Labor’s immigration cuts and cost-of-living failure fuel One Nation’s racism

The cost-of-living squeeze is worsening but Labor is doing nothing to protect living standards. This will only fuel the rise of One Nation.

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1936: the year Palestine rose against the British empire

Twelve years before the Nakba that founded the Israeli state in 1948, Palestine rose in revolt against British colonial control and growing Zionist domination.

Biggest campus vote to cut ties with Israel yet in Sydney Uni student referendum

Students at Sydney Uni have voted overwhelmingly to cut the university’s ties with Israel, in a student referendum held alongside annual Student Representative Council elections.

CPSU members say: We cannot afford less than inflation

Bargaining has started in the Australian Public Service (APS) agencies covered by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).

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Unions

Sydney Uni staff strike for job security, free speech and pay

After walking off the job for 24 hours on 2 September, University of Sydney staff are set for further industrial action—with a two-hour stop work meeting 13 October and a 24-hour strike on 22 October.

Iran

Trump backs down on Iran again but still faces defeat

Donald Trump has again backed down from a major escalation of his war on Iran, saying another deal was close that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

‘Every time I return, the West Bank is smaller’

A Palestinian just returned from the West Bank explains how Israel is speeding up its efforts to expel the population and steal the land.

Racism and Indigenous rights

Labor’s detention policy brings new refugee crisis on Naoero

There are more than 100 asylum-seekers on Naoero. On 24 August, scores of asylum-seekers waited over ten hours outside the Eigigu supermarket for rice that had been unavailable for weeks.

Australia

Labor’s anti-immigration measures boost One Nation—we need to fight back

One Nation’s win in the Secret Harbour by-election in Perth saw it take a safe Labor seat with a swing of 18.7 per cent. This shows how much of threat Hanson really is.

School sexual assaults expose a sexist system

A succession of alleged sexual assaults by private schoolboys in Sydney has raised renewed shock about the scale of sexism among boys.

International

New threat to oil supplies in Yemen threatens to ignite wider war

The crisis created by the US and Israel attacking Iran has spread from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, with Iran’s allies in Yemen seizing control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Long reads

Venezuela: from revolutionary transformation to imperialist victory

David Glanz reviews a new book that helps explain why the high hopes of the Bolivarian revolution ended in a squalid deal with US imperialism.

Radical history and theory

Hungary 1956: How workers rose up against Stalinism

Matilda Fay looks at how workers in Hungary exposed the lie that Stalinist Russia was socialist through rising up to try to take control of society into their own hands

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