Payman’s stand shows pressure on Albanese over Gaza still growing

Senator Fatima Payman’s resignation shows that the pressure on the Labor government over Gaza is still growing.
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Pine Gap base aiding Israel’s operations in Gaza

The Albanese government is directly aiding Israel’s war in Gaza through allowing the sharing of intelligence information from the spy base at Pine Gap.
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How can the rise of France’s fascists be stopped?

Despite the fascists’ failure to take government in France, they will continue rising if the left relies on electoral deals to halt them, argues Cooper Forsyth
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Australian capital tied to Israel by a thousand threads

As the horror of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has grown, the clearer has become the depth and intimacy of the Australian ruling class’s military connections with the Zionist entity.
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Contents July 2024
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Unions

Why are union leaders dragging their feet over Palestine?

Chris Breen examines why most union leaders still haven’t mobilised their members to support Palestine, despite the efforts at rank-and-file action

University, submarine, sugar and dairy workers strike

CFMEU strikes for safety and conditions on Brisbane’s Cross River Rail

Climate action

Dutton’s nuclear power plan aims to extend coal power

Coalition leader Peter Dutton has attempted to breathe new life into nuclear power as a serious energy policy option.

NSW Labor funds coal power extension in climate failure

Labor locks in gas expansion in new crime against the climate

Palestine

Construction workers walk off to support ANU encampment

Construction workers walked off the job at ANU in Canberra to support the Gaza solidarity encampment after a series of threats from the university.

ANU expels pro-Palestine student but continues links with arms manufacturers

Melbourne uni occupation ends with a win, but beware Admin’s dirty tricks

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Racism and Indigenous rights

Labor dancing to Dutton’s racist tune on immigration detainees—again

On 7 June, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles caved in yet again to the Coalition’s relentless racist campaigning against immigration detainees.

Labor wants Trump-like powers to deport refugees

Indigenous activist Ray Peckham: How unions helped stop segregation in the 1960s

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Australia

Pressure gets to Albanese as anger at genocide complicity grows

The pressure from eight months of protests is getting to the government. Albanese has launched a wild series of attacks on Palestine protests and The Greens.

Reject Dutton’s racism—migrants aren’t to blame for housing crisis

Labor’s cost of living band-aids in budget leave real problems ignored

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

End systemic pressures inside the family to end violence against women

The problem is not straightforwardly men’s power over women but the unbearable pressure on everybody to perform socially recognisable gender roles in a nuclear family.

Matildas’ success caught up in a wave of nationalism

Higgins inquiry reveals entrenched police sexism

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International

British Labour takes office but little enthusiasm on show

Labour won a big majority in Britain’s election. But the results saw a surge towards the far right Reform UK party while pro-Palestine independents won five seats.

Mass protests in Kenya win concessions after government shoots down protesters

British Labour set for office as purge against the left continues

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Long reads

White Australia and the labour movement

This is the text of the 2023 Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture, delivered by Phil Griffiths. With thanks to the Brisbane Labour History Association.

Jose Maria Sison: a flawed revolutionary

Sanctions: a double-edged weapon of imperialist war

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Radical history and theory

Workers and the alternative to capitalism

The history of workers’ struggles shows the possibility of a socialism based on mass democratic control of society, writes Judy Cox.

How colonial war led to revolution in Portugal

How resistance can turn into revolution

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In focus

Solidarity is a socialist group with branches across Australia. We are opposed to the madness of capitalism, which is plunging us into global recession and misery at the same time as wrecking the planet’s future. We are taking the first steps towards building an organisation that can help lead the fight for an alternative system based on mass democratic planning, in the interests of human need not profit.

Read more about Solidarity here or check out details of our meetings and events here.

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