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Supporters of Palestine were banned from this year’s Mardi Gras parade and thrown off floats by police, continuing the climate of repression created by NSW Premier Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws.

One Nation is surfing a wave of anger and disillusionment with the major parties. Much of that momentum is fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis—but the party is also fomenting Islamophobia to harden up its supporters.

The first contested election for Australia’s biggest blue-collar union, the United Workers Union, has become the focus of an intense debate about the way forward for the union.

Solidarity spoke with United Workers Union members about the current union election

The first meeting of Donald Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace” was held on 19 February. It was a sickening gathering of war criminals and plunderers, meeting to discuss their nightmarish plans for a post-war Gaza.

Mainstream and far right politicians are painting the left in France as violent after the death of a far right activist.

Solidarity spoke to a young Iranian activist about the war

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran was supposed to demonstrate the US’s military might, through punishing or even bringing down the Iranian regime.

Donald Trump has denounced the Iranian government as “evil”. But US bombing and war will not bring democracy to Iran.

I oppose the Islamic Republic because it is a capitalist regime built on inequality and the denial of basic freedoms. But I also am also opposed to imperialist war against Iran, because foreign intervention has never brought democracy.

Mike Grewcock reviews a new book that looks at how workers played a key role in bringing down regimes in Iran, Poland and South Africa, but then lost out to other forces

Jean Parker looks at how the first Mardi Gras led to a campaign that won the right to march, as well as victories for LGBTIQ+ rights.

Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit in the hope of boosting support for Israel. Instead mass protests, and anger at police violence in Sydney, showed the continuing depth of opposition to the genocidal state.

In the wake of the Bondi attack, governments are attempting to repress the Palestine movement, with anti-protest laws, federal hate crime laws and plans to ban chants such as...

The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.

The Liberals have a new leader. But they’re still stuck with their old problems—and Angus Taylor isn’t going to dig them out of a deep hole.

Violence against protests is not the result of rogue officers. It is part of the basic role of the police.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.

While Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire”, at times killing over 20 people a day, it is also stepping up the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.

The Epstein files expose the corruption and depravity of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

Trump’s ICE agents have unleashed an orgy of racist violence in Minneapolis, but also faced a city in virtual uprising against them, writes James Supple

The expansion of US bases here locks Australia in as a key part of the US’s military machine, and its strategy for war with China, writes Tom Fiebig

Ian Rintoul looks at the campaign of defiance that ended Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ban on street marches in Queensland and draws lessons for the Palestine movement today

Albanese’s hopes that he could use Isaac Herzog’s visit to win sympathy for Israel after the Bondi attack have blown up in his face.

Pauline Hanson’s screening in Melbourne of the reactionary film A Very Progressive Movie was challenged when cinema workers walked off the job and joined an anti-racism rally.

Since the Bondi attack, there has been an onslaught from the media and politicians demanding a crackdown on protests for Palestine and blaming Muslims and migrants.

The terrorist attack in Bondi has been followed by an avalanche of new laws aimed at blaming the movement for Palestine.

Over 400 people gathered at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 16 January to rally against Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws and genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit to Australia.It...

Intifada usually refers to two popular uprisings by the Palestinians in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank that shook the Israeli occupation.

In the wake of the Bondi attack, many migrants, particularly Arabs and Muslims, have faced an outpouring of racist bile on social media, in workplaces and on the streets.

A January Newspoll is showing that One Nation has nearly quadrupled its support since May’s federal election.

Anthony Albanese’s social media ban for under 16-year-olds was a stunt designed to give a do-nothing government the appearance of taking action to protect kids.

Minneapolis has become the latest flashpoint in the fight against Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign after ICE agents murdered Renee Good, a 37-year-old American citizen.

Iran’s Islamic Republic regime has faced its biggest challenge from below since the 1979 revolution toppled the Shah.

Trump’s “ceasefire” hasn’t stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Europe has seen a series of strikes against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and surging military spending.

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a beacon for all those who wanted an alternative to neoliberalism and United States imperialism.

Trump’s openly imperialist grab for resources and profits in Venezuela and elsewhere is a product of capitalist competition and the US’s declining position, argues Jack Stubley

Paddy Gibson looks at how unions and socialists provided support for one of the major struggles for Aboriginal rights and against the racist Protection system

Donald Trump has declared that US will “run” Venezuela after its military captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and launched airstrikes on the Latin American country.

After consistently avoiding answering whether or not Australia has been supplying F-35 fighter jet parts or other military hardware for Israel, the Albanese government quietly imposed a ban on the export of some defence goods to Israel.

The Nazi National Socialist Network rally outside NSW Parliament in November was a sign of their growing confidence following the racist March for Australia rallies.

A wave of strikes has hit universities across the country, as NTEU members begin the latest round of enterprise bargaining, and fight back against management restructuring.

Unions NSW has sponsored a new report, “We Stand With Gomeroi: Trade unions oppose the Santos Pilliga Narrabri gas project”.

The Queensland government’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children was overturned in October, with Supreme Court Judge Peter Callaghan ruling it unlawful.

Administration’s control of the CFMEU ratcheted up further in November with Zach Smith, the Victorian Branch Executive Officer, putting all 30 Victorian organisers’ jobs on the line.

Venezuela is under fire from US imperialism and Trump’s attempts to reassert US hegemony over Latin America.

The capture of the city of El Fasher in Sudan in late October by the Rapid Support Forces, following an 18-month siege, produced horrifying atrocities.

David Glanz looks at the origins of racism and how it continues to be pushed from the top of society in the interests of our rulers.

