Buckingham finally gone, but The Greens’ crisis remains
Right-wing NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham resigned from the party in December. But none of the political issues at stake have been resolved.
Medical Transfer Bill can be another blow against offshore detention
The prospect of the Coalition government being defeated when the Medical Transfer Bill is returned to the House of Representatives on 12 February has been thrown into doubt by the dithering of independent MP Cathy McGowan.
Hunger strikes across domestic detention
Detainees in detention centres across Australia are staging a hunger strike protest over detention conditions and powers that allow the Minister effectively to keep people in detention indefinitely.
Tory divisions produce Brexit chaos
The Brexit process has thrown British politics into crisis. The failure of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal means there is still no resolution in sight.
Yellow Vests movement against inequality humbles Macron
The Yellow Vest movement in France shows no sign of fading away after ten weeks of protests, blockades and battles with police. Charlie Kimber from Socialist Worker UK looks at what the movement shows about struggle—and asks how it can win
US withdrawal from Syria would redraw imperialist carve up
In late December Donald Trump abruptly announced plans for the withdrawal of US troops from Syria.
Trump shuts down government to demand border wall
Donald Trump has imposed the longest government shutdown in US history in an attempt to demand Congress agree to $7 billion in funding for his border wall.
Rabaul 1929—Papuans’ first strike against Australian colonialism
In 1929, around 3000 Papua New Guineans in the town of Rabaul staged their first ever industrial strike
Unions against Labor—Queensland Labor’s history of strikebreaking
Unions formed the Labor Party. But Queensland history shows that again and again, Labor governments have betrayed their own working class supporters, argues James Supple
Germaine Greer—ignoring the causes of rape
Germaine Greer’s On Rape ends up trivialising rape and offering only meagre legal solutions that do nothing to tackle the system of sexist oppression, writes Lucy Honan
Socialists and the fight to end the frontier massacres
Paddy Gibson explains the key role unions and the Communist Party played in preventing the punitive expedition planned in Arnhem Land in 1933
