Don’t let HRL and the Liberals get away with new coal power in Victoria
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to decide in mid-April if a proposed HRL coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley can go ahead. HRL wants to burn a...
Carbon pricing, unions and climate change
Solidarity spoke to James Goodman, National Tertiary Education Union member at UTS, about unions and climate change policyThe ACTU had a position where it supported first the CPRS and...
Demanding climate solutions that will work
The Beyond Zero Emissions 2020 Stationary Energy Plan shows one possible plan to transition to 100 per cent renewable energy in Australia. Using only currently commercially available technology, the plan...
Detention crisis: federal police run riot at Christmas Island
A fantastic breakout on Christmas Island, and dramatic scenes of fires and tear gas rounds as the Immigration Department, Serco and the Federal Police restored “order”, have pushed asylum...
Speaking tour a boost for Jobs with Justice campaign
John Leemans, a Gurindji man and LHMU delegate from Kalkarindji, Northern Territory, travelled to Sydney and Brisbane to speak at worksites, union and community meetings in March.John is an...
From little things, big things grow: the first Gurundji strike
The 1966 Gurindji Strike (also known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off) was a defining moment in the struggle for Aboriginal rights. A protest that started demanding equal wages and...
Intervention’s strongest supporters abandon a failing policy
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, many of the NT Intervention’s staunchest supporters are now admitting it has failed and distancing themselves from Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin and...
Labor embraces the talk of multiculturalism, but not the practice
In a dramatic about-face for the Gillard government, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen used a February speech to announce a renewed commitment from Labor to multiculturalism.Bowen announced the formation...
Union fight the key to stopping Liberals in NSW
Popular disgust at Labor was set to deliver another state election to the Liberals as Solidarity went to press. Labor was facing electoral annihilation on the eve of the...
Labor’s juggling act: move to the right but keep the unions happy
After Labor's appalling result at last year’s Federal election it was close to becoming the first one-term Federal government since Scullin’s in the 1930s Depression. An official review by party...
Wisconsin: class struggle in the belly of the beast
The eruption of class struggle in Wisconsin, that saw workers occupy the State Capitol Building for 17 days, has swept away two ideas that have been a mainstay of American...
One million protest sexism in Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” Italy
In early February, over one million people rallied across Italy asking “se non ora quando?” (if not now, when?), demanding an end to the rampant sexism characterising Italian politics...
Greek workers: “Let’s have Cairo everywhere!”
Greek workers held their first general strike of the year in February—their eighth in just 12 months. Work stoppages and nearly 60 demonstrations demanded an end to the government’s three-year...
Egypt’s revolution takes on the ‘little Mubaraks’
“IT IS our opinion that if this revolution does not lead to the fair distribution of wealth it is not worth anything. Freedoms are not complete without social freedoms....
Irish election: “a riot at the ballot box”
“A riot at the ballot box”—that is how a Fianna Fail (FF) spokesperson described their historical demolition in Ireland’s February general election. For most of the Southern Irish state’s existence,...
From Petrograd to Cairo: revolution and mass strikes
Chris Bambery from Socialist Worker UK takes a look at German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg’s classic The Mass Strike in the wake of Egypt’s revolutionThe strike wave detonated by Egypt’s revolution...
Lessons from last time: national liberation in the Arab world
Many Arab leaders now facing revolts against their rule were themselves a product of the revolutionary wave in the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s that ended colonial...
Balkan war proves the myth of “humanitarian intervention”
Many people who are horrified by what Western intervention has done in Iraq or Afghanistan still see no alternative to supporting a no-fly zone over Libya.Western governments encourage this—and...
Construction unions can’t just cop these unjust fines
Fines against the construction unions have continued to mount under the draconian special laws for the industry established to crack down on the unions. In cases through January, February...
Workers stage first national strike in CSIRO’s history
More than 2000 staff across the country at CSIRO took part in a two-hour strike in late March over pay and conditions.It is the first time in the 80-year history...
Immigration Nation: Probing Australia’s racist roots
Mark Goudkamp takes a look at the SBS series Immigration Nation and its history of the White Australia policySBS’s Immigration Nation is an informative and timely three-part documentary that...
Western bombs won’t free Libya
As Solidarity goes to press the Western powers, under the banner of the UN, have started a massive bombing campaign on Libya. More than 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles were...