James Supple looks at how the Cronulla riot was the result of the racism pushed by John Howard’s government and the media, and the lessons as we face a rising far right today

For decades Australian governments backed Indonesia’s occupation and repression in Timor-Leste to advance their own interests in the region, argues Maeve Larkins.

Clinton Fernandes’ new book Turbulence exposes Albanese’s own imperialist agenda in backing Trump and Israel, writes Adam Adelpour.

Israel massacred 70 Palestinians in two days of intense bombing this week in Gaza, as it continues killing on a near daily basis despite the “ceasefire”.

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York has horrified the whole US political establishment, giving hope to everyone desperate for an alternative.

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.

Anthony Albanese’s visit to Donald Trump in Washington brought together two war criminals who have backed Israel’s genocide and now want to plan for war against China.

Palestinians and their supporters celebrated the ceasefire as bringing hope of an end to the killing in Gaza. But it’s already clear it does not mean peace.

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.

March for Australia held its second round of racist anti-immigration rallies on 19 October. Their overall turnout was mostly lower than the first rallies in August, but they still drew large crowds.

Labor's Nauru agreement has been triggered with the first non-citizen sent to Nauru on 24 October.

Labor is spending billions on propping up the metals industry, saying it’s about saving jobs. But the government’s main motivation is its drive to arm Australia for war with China.

Gen Z revolts are sweeping the Global South as people take to the streets against corruption and deprivation.

The Trump administration has escalated its racist migrant deportation campaign as the US President’s approval ratings trend downwards.

James Supple looks at whether the ceasefire can last and what the last two years of genocide and resistance show about the prospects for Palestinian liberation

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.

A defiant strike at the Weipa mine against individual contracts sparked a nationwide strike wave that halted a push to deunionise the country, writes Jacob Starling

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.

Anthony Albanese’s fawning selfie with Donald Trump in New York showed his devotion to militarism and US power.He has worked desperately to secure a one-on-one meeting with Trump to...

The far right wants to exploit frustration with house prices, rent increases and the cost of living and blame them all on migrants.

One year on the Administration regime has secured a tight grip on the CFMEU.

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.

Unions in Italy held a general strike for Palestine on 22 September, as global solidarity with Gaza continues to grow.

On 8 September, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, erupted. Tens of thousands of young people rallied against poverty, corruption and repression.

Events around this year’s Pacific Islands Forum have shown how Australia and China are competing to win influence over the region, as the risk of war grows.

Casey Forsyth explains why revolutions happen and why such major social upheavals always involve violence.

Mark Gillespie looks at the role of counter-protests in defeating One Nation, and the lessons for the fight against March for Australia and the far right today

Albanese and the world’s most powerful governments have facilitated seemingly endless barbarism in Gaza in service of their own imperialist interests, argues David Glanz.

To mark 200 issues we look at key articles, issues and covers that have appeared in Solidarity since our first issue

Anti-racist protests that outnumber the racist March for Australia rallies can demoralise them and make the racists less confident to come back.

Labor has passed a fourth law to clear the way for forced deportations to the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru.

The March for Australia rallies were a stark warning of how discontent over Labor’s failures to address housing or cost of living issues can be pulled in a racist direction.

UTS management has announced a suspension of new enrolments for more than 100 courses, leaving staff, students and community stakeholders reeling.

ANU management is facing a crisis of legitimacy over its $250 million proposed cuts.

Despite continuing rank-and-file anger among CFMEU members, there is now widespread resignation about the Administration of the union imposed by the Labor government.

The British government’s decision to ban direct action group Palestine Action has triggered widespread anger and defiance.

Albanese has blamed Iran for orchestrating at least two of the antisemitic attacks late last year, after ASIO claimed it had tracked responsibility back to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Israel’s genocide is entering a brutal new phase, as it continues to bomb hospitals and assassinate journalists with impunity.

Israel is accelerating its genocide and annexation not just in Gaza, but also in the Palestinian West Bank.

Donald Trump said his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska was a step towards ending the war in Ukraine. Putin, however, is stalling on further negotiations as he continues to bombard Ukrainian cities.

Adam Adelpour explains how sanctions work, what difference Australian sanctions would make and how they would hit Israel’s ability to continue the genocide in Gaza

The prospect of a separate Palestinian state has been a ploy used to accelerate the dispossession of Palestinians and entrench Israel’s apartheid.

Efforts across Asia to reimpose colonial rule at the end of the Second World War show that it was a struggle over the imperialist division of the world, argues Luke Ottavi.

Thousands of racists joined anti-immigration marches across the country on Sunday. It was a sobering reminder of the urgent need to organise in defence of migrants, refugees and Indigenous people.

Last Sunday's protests for Palestine mobilised the largest nationwide crowds to date—and broadened the movement’s reach into the unions and sections of the Labor Party.

The march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge show the scale of support for action on Gaza. There is growing pressure on Anthony Albanese.

The UK, France and Canada have all announced plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September at a meeting of the UN General Assembly.

NSW Labor Premier Minns tried to stop the Harbour Bridge march, saying it would cause Sydney to “descend into chaos” and risk public safety.

In a major about-face, Creative Australia has reinstated artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as representatives of Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

NT Coroner Elizabeth Armitage’s report lays bare the “entrenched, systemic and structural racism” at the heart of the NT Police including “normalised” usage of racist, violent language that paints Aboriginal people as subhuman.

The two-day strike in Queensland following the High Court decision upholding Administration was fantastic. But with no similar response anywhere else in the country the Administration has moved quickly to tighten its grip on the union.

On Wednesday 30 July, more than 100 ANU students marched against the university’s proposed Renew ANU cuts.

