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Busting Pauline Hanson’s racist lies
Pauline Hanson and One Nation have relentlessly scapegoated and demonised migrants for low wages, the housing crisis, stretched services, deteriorating infrastructure and crime. But migrants aren’t to blame for any of these problems.
Victorian teachers strike again after relentless campaign of rank-and-file organising
Victorian teachers and education support staff took strike action again on 23 July, with schools across the state severely affected. About 20,000 marched in a display of raw anger at conditions in schools.
Royal Commission swallows baseless claims of antisemitism at universities
The royal commission into antisemitism has continued to call witness after witness conflating opposition to Israel and Zionism with antisemitism. This is designed to...
Opposition grows to Ahpra’s attack on free speech over Palestine
The Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency announced it would use the IHRA definition of antisemitism when investigating complaints against practitioners. But opposition in the healthcare sector is growing.
From Palestine to AUKUS, Labor conference shuts down debate
Labor’s response to rank-and-file anger over Israel’s genocide in Gaza was to shut down debate at its federal conference.
Burnham’s tack left boosts British Labour—will it last?
Newly installed British Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham is talking left in an effort to revive the party’s fortunes. This has delivered a small boost in the polls, but will it last?
India’s cockroach movement celebrates win against Modi
A mass student revolt in India has claimed victory after a wave of protests against corruption and youth unemployment. Protesters defied a brutal police crackdown and forced a member of Prime Minister Nahendra Modi’s cabinet to resign.
Hamas agrees to disarm but Israel’s not finished killing
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has announced an agreement with Hamas to disarm, claiming progress towards ending the killing in Gaza.
Trump backs down on Iran again but still faces defeat
Donald Trump has again backed down from a major escalation of his war on Iran, saying another deal was close that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Gas-fired data centre boom drives war and climate catastrophe
Paddy Gibson looks at the Albanese government's rush to join the data centre boom, the military connection and the threat they pose to communities and the climate
Breaking the chains of sexism and oppression
Sophie Cotton reviews a new book on Marxism and women's liberation that reasserts the centrality of the family in shaping sexism and the history of struggles for liberation
Why capitalism is addicted to oil
Tess Worley explains why oil has become so central to capitalism, and the imperialist scramble for control of the Middle East
Victorian Labor lurches further right under Carroll
Victorian Labor has installed Ben Carroll as Premier in a bid to salvage the state election on 28 November. It's a clear move to the right.
Hundreds descend on Pine Gap to expose base’s role in genocide
Around 400 activists protested outside the Pine Gap spy base on Monday, as part of the Close Pine Gap Sacred Land Back convergence.
