Davey Heller is a Trotskyist from Melbourne and long-time campaigner for Left-wing causes including anti-war, refugee rights, environmental protests and workers' struggles. He is a former secondary teacher who studies history at Monash University and currently works in the environmental field. You can follow him on Twitter at @socialist_davey
To coincide with Julian Assange’s latest hearing in court in London, Joanna Mogilevska of classconscious.org takes a stand at the Free Assange and Manning rally at UK Consulate in Melbourne on June 14th 2019. The transcript of her speech can be read below: ‘Truth is ultimately all we have’. These are the words Julian Assange […]
Davey Heller, contributor to classconscious.org has had two articles published in the progressive news website Independent Australia. The 2019 Election and a history of Australian coups On June 14th, the article “The 2019 Election and a history of Australian coups” was published. It discusses how: “THE GREAT LIE of global politics is that far-right governments […]
June 14th has been set down as the first substantive court hearing in London, in the efforts of the U.S. to extradite Julian Assange to face espionage charges that carry up to 175 years in prison. The Trump Administration’s Department of Justice will be presenting its arguments in court for this travesty of justice. Protests […]
By Davey Heller, May 15th 2019 On May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day, campaigners to Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning visited the office of the Media union in Melbourne (MEAA) to present a letter signed by respected Australian and international journalists and media workers. The letter demanded that the MEAA do everything in its […]
Below is an edited transcript of the speech given by Davey Heller on May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day, outside the UK Consulate in Melbourne. The protest was part of a global call out of protests to Stand up for Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and all targetted whistleblowers and journalists. Hello my name is Davey […]
Online infrastructure is necessary for groups to able to organise protests in different countries to sustain the campaign to Free Julian Assange now that he is in prison in the U.K. One way of doing this is to form of specific Facebook Action groups for specific regions including: ‘Aus Action 4 Assange!’, ‘Canadian Action 4 […]
On April 14th 2019, three days after the arrest of Julian Assange in London, emergency protests were held at U.S. Embassies, U.K. Embassies and poiltical offices in the U.S. in Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Toronto, Dublin, Warsaw, Cancun and Taipei. The protests were held in response to a call out on this website. The next scheduled […]
Reprinted from World Press Freedom Day 2019 Website May 3rd is the U.N. World Press Freedom Day and recognized around the world as a day to defend journalists and media workers. Attacks on the media by governments have grown over the years as journalists are facing threats of imprisonment, torture, and even murder. This […]
by Davey Heller 16th April, 2019 World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd is an opportunity to highlight the plight of Australia’s most well know targeted journalist Julian Assange, but it is also a day to consider the plight of other journalists and whistleblowers in Australia. Classconscious.org published an article on the imprisonment of Iranian […]
by Davey Heller, April 8th 2019 World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd is an opportunity to highlight the plight of Australia’s most well known targeted journalist Julian Assange but it is also a day to consider the plight of other journalists and whistleblowers in Australia. Classconscious.org intends to publish a series of article on […]