A toxic algal bloom twice the size of the ACT is causing apocalyptic scenes in South Australia. Since March, the algal bloom is estimated to have killed almost 14,000 marine animals from more than 400 species.

This year’s instalment of the Talisman Sabre war games was the largest yet—designed to send a message to China about growing preparations for war.

On 25 July, young Egyptians launched a courageous action in solidarity with Gaza, exposing the appalling complicity of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s dictatorship in Israel’s genocide.

A new wave of sectarian violence has erupted in Syria, centred around the majority Druze area of Suweyda in the south.

The dominance of right-wing ideas reflects capitalism’s control of society, writes Jacob Starling, but new ideas alone are not what drives social change, in the next article in our series on what socialists say

James Supple looks at the lessons from the historic union defeat at SEQEB in 1985, when Joh Bjelke-Petersen took on the unions and won.

Laura Bates’s new book The New Age of Sexism claims that violence against women is being ‘coded into the fabric’ of our future. But sexism has deeper roots than new AI technology argues Sarah Bates

Paddy Gibson spoke to Stephen Gapps about his research on Indigenous resistance and his new book Uprising at this year’s Keep Left event

Jillian Segal, Anthony Albanese’s appointed antisemitism envoy, has produced a series of Trumpian recommendations that have drawn widespread shock.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran was a bloody extension of the genocide in Gaza and risked a major escalation of war across the Middle East. Yet Anthony Albanese was quick to offer Labor’s full support.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declared “productivity” a centrepiece of the Labor government’s second term agenda.

Dockworkers in France and Italy have taken industrial action to stop weapons exports to Israel, showing the kind of action needed to stop the Gaza genocide.

News that the Trump administration is reviewing the AUKUS deal to ensure it is “aligned with the president’s ‘America first’ agenda” has reignited attacks on the plan.

Up to 500 public mental health workers across Victoria held a statewide strike on 17 June, demanding that Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan deliver fair pay and urgent reform to the state’s overwhelmed mental health system.

Hundreds of enraged teacher unionists rallied outside Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll’s office after school on 19 June, demanding the Labor government reverse its cut to public schools.

At least 598 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission and there were more tragic deaths in June.

Los Angeles has risen up in rebellion against Donald Trump and a brutal effort to round up undocumented migrants for deportation.

Israel is unleashing horror after horror in Gaza in the wake of its ruthless bombing of Iran.

Trump’s bombing of Iran was another nail in the coffin of the supposed “rules-based international order”. The war was an open act of imperialist aggression by Israel and the US.

Iran’s regime poses a challenge to US dominance of the Middle East, but is not a genuine alternative to imperialism, writes James Supple

There is deep opposition to the regime in Iran that has produced continuous waves of protest.

Paddy Gibson, Wendy Bowles and John Nolan look at the life of legendary working class Aboriginal activist Ray Peckham, and the lessons from his battles for Aboriginal rights

Phil Marfleet’s new book Palestine, imperialism and the struggle for freedom is a must read for everyone who’s taken action for Palestine. He spoke about why

UTS has officially ended its Memorandum of Understanding with the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), following almost a year of consistent campaigning students and staff.

Thousands of angry Brisbane construction workers walked off the job on Thursday morning, assembling outside the union’s office, where they voted for a 48-hour strike.

The High Court has dismissed the legal challenge to Labor’s Administration of the CFMEU. But the decision only confirms what CFMEU members already knew—bad laws need to be broken.

Anthony Albanese’s election win has given him a dominant position in parliament, with the Coalition reduced to a demoralised rump.

Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party won a sweeping victory in May. The Liberals suffered a historic wipe-out and the Coalition between the Liberal and National parties is now in crisis.

The Greens’ unexpected election losses, wiping out three of their four lower house MPs including leader Adam Bandt, has triggered questioning about the party’s direction.

CFMEU Administrator Mark Irving has moved to tighten his grip on the union following Labor’s win in the federal election in May.

Universities across the country are rolling out savage job cuts.

A bill aimed at improving abortion access has passed NSW Parliament, allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion pills up to nine weeks gestation.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is reaching its final monstrous stage.

Students in the US have defied growing repression to stage a wave of protests during graduation ceremonies in solidarity with Gaza.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is disbanding, ending four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state.

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.

Griffin Phillips looks at the massive revolt that began in China 100 years ago and raised the possibility of real socialism based on workers’ power

David Glanz looks at how China is trying to dominate high-tech manufacturing, and why its economic challenge to the US is spilling over into imperialist conflict.

Momentum is growing behind a campaign for Justice for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu killed by police in the Coles supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs on Tuesday.

The whole union movement has united in condemnation of the NSW Government’s proposed changes to the workers' compensation scheme.

Over 200 students packed a Student General Meeting at the University of Sydney this week, rejecting the university's new definition of antisemitism and standing up its crackdown on protest.

The Greens have suffered a heavy blow in the 2025 election, losing most of their lower house seats and failing to win any new ones.

Labor’s election victory defied expectations, with the Albanese government increasing its majority in the lower house and on track to have the highest number of seats since Bob Hawke’s 1987 win.

Anthony Albanese started his victory speech addressing “My fellow Australians”—and went on to invoke Australia no fewer than 43 more times over 22 minutes.

More than 1500 unionists walked off the job to rally on 1 May in Sydney, including hundreds of CFMEU members.

Israel has approved a new escalation of its offensive in Gaza, preparing to seize more land for a possible permanent occupation.

On Tuesday 6 May, Gomeroi people led a 150-strong crowd of trade unionists and climate activists on a march from the NSW Supreme Court to Parliament House.

