Mental health crisis engulfs Nauru
Nauru is in meltdown with an epidemic of mental illness and medical problems among children.
Alcoa workers out on indefinite strike for job security
Over 1600 workers at Alcoa in WA are continuing an indefinite strike after five weeks.
We need a total NAPLAN ban
The release of the 2018 NAPLAN results should be the death knell of the national testing regime.
Strong showing for the left in NTEU elections
Left activists have won a strong presence in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at Sydney University, alongside an upset defeat for the incumbent state secretary of the union in Victoria.
NSW crane drivers’ strike banned
Crane drivers in NSW at WGC Cranes and Boom Logistics have been banned from striking by the Fair Work Commission.
Corbyn under attack, but opposing Israel is not anti-semitic
Opponents of Britain’s left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have mounted a major campaign accusing supporters of the Palestinians, and Corbyn himself, of anti-semitism.
Nazi rampage in Chemnitz a warning from Germany
On Sunday 26 August news agencies around the world broadcast shocking footage of thousands of Nazis rampaging through the streets of Chemnitz in Eastern Germany hunting for “foreigners”.
China cracks down on student labour activism at Jasic factory
In late August Chinese police raided an apartment, arresting 50 student activists supporting workers attempting to unionise their factory.
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman film is a call to arms for anti-racists
BlacKkKlansman, the new Spike Lee film, couldn’t come at a better time. It is a powerful anti-racist roar to action against the rise of the far right.
Coup culture: Why is Australian politics so unstable?
Malcolm Turnbull has become the latest Prime Minister dumped by his own party. Miro Sandev looks at how the neo-liberal ‘reform agenda’ has brought political instability
Stalin’s imperialism in Eastern Europe
Those who side with Russia against the US today are making the same mistake some on the left did during the Cold War, writes Lachlan Marshall
Lenin’s theory of the party
Lenin’s view on the need for a revolutionary party was a product of the experience of the greatest wave of struggles against capitalism so far in history, writes James Supple
