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Labor’s budget failure on cost of living and its racist policies no antidote to One Nation
Despite Labor’s boasts, there is nothing fair about its budget.
Labor’s austerity budget won’t fix housing or cost of living crisis
Labor’s budget delivers massive cuts to the NDIS and does next to nothing to help workers facing a new cost of living crisis and higher unemployment.
Court victory halts Minns’ offensive against Palestine movement—now turn the tide
The court decision striking down NSW Premier Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws in April was a victory for the Palestine movement and all those who stood up and defied them.
Disability services we need won’t come from market profiteers
The NDIS was introduced in 2013 with bipartisan political support. But the NDIS market has failed to deliver consistent, quality care and support.
No justice for Indigenous people under NT’s police state
Indigenous people in the Northern Territory are facing a “police state”, Mililma May, Danggalaba Kulumbiringin Tiwi writer and community organiser, told Solidarity’s Keep Left conference in April.
Eight Melbourne councils strike for pay rise to catch up with cost of living
About 2000 union members from across eight metropolitan Melbourne councils took part in a historic strike for fair wages and conditions on 5 May.
NSW nurses rage as legal case fails to deliver pay rise needed—now start planning for serious strikes
There has been an outpouring of anger by nurses and midwives in New South Wales following the long-awaited IRC decision on NSW public system nurses and midwives’ pay.
Teachers in Victoria: vote to reject any bad deal, keep up the fight
After the Victorian teachers’ strike on 24 March where tens of thousands marched, the Australian Education Union (AEU) announced that action would escalate in...
US workers strike back at Trump on May Day
May Day in the US was a day of resistance to Trump’s rotten agenda of mass deportations, imperialist wars abroad, and war on the working class at home.
Iran stares down a superpower as Trump faces defeat
Donald Trump has the mightiest military in the world at his command. But he’s failed to defeat Iran, a regional power.
Israel imposes slow death in Gaza as genocide goes on
Trump’s so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza is now more than six months old. But Israel’s genocide continues as it denies entry of aid and basic medical supplies to a devastated population.
Capitalism and the new wave of misogyny: Fighting sexism today
Elizabeth Grosshans looks at what's responsible for the wave of online misogyny and rising sexism, and how we can fight it.
Nine days that shook Britain: the 1926 general strike
One hundred years on, Jack Stubley looks at the general strike that saw millions of workers paralyse Britain, only to be betrayed by their own union leaders
Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle and the right to resist
Finnian Colwell looks at the armed struggle against colonial rule in Algeria and why elements of the French left were right to support the resistance
Labor cuts the NDIS but pours billions more into the military
Less than a week after announcing $53 billion more in defence spending, the Albanese government announced $35 billion of cuts to the NDIS over the next four years.