The Victorian government has passed a bail law that includes removing the requirement to consider remand as a last resort for children.

From escalating trade wars to a full-scale offensive against immigrants, the first months of Trump’s second term have seen horror after horror. But there are also signs of resistance.

We warned during the first Trump presidency that next time they would come back more organised, more vicious. And that’s exactly what’s happened.

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.

Rock Haocas, of the USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) from Kanaky-New Caledonia, spoke at this year’s Keep Left on the movement for independence from France. Below is a section of his speech.

Joseph Choonara spoke to Socialist Worker UK about the breaks and continuities of neoliberalism as Trump’s trade war escalates

The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.

The ABC's seven-part podcast “Conspiracy? War on the Waterfront” tells the story of the 1998 waterfront dispute, in which more than 1400 workers were sacked in a full-frontal assault on the Maritime Union of Australia.

It will be a relief if Dutton is kept out of office. But the main reason for a Labor win will not be enthusiasm for Anthony Albanese.

Both Labor and Liberal have announced new policies designed to appeal to anger about the cost of housing. But neither will address the main cause of skyrocketing prices.

Global stockmarkets plunged in horror after Trump announced his so called “reciprocal tariffs” on virtually every country on Earth.

Solidarity spoke to activists who have been organising around housing, Aboriginal rights, Palestine, and in defence of the CFMEU about the election campaign.

After months of inactivity, Mark Irving, the Labor-appointed administrator of the CFMEU has announced a plan to implement an undisclosed “Strategic Review” between now and 2028.

The collapse of two childcare centre operators last month has left hundreds of parents stranded.

Thousands of NSW doctors from over 30 hospitals in NSW have taken strike action for the first time since 1998.

Peter Dutton is echoing Donald Trump’s climate denial. But Anthony Albanese is doing little to challenge him, desperate to hide his own climate inaction.

Israel is ramping up its killing in Gaza, seizing more land to prepare for permanent military control and at times murdering more than 100 Palestinians a day.

Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promise to end the Ukraine War on “day one” of his presidency, his hopes of a peace deal have so far come to nothing.

Netflix is setting viewing records with Adolescence, a gritty four-part British drama about a 13-year-old working class boy who stabs a girl from his school to death in a car park.

We should oppose not just scapegoating migrants over the cost of housing, argues Jack Stubley, but borders and immigration restrictions altogether, in the first of a new series on what socialists say.

David Glanz explains why proposals for weapons to ‘defend Australia’—such as from The Greens—are no alternative to AUKUS and mean buying into warmongering against China.

Jayden Rivers looks at what's behind Trump's tariff onslaught and whether it will crash the global economy.

Hundreds of students and staff rallied at universities nationwide to defy the crackdown on protests, joining a National Day of Action for Palestine.

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

Labor has held onto power by another overwhelming margin in WA, with the rump of Liberal MPs failing to make significant ground.

University managements are launching a McCarthyist offensive against the Palestine solidarity movement, with a new antisemitism definition that threatens academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Up to 150 staff and students rallied at UTS on 12 March against plans for cuts to jobs and courses.

The combination of the imminent High Court decision on the challenge to administration and the looming federal election means the Victorian Building Industry Group of unions delegates’ meeting on 26 March comes at a critical moment.

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

Livefire exercises by two Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast led to howls of outrage across the mainstream media in February.

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.

Israel has flagrantly broken the terms of the ceasefire with Hamas, killing over 700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as it renewed the bombing of Gaza.

There has been a wave of outrage following Donald Trump’s attempt to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Trump’s bullying and threats against US allies are part of a crude effort to restore US power, and a display of naked imperialism, writes James Supple.

Erima Dall looks at Labor’s drop in support and why it has disappointed its supporters.

Adam Adelpour looks at the difference between fascism in power and other forms of far right politics, and the lessons from history on how to stop them

Workers in Greece staged the country’s largest general strike in decades on the two-year anniversary of the Tempe train crash in 2023.

The racist AfD doubled its vote in the German election in February, finishing second with 20.8 per cent in the latest advance for the far right.

Huge student-led protests have rocked Serbia, with the potential to unseat the current regime.

Donald Trump has emboldened the far right everywhere, raining down attacks on immigrants, trans people and climate policies.

Donald Trump has set out to radically reshape the institutions of power in the US, moving rapidly to impose his far-right agenda.

As Musk and his tech bros influence the state, Trump is trying to cut "Big Government" and refashion his presidency around Nixon—but it was mass protest that took Nixon down

Governments, university administrations and the mainstream media have opportunistically seized on a string of antisemitic attacks to try to demonise and discredit the Palestine movement.

The Palestine movement has uncovered connections with companies which are directly involved in supplying the missiles and machinery for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Sydney Uni has announced the end of its exchange program between Sydney College of the Arts and the Israeli Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, in a win for the campaign to cut ties with Israel.

Sydney rail workers have been banned from taking industrial action for four months, with the Fair Work Commission imposing a “cooling off” order lasting until 1 July.

The new Country Liberal Party government is on the rampage in the Northern Territory, inspired by Donald Trump’s rapid-fire reactionary policy announcements in the US.

Donald Trump has announced a sickening plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza. He wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East”.

A surge in attacks in the occupied West Bank has left at least 870 Palestinians dead there since October 2023.

Israel’s ruling Likud party has joined the European alliance of far-right parties as an observer member, aligning it with fascists and Holocaust deniers.

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

Caitlin Doyle and James Supple look at the experience of minority government in the past and why it has not delivered serious change.

Tom Fiebig looks at the famous Freedom Ride in NSW, which saw students expose the racism and segregation against Aboriginal people across the state.

