time within an APS Regulator as a clinician and part time for Women’s ACCO in health advocacy. She founded and convenes of rank-and-file, member-led ANMF Vic Blak Caucus .

Seats are limited, book your tickets via link in bio🔗

03/06/2026

📣Speaker bio for our panel event - Class Struggle for Indigenous Liberation?

Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) as well as a freelance opinion writer, social commentator and public speaker. Her writings are in publications like The Guardian and Crikey, as well as her blog Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist.

Seats are limited, book your tickets via link in bio🔗

30/05/2026

📣Speaker bio for our panel event - Class Struggle for Indigenous Liberation?

Dr. Gary Foley is an Aboriginal activist, writer, actor, Professor in History at Victoria University and Director of the Aboriginal History Archive. As a member of the Black Power movement in the 1970s, Dr. Foley collaborated with the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) and other radical factions of the union movement.

Seats are limited, book your tickets via link in bio🔗

28/05/2026

Panel discussion and Q&A with Dr. Gary Foley, Celeste Liddle and Kalimna Jackomos on the workers movement in ‘Australia’.

“The unions were like our boondi or nulla nulla [fighting stick]. That’s what we need back today, for the young people to understand that we are all working-class people, we have power in the union to fight the system.” — Uncle Ray Peckham

Join us on Saturday June 20th 2026 for a facilitated discussion with Dr. Gary Foley, Celeste Liddle, and Kalimna Jackomos on the history and current situation of the workers movement in ‘Australia’, their own experiences of and within the unions, as well as the organising and solidarity needed today to rebuild workers power for First Nations issues.

There will be a Q&A section, and time to socialise after.

About ticket costs🎟️

Whatever funds we gather from the ticket sales and donations will go towards our venue costs — Aunty Alma Thorpe’s Gathering Place at Dardi Munwurro in Preston. Opened in honour of Aunty Alma Thorpe, a leader in Aboriginal healthcare, Dardi Munwurro is a specialist Aboriginal family violence service. Delivering programs to break the cycle of inter-generational trauma in Aboriginal families and communities.

⭐️Mob free
⭐️Unwaged $5
⭐️Waged $10
⭐️Solidarity $20

If you’re waged and tight on money it’s fine to choose unwaged.

Speaker bios and accessibility details will be posted soon!

Limited seats, link in bio to book🔗

13/05/2026

Fifty years ago, major tendencies on the left fought tooth and nail for influence within the unions. Today, many leftists look elsewhere for power to realise social change. Seeing unions remain dutiful to the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and fail to lift a finger for Palestine has reinvigorated those interested in class struggle to push harder for rank-and-file militancy and control of their unions. Some, however, see this low point of unionism as a reason to turn away from class struggle altogether.

Influenced by the Marxist-Leninist ‘two-stage’ theory of revolution, a growing section of the left believes that colonialism and/or imperialism must be defeated globally before the fight of workers against capitalism can ever be successful.

In this conception, the Global South, nation states and all, are cast as the revolutionary subject. The Global North then, is its ruling class, made up of both colonisers/imperialists and their agents—white/settler working-class populations that are considered as unlikely to give up their positions in the world hierarchy, as capitalists are to give up control of the means of production.

From this position stems critiques that unions are doomed to be tools for maintaining the status quo, that class struggle is insufficiently revolutionary and incompatible with the liberation of those living under colonialism and imperialism. If this analysis were true, we would be left without a revolutionary strategy applicable to ‘Australia’. If we can’t trust most of the population to be meaningfully revolutionary, then the task is to wait to be liberated by those who are.

While there is a strident history of First Nations workers struggling for land and self-determination with the Pilbara, Gurindji, Torres Strait Islander Maritime Strike etc., this article will primarily focus on whether dominant sections of the working class are capable of taking up anti-colonial and marginalised struggles, making class struggle either capable of ending colonialism on this continent, or not.

Read the full article on 🔗arcup.org/news

05/05/2026

Council workers are essential workers! They keep our communities clean, our roads smooth, our libraries safe and supportive (and more). Great to meet and chat with ASU members who are garbo workers and librarians from across Darebin, Greater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Merri-bek and Yarra today. Striking together in their first multi-employer agreement❤️💪

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39 Clow St
Dandenong, VIC
3175

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http://arcup.org/

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