2026

Forty thousand Victorian government school staff marched on 24 March, in a sea of red AEU shirts, with tens of thousands more out on strike. It was the first strike since 2013.

NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns’ plans to ban the pro-Palestine phrase “globalise the intifada” appears to have stalled due to government concern over whether the attack on free speech would survive a constitutional challenge.

NSW and Queensland police are raiding homes and arresting anti-genocide protesters in the latest attempts to scare the Palestine movement off the streets.Queensland police raided the Dorothy Day House,...

The blanket ban on Iranian visa holders is an extension of the government’s ruthless practice of cancelling the visa on arrival of anyone they suspect might claim asylum

Anthony Albanese and Labor are embracing so called “progressive patriotism” in response to rising support for One Nation and the far right.

Recent months have seen a surge in the polls for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. The South Australian election confirmed what these polls had suggested.

The US-Israel war on Iran has brought death and destruction to Iranian cities. But it has also humiliated Donald Trump and highlighted the relative decline of American power.

Within hours of the ceasefire announced with Iran, Israel launched its biggest and most destructive assault on Lebanon to date.

US and Australian backing for Israel is the result of their imperialist interests in dominating the Middle East, not the power of the Israel lobby, writes Mark Gillespie

Sophie Cotton looks at what happened in the Second Intifada, why Palestinians have a right to resist and what it means to Globalise the Intifada

Ireland’s uprising against British rule in 1916 was designed to strike a blow against Empire and war. Liam McMullen looks at the attitude socialists took to it.

Donald Trump has unleashed weeks of savage bombing of Iran, threatening “death, fire and fury” as the regime refuses to capitulate.

The Minns government in NSW is attempting to ban the phrase “Globalise the Intifada”, with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan also saying she hopes to prosecute people using it.

Two protesters in Queensland were arrested for using the slogan “From the River to the Sea” at a rally on 11 March—the day new laws that ban the phrase came into effect. One of them now faces charges which carry the threat of two years’ jail.

Supporters of Palestine were banned from this year’s Mardi Gras parade and thrown off floats by police, continuing the climate of repression created by NSW Premier Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws.

One Nation is surfing a wave of anger and disillusionment with the major parties. Much of that momentum is fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis—but the party is also fomenting Islamophobia to harden up its supporters.

The first contested election for Australia’s biggest blue-collar union, the United Workers Union, has become the focus of an intense debate about the way forward for the union.

Solidarity spoke with United Workers Union members about the current union election

The first meeting of Donald Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace” was held on 19 February. It was a sickening gathering of war criminals and plunderers, meeting to discuss their nightmarish plans for a post-war Gaza.

Mainstream and far right politicians are painting the left in France as violent after the death of a far right activist.

Solidarity spoke to a young Iranian activist about the war

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran was supposed to demonstrate the US’s military might, through punishing or even bringing down the Iranian regime.

Donald Trump has denounced the Iranian government as “evil”. But US bombing and war will not bring democracy to Iran.

I oppose the Islamic Republic because it is a capitalist regime built on inequality and the denial of basic freedoms. But I also am also opposed to imperialist war against Iran, because foreign intervention has never brought democracy.

Mike Grewcock reviews a new book that looks at how workers played a key role in bringing down regimes in Iran, Poland and South Africa, but then lost out to other forces

Jean Parker looks at how the first Mardi Gras led to a campaign that won the right to march, as well as victories for LGBTIQ+ rights.

Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit in the hope of boosting support for Israel. Instead mass protests, and anger at police violence in Sydney, showed the continuing depth of opposition to the genocidal state.

In the wake of the Bondi attack, governments are attempting to repress the Palestine movement, with anti-protest laws, federal hate crime laws and plans to ban chants such as...

The Liberals have a new leader. But they’re still stuck with their old problems—and Angus Taylor isn’t going to dig them out of a deep hole.

The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.

Violence against protests is not the result of rogue officers. It is part of the basic role of the police.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.

While Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire”, at times killing over 20 people a day, it is also stepping up the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.

The Epstein files expose the corruption and depravity of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

Trump’s ICE agents have unleashed an orgy of racist violence in Minneapolis, but also faced a city in virtual uprising against them, writes James Supple

The expansion of US bases here locks Australia in as a key part of the US’s military machine, and its strategy for war with China, writes Tom Fiebig

Ian Rintoul looks at the campaign of defiance that ended Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ban on street marches in Queensland and draws lessons for the Palestine movement today

Albanese’s hopes that he could use Isaac Herzog’s visit to win sympathy for Israel after the Bondi attack have blown up in his face.

Pauline Hanson’s screening in Melbourne of the reactionary film A Very Progressive Movie was challenged when cinema workers walked off the job and joined an anti-racism rally.

Since the Bondi attack, there has been an onslaught from the media and politicians demanding a crackdown on protests for Palestine and blaming Muslims and migrants.

The terrorist attack in Bondi has been followed by an avalanche of new laws aimed at blaming the movement for Palestine.

Over 400 people gathered at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 16 January to rally against Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws and genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit to Australia.It...

Intifada usually refers to two popular uprisings by the Palestinians in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank that shook the Israeli occupation.

In the wake of the Bondi attack, many migrants, particularly Arabs and Muslims, have faced an outpouring of racist bile on social media, in workplaces and on the streets.

A January Newspoll is showing that One Nation has nearly quadrupled its support since May’s federal election.

Anthony Albanese’s social media ban for under 16-year-olds was a stunt designed to give a do-nothing government the appearance of taking action to protect kids.

Minneapolis has become the latest flashpoint in the fight against Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign after ICE agents murdered Renee Good, a 37-year-old American citizen.

Iran’s Islamic Republic regime has faced its biggest challenge from below since the 1979 revolution toppled the Shah.

Trump’s “ceasefire” hasn’t stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Europe has seen a series of strikes against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and surging military spending.

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a beacon for all those who wanted an alternative to neoliberalism and United States imperialism.

Trump’s openly imperialist grab for resources and profits in Venezuela and elsewhere is a product of capitalist competition and the US’s declining position, argues Jack Stubley

Paddy Gibson looks at how unions and socialists provided support for one of the major struggles for Aboriginal rights and against the racist Protection system

Donald Trump has declared that US will “run” Venezuela after its military captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and launched airstrikes on the Latin American country.