2025

Resistance continues as Administration tightens grip on CFMEU

CFMEU Administrator Mark Irving has moved to tighten his grip on the union following Labor’s win in the federal election in May.

Savage new job cuts planned at UTS and Macquarie Uni

Universities across the country are rolling out savage job cuts.

Step forward for abortion access in NSW but major barriers remain

A bill aimed at improving abortion access has passed NSW Parliament, allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion pills up to nine weeks gestation.

Israel openly plans ethnic cleansing as it starves Gaza

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is reaching its final monstrous stage.

Palestine protests sweep graduation ceremonies at US universities

Students in the US have defied growing repression to stage a wave of protests during graduation ceremonies in solidarity with Gaza.

PKK disbands but Kurdish fight for freedom not over

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is disbanding, ending four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state.

Capitalism and the politics of neurodiversity

Lucy Honan examines the politics of neurodiversity and argues that we need to fight the pressures capitalism places on people, not just look for individualised solutions.

1925-27: When China’s workers challenged for power

Griffin Phillips looks at the massive revolt that began in China 100 years ago and raised the possibility of real socialism based on workers’ power

EVs, tech industries and the US-China trade war

David Glanz looks at how China is trying to dominate high-tech manufacturing, and why its economic challenge to the US is spilling over into imperialist conflict.

Demands for justice after another Aboriginal death at police hands in Alice Springs

Momentum is growing behind a campaign for Justice for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu killed by police in the Coles supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs on Tuesday.

NSW Labor pushes ahead with plan to cut workers’ compensation despite union campaign

The whole union movement has united in condemnation of the NSW Government’s proposed changes to the workers' compensation scheme.

Hundreds of students join Sydney Uni SGM to reject antisemitism smears against Palestine protests

Over 200 students packed a Student General Meeting at the University of Sydney this week, rejecting the university's new definition of antisemitism and standing up its crackdown on protest.

Greens lose seats but millions of voters can still be a force for change

The Greens have suffered a heavy blow in the 2025 election, losing most of their lower house seats and failing to win any new ones.

Labor’s historic vote hides continued major party decline

Labor’s election victory defied expectations, with the Albanese government increasing its majority in the lower house and on track to have the highest number of seats since Bob Hawke’s 1987 win.

Albanese’s talk of ‘Australian values’ masks Labor’s pandering to the rich

Anthony Albanese started his victory speech addressing “My fellow Australians”—and went on to invoke Australia no fewer than 43 more times over 22 minutes.

Unions stop work against CFMEU Administration in Sydney on May Day

More than 1500 unionists walked off the job to rally on 1 May in Sydney, including hundreds of CFMEU members.

Israel plans new escalation as its starves Gaza

Israel has approved a new escalation of its offensive in Gaza, preparing to seize more land for a possible permanent occupation.

Labor’s gas expansion: Climate vandalism that tramples on Aboriginal rights

On Tuesday 6 May, Gomeroi people led a 150-strong crowd of trade unionists and climate activists on a march from the NSW Supreme Court to Parliament House.

Victorian Labor locks up more Black kids in law and order rampage

The Victorian government has passed a bail law that includes removing the requirement to consider remand as a last resort for children.

Rage at Trump’s racism and cuts spreads across the US

From escalating trade wars to a full-scale offensive against immigrants, the first months of Trump’s second term have seen horror after horror. But there are also signs of resistance.

US socialist: Resistance can force Trump back

We warned during the first Trump presidency that next time they would come back more organised, more vicious. And that’s exactly what’s happened.

Where does transphobia come from?

Casey Forsyth looks at why the right is so obsessed with gender and how transphobia is part of maintaining the sexist and oppressive gender roles in the family.

Kanak revolt: A history of anti-colonial resistance

Rock Haocas, of the USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) from Kanaky-New Caledonia, spoke at this year’s Keep Left on the movement for independence from France. Below is a section of his speech.

Is this the end of the neoliberal order?

Joseph Choonara spoke to Socialist Worker UK about the breaks and continuities of neoliberalism as Trump’s trade war escalates

Thumping win for Labor as Dutton’s Trumpism rejected

The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.

MUA: here to stay, but not to slay

The ABC's seven-part podcast “Conspiracy? War on the Waterfront” tells the story of the 1998 waterfront dispute, in which more than 1400 workers were sacked in a full-frontal assault on the Maritime Union of Australia.

Dutton’s support drops, but little on offer from Albanese

It will be a relief if Dutton is kept out of office. But the main reason for a Labor win will not be enthusiasm for Anthony Albanese.

Delivering affordable housing requires ending investment handouts for the rich

Both Labor and Liberal have announced new policies designed to appeal to anger about the cost of housing. But neither will address the main cause of skyrocketing prices.

