Unionists take Palestine solidarity into schools and workplaces
Organising for Palestine in the unions continues to step up. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine in Sydney and Melbourne have held solidarity photos in schools and a vigil in Melbourne.
Israeli state and settler violence grows in West Bank
The so-called truce did not end the violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers and troops are terrorising and killing with impunity.
Labor still expanding fossil fuels as world heads for ‘hellish’ heating
A stark warning from the UN has revealed the world is on track for a “hellish” three degrees of warming this century.
Labor’s grovelling to Dutton fails the character test
On 8 November, the High Court ruled indefinite immigration detention unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent.
DP World workers strike against attack on rosters and pay
Workers at all four DP World port terminals around the country, members of the MUA, took strike action on 16 November as part of their escalating bargaining campaign.
SA teachers strike again for more staff and pay
Thousands of South Australian teachers, members of the Australian Education Union (AEU), went on a state-wide strike again on 9 November against a poor pay agreement offered by the Malinauskas Labor government.
US and NATO prolonging a bloody stalemate in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has become a bloody stalemate that continues only because both Russia and the US are pouring in weapons to continue the killing.
Why two states is no solution for Palestine
Israel has never been willing to allow any kind of Palestinian state. The solution is to fight for a single democratic state with equal rights for Jews and Arabs, argues Luke Ottavi.
How resistance can turn into revolution
Ending the domination of Israel in the Middle East and the Western imperialism behind it will require revolution, writes James Supple.
After the Voice referendum: What can we do about racism in Australia?
Matilda Fay looks at where racism in Australia comes from and what we can do about it.
Protest blocks Zim boat in action against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Up to 500 people staged a snap protest in Sydney last night, significantly disrupting the Israeli shipping company, Zim.
Australian grab for regional domination behind Tuvalu climate treaty
Labor is framing its treaty with the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu as an act of climate change solidarity. But the primary motivation is to strengthen Australian influence in the South Pacific and block China’s search for allies.
All out to stop the slaughter as Albanese backs Israel’s genocide
Israel’s horrifying assault is targeting the entire population of Gaza. Every day brings more sickening war crimes and atrocities.
Biden’s embrace of Israel designed to cement US power
US President Joe Biden has given Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza his full and absolute backing.
Surge in union action for Palestine builds solidarity movement’s power
Union solidarity with Palestine has exploded as anger grows over Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the Labor government's support for Israel.
Solidarity with Palestine sweeps world
From Kerala to Cairo, people are taking on their own governments in the fight for Palestinian lives in Gaza.
Unions stand up to right-wing campaign against offshore wind
Right-wing groups are mobilising against offshore wind projects, holding rallies in Wollongong and Port Stephens on the NSW coast against plans for nearby projects.
After the Voice’s defeat, we need the politics of protest
The confusion that surrounded the Yes campaign for the Voice to parliament has turned into some despair among the official Yes campaigners in the aftermath of the referendum’s defeat.
Australia the US’s partner in crime not puppet
Anthony Albanese and the Australian government back the US and Israel as junior partners in bullying and exploiting the world, argues David Glanz.
Revolution in the Arab world the key to Palestinian liberation
The solidarity for Palestine across the Middle East needs to feed into a revolt to bring down the corrupt regimes that collaborate with imperialism.
Albanese backs Israel’s war crimes in Gaza
The Australian government has lined up wholeheartedly behind Israel, with Albanese declaring, “We will stand with Israel. We always will.”
Voice’s appeal to the Liberals and big corporations was never going to win change
In the dying days of the Voice to Parliament campaign, Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson told a crowd at the elite King’s School in Sydney, quoting constitutional lawyer Greg Craven, “The Voice is a proposal so pathetically understated that I’m amazed most Indigenous people are settling for it.”
Movement for climate action can’t ignore union concerns over jobs
The climate movement also needs to take seriously the need for a just transition for fossil fuel workers and their communities.
Refugees’ permanent visa protests step up the pressure on Labor
The permanent visa grant to Tamil asylum seeker Neil Para after his epic walk from Ballarat to Sydney has set off as chain reaction of protest.
