Trump returns after Democrats back genocide and a rigged system

A racist far right figure with a history of extreme sexism will sit at the top of the world’s most powerful country, after Donald Trump regained the US Presidency.

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Are we facing a new attack on abortion rights?

The “right to choose” remains popular and abortion has been decriminalised in every jurisdiction across Australia.

Vale Mannie De Saxe, gay Jewish socialist

The LGBTIQ community, and the broader left, lost a stalwart fighter this week with the death of Mannie De Saxe at age 98.

CFMEU stops work in Sydney in defiance of administration threats

Thousands of CFMEU members in Sydney stopped work today for the third time since August to protest administration, standing up to threats from the administrators and bosses.

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Unions

Industrial action the key to ending CFMEU administration

CFMEU members in NSW are set to strike on 12 November in protest at the Albanese government placing the CFMEU into administration.

CFMEU administrators get snouts in the trough

EXCLUSIVE: Bosses’ letter to Labor reveals conditions, union rights the real reason for attack on CFMEU

Climate action

Disasters in Spain and Florida a sign of growing climate chaos

Last month, Hurricane Helene and Milton ripped through Florida, killing 241 people and wiping out hundreds of billions in homes and infrastructure.

Labor weakens environment law to please mining companies

‘Green’ Kurri Kurri plant to run on diesel

Rank-and-file teachers step up for Palestine and Lebanon

Teachers and School Staff for Palestine from over 40 NSW schools held a successful week of action in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon in late October.

Israel’s bloody agenda in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s resistance

One year resisting Gaza genocide—is freedom for Palestine any closer?

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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.

Refugee protest camps keep fighting to demand Labor deliver permanent visas

Black incarceration crisis deepens as Labor races to the right

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Australia

Trump’s return a warning as Labor fails on genocide and cost of living

Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential elections will boost the right around the world.

Last minute lurch left not enough to save Queensland Labor

Now’s the time for a fightback against Albanese’s right-wing rule

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

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.