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Labor’s immigration cuts and cost-of-living failure fuel One Nation’s racism
The cost-of-living squeeze is worsening but Labor is doing nothing to protect living standards. This will only fuel the rise of One Nation.
Labor’s immigration cuts won’t help housing crisis
Immigration Minister Tony Burke has announced measures designed to cut immigration, pandering to the idea that migration is responsible for the housing crisis and letting One Nation’s racism set the political agenda.
Albanese refuses to join sanctions on settlement exports as Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing rages
In September the UK government announced new sanctions on goods exported from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, alongside 11 other governments. Shamefully, Anthony Albanese has refused to adopt similar sanctions.
Building the fight against One Nation: Speaking out against racism and division
Unite against Racism in Melbourne brought together a panel of speakers last month in the lead up to the Victorian state election in November to discuss fighting racism and One Nation. Below is an edited transcript of the speeches.
Albanese’s plan to end gendered violence is failing
In April 2024 Albanese described violence against women as a “national emergency”. The Albanese Government introduced a $4.7 billion plan to end violence against women and children in a generation, 2022-2032.
NSW Labor attacks Aboriginal Land Rights
Chris Minns has pushed through a racist attack on Aboriginal land rights, with amendments to the law governing Crown Land passing the NSW parliament in September.
Residents fight eviction from Aboriginal housing in Darwin
Hundreds of Aboriginal people, including many children, chronic disease patients and DV survivors are facing forced relocation from Yilli Short Stay Accommodation, an Aboriginal community-controlled housing complex in Darwin for people suffering homelessness.
Can new Greens leader tap the anger at Labor?
The Greens’ party room has elected David Shoebridge leader after Larissa Waters stepped down for health reasons.
Sydney Uni staff strike for job security, free speech and pay
After walking off the job for 24 hours on 2 September, University of Sydney staff are set for further industrial action—with a two-hour stop work meeting 13 October and a 24-hour strike on 22 October.
Cornell Seven case exposes sexual violence on campuses
A horrifying sexual assault at Cornell University has produced a wave of global outrage and anger.
Germany and France: the power to beat the fascists is in the streets
German politics is in turmoil after the fascist AfD (Alternative for Germany) outpolled all other parties in two recent state elections.
New threat to oil supplies in Yemen threatens to ignite wider war
The crisis created by the US and Israel attacking Iran has spread from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, with Iran’s allies in Yemen seizing control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Three years on, Israel’s ongoing genocide exposes a savage world order
James Supple looks at how Israel is continuing its Gaza genocide, ongoing Australian complicity and how we can fight it
Victorian Socialists—electoralism at the expense of building struggle
Ian Rintoul argues that the Victorian Socialists' Manifesto and election campaign relies on reformist politics instead of making any attempt to argue for or connect with struggles
Hungary 1956: How workers rose up against Stalinism
Matilda Fay looks at how workers in Hungary exposed the lie that Stalinist Russia was socialist through rising up to try to take control of society into their own hands
Biggest campus vote to cut ties with Israel yet in Sydney Uni student referendum
Students at Sydney Uni have voted overwhelmingly to cut the university’s ties with Israel, in a student referendum held alongside annual Student Representative Council elections.