Dan Andrews’ real legacy—privatisation and policing
Daniel Andrews should be remembered as a right-wing Labor premier who doubled the state’s prison population and made Victoria the most heavily policed state or territory bar the Northern Territory.
Workers shouldn’t hold their breath for Labor’s new IR laws
In September the Albanese Government introduced its Closing Loopholes Bill to Parliament. The Bill is the second tranche of Labor’s industrial relations legislation.
Israeli attacks rain down terror on the people of Gaza
The Hamas attacks against Israel saw over 1500 fighters storm through the border wall, taking control of army bases and entering numerous settlements. Now Israel is unleashing hell on the civilian population of Gaza.
West digs in behind bloody proxy war in Ukraine
The Western coalition behind Ukraine has started to falter after the failure of its much-anticipated counter-offensive.
Free Palestine—why we say by any means necessary
Following the assault on Israelis by the Palestinian resistance, there are those who say a violent fightback is never justified. Isabel Ringrose explains that the oppressed have a right to take up arms against their colonisers.
Who are Hamas?
Hamas is a major part of the Palestinian resistance movement that has opposed Israeli settler-colonialism for decades.
Workers’ control and the Opera House 50 years on
The construction of the Sydney Opera House, opened 50 years ago this month, saw unionists launch an experiment with workers’ control of production, writes Erima Dall.
How does Trump survive?
Court cases and legal action won’t stop Donald Trump, argues Mark Gillespie, and Joe Biden and the Democrats don’t have the answers either.
Referendum disaster product of the focus on token change
Responsibility for the referendum disaster lies at the feet of Anthony Albanese and the strategy of pursuing tokenistic constitutional recognition.
Assassination in Canada exposes Albanese’s embrace of violent Modi government
The Indian government has been accused of assassinating a Sikh activist in Canada. This is all too believable in the light of Modi’s Hindu nationalism and authoritarianism.
Voice to Parliament another example of Albanese’s aversion to serious change
Support for the referendum on the Voice to Parliament is still plummeting.
Labor’s coal expansion fuels climate breakdown
“Climate breakdown has begun,” the UN’s Antonio Guterres has declared, after the world’s hottest three months on record.
Labor conference runs dead on refugees
Labor's underwhelming announcement on the refugee intake set the scene for an equally underwhelming and orchestrated Labor conference.
Melb Uni’s week-long strike for secure jobs and a real wage increase
On Monday 21 August, following a half day campus-wide strike by Melbourne University NTEU members, five areas including Arts and Law went on to strike for the rest of the week.
Pay rise for NSW teachers, but no workload relief and future wage caps looming
Some teachers in NSW will receive large pay rises following a deal with the NSW Labor government. But the agreement stretches over four years and contains other disturbing clauses.
BRICS summit a sign of growing imperialist rivalry
The BRICS summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August. It was another confirmation of the relative decline of US power and the increasingly turbulent state of world imperialism.
Ukraine counter-offensive facing failure as bloodshed continues
Despite the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, both NATO and Russia are intent on continuing a war of attrition no matter the cost.
Will a Voice to Parliament deliver change—and is there any alternative?
Solidarity answers key questions about the Voice to Parliament, what it would mean, and whether there is any alternative to it.
Chile’s bloody coup 50 years on
In 1973 workers in Chile were on the march and could have taken power, but the left’s failures allowed the ruling class to unleash bloody repression, argues Raili Maria Haagensen.
How Israel trades on war and occupation
Antony Loewenstein’s new book, The Palestine Laboratory, looks at Israel’s military cyber industrial complex and its role as one of the world's biggest arms dealers and seller of some of the most invasive software. He talked to Solidarity.
Matildas’ success caught up in a wave of nationalism
The widespread admiration for the Matildas has been a blow against sexism but it has also fuelled nationalism.
Ben Abbatangelo: Labor promotes the Voice but ignores Indigenous demands on housing, poverty, imprisonment
Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk writer Ben Abbatangelo spoke to Solidarity on the Voice to Parliament.
