Sydney Uni at the centre of resistance to Gillard’s cuts
What happens at Sydney Uni in the fight against Gillard's cuts will be key. Last year we waged a successful campaign against job cuts, saving half the jobs management...
Gillard’s savage uni cuts – build the fight back
Labor's outrageous new plan to rob universities of $2.8 billion dollars to fund the Gonski school reforms has hit a nerve.Our education is already characterised by over-sized classes, over-worked...
Gillard’s savage uni cuts: build the fightback
Labor's outrageous new plan to rob universities of $2.8 billion dollars to fund the Gonski school reforms has hit a nerve.Our education is already characterised by over-sized classes, over-worked...
Canberra 457 workers’ dispute shows how to fight for rights
A group of 457 migrant visa workers in Canberra have shown how to stand up against exploitation and demand equal rights.The group of mostly Korean workers employed in...
Action needed to stop Sensis job cuts
One hundred and fifty people attended a second lively rally to save jobs at Sensis, Telstra’s directories arm, in early April. Sensis workers again took unprotected strike action for...
Victorian teachers: Half a victory is not enough
The Victorian teachers union (AEU) is recommending a deal to members that, while it does mean a pay rise averaging above 2.75 per cent a year, most teachers will...
Protest campaign saves James Price Point
On April 13, resource giant Woodside Petroleum announced that it was pulling out of a planned $45 billion gas processing plant development at James Price Point in the Kimberley,...
Hunger strike exposes detention injustice
Twenty seven refugees with adverse ASIO security assessments exposed the detention regime with a ten day hunger strike at Broadmeadows detention centre in Melbourne. The refugees have won a...
Hazaras facing death in Pakistan, Australia puts out ‘not welcome’ sign
The wave of killings of Hazaras in Pakistan has escalated this year, with over 200 killed in just two horrific bombings. Yet our government wants to stop Hazaras trying...
Income Management expansion in effort to break boycott
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has launched a further expansion of the Income Management system, sparking plans for protest.Income Management quarantines 50 per cent of Centrelink payments, so it...
US militarism is ramping up Korean tensions
Imperialist bullying by the US has pushed the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war, not the actions of the North Korean regime.The West blames the declarations from...
Mass strike fights low pay and long hours on Hong Kong docks
Dock workers in Hong Kong are into their third week on strike, demanding their first pay rise in 15 years and an end to horrific exploitation.Around 450 crane operators,...
Cyprus ‘bail in’ won’t halt the Euro crisis
Cyprus is the latest Eurozone economy to require rescue from a major financial collapse. Its two largest banks—the Bank of Cyprus and Laiki—faced bankruptcy without a massive injection of...
Right-wing Labor’s in freefall: so why are union leaders backing Gillard?
Union leaders are leading the campaign to support Julia Gillard as the leader of the Labor Party and in the federal election. James Supple asks whyAt much cost, Labor...
How Thatcher waged war on the unions
It was no surprise that some of those most overjoyed when Margaret Thatcher died were those who fought her the hardest, and suffered the most—the British miners. David Douglas,...
The meaning of Margaret Thatcher
From first to last Thatcher was a warrior—a warrior for the ruling class and for free market capitalism.When Thatcher first served as a minister in the Heath Tory Government...
The unchallenged rise of anti-Tamil racism in Sri Lanka
Mark Gillespie explains how Sri Lankan socialists capitulated to the vicious racism and pogroms against Tamils that led to the ethnic cleansing of todayFor more than 25 years...
Australia’s war against Japan: the myth of the ‘good war’
There is nothing progressive about Australian militarism, argues Adrian Skerritt, and the Pacific War was no exceptionEvery year the Australian government and the media frenetically promote the celebration of...
Understanding the economic crisis: putting profit rates at the centre
The Failure of Capitalist Production
By Andrew Kliman, Pluto Press $39.95Since 2007 the world economy has faced its most serious crisis since the 1930s. Its ongoing failure to recover suggests...
Things they say
Brought to its knees… civil disobedience to the point of anarchyFederal Shadow Resources and Energy Minister Ian McFarlane on the NSW coal seam gas industryWe produce a men’s...
War, the army and mass popular revolt
Arms and the People
Edited by Mike Gonzalez, Pluto, $30Towards the end of the final series of the comedy Blackadder, which is set during the First World War, Captain Blackadder...
