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...

Ralf Ruckus in wollongong next month 1/2:

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)

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...

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-...

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...

Tomorrow I am giving a talk “no toxic jobs: working class environmentalism and proletarian health in the fight against capitalist toxicity at port Kembla”. I’ll be talking about workers health centres, a strike, deindustrialisation & the state. It’s 9am in Sydney & can share zoom if u are interested

hey bluesky, I'd be grateful if you'd read this thing I wrote lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...

Helped write this piece for Heatwave (a new anarchist and communist publication from the US which we should support and follow). Thoughts and criticism of the article most welcome:

Shiftlessness

hey bluesky, if you've been sitting there thinking 'god I really need to hear some of Nate's thoughts on Marxism and labor history' then I have great news for you!!!! If not, uh, well, sorry I guess? lawcha.org/2025/03/27/w...

Essential reading, by Bhandar and Toscano on Trump’s “real estate ontology”, the end of presumed relations btw sovereignty, territory, and property; and the place of Gaza in this naked imperium proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

#OtD 27 Feb 1933 Dutch bricklayer and council communist Marinus van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag in protest at Nazis hoping it would spark working class rebellion. Sadly it failed and was used by fascists as an excuse to repress communists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Not the most important part as such but the boomer-zoomer alliance comments were hilarious. >

Bev Best interview on the Automatic Fetish and capital 3 with Sean O’Brien up at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...

my favourite story on the history of Capital is Bakunin promising to translate it into Russian and then just pocketing the cash and not doing any work

Damn, that sounds depressing

working on a project drawing from Stefania Barca & Lorenzo Feltrin’s respective work on working class environmentalism & noxious deindustrialisation but in Wollongong. Was doing archives yesterday so here’s a few graphics & words (from The Iron Worker, Work Hazards, & Rank & File: Workers Health)

Was prompted to look at this book again and now I thinking we should bring back letters as forum for debate etc (Also 2 dear comrades of my own gifted me this about 15 years ago and it was nice to read their messages in the cover again after all that time)

“…this revolution is necessary, therefore…because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew…”