Labor has won the Werribee by-election in Melbourne’s outer west by a whisker, with a massive swing against the party in what was formerly a rock-solid ALP state seat.

Fresh off the back of Donald Trump’s latest attacks on gender affirming care, the anti-trans right in Australia is on the offensive.

Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a rallying call for the far right across the globe. He railed against climate change, ramped up anti-immigrant racism and fuelled transphobia.

The failure of the Voice referendum left racists and the right emboldened. There has been a particularly racist panic about “youth crime”.

Joyce Caroline Clague (nee Mercy), an incredible warrior for Aboriginal rights and justice for all oppressed peoples, died peacefully on 25 September, aged 86.

Officials from nine unions met in Canberra in early December for the “Trade Unions for Democracy” summit, held in response to the Labor government’s union busting attack on the CFMEU.

Mass resistance and the threat of workers’ strikes stopped a half-baked coup attempt in South Korea in early December.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has embraced the far right and fascist forces in the US and abroad. He even gave a fascist salute in a speech following Donald Trump’s inauguration.

After the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, Maeve Larkins looks at key questions on the legacy of the 2011 revolution and what his fall means for Syria and the region

The government is waging a major attack on Treaty principles in Aotearoa-New Zealand, writes Jayden Rivers, but gains for Maori did not come from the Treaty itself

Erima Dall explains why the working class is still the only force with the power to bring fundamental change—and a world run in the interests of people and planet.

Donald Trump used his inauguration as US President to unleash a barrage of attacks—on migrants, trans rights, climate action, public services and more.

Israel has finally agreed to a ceasefire after 15 months of genocide in Gaza, following its killing of 46,700 people.

The catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles are the city’s worst ever fires—and potentially its worst ever disaster of any kind.

Labor’s failure over the cost of living means Albanese could easily follow Kamala Harris and the Democrats out of office.

The ceasefire in Lebanon was scarcely hours old before Israel launched fresh attacks, firing into the southern Lebanese town of Markaba, wounding two people. Israel also shelled the villages of Taybah and Khiam.

Hundreds of university staff in Canberra and Wollongong have rallied against job cuts, as universities across the country roll out attacks in the wake of Labor’s plans to slash the numbers of international students permitted to study in Australia.

Albanese’s plans to cap the number of commencing international students for 2025 have stalled, after the Senate rejected the legislation. But it will continue reducing international students through other measures to restrict visas.

NSW nurses held their third day of strike action in November, as rail workers also ramped up industrial action over pay.

Rebel blue collar unions were set to meet in a “Trade Unions for Democracy Summit” as this was written, ahead of the opening of the unions’ High Court challenge to the CFMEU administration regime.

The three anti-refugee laws rushed through Parliament in the dying days of the last parliamentary sitting are even worse than those of the Howard and Dutton era.

Another greenwashing climate summit was held in petrostate Azerbaijan in November, in the wake of climate denier Donald Trump’s re-election in the US.

Just hours after Donald Trump emerged victorious in the US presidential election, the German government collapsed, plunging the biggest economy in Europe into confusion.

Donald Trump masqueraded as a peace candidate. But he has already made it clear how strongly he backs Israel, threatening there would be “hell to pay” if Israeli hostages are not released.

Incoming US President Donald Trump has named a rogues’ gallery of loyalists, billionaires and racists to staff his new administration.

Trump appealed to racism and bitterness about the Democrats’ failures on cost of living to attract some workers, but most are far from won over, writes James Supple.

Critics argue the government response to violence against women is failing, writes Lucy Honan, but recognising its roots in capitalism and the family is necessary to addressing it.

Tom Orsag looks at how the NSW BLF set the standard for militant construction unionism as a result of years of rank-and-file organising in the union.

Thousands of construction workers in Brisbane walked off the job today and marched on the Queensland Parliament.

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

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

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.

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.

On 5 October, the National Council of the NTEU voted to endorse an institutional academic boycott of Israel.

Universities are cracking down on Palestine activism in a blatant attack on free speech and the right to protest.

Over 400 staff and students attended a rally on 16 October at ANU in defense of jobs and pay, marching to the Chancelry building and office of the Vice-Chancellor.

Almost exactly five years ago, then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tried, and failed, to deport the Tamil family from Biloela to Sri Lanka.

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

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

Many of Australia’s offset schemes remove almost no carbon from the atmosphere, a new study has found, despite claiming hundreds of million of dollars worth of credits.

US President Joe Biden has spent the past 13 months tut-tutting over the death toll as Israel has committed genocide. But the flow of American weapons to the IDF has never stopped.

Griffin Phillips reviews a new book that charts China’s emergence as an economic power, the growth of an immense working class and the likely turmoil ahead.

Sudan is being ravaged by a civil war between the country’s generals. Outside powers are feeding the conflict—but on this occasion it is mostly a struggle between sub-imperialist regional powers, not the world’s biggest states.

Hezbollah emerged as a resistance movement to Israeli occupation and has humbled Israel before but recent years have shown its limitations, argues James Supple.

Far from any natural conservatism, ordinary people in the US have a history of bitter and explosive struggles against exploitation and racism, writes Jacob Starling.

Labor has lost office in Queensland after nearly a decade. While early polling indicated an LNP landslide, in the end Labor managed to avoid total humiliation—but still suffered a substantial 7 per cent swing.

Albanese’s right-wing agenda is bringing Labor unstuck. There is a widespread sense that he is running a useless government that is failing working class people.

For the second time in a month, tens of thousands of CFMEU members across the country took strike action on 17 and 18 September to oppose the Labor-imposed administration of the union.

