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ACTU (Australian Class Traitors United) Congress in Sydney 2012 : Priceless ... Bon Hawke as Prime Minister was the union buster who fucked over the BLF in 1986, sent in the air-force to break the pilot's strike in 1990 has the bloody nerve to sing Solidarity Forever ? "Bump Me Into Parliament" wold be more appropriate.
Note: The song was written by Ralph Chaplin IWW.
The IWW in Australia was made illegal in 1917 for anti-Trade War conscription campaigning. Persecuted and jailed organisers by Billy Hughes the ALP Prime Minister - like Hawke former union bureaucrat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FXIRoE1h2I&feature=share

Socialist Alternative Marxism 2011's Got Talent Star sings "Bump Me Into Parliament"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0IbV2-sDU

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Comment by Viola Wilkins on May 27, 2012 at 4:38: no we're not gonna take it, we're not gonna take this class war anymore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AesMEyTi8s&feature=relmfu

"What Shall We Do with the Jimmy Johns Bosses?" by Sean Carleton, X364847, a.k.a. The Timber Beast, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_f0-vkGFRA&feature=relmfu

This song is dedicated to the fighting spirit of the Jimmy Johns workers: First Starbucks, now Jimmy Johns, next the whole damn restaurant industry! Fellow Workers from all over the world are with you in love, struggle, and solidarity! Check out more IWW songs on the IWW Youtube Channel, Wobblysongs: http://www.youtube.com/user/Wobblysongs

Follow the activities of the JJWU and make a donation to help their organizing work: http://jimmyjohnsworkers.org/

"What Shall We Do with the Jimmy Johns Bosses?" by Sean Carleton, X364847, a.k.a. The Timber Beast, 2010.
Inspired by Joe Grim Feinberg's "What Shall We Do with the Starbucks Bosses" (2007). Original tune: "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_f0-vkGFRA&feature=relmfu

UNION SCABBING
“Union scabbing is as if you're about to be hung, and as you were led to the scaffold the executioner turned to you and said: “Gee, I hate to do this, but if it is any consolation the scaffold was built by union carpenters, the rope was made by union rope makers and here, sir, is my card.” - Joe Hill.
Retold by Utah Phillips on the album We Have Fed You All For 1000 Years, track 11.

http://libcom.org/history/music-iww-creation-working-class-counterc...