Labor conference endorses Albanese’s conservative agenda and military build-up
Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles staked their credibility on defeating dissent over AUKUS. It was not much of a gamble.
Albanese lets profits rip but won’t act on housing or cost of living
The cost of groceries, rents and home loans is still climbing—but Anthony Albanese and Labor do nothing while the Commonwealth Bank made a record $10.2 billion profit in the last year.
Why Labor’s Voice to Parliament looks headed for defeat
When Dutton chose to oppose the referendum, Labor’s response has been to chase establishment support by denying that the Voice will do anything substantial.
Unions step up support for Gomeroi against Santos gas project
Over 200 trade unionists and supporters joined a “rally and road trip” in the Pilliga in north-west NSW on 12 August, supporting Gomeroi in their fight against Santos’ Pilliga-Narrabri gas project.
Higgins inquiry reveals entrenched police sexism
Former Judge Walter Sofronoff’s report on his Inquiry into the Lehrmann trial is a white wash of the entrenched sexism in the ACT police.
More US bases and war games as Albanese backs military buildup
Anthony Albanese is locking in the biggest US military build-up here since the Second World War, while establishing Australia as a major arms manufacturer.
Labor avoids real solutions to out of control housing prices
The Albanese government has been enraged by The Greens’ refusal to fall in behind its housing fund legislation.
Workers left exposed as fires and extreme heat circle the globe
Heatwaves and wildfires have been raging across the northern hemisphere. July was the hottest month ever recorded.
Mass casualties in Ukraine counter-offensive as West feeds the war
Over two months into the much vaunted Ukrainian counter-offensive there has been no serious movement of the front lines.
Niger coup a blow to Western imperialism in Africa
The coup in Niger in west Africa is a huge blow to Western imperialism.
Exposing Labor’s greenwashing and climate failure
Over 200 people attended the Climate Action Conference in Sydney on 29 July. Here are some of the highlights of the speeches.
Did the Treaty of Waitangi bring justice?
The Treaty of Waitangi did nothing to stop the onslaught of colonisation, argues Jayden Rivers, but renewed struggles in recent decades have brought change
Pine Gap: spy base with a vital role in the US war machine
The base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs plays a key role in US surveillance and military operations, as well as the Australia-US alliance, writes Feiyi Zhang
Albanese backs military spending surge but won’t act on cost of living
Anthony Albanese is still stalling on cost of living relief, even after announcing a further budget windfall. The budget surplus has swelled to $19 billion, well ahead of the $4.2 billion tipped in May.
Universities rush to back nuclear subs and design courses for war
University bosses are already racing to support the government’s ambitions for nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement.
Renewable rollout faltering due to reliance on free market funding
There are increasing warnings that Australia’s renewable energy rollout is stalling. This puts even the chance of reaching the hopeless emissions target of the Albanese government at risk.
Sydney Uni struggle wrapped up, but much more to fight on
The Sydney University strike campaign ended in June, with 80 per cent of union members voting to accept management’s offer, and 96.5 per cent of workers supporting the agreement in the final ballot.
French riots a rebellion against poverty, racism and police
Riots swept France in early July after cops shot dead a 17-year-old, Nahel M, and then lied about it.
Border policies see hundreds of refugees left to drown off Greece
While the desperate search for a missing submersible covered our news feeds, 750 refugees were left for dead in the Mediterranean after a fishing vessel capsized.
Labor’s refugee shame ten years on—End offshore detention
The last ten years of the Australian government’s abuse of refugee rights are bookended by Labor governments.
Indigenous activists say: Voice won’t bring change
Solidarity spoke with Marianne Mackay, a Nyoongar woman from WA who travelled to Canberra to join Lidia Thorpe and other Aboriginal people opposed to a Voice to Parliament, and Wayne Wharton, a Kooma man and longtime Indigenous activist organising with the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, who is campaigning against the Voice.