Support for the CFMEU has grown in the weeks since Labor imposed administration.

Eighty students joined a Students Against War rally at Unimelb on 10 September demanding the university cut its ties with Israel.

More than 500 students showed up to join a Student General Meeting for Palestine at UNSW on 25 September.

The recent brutal suppression of protests against the Land Forces Expo in Melbourne shows Albanese’s Labor government is deadly serious about preparing for war on China and ramping up arms manufacturing in Australia.

The Albanese government has continued to prioritise profit over the environment, signalling their intention to make a deal with the Liberals to water down the powers of their proposed environment regulator, Environment Protection Australia.

Almost three years after Anthony Albanese promised to build a new hydrogen-powered generator in Kurri Kurri in NSW using public funds, the plant is now likely to run entirely on diesel fuel for its first year.

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.

Four months after protests first broke out in Kanaky-New Caledonia, the French state continues to repress the Indigenous Kanak people.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made major gains in Germany’s recent state elections—even as it moves in a more openly fascist direction.

After a year of slaughter, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza shows no sign of stopping.

David Glanz looks at what the movement for Palestine has achieved in the last year and how it can move forward.

Fear of another Trump presidency means much of the left in the US is swinging behind Kamala Harris, weakening the movements that are needed to win real change, writes Matilda Fay.

Anthony Albanese’s Labor government has disappointed many who voted for it and betrayed others like the CFMEU. James Supple looks at why Labor has sunk so low.

Israel has murdered Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and is now on the brink of all out war in Lebanon.

Around 40 CFMEU and ETU members at the multinational building materials manufacturer Etex in Matraville, Sydney are standing strong after being locked out for almost five weeks.

Albanese’s appalling union busting attack on the CFMEU with the support of the Liberals is a new low, as Labor lurches even further to the right

The Albanese Labor government has imposed administration on the whole CFMEU construction division.

Australia has some of the most restrictive anti-strike laws in the developed world.

The Albanese government is stirring up Islamophobia to try to demonise the Palestine movement and justify its efforts to keep out Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

Student activist Bea Tucker has had their expulsion from the ANU in Canberra overturned by a university appeals committee, in a victory for free speech and the campaign for Palestine.

Support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel within the university staff union, the NTEU, is growing.

Refugees have begun a series of continuous 24-hour protests for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as well as protests in Adelaide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the most incarcerated group on the face of the planet.

The high-level AUSMIN talks between Australia and the US in August underlined the Albanese government’s commitment to deepening its ties with the US empire.

A surge of far right rallies and violence across Britain and Northern Ireland aimed at refugees and migrants shocked millions last month.

In early August, a mass student uprising in Bangladesh overthrew the 15-year rule of dictator Sheikh Hasina.

US and Australian hostility to Iran is not driven by concern at the regime’s repression at home but by competition for influence in the Middle East, writes Miro Sandev.

The Popular Front against fascism in France in the 1930s weakened resistance and meant restraining one of the greatest workers’ upsurges in history, writes James Supple

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.

Tens of thousands of construction workers walked off the job to protest the attack on the CFMEU on Tuesday in a nationwide strike.

Israel’s escalating aggression is again risking a war across the Middle East.

Over 600 students at Sydney Uni have voted overwhelmingly not just to cut the uni’s ties with Israel, but affirming the right of Palestinians to armed resistance and endorsing one, secular, democratic state in Palestine from the River to the sea.

As Solidarity goes to press industrial action at Queensland’s biggest infrastructure project, Brisbane’s Cross River Rail, continues.

The CFMEU is facing a major attack that could leave the union seriously weakened and strip back safety, conditions and wages across the industry.

Solidarity looks at the justifications for attacking the union and what administration will mean.

Julian Assange is finally free, returning to Australia in June after accepting a plea deal following five years in London’s Belmarsh prison.

Andrew Fowler's new book documents in meticulous detail the way in which Scott Morrison’s government campaigned to win US support for the project.

A toxic wave of sexism, racial stereotypes and transphobic hate was unleashed after Algerian boxer Imane Khelif beat Angela Carini in just 46 seconds in the Paris Olympics.

Bangladesh’s authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country following weeks of mass student demonstrations.

The Democratic Party establishment is piling in behind Kamala Harris after Joe Biden bowed out of the United States presidential race.

There are lessons for the CFMEU today from the way Labor succeeded in breaking the Builders' Labourers Federation in 1986, argues Tom Orsag.

Although Australia and Israel share a history of settler colonialism, workers here have history of fighting for Indigenous rights while those in Israel cannot, writes Paddy Gibson.

Racism accompanies every major war, and while it can serve as a justification the fundamental cause of war is imperialism and capitalist competition, argues Jack Stubley

Thousands of nurses and midwives across NSW held protests outside hospitals in late July as part of their campaign for an immediate 15 per cent pay rise.

Adam Demir, who resigned from Labor's WA Multicultural branch, spoke to Solidarity about Fatima Payman and the party's betrayal over Gaza.

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.

Senator Fatima Payman’s resignation shows that the pressure on the Labor government over Gaza is still growing.

Israel has failed to achieve its goal of eliminating Hamas after nine months of war and the butchering of 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Although all encampments except those at Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle have ended, the Palestine movement has emerged stronger from the experience.

Melbourne Uni has brought misconduct charges against 21 students involved in the encampment for Gaza and the sit-in at Mahmoud’s Hall.

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.

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

As if relishing his power to demoralise teachers and take the crisis in schools to new lows, Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has joined the other state and federal education ministers throwing their weight behind the right wing of the reading wars.