What do Trump’s tariffs mean for Australia?

Global stockmarkets plunged in horror after Trump announced his so called “reciprocal tariffs” on virtually every country on Earth.

Voices on the election—Sending Labor a message, keeping Dutton out

Solidarity spoke to activists who have been organising around housing, Aboriginal rights, Palestine, and in defence of the CFMEU about the election campaign.

Administrator sets out plan to control CFMEU until 2028

After months of inactivity, Mark Irving, the Labor-appointed administrator of the CFMEU has announced a plan to implement an undisclosed “Strategic Review” between now and 2028.

Parents stranded as childcare chains collapse

The collapse of two childcare centre operators last month has left hundreds of parents stranded.

Thousands of NSW doctors strike for conditions, pay and public health

Thousands of NSW doctors from over 30 hospitals in NSW have taken strike action for the first time since 1998.

Climate emergency means we need to get off the gas

Peter Dutton is echoing Donald Trump’s climate denial. But Anthony Albanese is doing little to challenge him, desperate to hide his own climate inaction.

Israel ramps up war crimes as it reoccupies Gaza

Israel is ramping up its killing in Gaza, seizing more land to prepare for permanent military control and at times murdering more than 100 Palestinians a day.

Putin holds the cards over Ukraine as Trump pushes for a deal

Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promise to end the Ukraine War on “day one” of his presidency, his hopes of a peace deal have so far come to nothing.

Adolescence shows the pressures on women and families that produce violence

Netflix is setting viewing records with Adolescence, a gritty four-part British drama about a 13-year-old working class boy who stabs a girl from his school to death in a car park.

Border policies breed racism and division among workers

We should oppose not just scapegoating migrants over the cost of housing, argues Jack Stubley, but borders and immigration restrictions altogether, in the first of a new series on what socialists say.

No need for alternative military spending plans

David Glanz explains why proposals for weapons to ‘defend Australia’—such as from The Greens—are no alternative to AUKUS and mean buying into warmongering against China.

Trump’s tariff wars threaten global economic chaos

Jayden Rivers looks at what's behind Trump's tariff onslaught and whether it will crash the global economy.

Students defy uni attacks on right to protest for Palestine

Hundreds of students and staff rallied at universities nationwide to defy the crackdown on protests, joining a National Day of Action for Palestine.

Albanese’s grovelling fails—time to stand up to Trump

Donald Trump’s tariff war is creating economic chaos—and political trouble for Anthony Albanese as he heads to the federal election.

Another election landslide in WA as Labor backs mining profits

Labor has held onto power by another overwhelming margin in WA, with the rump of Liberal MPs failing to make significant ground.

Resistance builds to antisemitism definition shutting down protest

University managements are launching a McCarthyist offensive against the Palestine solidarity movement, with a new antisemitism definition that threatens academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Fightback underway as hundreds of jobs face the axe at UTS and ANU

Up to 150 staff and students rallied at UTS on 12 March against plans for cuts to jobs and courses.

Turning point for CFMEU as High Court decision looms

The combination of the imminent High Court decision on the challenge to administration and the looming federal election means the Victorian Building Industry Group of unions delegates’ meeting on 26 March comes at a critical moment.

Labor’s Indigenous jobs program: where are the jobs?

Albanese promised his government would create “real jobs” for Indigenous people. Its new program offers only 700 jobs this year.

Warmongering panic over Chinese warships

Livefire exercises by two Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast led to howls of outrage across the mainstream media in February.

Trump wants a deal with Putin to loot Ukraine for US interests

Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s public dressing down of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office sent shockwaves across the Western political establishment.

Israel unleashes more terror on Gaza, aided by Trump and Albanese

Israel has flagrantly broken the terms of the ceasefire with Hamas, killing over 700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as it renewed the bombing of Gaza.

Protests erupt across US following attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil

There has been a wave of outrage following Donald Trump’s attempt to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Trump, imperialism and the new world order

Trump’s bullying and threats against US allies are part of a crude effort to restore US power, and a display of naked imperialism, writes James Supple.

As the threat of Dutton looms: Why has Labor been such a failure?

Erima Dall looks at Labor’s drop in support and why it has disappointed its supporters.

Will Trump lead to a fascist America?

Adam Adelpour looks at the difference between fascism in power and other forms of far right politics, and the lessons from history on how to stop them

‘Our lives over their profits’—huge Greek general strike demands justice over train crash

Workers in Greece staged the country’s largest general strike in decades on the two-year anniversary of the Tempe train crash in 2023.

Germany—mainstream parties fuel the rise of fascist AfD

The racist AfD doubled its vote in the German election in February, finishing second with 20.8 per cent in the latest advance for the far right.

Serbian students and workers rock corrupt government

Huge student-led protests have rocked Serbia, with the potential to unseat the current regime.