Rebellion shakes Putin but Ukraine’s offensive stalled
The aborted rebellion in June by Yevgeny Prigozhin exposed fractures in Putin’s regime. But this could easily make the war in Ukraine even more dangerous as Western escalation continues.
Can degrowth save the planet?
The idea of degrowth recognises capitalism’s destructive nature, argues Martin Empson, but ends up looking for solutions within capitalism rather than looking to overthrow it.
Will Fiji’s new government revive racial politics?
There are worrying signs of a return to some of the racial politics of Fiji’s past after the end of the Bainimarama government, argues Jasmine Ali.
Indonesia escalates war on West Papua
Miro Sandev looks at the Indonesian military’s deadly new operation in West Papua—and how the Australian government helps its crackdown on the independence movement.
Editorial: Rate rises and cost of living bite but Albanese does nothing
Millions of workers are being pushed into poverty by the surging cost of living, yet the Albanese government does nothing.
Governments back fossil fuel criminals with attack on right to protest
Governments across the country are targeting climate activists with draconian anti-protest laws, at a time when climate protest is desperately needed.
Labor falling short on women’s equality and wages
The Labor government has been talking up its commitment to women’s rights since it came to power.
Rank-and-file unionists at Brotherhood show organising can win gains
Workers at the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne have rejected management’s proposed enterprise agreement in a non-union ballot, 61 per cent to 39 per cent.
Last refugees leave but Labor won’t close Nauru
At the time of writing there are just seven refugees left on Nauru, with the final few expected to be transferred to Australia by the end of June.
Dutton scapegoats migrants for housing crisis, but Labor has no answers
Liberal leader Peter Dutton used his budget reply speech to drum up racist scaremongering in a desperate bid to try and boost the Coalition’s plummeting support.
PwC profiteering scandal exposes outsourcing obsession
The scandal over PwC’s attempt to profit from confidential government information has shone a light on the scale of government outsourcing.
Ukraine counter-offensive will deliver months of bloodshed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that his country’s long-awaited counter-offensive is under way.
Syriza and Podemos collapse as parliamentary focus fails
Spanish and Greek elections have seen the collapse of the once radical parties Podemos and Syriza. The results shows that the parliamentary road to change is a dead end for the radical left.
Transphobia runs deeper than anti-trans bigots
Transphobic mobilisations must be opposed, writes Sophie Cotton, but this should be linked to a fight against the broader institutional transphobia in the political mainstream
Banning the bomb—opposition to nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s
As Australia became the test site for nuclear weapons in the 1950s, opposition developed through the unions and a new peace movement, writes Lucy Honan
Crisis, capitalism and catastrophe
Maeve Larkins reviews a new book by Marxist writer Alex Callinicos that analyses the succession of crises facing the world—and the prospects for catastrophe and revolt
Lack of ongoing movement allows sexist backlash against Brittany Higgins
Selective leaking of text messages and other evidence has been used to try to discredit Brittany Higgins, as part of a backlash against demands for action on sexism.
Editorial: Albanese avoids the change that’s needed through pandering to business and the rich
A year since his election, it’s clear Anthony Albanese wants to avoid serious change. Instead he is appeasing the rich and powerful to keep Labor in power for as long as possible.
Labor approves new coal mines and carbon bomb in Beetaloo
One year since their election Labor’s claim they would “end the climate wars” has been exposed as cover for supporting fossil fuel expansion at an alarming rate.
Labor governments wage war on Black youth
At dawn on 10 May, special operations police shouldering firearms moved in on a group of 14 youth detainees maintaining a protest on the roof of Banksia Hill youth detention centre south of Perth.
Protests demand end to indefinite detention
A year after Labor's election, protests have returned to immigration detention.
PwC scandal: corruption is built into the system
The fraud scandal that has engulfed the Australian arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global accounting and consulting company, stems from its own greed.
Victorian university staff move into action
University workers across Victoria are moving into action over enterprise bargaining, with a Melbourne-wide strike-day meeting overflowing Trades Hall on 3 May.
