We had a good time launching it on the weekend

And Liz and Melinda said very nice things about it which is lovely.

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…

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...

#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...

2/2

Ralf Ruckus in wollongong next month 1/2:

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

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...

& 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."

"...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."

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)

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.

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.

#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...

The other thing I talked about: open.substack.com/pub/crimesof...

The other thing I talked about: open.substack.com/pub/crimesof...

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!

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

I always really appreciated the viewpoint project. RIP Asad Haider:

viewpointmag.com/author/asad-...

Small part of a larger story I’m trying to tease out

To me this story helps to illuminate areas where notions of working class environmentalism need to be developed further - namely in confronting the state.

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.

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.

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.

The class composition in both technical and social forms, generates a consistency of political composition across both “production” and “reproduction”.

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.

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

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.

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

#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...

Today one on class, crime and communism