Defend the CFMEU—no government administration, end the union bashing

Construction bosses and both state and federal Labor governments have seized on the opportunity to launch an attack on one of the strongest unions in the country.
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Vic teachers win union to stand with Palestine

Members of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine made a big impact as the Australian Education Union conference in Melbourne took significant steps in solidarity with Palestine.
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Vale Jane McAlevey: a fighter for our class

At 59 years of age, the untimely death of Jane McAlevey from skin cancer came as a shock to the many unionists across the world intent on rebuilding rank-and-file power in their unions.
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Negotiations have failed—NSW nurses must call a strike now and prepare for sustained action

The Minns government has shown no sign of backing down from their paltry pay offer of 10.5 per cent over three years for all nurses and midwives.
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Contents July 2024
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Unions

Why are union leaders dragging their feet over Palestine?

Chris Breen examines why most union leaders still haven’t mobilised their members to support Palestine, despite the efforts at rank-and-file action

University, submarine, sugar and dairy workers strike

CFMEU strikes for safety and conditions on Brisbane’s Cross River Rail

Climate action

Dutton’s nuclear power plan aims to extend coal power

Coalition leader Peter Dutton has attempted to breathe new life into nuclear power as a serious energy policy option.

NSW Labor funds coal power extension in climate failure

Labor locks in gas expansion in new crime against the climate

Palestine

Pine Gap base aiding Israel’s operations in Gaza

The Albanese government is directly aiding Israel’s war in Gaza through allowing the sharing of intelligence information from the spy base at Pine Gap.

Construction workers walk off to support ANU encampment

ANU expels pro-Palestine student but continues links with arms manufacturers

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Racism and Indigenous rights

Labor dancing to Dutton’s racist tune on immigration detainees—again

On 7 June, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles caved in yet again to the Coalition’s relentless racist campaigning against immigration detainees.

Labor wants Trump-like powers to deport refugees

Indigenous activist Ray Peckham: How unions helped stop segregation in the 1960s

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Australia

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

End systemic pressures inside the family to end violence against women

The problem is not straightforwardly men’s power over women but the unbearable pressure on everybody to perform socially recognisable gender roles in a nuclear family.

Matildas’ success caught up in a wave of nationalism

Higgins inquiry reveals entrenched police sexism

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International

Defend Boris Kagarlitsky and the Russian anti-war movement

The Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign calls on the left around the world to demand an end to the unlawful imprisonment of Russians who oppose the war on Ukraine.

British Labour takes office but little enthusiasm on show

Mass protests in Kenya win concessions after government shoots down protesters

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Long reads

White Australia and the labour movement

This is the text of the 2023 Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture, delivered by Phil Griffiths. With thanks to the Brisbane Labour History Association.

Jose Maria Sison: a flawed revolutionary

Sanctions: a double-edged weapon of imperialist war

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Radical history and theory

Workers and the alternative to capitalism

The history of workers’ struggles shows the possibility of a socialism based on mass democratic control of society, writes Judy Cox.

How colonial war led to revolution in Portugal

How resistance can turn into revolution

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In focus

Solidarity is a socialist group with branches across Australia. We are opposed to the madness of capitalism, which is plunging us into global recession and misery at the same time as wrecking the planet’s future. We are taking the first steps towards building an organisation that can help lead the fight for an alternative system based on mass democratic planning, in the interests of human need not profit.

Read more about Solidarity here or check out details of our meetings and events here.

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