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.
