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.