Strikes at Onelink win higher pay
Over 50 workers at hospital and health care supplier Onelink in western Sydney have won higher pay and improved redundancy payments after five days of strike action over two weeks at the end of May.
Biden and the Democrats a dead end for the US left
Joe Biden has declared he will run again for US President. The 2024 election is looking increasingly like it will be a repeat of 2020, with Biden taking on Donald Trump.
War between generals a new threat to Sudan’s revolutionaries
A power struggle has erupted in Sudan between two military generals—Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Hemedti of the Rapid Support Forces militia.
Why the offsets scam feeds climate catastrophe
James Supple examines why carbon offsets are a climate disaster that don’t genuinely reduce emissions—and why Labor is so committed to them
The Nakba 75 years on
Israel was founded 75 years ago through the massacre and expulsion of Palestinians, argues Raul Haagensen, and the brutality and dispossession continues today.
Albanese welcomes Modi, the butcher of Gujurat
Anthony Albanese welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sydney in late May, with 20,000 packing the Qudos Arena at Sydney Olympic Park to hear them speak.
Thai electorate reject the military
The results of the recent Thai election are a slap in the face for the military junta, which has been in power since overthrowing the elected Pua Thai government in the coup of 2014.
Defence Strategic Review strengthens push to war with China
The Defence Strategic Review points to a future where the military is much more prominent throughout Australian society, under the banner of a “whole-of-nation approach”.
Budget failure sees Labor put weapons and the rich ahead of action on cost of living
Labor’s budget fails workers and the poor so it can keep big companies, the military and the rich all on side.
Editorial: Labor finds billions for war but won’t fund JobSeeker and health—we need a fightback
Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers are hosing down hopes of any serious action on cost of living, health or aged care in the upcoming budget.
Victorian Labor prepares savage budget cuts
The Victorian Labor government, which claims to be the most progressive in Australia, is laying the ground for a horror state budget on 23 May.
Pentagon leaks confirm Ukraine is a dangerous proxy war
The US and NATO have stepped up weapons deliveries to Ukraine further, aiming to prepare it for a highly anticipated spring counter-offensive.
Resistance in France can still undo Macron’s pensions assault
Spontaneous protests exploded in cities across France in April after its constitutional court, stuffed with elite political and state figures, declared that President Emmanuel Macron’s pension attacks had been passed legally.
Truganini: the apocalypse hasn’t ended
Cassandra Pybus’s book, Truganini, highlights the damning treatment and decimation of First Nations in lutruwita—now known as Tasmania.
Port Kembla no place for a nuclear subs base, say local campaigners
Activists in Wollongong are organising against plans for nearby Port Kembla to host the East Coast base for the AUKUS nuclear submarines. Solidarity spoke to Alexander Brown from Wollongong Against War and Nukes about local opposition and how unions have dedicated this year’s May Day march to opposing the plan.
Dutton marginalises the Liberals—but Labor refuses to bury him
Peter Dutton is leading the Liberals into disaster. His decision to campaign for a No vote against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is a further sign he wants to keep the party well to the right.
Black Lives Matter—How a militarised police squad shot Aubrey Donahue
On 25 March, in a shocking case of racist brutality, police shot dead Aubrey Donahue, a 27-year-old Muluridji man from Mareeba, Far North Queensland, while he was experiencing a mental health crisis.
‘A festival of defiance’—how tram workers took on a Labor government
When Labor turned on them in 1990, Melbourne tram workers fought job cuts through occupying their depots and taking control of the transport system, writes David Glanz.
Egon Kisch’s great leap and the Movement against War and Fascism
Luke Ottavi looks at how the Communist Party launched the 1930s Movement against War and Fascism, continuing our series on war and workers’ resistance.
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising 80 years on
Angus Dermody looks back at how the Jewish population of the Warsaw Ghetto staged a heroic uprising against the Nazi Holocaust—and the leading role of Jewish socialists in it.
