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Albanese promised his government would create “real jobs” for Indigenous people. Its new program offers only 700 jobs this year.

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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.

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‘I was attacked for wearing a hijab’

Childcare educator Ealaf Al-Easawi was brutally bashed by a stranger in a shocking Islamophobic incident. She told her story to Solidarity.

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Albanese’s grovelling fails—time to stand up to Trump

Donald Trump’s tariff war is creating economic chaos—and political trouble for Anthony Albanese as he heads to the federal election.

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Trump wants a deal with Putin to loot Ukraine for US interests

Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s public dressing down of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office sent shockwaves across the Western political establishment.

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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.

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Trump, genocide, climate chaos—Why you need to be a socialist

In the face of global catastrophe and the horrors of capitalism, we need a socialist world run in the interests of people and planet, argues Jacob Starling

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