Fight Rudd, Fight Abbott—Building the refugee movement after the election
Since Kevin Rudd’s announcement of Labor’s PNG plan to expel all asylum seekers to PNG (and now also Nauru), thousands of people have turned out across the country in...
‘Stopping the boats’ doesn’t save lives at sea
Labor has attempted to defend its PNG policy and its efforts to stop refugee boats by saying it wants to prevent asylum seeker deaths at sea. Labor Left MPs...
Justice for Jessie: 457 worker needs our solidarity
Jessie Cayanan, a 457 visa worker from the Philippines, faces deportation after being ripped off by the company that brought him here. Filipino migrant organisations in Melbourne rallied in...
CFMEU election ads encourage xenophobia
The CFMEU’s election advertising against 457 visas shows the appalling xenophobia that some unions are playing with. The union is running TV ads that claim “temporary overseas workers” will...
Six days of solid strikes at Sydney Uni—we can win
Sydney University saw its sixth day of strike action this year on August 20, as National Tertiary Education (NTEU) and Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members pursued their...
Victorian universities can strike for a better deal
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union are taking action for new union collective agreements at all eight Victorian universities, but the campaign hangs in the balance as Solidarity...
Case dismissed—solidarity wins for Bob Carnegie
In a significant victory for workers’ solidarity, the Federal Magistrate’s Court has dismissed all charged against union activist Bob Carnegie. The verdict was delivered as thousands of workers in...
ANU students occupy: ‘no ifs, no buts, no tutorial cuts!’
In early August, students at the Australian National University (ANU) showed the Dean of Arts exactly what they think of her policy to axe tutorials. Over 250 students marched...
Murdoch’s anti-Labor crude is media’s default setting
The day after the election was announced Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney mouthpiece, The Daily Telegraph, splashed the headline “Kick this mob out” over a photo of Kevin Rudd.That Murdoch is...
Indonesian socialist speaks on the workers’ fightback
Sultoni Farras is the head of the Indonesian trade union federation Progesip and a leader of the union alliance Sekber Buruh. For his work organising a strike in a...
Imperialism, sectarianism and Syria’s revolution
Joseph Daher is a member of the Syrian Revolutionary Left Current and runs the blog syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com. He spoke with Solidarity’s Mark Goudkamp about the Syrian revolution.How would you characterise...
Fighting fascism and racism in Greece
Katerina Thoidou is a Greek activist and socialist. She is on the Steering Committee of KEERFA (United Against Racism and the Fascist Threat), a campaign group fighting Greece’s neo-Nazi...
Australia: Imperial master of PNG
The PNG “solution” is the latest episode in Australia’s history of imperialist domination of PNG, writes Tom OrsagKevin Rudd’s deal to send refugees to PNG shows Australia’s neo-colonial attitude...
Why Labor got it so wrong
Labor’s six years in power have either disappointed or outraged its supporters. David Glanz looks at why Labor has been so uselessOn the night in 2007 that Kevin Rudd...
The myth of conservative Australia
Many think the right-wing policies of the Coalition and Labor represent the conservatism of Australians. Eliot Hoving shows that this is not the caseGreens Leader Christine Milne told The...
Was misogyny to blame for Gillard’s demise?
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers, New South Publishing, $19.99Feminist Anne Summers has argued that unprecedented misogyny was key to Julia Gillard’s demise as Prime Minister.Many are convinced that...
Army crackdown threatens Egypt’s revolution
The Egyptian Army has committed cold-blooded murder on the streets of Egypt. The official estimate is 830 dead, but journalists on the ground say a more accurate death toll...
Inside the system
US surveillance state strikes back at journalistsThe partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald has been detained under anti-terrorism laws by British authorities in a move branded “revenge tactics” by Amnesty...
Things they say
It was in the bank, your Honour.
Gerard Obeid, son of corrupt Eddie Obeid, when asked where he got the money to pay for his $2.5 million houseI’ll bet you...