New sector benchmark, but NTEU officials scupper fantastic Sydney Uni fight
After a historic nine days of strike action over the past 21 months, NTEU members at the University of Sydney have voted 364-290 against a further three days’ strike in their current enterprise agreement campaign.
Construction workers march in their thousands
Thousands of construction workers took to the streets around the country today, demanding a decent pay rise, an end to the scourge of silicosis and the cancellation of vicious prosecutions against their unions.
Editorial: Nuclear subs spending shows scale of Labor’s commitment to running the system
Anthony Albanese’s decision to press ahead with buying nuclear submarines despite the astronomical $368 billion cost is a demonstration of his abject commitment to the system.
Voice wording and new details still leave it a powerless advisory body
Anthony Albanese has unveiled proposed constitutional changes to introduce an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, as well as “design principles” for the body itself.
Queensland Labor set to throw more Indigenous kids in prison
Queensland’s Labor government has passed new right-wing law and order measures that will increase already disgraceful levels of Indigenous over-imprisonment.
Robodebt scandal shows how far government and public officials will go to punish the poor
The Royal Commission into the Liberals’ Robodebt scheme has exposed the scale of lies and cover up that went into defending an illegal policy designed to punish the poor.
Mass strikes sweep France as workers fight Macron’s pension plan
French workers are staging a mass, rolling strike wave against President Macron’s attempt to force people to work longer before they can retire.
Protests as Israelis fall out over how to oppress Palestinians
Israel has stepped up its murderous rampages in the West Bank as the Netanyahu government encourages greater settler violence against Palestinians.
History repeating—the series of Indigenous advisory voices that governments ignored
An Indigenous Voice to Parliament would only be the latest in a succession of Indigenous advisory bodies that have all been ignored and then scrapped, writes Jasmine Ali.
Solidarity against imperialism: Australian workers and the Pan-Pacific Trade Union
Adam Adelpour continues our series on war and workers’ resistance, looking at Australian unions’ support for workers’ struggles in the Pacific against imperialism in the 1920s.
Liberals smashed in NSW but little on offer from Labor
Labor has won government in NSW, with a thumping swing of almost 6 per cent ending 12 years of Liberal government.
Safeguards deal still won’t deliver cuts to emissions
The Greens and Labor have struck a deal to pass the climate Safeguard Mechanism bill. While this may restrict the number of new coal and gas projects, it won’t reduce actual emissions—and is a disaster for the climate.
Official transphobia legitimises the far right
The appearance of a handful of Nazis at the “Let Women Speak” rally in Melbourne last weekend has caused a furore.
Iraq war showed the brutal cost of US power—don’t let them do it again
Mark Gillespie looks at the chaos and death the US unleashed on Iraq following the invasion in 2003—and why we need a new movement against war.
Stop the warmongering, stop the subs
Labor’s announcement that it will buy or build up to 13 nuclear-powered submarines at a price of $368 billion is a horrifying step towards war with China.
Labor’s failure on climate and cost of living result of refusing to challenge the rich
Labor says it can't do any more on the cost of living and its climate policies are a gift to big polluting companies
Lidia Thorpe raises dissent over Voice to Parliament
Lidia Thorpe’s resignation from The Greens has exposed the limits of the party’s radicalism and invigorated the debate about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Intervention-style bans back in Alice Springs as governments still not listening to Indigenous people
The reintroduction of blanket alcohol bans on NT town camps and communities heralds the return of racist Intervention-era controls over Aboriginal people.
Labor’s new climate plan only safeguards fossil fuels
The Albanese government wants to force changes to the climate Safeguard Mechanism through parliament by 31 March.
Veronica Nelson a victim of racist law and order agenda
On 30 January, coroner Simon McGregor handed down his report into the death of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson in Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost prison.
Chalmers has no solution for the crises of capitalism
Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers has followed in the footsteps of previous Labor ministers, including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2009, by penning a theoretical article in the pages of the Monthly.
NSW Liberals on the ropes but Labor’s promises aren’t enough to fix hospitals and schools
The NSW Liberals are unravelling in the face of growing scandals, with polls showing Labor comfortably ahead as the state election approaches on 25 March.
