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Labor’s detention policy brings new refugee crisis on Naoero
There are more than 100 asylum-seekers on Naoero. On 24 August, scores of asylum-seekers waited over ten hours outside the Eigigu supermarket for rice that had been unavailable for weeks.
Labor burns its climate targets for big tech and mining profits
The government's climate targets are failing badly and are set to be blown out of the water by the AI boom.
School sexual assaults expose a sexist system
A succession of alleged sexual assaults by private schoolboys in Sydney has raised renewed shock about the scale of sexism among boys.
AUKUS deal expands US bases for war on China
Solidarity spoke to Dr Albert Palazzo, Adjunct Professor UNSW Canberra and author of The Big Fix: Rebuilding Australia's National Security about the AUKUS deal and the expansion of US bases across this continent
Victories for the left inside Democratic Party show mood for change in the US
The deepening economic, social and political crisis in the United States, combined with the polarisation produced by Donald Trump’s rule, is fuelling a revival of the Democrats.
Germany hikes military spending and slashes services
The German government—a coalition of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD)—is massively increasing military spending, with 140 billion...
Trump mired in Iran standoff as regime refuses to bend
As this was written the US was launching another wave of military strikes on Iran, with Iran retaliating by targeting US bases in the region.
Victorian teachers—lessons from a union rank-and-file revolt
Lucy Honan spoke to Solidarity about the lessons from Victorian teachers and school staff's bargaining campaign and the role of rank-and-file organising in it
Pauline Hanson’s racist history
Finnian Colwell looks at how racism and scapegoating has been the defining feature of Pauline Hanson's career—and why countering it is crucial to pushing her back
Tell Victorian Labor – hands off RAFFWU
New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is rewarding the conservative union that has backed his career by moving to shut down its more militant rival.
ACTU shuffles the deck chairs: McManus out, Donnelly in, but nothing’s changed
Melissa Donnelly has been declared the new secretary of the ACTU. She will be taking over a much-diminished union movement from Sally McManus who is stepping down on 31 August.
