What’s driving the ‘Gen Z’ revolts in the Global South?
Gen Z revolts are sweeping the Global South as people take to the streets against corruption and deprivation.
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Is Israel doomed to collapse?
In Israel on the Brink: Eight Steps for a Better Future Ilan Pappe steps away from history to argue about Palestine’s future.
Uncovering Malaysia’s communist history
David Lockwood, an Australian academic, has written a history of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) from 1930-48. While it is a short work—173 pages—it is invaluable for both the Malaysian and Australia Left.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory a blow against Trump and the US establishment
Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York has horrified the whole US political establishment, giving hope to everyone desperate for an alternative.
New pamphlet: How workers rose up to defend the Whitlam government in 1975
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Unions
Thousands of public sector workers rally in Adelaide
Three thousand workers, mainly members of the Public Service Association, gathered on the steps of Adelaide’s parliament house to rally against the state government’s proposed enterprise agreement.
Climate action
Labor’s unambitious new climate targets rest on offsets fraud
The world is on track for catastrophic warming and climate disasters are multiplying. Yet the Albanese government’s new climate targets refuse to meet the urgent need for action.
Gaza flotilla participant ‘I saw the mentality of the Zionist regime. We’re not going to stop’
Solidarity spoke to Hamish Paterson, a member of the Maritime Union of Australia who joined the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, about their brutal treatment by Israel and what they learnt about the violence inflicted on Palestinians.
Racism and Indigenous rights
Treaty in Victoria—Labor must be fought to win real change
The Statewide Treaty Bill passed the Victorian parliament on 30 October. But it returns no land, pays no compensation for dispossession and creates no rights that can be enforced against the state.
Australia
‘It looks like a grenade was thrown at me deliberately’
Grace Dess describes the Victoria Police rampage against anti-racist protesters in Melbourne on 19 October.
Where does transphobia come from?
Casey Forsyth looks at why the right is so obsessed with gender and how transphobia is part of maintaining the sexist and oppressive gender roles in the family.
International
Trump’s deportation raids and authoritarianism meet resistance
The Trump administration has escalated its racist migrant deportation campaign as the US President’s approval ratings trend downwards.
Long reads
Capitalism and the politics of neurodiversity
Lucy Honan examines the politics of neurodiversity and argues that we need to fight the pressures capitalism places on people, not just look for individualised solutions.
Radical history and theory
Fifty years since the Whitlam Dismissal
In 1975 the ruling class in Australia conspired to subvert parliamentary democracy and sack the Labor government. Jean Parker discusses why they did it and the response.

















