Strike one against Liberals’ school cuts in WA
Teachers, Education Assistants and parents are fighting back against the Liberal’s cuts to education in Western Australia.Over a thousand education assistants rallied outside state parliament on 3 September, just...
NT bus workers head resistance to public sector assault
Bus drivers in Darwin have held two 24-hour strikes in the last few weeks, with more that 40 drivers walking off the job to march to the NT Parliament.The...
Tensions mount: Morrison tries to stop the media but he hasn’t stopped the boats
Abbott and Morrison have wasted no time putting the boot into asylum seekers.The day after being sworn into office, Abbott directed the Immigration Department to only issue temporary protection...
West Papuan asylum seekers returned to PNG
Seven West Papuans who requested asylum when they arrived in the Torres Strait have been denied the chance to make a protection application in Australia. Two days after arriving,...
Fighting Abbott’s climate denial: why we shouldn’t defend the carbon tax
Tony Abbott says repealing the carbon tax will be his “first order of business” in the new parliament. Labor and the Greens have said they will oppose its repeal,...
Has the carbon tax cut emissions?
The Greens claim the carbon tax has reduced emissions by over 8 per cent since it came into effect.
The most recent government figures do show that for the first...
Community campaign challenging East West tunnel plan
A community campaign is fighting the Victorian Liberal government’s planned East West toll link tunnel. The multi-lane road tunnel will cost $6-8 billion and involve the demolition of...
Low paid women workers: Abbott’s first target
Tony Abbott has quietly rushed to attack the wages of aged care workers and childcare workers. Predominantly women, they are some of the lowest paid in the country.The Coalition...
Tecoma v McDonald’s: Community resistance to a corporate world
The campaign to stop the infamous corporate bully McDonald’s from setting up shop in Tecoma has become another symbol of the battle between real democracy and capitalist greed.To residents...
Zoe’s law an attack on abortion rights in NSW
Anti-abortionists are lining up behind a bill in NSW that threatens to set a legal precedent defining a foetus of over 20 weeks as a living person.The bill, known...
Workers the victims in US shutdown circus
In a sign of the chaos and instability that now afflicts the world’s sole superpower, the US government had been “shut down” by the right-wing Republicans’ refusal to pass...
Protests force Greece to act on fascist Golden Dawn
The growing opposition to Golden Dawn and its increasingly brazen attacks have forced the Greek government to act.Last month a Golden Dawn member stabbed to death Pavlos Fyssas, an...
Strikes and resistance have Greek government on the brink
The Greek government again faces collapse with a new wave of strikes against the austerity being imposed by the Troika of the EU, IMF and the European Central Bank.Health...
Bangladesh ablaze with garment workers’ anger
A mass strike wave of garment workers hit Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka in September.Hundreds of factories shut down on Wednesday September 25 as the workers took to the streets to...
Whatever happened to Labor’s Left?
The lack of any distinct policy differences between Labor’s Left and Right candidates in the leadership contest exposes the degeneration of the Left faction writes James SuppleThe contest for...
Syria, war and imperialism: Why the main enemy is at home
The history of socialists’ opposition to war provides insights for today, argues Geraldine FelaBritish Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama have been forced into an embarrassing...
The New Guard: When Australia’s rulers flirted with fascism
As Australia suffered a major economic crisis in the 1930s, sections of business and the ruling class began to encourage a growing fascist movement, writes Tom OrsagIn recent years...
Inside the world of the corporate vultures
Antony Loewenstein’s latest book explores the corrupt and destructive alliances between governments and multi-national corporations. Loewenstein labels this vulture capitalism, where unaccountable corporations are more powerful than states and...
Inside the system
Newman's G20 police state, VC's collusion with police at Sydney Uni, Taxpayer junkets, Australia's role in Pinochet coup and BHP boss's $700,000 payout to move houseCracking bones then cracking...
Things they say
She was being unpleasant and it was my way of saying “Stop being a bitch”.
Julie Bishop, the Foreign Minister and the only woman in Cabinet, explaining why she famously...