Ardern jumps ship as NZ Labour lets down its supporters
Under Ardern's leadership, Labour went into decline, and is still heading for defeat in October.
Labor’s permanent visas announcement leaves thousands behind
Labor’s announcement on permanent visas has been overshadowed by the fact that thousands of other refugees have been left in a hell of uncertainty.
How the plan for a token advisory Voice was hatched
The plan for an Indigenous Voice to parliament was a result of the government-funded push for constitutional recognition that would deny any real rights, argues Paddy Gibson.
Broken Hill in the First World War: Strikes, conscription and workers’ radicalism
Tom Orsag looks at the bitter class struggles ignited by the First World War in Broken Hill, in the first of a Solidarity series on war and workers’ resistance.
Bloody proxy war in Ukraine continues to escalate
The longer the war drags on, the more deaths there will be and the greater the nuclear threat, either from a desperate Russia in the face of looming defeats, or indirectly from fighting around nuclear power plants.
How do we move from revolt to revolution?
Poverty, war and climate change drive millions to fight back. But we need to turn resistance into a challenge to the whole system, writes James Supple.
Voice to parliament won’t stop racist injustice—grassroots movement needed to win change
It is already clear enough what the Voice would look like—a powerless advisory body that could be ignored the minute it raised any real demands for change.
Racist native title system approves Santos’ destruction of Gomeroi land
On 19 December last year, President John Dowsett from the national Native Title Tribunal shamefully ruled in favour of gas giant Santos against Gomeroi native title applicants.
Labor’s price caps won’t stop further power bill shock or mining profits
Anthony Albanese has trumpeted Labor’s efforts to cap coal and gas prices as a solution to soaring power bills.
Labor’s announces details of sham offsets scheme for companies
Labor will allow coal, gas and other companies to buy their way out of cutting emissions, allowing unlimited use of offsets under newly released details of its “Safeguards Mechanism”.
Albanese leaves refugees behind in PNG
Anthony Albanese visited PNG in January, but said nothing of the refugees who had been sent to Manus Island in 2013 when he was deputy prime minister in the Rudd Labor government that imprisoned them offshore.
Right to protest under attack as jail sentence for climate protester Violet Coco sparks outcry
The 15-month jail sentence handed to climate protester Violet Coco in Sydney in December has drawn outrage.
Attitudes shifting to the left but struggle still yet to rise
The Australian Electoral Study has released a report after every election for the last 30 years. Its most recent on the 2022 election sheds light on Labor’s victory and current political attitudes.
Iran protesters still defiant as regime cracks down harder
The protests in Iran that began following the death of Mahsa Amini in September have now continued for more than 100 days.
Protests push back Peru’s right-wing coup
Peru has been rocked by weeks of strikes and protests following the impeachment and arrest of left-wing president Pedro Castillo in December.
Indigenous activists speak out: Why the Voice won’t do anything to end racist injustice
Many Indigenous people are sceptical about the planned Voice to parliament, despite the media focus on its support. Solidarity spoke to Indigenous activists Callum Clayton-Dixon, Suellyn Tighe and Michael Mansell about the problems with the proposal.
Morrison’s power grab and the limits of parliamentary democracy
Scott Morrison’s ministerial power grab was not an aberration but an example of the secrecy and lack of democracy that exists under capitalism, argues Maeve Larkins.
When the Wiradyuri fought colonial capitalist land theft
Stephen Gapps’ book Gudyarra is a compelling account of the opening phase of the genocidal invasion of Wiradyuri lands by British imperialism and the fierce anti-colonial insurgency waged by Wiradyuri people.
US bases positioned for war against China
The US is the biggest bully in the Pacific, with rings of military bases blocking and threatening China, writes Tom Orsag.
Climate: we can unite direct action with mass mobilisation
The “We Quit” declaration by Extinction Rebellion in Britain that it will step back from disruptive, direct action to build a 100,000-strong rally has ignited a debate about the best approach to fighting climate change.