Albanese’s failures boost Dutton’s Trumpist agenda

Donald Trump has emboldened the far right everywhere, raining down attacks on immigrants, trans people and climate policies.

Resisting Trump’s agenda for the billionaires

Donald Trump has set out to radically reshape the institutions of power in the US, moving rapidly to impose his far-right agenda.

The capitalist state is watching Trump

As Musk and his tech bros influence the state, Trump is trying to cut "Big Government" and refashion his presidency around Nixon—but it was mass protest that took Nixon down

Antisemitism smears used to crack down on support for Palestine

Governments, university administrations and the mainstream media have opportunistically seized on a string of antisemitic attacks to try to demonise and discredit the Palestine movement.

Universities collaborating with weapons companies and Israel

The Palestine movement has uncovered connections with companies which are directly involved in supplying the missiles and machinery for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Palestine campaign win: Students stop Bezalel exchange

Sydney Uni has announced the end of its exchange program between Sydney College of the Arts and the Israeli Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, in a win for the campaign to cut ties with Israel.

NSW rail workers—Time to defy Fair Work orders

Sydney rail workers have been banned from taking industrial action for four months, with the Fair Work Commission imposing a “cooling off” order lasting until 1 July.

NT Liberals launch right-wing rampage

The new Country Liberal Party government is on the rampage in the Northern Territory, inspired by Donald Trump’s rapid-fire reactionary policy announcements in the US.

Resist Trump’s brutal plan for ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Donald Trump has announced a sickening plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza. He wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East”.

Israeli occupiers step up war on Palestinians in West Bank

A surge in attacks in the occupied West Bank has left at least 870 Palestinians dead there since October 2023.

Israel’s Likud aligns with Europe’s fascist right

Israel’s ruling Likud party has joined the European alliance of far-right parties as an observer member, aligning it with fascists and Holocaust deniers.

Trump, genocide, climate chaos—Why you need to be a socialist

In the face of global catastrophe and the horrors of capitalism, we need a socialist world run in the interests of people and planet, argues Jacob Starling

Why minority government is no way to win change

Caitlin Doyle and James Supple look at the experience of minority government in the past and why it has not delivered serious change.

The Freedom Ride 60 years on

Tom Fiebig looks at the famous Freedom Ride in NSW, which saw students expose the racism and segregation against Aboriginal people across the state.

Labor vote collapse points to workers’ growing anger

Labor has won the Werribee by-election in Melbourne’s outer west by a whisker, with a massive swing against the party in what was formerly a rock-solid ALP state seat.

Labor fails to stand up to Queensland’s attack on trans rights: fight to overturn the ban

Fresh off the back of Donald Trump’s latest attacks on gender affirming care, the anti-trans right in Australia is on the offensive.

Trump’s Golden Age of racism and corporate greed fuels the far right

Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a rallying call for the far right across the globe. He railed against climate change, ramped up anti-immigrant racism and fuelled transphobia.

More Black kids locked up as racist imprisonment surges

The failure of the Voice referendum left racists and the right emboldened. There has been a particularly racist panic about “youth crime”.

Joyce Clague: a life of service and solidarity

Joyce Caroline Clague (nee Mercy), an incredible warrior for Aboriginal rights and justice for all oppressed peoples, died peacefully on 25 September, aged 86.

Union democracy summit discusses Labor’s attack on CFMEU

Officials from nine unions met in Canberra in early December for the “Trade Unions for Democracy” summit, held in response to the Labor government’s union busting attack on the CFMEU.

Resistance helps stop coup attempt in South Korea

Mass resistance and the threat of workers’ strikes stopped a half-baked coup attempt in South Korea in early December.

Elon Musk promotes fascism and the far right

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has embraced the far right and fascist forces in the US and abroad. He even gave a fascist salute in a speech following Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Revolution, civil war and Assad’s fall in Syria

After the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, Maeve Larkins looks at key questions on the legacy of the 2011 revolution and what his fall means for Syria and the region

Honour the Treaty—mass protests and the fight for Maori rights

The government is waging a major attack on Treaty principles in Aotearoa-New Zealand, writes Jayden Rivers, but gains for Maori did not come from the Treaty itself

What’s so special about the working class?

Erima Dall explains why the working class is still the only force with the power to bring fundamental change—and a world run in the interests of people and planet.

Trump inauguration a horror show of reaction

Donald Trump used his inauguration as US President to unleash a barrage of attacks—on migrants, trans rights, climate action, public services and more.

Gaza ceasefire at last, but Israel’s still not done killing

Israel has finally agreed to a ceasefire after 15 months of genocide in Gaza, following its killing of 46,700 people.

LA fires are an unnatural disaster

The catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles are the city’s worst ever fires—and potentially its worst ever disaster of any kind.

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