Climate campaign must fight for jobs, not just target Adani
The Adani mine should be stopped. But there is a big gap between Stop Adani and the kind of platform of demands we need to stop runaway climate change.
Desperate Morrison plays Christmas Island card
The passing of the Medivac Bill has driven the government into a frenzy of desperation and hate-mongering. Scott Morrison declared himself to be “a brick wall”. But he knows that the Bill has punched a hole in the wall of offshore detention.
How the last security scare over refugees came to nothing
We have heard the same scaremongering about refugees being a risk to “national security” many times before.
Hypocrisy of the system surrounds George Pell
It is not Pell himself that the Murdoch journalists and the former Liberal Prime Ministers are rushing to defend so much as the Catholic Church itself
Aboriginal communities demand water to save the rivers
On 3 March, Aboriginal people led demonstrations across Western NSW, demanding urgent action as rivers forming the Murray Darling system are killed by corporate greed.
Fight against LGBTI discrimination in schools far from over
On February 9 up to 100 people rallied in Melbourne to oppose discrimination in schools against LGBTI teachers and students.
Does Venezuela’s crisis show socialism can’t work?
Venezuela's crisis shows what happens when there is a partial challenge to the rich. It is not an example of too much socialism, but rather not enough.
The proud union history of defying the law—needed now more than ever
“Our movement’s most important achievements were won by breaking unjust laws, because it has nearly always been illegal to take strike action”, writes ACTU Secretary Sally McManus in her...
Sending in the army: How Labor broke the 1949 coal strike
Even in its supposed golden age, a Labor government was prepared to use all the tools at its disposal to wage war on unionism and break a strike, writes David Glanz
Iran 1979: an opportunity squandered
Forty years ago protests in Iran rolled over into a revolution. John Rose tells a tale of huge potential brutally suppressed.
Capitalism vs the climate: Why we need system change
The action needed to avert climate catastrophe means fighting the logic of capitalism and profit, argues James Supple