Eleven years ago, on 19 July 2013, the then Labor Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that the government had struck a deal to transfer all asylum-seekers who arrived by boat to Manus Island in PNG.

Labour won a big majority in Britain’s election. But the results saw a surge towards the far right Reform UK party while pro-Palestine independents won five seats.

Despite the fascists’ failure to take government in France, they will continue rising if the left relies on electoral deals to halt them, argues Cooper Forsyth

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

Islamic politics inspire some of the most powerful movements against imperialism in the Middle East. Luke Ottavi looks at how the left should respond

Radical parties that have tried to introduce sweeping change through parliament have continually failed, argues James Supple, because the system is set up to stop them

The pressure from eight months of protests is getting to the government. Albanese has launched a wild series of attacks on Palestine protests and The Greens.

The Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Sydney has rejected an offer from management designed to have the camp clear out “and not resume”.

Construction workers walked off the job at ANU in Canberra to support the Gaza solidarity encampment after a series of threats from the university.

ANU has decided to expel student activist, Palestine supporter and participant in the encampment, Beatrice Tucker, for comments they made in an ABC radio interview.

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

Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton is blaming migrants for the housing crisis gripping Australia but it is rich Australian investors and the government that are to blame.

Construction workers on Brisbane’s $7 billion Cross River Rail project staged a one-week strike last month as part of a major dispute over substandard conditions.

The Minns Labor government in NSW has struck a deal with Origin Energy to extend the life of the coal-fired Eraring power station from its original closure date of 2025 until 2027.

Britain’s Labour Party is a near certainty to win the snap general election on 4 July.

More than 30,000 workers across six campuses of the University of California have taken weeks of strike action in solidarity with Palestine protests on campus.

The African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, has slumped below 50 per cent of the vote for the first time in the general election held at the end of May.

Involving dissenting Labor members in the Palestine movement is necessary to pull in the large number of Labor supporters and unionists we need to win, argues Ian Rintoul

Riots in Kanaky-New Caledonia are a response to France’s attempts to rule out any hope of independence for the Indigenous people, writes Paddy Gibson.

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

More than 2000 public servants have signed an open letter since 30 May, condemning the Australian Government for its complicity in the Palestinian genocide.

Israel has begun its long-threatened assault on Rafah. Hundreds have already been killed,  thousands more will likely die as Israel’s savagery continues.

The spread of student encampments for Palestine around the world has been an inspiration for all those fighting to end Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza.

ANU management in Canberra is demanding a number of students leave their encampment in solidarity with Gaza, threatening them with disciplinary action if they refuse.

Labor’s budget is about making it look like the government is acting on the cost of living, in the hope of dampening the anger workers feel about it in time for an election in the next year.

In the run-up to the budget, Labor unveiled its new National Defence Strategy, announcing over $330 billion in spending on new weapons and military hardware over the next decade as it gears up for war on China.

Thousands of workers downed tools to march through Sydney on 1 May, with construction and maritime unions making May Day an annual stop work rally.

Labor’s new gas strategy pledges its support for a massive fossil fuel expansion, going all out to back mining industry profits.

New environmental protection laws promised before the last election have been put indefinitely on hold, in another effort by the Albanese government to serve the coal and gas industry.

After months of delays, the US Congress has approved a further $90 billion of aid as Ukraine faces growing pressure from fresh Russian advances.

Director Jonathan Glazer’s speech after winning Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards punctured the banality of the ceremony.

Direct action protests that disrupt business as usual should not be seen as an end in themselves but as part of a broader strategy of mass action, writes Adam Adelpour

Frantz Fanon’s writings on racism and the difference between colonial violence and violent resistance to it remain valuable today, writes Miro Sandev

Control of the Middle East has been a key focus for the world’s big powers due to its immense reserves of oil, and Israel remains vital to preserving it, writes James Supple

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.

Students at Melbourne Uni have occupied the Arts West building three weeks after they began their encampment in solidarity with Gaza.

Sydney University staff have passed an unprecedented motion that will push forward the movement in Australia for the boycott, divestment and sanction of Israel.

After six months of slaughter, Israel’s atrocities in Gaza are becoming more and more obscene.

Recent months have seen an increasing number of protests directed at the arms industry in Australia and its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Spy base Pine Gap is almost certainly playing a key role feeding intelligence to Israel for use against Gaza.

In a fresh demonstration of the federal government’s cowardice, Anthony Albanese has sought Peter Dutton’s support to take a bipartisan approach to religious discrimination laws that risk opening LGBTIQ+ people up to further bigotry.

The AUKUS military pact is burning huge sums of money and has the potential to make Australia a global destination for nuclear waste, as well as accelerating the drive to war between China and the US.

The Coalition’s Peter Dutton has launched a push for nuclear power. The move is a product of hostility to any serious increase in renewable energy.

State governments nationwide are stepping up their war on Indigenous kids, with measures that will see more children in jail.

The new Bill is Labor’s latest shocking, and desperate, measure to trash refugee rights.

Workers are still feeling the cost of living crunch, with Anthony Albanese refusing to do anything that would make a real difference.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on track to win India’s upcoming election, giving him a third term in office and allowing him to cement his reactionary and racist agenda.

Zionism emerged as a response to antisemitism in Europe but its aim of building a state with the support of imperialist powers has proven disastrous, writes Jacob Starling

The revolution in Portugal beginning 50 years ago in 1974 with a revolt in the army, saw workers take control of hundreds of factories, writes Luke Ottavi

A new book by author David Van Reybrouck reveals a fascinating history of resistance to colonialism in Indonesia, writes Simon Basketter

Clare Fester reviews a new book that looks at the history of Jewish working class radicalism and struggle that Zionism has sought to hide.

