James Supple

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Liberals smashed in NSW but little on offer from Labor

Safeguards deal still won’t deliver cuts to emissions

Women, life, freedom—Iran’s uprising six months on

Official transphobia legitimises the far right

Iraq war showed the brutal cost of US power—don’t let them...

Biggest strike yet as Sydney Uni staff plan for escalating action

Labor’s failure on climate and cost of living result of refusing...

Lidia Thorpe raises dissent over Voice to Parliament

Intervention-style bans back in Alice Springs as governments still not listening...

Labor’s new climate plan only safeguards fossil fuels

Veronica Nelson a victim of racist law and order agenda

Chalmers has no solution for the crises of capitalism

NSW Liberals on the ropes but Labor’s promises aren’t enough to...

Ardern jumps ship as NZ Labour lets down its supporters

Labor’s permanent visas announcement leaves thousands behind

How the plan for a token advisory Voice was hatched

Broken Hill in the First World War: Strikes, conscription and workers’...

Neo-Nazi sentenced to jail for attack on home of anti-racist activist

Voice to parliament won’t stop racist injustice—grassroots movement needed to win...

Racist native title system approves Santos’ destruction of Gomeroi land

Labor’s price caps won’t stop further power bill shock or mining...

Labor’s announces details of sham offsets scheme for companies

Albanese leaves refugees behind in PNG

Right to protest under attack as jail sentence for climate protester...

Attitudes shifting to the left but struggle still yet to rise

Iran protesters still defiant as regime cracks down harder

Protests push back Peru’s right-wing coup

Indigenous activists speak out: Why the Voice won’t do anything to...

Morrison’s power grab and the limits of parliamentary democracy

Labor’s support for the system means only small change—fight for pay,...

Labor’s climate con job covers up fossil fuel expansion

Frustration at Dan Andrews but voters won’t back the Liberals

Lockout fails, but Svitzer uses anti-strike laws to hobble unions

WA nurses’ union faces deregistration threat

Refugees have unfinished business with Labor

Ukraine war set to grind on as US and Russia dismiss...

Protests continue to rock Iran as regime wavers on headscarf law

Australian subimperialism—Submarines, sovereignty and class

Can change come from inside Israel?

Gough Whitlam’s legacy 50 years on: What’s happened to Labor?

China rebels against COVID repression—workers’ power can bring down the CCP

NSW nurses strike again as health system chaos continues—but electing Labor...

Don’t cop Labor’s excuses and delays—we have to fight to force...

Nurses in WA take on Labor government over staffing and pay

Dan Andrews—progressive sheen covering a law and order agenda

Funding public health the alternative to lockdowns

It’s not complicated—Permanent visas for refugees now

Iran protests still growing as regime fears worker revolt

US backing puts Taiwan at the mercy of American war plans

Eyewitness report: Australia’s other offshore hell—lift the ban on refugees in...

Should we blow up pipelines? Civil disobedience, workers and the climate...

World heads for climate disaster as COP27 brings more broken promises

Union tour pledges support for Gomeroi fight against Pilliga gas project

Timid budget sees Labor refuse to act on cost of living...

Reject the smears: stand with Lidia Thorpe

Albanese sticks with small target and tax cuts for the rich—fight...

Setbacks for Origin and Santos show the gas attack can be...

Labor’s plan on industry emissions to depend on dodgy offset schemes

Don’t wind down NSW public sector fight into a campaign for...

NSW Labor’s promises on nurse ratios fall short

Kumanjayi inquest reveals foul police racism

Lessons from the fight to save the Franklin

Strike surge in Britain as cuts and cost of living bite

Fascists and the far right win elections in Italy and Sweden

Iran’s revolt and the lessons of the 1979 revolution

Weapons of death—Australia’s growing arms industry

Mussolini and the rise of fascism in Italy

More torture as Labor threatens Medevac refugees brought from offshore detention

War in Ukraine risks spiralling out of control

Gillard’s misogyny speech tainted by her hypocrisy on sexism

Queensland backs publicly-owned renewables and job guarantees for workers

Iran rises up after police kill young woman

Strikes needed to push up pay after Labor’s Jobs Summit ignores...

The Queen’s obscene hoard of stolen wealth

Labor backs fossil fuels as new gas and coal projects get...

Labor backs fossil fuel companies’ carbon capture scam

One third of Pakistan under water as climate disaster brings extreme...

Cashless Debit Card to go, but racist controls on NT Aboriginal...

Jobs Summit trade-offs won’t deliver pay rises we need

Can industry-wide bargaining make a difference?

Dangerous new chapter in Ukraine war

Why enterprise bargaining is failing workers

Sabra and Shatila 40 years on—Israel’s brutal war crime

Gorbachev, Stalinism and the end of the USSR

Labor’s delays leave refugees in limbo

Strike days up: now fan the flames of resistance

Socialist Alternative shamefully preferences the right in Sydney Uni NTEU elections

NSW nurses strike again as pressure builds on Perrottet

Labor offers symbolism not real change—strike back for action on wages...

Offsets scam means Labor’s climate target even worse than it looks

Deals in parliament won’t deliver the climate action we need

Biloela family gets visas but Labor still leaving thousands of refugees...

Taiwan visit goads China in US imperialist power play

Ecuador rises up against austerity amid cost of living crisis

Capitalism and the climate crisis—Why it’s socialism or extinction

Lifting the lid on wage theft and exploitation

The 1970s and the fight for abortion rights in Australia

Community protests keep Redfern’s National Centre for Indigenous Excellence open for...

Anti-union ABCC defunded, but unions still need to fight for the...

Fed-up NSW nurses vote for more strikes over staffing and 7...

‘An alliance in support of the Tent Embassy and land rights’:...

Labor’s small target approach not enough to deal with climate or...

Turn inflation pain back on the bosses

NSW Liberals’ increased strike fines a sign of weakness

Stop the NSW police crackdown on protest—solidarity with Blockade Australia

Brutal border policies spread as UK moves to offshore refugees

Worldwide outrage as abortion rights overturned in US

Is China really a threat?

State capture? Why governments serve big business

Teachers stage united strike against NSW Liberals—but looking to state election...

Anger at lockdowns in China fuels dissent against the regime

Labor falls short on cost of living and climate action—step up...

Behind the election win, Labor is in deep decline

Voters backed climate action, but Labor’s still pushing Morrison’s gas expansion

Tamil family home to Bilo but thousands still waiting for Labor

Greens gain seats but focus on parliament won’t bring change

Public sector wide strikes needed to take the fight to the...

Sydney University strikes show how to fight back

Gas, coal and energy market profits—why our power system’s in crisis

Protests support call from Yuendumu: ