Sunshine Coast Socialists

14/01/2024

Sunshine Coast Socialists is no more. Public activity as an organisation has lagged for a long time, and has functionally ceased. As such, we are dissolved.

Perhaps we will revive in the future, whether under the same or a different name.

Individuals involved with SCS have remained involved with progressive and left-wing causes. For those living on the Coast, we recommend checking out and getting involved with the following:

1. The South East Queensland Union of Renters, SEQUR. It organises local events on the Sunshine Coast, and welcomes renters getting involved in standing up for their existing and yet to be won rights. Check out their socials for more information.

2. The Peoples Movement. Their events have done a great deal to kickstart and advance solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians on the Sunshine Coast.

This land now known as the Sunshine Coast, the land of the Gubbi Gubbi people, was stolen and never ceded. We pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging.

Their struggle for self-determination continues and remains as vital as it ever was. Part of the inspiration for Sunshine Coast Socialists was a big Black Lives Matter rally at Cotton Tree Park in 2020.

Without Aboriginal liberation, the liberation of all others living in so-called Australia remains incomplete.

Solidarity Forever!

02/12/2022

15/09/2022

This article was originally published as ‘The Burning Issue’ in The Anvil vol. 11, no. 4. Each year, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increases. Polar ice melts …

02/09/2022

Bangladeshis have long suffered as a super-exploited workforce at the whims of global capital. This was tragically thrust into the world spotlight in 2013 when the textile factory Rana Plaza collapsed, killing at least 1132 people inside. It was later found that the building was structurally unsound...

26/08/2022

In this months edition we will be looking at What About The Rapists (if you can't read it all read the On Crime section as that is what we will be focusing on) which discusses approaches to criminal justice from an anarchist perspective and Refusing to Wait an article about intersectionality, feminism and anarchism.

Link to WABTR:
https://archive.org/.../whatabouttherapists/page/n1/mode/2up

Link to Refusing To Wait: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/.../deric-shannon-and-j...

As always we will be meeting in Cotton Tree park at 1 look for the red flags.

The Anarchist Library

18/08/2022

Our biggest reading group so far! Thanks to everyone new who showed up on Sunday. Keep those flags flying! 🚩🏴

03/08/2022

Fighting for a socialist world, one that tackles climate change head on, is not just a matter of it being the right thing to do;

but an existential necessity if humanity and the planet it depends on are to survive and thrive.

“Stings in the tail: Five unexpected threats posed by the pumping of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

Under our feet - As vast, thick sheets of ice disappear from high mountains and from the poles, rock crusts that had previously been compressed are beginning to rebound, threatening to trigger earthquakes and tsunamis. “We are on track to bequeath to our children and their children not only a far hotter world, but also a more geologically fractious one,” says Bill McGuire.

New battlefields - As crops burn and hunger spreads, communities are coming into conflict and the election of populist leaders – who will promise the Earth to their people – is likely to become commonplace. Most worrying are the tensions over dwindling water supplies that are growing between India, Pakistan and China, all possessors of atomic weapons. “The last thing we need is a hot war over water between two of the world’s nuclear powers,” McGuire observes.

Methane bombs - Produced by wetlands, cattle and termites, methane is 86 times more potent in its power to heat the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, though fortunately it hangs around for much less time. The problem is that much of the world’s methane is trapped in layers of Arctic permafrost. As these melt, more methane will be released and our world will get even hotter.

Losing the Gulf Stream - As the ice caps melt, the resulting cold water pouring from the Arctic threatens to block or divert the Gulf Stream, which carries a prodigious amount of heat from the tropics to the seas around Europe. Signs now suggest the Gulf Stream is already weakening and could shut down completely before end of the century, triggering powerful winter storms over Europe.

Calorie crunch - Four-fifths of all calories consumed across the world come from just 10 crop plants including wheat, maize and rice. Many of these staples will not grow well under the higher temperatures that will soon become the norm, pointing towards a massive cut in the availability of food, which will have a catastrophic impact across the planet, says McGuire."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/total-climate-meltdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe?fbclid=IwAR3HseCiAx7ZvD_jF0bkxH3KYGXEWTtaH6Jfqfsl0N7zfE93c96t4QWAIRE

Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist

05/07/2022

If you feel passionate about a political issue like climate change, then the best thing you can do is talk to your co-workers about it, about how it will effect them and about unionising.

Protest can be ignored. When we strike they have to listen.