After five months and well over 31,000 dead, there is no end in sight to Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.

Gaza is on the brink of widespread starvation, with Israel refusing international appeals to let aid shipments in.

The nationwide “Student Strike for Palestine” on 29 February showed both the potential and the striking amount of work still to be done to win students to taking action over Gaza.

As the death toll mounts and hunger stalks Gaza, supporters of Israel are finding it harder to defend the genocide. Instead, they are turning to smearing supporters of Palestine as antisemitic.

In late February, the war-hawk Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, announced Labor would spend an extra $11.1 billion to double the number of Navy surface ships, taking total naval spending in the next decade to an eye-wateringly obscene $54.2 billion.

When 39 asylum-seekers were discovered at Beagle Bay, 150 kilometres north of Broome on 19 February, Opposition leader and former offshore detention jailer, Peter Dutton, thought he was on a winner for the Dunkley by-election just a couple of weeks away on 2 March.

Thousands of workers at Egypt’s Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Company have won pay rises after a week-long strike.

The two-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine was marked by the Russian capture of the strategically important Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.

The US assault on Fallujah in 2004 was one of the US’s worst war crimes in Iraq. Angus Dermody explains how the US set out to crush resistance to foreign occupation

The Palestinian Intifada that began in 1987 exposed the brutality of life under occupation and how Palestinians have no choice but to organise resistance, writes Maeve Larkins.

Gomeroi people have won a stunning legal victory over gas giant Santos, as the Federal Court upheld an appeal against a Native Title Tribunal ruling from December 2022.

Repression of Palestine activism echoes the crackdown during previous wars, argue James Supple and Tom Orsag.

Union members in social and community services in Melbourne took up to four hours of unprotected strike action for Palestine on Friday 22 February.

Israel’s allegations against the UNRWA aid organisation in Gaza have been rapidly exposed as lies.

For almost four days in January protest action with workers refusing to cross the community picket succeeded in preventing work on the ZIM shipping-line at Webb Dock in Melbourne.

After more than four months of determined industrial action, wharfies at DP World port terminals have won a 25.6 per cent pay rise over four years, while accepting changes to rostering.

The NSW Labor government is set to lock in more pollution through extending the life of Eraring, the country’s largest coal-fired power station.

The long-awaited review of Australia’s offshore detention was finally made public on 12 February, confirming all the issues with corruption that have been known for years.

Criminal charges are being considered against a police officer over the death of 16-year-old Jai Wright, after the NSW Coroner suspended the inquest after two days on 30 January.

About 1.4 million people marched across Germany at the end of January against the far right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party.

A new armed offensive poses a major challenge to Myanmar’s military dictatorship after years of resistance, writes Vivian Honan.

Hamas grew out of the legitimate Palestinian resistance to Israel’s violence, writes James Supple, but its focus on armed struggle has not delivered liberation.

Isabel Ringrose explains that imperialism is about more than major countries dominating the smaller ones.

With more than 30,000 dead and much of Gaza reduced to rubble Israel’s genocidal assault shows no sign of relenting.

The attacks on Yemen show that President Joe Biden’s calls for Israel to exercise “restraint” are hollow hypocrisy.

Union members at the Foundation for Young Australians across the country joined the Global Strike for Gaza, demanding their employer make a statement of solidarity with Palestine.

The Houthis are part of what some commentators have called an “axis of resistance” in the Middle East linked to Iran.

The government’s continued backing for the genocide in Gaza has raised the question of what kind of movement can break its support for apartheid Israel.

Palestine activists should encourage Labor members to support our demands and seek to draw them into the movement.

As Israel ramped up its genocide, and or own state and federal education ministers threw their weight behind it, teachers in Victoria used our rank-and-file networks and the Trade Unionists for Palestine campaign to take collective action.

The failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum has exposed Anthony Albanese’s commitment to racist policies and severe neglect in Indigenous Affairs.

Even with the war in Ukraine stuck at a bloody impasse, the US and NATO are determined to keep the killing going to further their own interests in a proxy war with Russia.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that serious action is urgently needed to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, 2023’s UN climate summit COP28 provided nothing in the way of solutions.

Paddy Gibson spoke to Indigenous activist Ray Peckham about the fight against segregation and the Aboriginal Welfare Board, and how trade unions aided the struggle

The national independence movements of the 1950s fought Western imperialism, but the states that resulted were not capable of winning real liberation, writes Miro Sandev

The Australian Labor Party’s leaders have backed Israel from the beginning, playing a key role in the UN partition plan in 1947 that triggered the Nakba, writes Tom Orsag.

Israel’s “genocidal acts” in Gaza have been laid out in meticulous detail in South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice.

Labor is fuelling racist views about migration, announcing a major crackdown on the number of people entering Australia to study or work.

Israel is threatening to widen its war into Lebanon.

There is blood on Anthony Albanese’s hands over Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue to decimate Gaza “with full force” following the brief ceasefire.

Organising for Palestine in the unions continues to step up. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine in Sydney and Melbourne have held solidarity photos in schools and a vigil in Melbourne.

The so-called truce did not end the violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers and troops are terrorising and killing with impunity.

A stark warning from the UN has revealed the world is on track for a “hellish” three degrees of warming this century.

On 8 November, the High Court ruled indefinite immigration detention unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent.

Workers at all four DP World port terminals around the country, members of the MUA, took strike action on 16 November as part of their escalating bargaining campaign.

Thousands of South Australian teachers, members of the Australian Education Union (AEU), went on a state-wide strike again on 9 November against a poor pay agreement offered by the Malinauskas Labor government.