Funding public health the alternative to lockdowns
Chip Le Grand’s Lockdown is a fascinating look at the politics of COVID-19, focused on the experience of lockdown in Victoria.
It’s not complicated—Permanent visas for refugees now
It’s now almost six months since Labor was elected, and the anger is growing.
Iran protests still growing as regime fears worker revolt
Protest and rebellion have swept Iran for almost two months since the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the regime’s notorious morality police.
US backing puts Taiwan at the mercy of American war plans
Seeking the backing of the US puts Taiwan in the middle of the clash between superpower rivals—with potentially devastating consequences writes Phil Griffiths
Eyewitness report: Australia’s other offshore hell—lift the ban on refugees in Indonesia
Ian Rintoul recently returned from a refugee movement fact-finding trip to Indonesia. He reports on the plight of refugees trapped there by Australian government policy
Should we blow up pipelines? Civil disobedience, workers and the climate movement
Andreas Malm’s provocative book How to blow up a pipeline argues that the climate movement needs to escalate. But is no help on how to do so, argues James Supple
World heads for climate disaster as COP27 brings more broken promises
The world is on a “highway to hell”, the UN’s Antonio Guterres warned as world leaders began gathering at the COP27 climate talks.
Union tour pledges support for Gomeroi fight against Pilliga gas project
A delegation of 50 trade union officials and rank-and-file members visited the Pilliga Forest on 6 November, to hear first-hand from Gomeroi leaders about their struggle against the Santos Pilliga/Narrabri gas project.
Labor’s IR bill is no solution for low-pay crisis
If we want pay rises that at least match rampant inflation, it will take strike action to win them. And effective strike action involves breaking the industrial relations laws, not begging for their reform.
Timid budget sees Labor refuse to act on cost of living shock
Labor’s first budget is timid and conservative. It makes room for its modest election promises while delivering an approach any conservative would be proud of.
