At Wage Peace, we are trying to orient you, our many new friends, to what is happening in resistance to the weapons industry across the country. We hope that you will get from our website – and other platforms – a brief introduction to what is happening in the weapons industry AND the people’s resistance to it.
You can find out about the Bisalloy campaign at Woolongong Friends of Palestine Instagram . That page has an excellent and short overview of Bisalloy’s complicity by Senator Shoebridge on the Picket July 27, 2025. And this piece from Yaakov Aharon at Michael West Media – A Protest Speech version! and Michael West Media written version!
It is clear the weapons industry is mostly profitable at the point at which a genocide occurs. The Racist State of USA, in supporting the apartheid State has dozens of corporations profiting from genocide. People in Australia a standing up against this morally corrupt fabricators and manufacturers across the country. Bisalloy is one of the few directly arming Israel with steel.
This article below, published by Heatwave, is an important contribution to the movement discourse on the tactic named in Australia “the Community Picket”. Born from union discourses of last century, when unions still ran strikes with picket lines from time to time, the Community Picket is half blockade, half driveway occupation. Community Pickets have taken place in a half dozen locations across the east coast of the continent, most notably where the F35 components are being made for the dangerous supply chain.
Blockade Bisalloy: A Report from the ‘Gong
In Australia, as across the world, a massive wave of struggle rose against the genocide in Palestine, comprised of a wide constellation of political groups and practices. Compared to previous iterations of Palestine solidarity here, this wave has been more widespread, involving a broader range of tactics. -Heatwave, June 7, 2025
Head to the rest of the article over here at HEATWAVE.
By Two Wollongong Friends of Palestine
We arrived at 5:45 a.m. It was an overcast morning in November, but unlike last time the sky was already light, dawn had just passed. We were in the middle of a regional industrial zone that was already alive with machinery churning, trucks arriving and departing, and workers from various sites smoking or drinking coffee at the gates. As we walked down the road to Bisalloy Steels, where the picket would be, a friend struck up a conversation with some men on the street. They had heard about the picket happening down the road, but weren’t too keen on discussing the basis of it: better things to do with their short time on ‘smoko’. In the distance we could see some comrades already gathered at the gates of Bisalloy.
It felt good to see their numbers already growing. In the week leading up to the picket, we had received intel from workers and unions at Bisalloy that the company was saying they had to cross the picket line. The night before we again had it confirmed that operations would continue, the bosses having issued an ultimatum that if workers didn’t cross the line, they’d have to take leave or go unpaid. So we had expected there would be some conflict today, most likely with the police as they sought to break the picket. We came prepared, with pallets and other materials to reinforce the barricades.
But as we arrived it was impossible not to notice how quiet it was. The usual industrial clamour of the steel treatment plant, the hiss and stamp of the machinery, was silent beyond the fence. All doors were closed, signals that no work was underway were lit up, and no one was inside. Few police were visible, scattered up and down the street. A piece of paper on the office door proclaimed, “Closed for the day for annual company picnic”.
Head to the rest of the article over here at HEATWAVE.
Acknowledgement and thanks to Heatwave
Heatwave is a multi-media project dedicated to sharing experiences and strategizing together in preparation for the next round of struggles to break free from the infernal prison of capital. As the world burns and the political horizon grows increasingly grim, we seek to connect comrades around the globe and contribute to building a mass movement powerful enough to incinerate that prison. In its ashes, we will build a world based on the classic principle from each according to their ability, to each according to their need — a life worth living on a thriving planet.
A sign of the staunch diversity and openness by which this tactic provides for community involvement. Picket Bisalloy!