Labor fails to stand up to Queensland’s attack on trans rights: fight to overturn the ban
Fresh off the back of Donald Trump’s latest attacks on gender affirming care, the anti-trans right in Australia is on the offensive.
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Labor vote collapse points to workers’ growing anger
Labor has won the Werribee by-election in Melbourne’s outer west by a whisker, with a massive swing against the party in what was formerly a rock-solid ALP state seat.
Locked out paper workers fight pay cuts
Around 300 pulp and paper workers at the Opal Paper mill in Maryvale, Victoria have been locked out since mid-January.
Anti-Zionist Jews stand in defence of Palestine solidarity
Up to 400 Jews and supporters joined an anti-Zionist Jewish rally outside the Victorian Parliament in solidarity with Palestine.
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Unions
Union democracy summit discusses Labor’s attack on CFMEU
Officials from nine unions met in Canberra in early December for the “Trade Unions for Democracy” summit, held in response to the Labor government’s union busting attack on the CFMEU.
Climate action
LA fires are an unnatural disaster
The catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles are the city’s worst ever fires—and potentially its worst ever disaster of any kind.
Gaza ceasefire at last, but Israel’s still not done killing
Israel has finally agreed to a ceasefire after 15 months of genocide in Gaza, following its killing of 46,700 people.
Racism and Indigenous rights
More Black kids locked up as racist imprisonment surges
The failure of the Voice referendum left racists and the right emboldened. There has been a particularly racist panic about “youth crime”.
Australia
Victorian Labor launches attack on right to protest
The Victorian Labor government is using the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue last month as an excuse to crack down on protesters.
#MeToo at an impasse—Why is the government failing to stop violence against women?
Critics argue the government response to violence against women is failing, writes Lucy Honan, but recognising its roots in capitalism and the family is necessary to addressing it.
International
Trump’s Golden Age of racism and corporate greed fuels the far right
Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a rallying call for the far right across the globe. He railed against climate change, ramped up anti-immigrant racism and fuelled transphobia.
Long reads
Indonesia: behind the rise of Prabowo from war criminal to president
Prabowo Subianto will take office as President of Indonesia in October. He is a military strongman with a sordid history of killings and human rights abuses. How did he win the election? An Indonesian socialist explains the background to his rise.
Radical history and theory
What’s so special about the working class?
Erima Dall explains why the working class is still the only force with the power to bring fundamental change—and a world run in the interests of people and planet.