CFMEU administrators get snouts in the trough
Leaked figures show that the CFMEU Administrator and his staff appointed by Labor are gorging themselves at the expense of construction workers.
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Labor has lost office in Queensland after nearly a decade. While early polling indicated an LNP landslide, in the end Labor managed to avoid total humiliation—but still suffered a substantial 7 per cent swing.
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Melb Uni students rally to cut ties with Israeli university
Eighty students joined a Students Against War rally at Unimelb on 10 September demanding the university cut its ties with Israel.
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Unions
Threat to CFMEU EBAs shows need to keep fighting administration
For the second time in a month, tens of thousands of CFMEU members across the country took strike action on 17 and 18 September to oppose the Labor-imposed administration of the union.
Climate action
Labor weakens environment law to please mining companies
The Albanese government has continued to prioritise profit over the environment, signalling their intention to make a deal with the Liberals to water down the powers of their proposed environment regulator, Environment Protection Australia.
One year resisting Gaza genocide—is freedom for Palestine any closer?
David Glanz looks at what the movement for Palestine has achieved in the last year and how it can move forward.
Racism and Indigenous rights
Refugee encampments push Labor for visa justice
Despite persistent harassment from local councils and police, after more than 80 days the refugee encampments demanding permanent visas are still standing strong in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
Australia
Now’s the time for a fightback against Albanese’s right-wing rule
Albanese’s right-wing agenda is bringing Labor unstuck. There is a widespread sense that he is running a useless government that is failing working class people.
Critical care—nurses’ unions and the AIDS crisis
In November 1982, the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Australia. In the 1980s, life expectancy for those diagnosed with AIDS was three years. Geraldine Fela’s new book tells the story of the nurses on the frontline of the response. She spoke with Solidarity’s David Glanz.
International
‘Black Thursday for the Kanak people’ as French repression continues in Kanaky
Four months after protests first broke out in Kanaky-New Caledonia, the French state continues to repress the Indigenous Kanak people.
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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
Why the West hates Iran
US and Australian hostility to Iran is not driven by concern at the regime’s repression at home but by competition for influence in the Middle East, writes Miro Sandev.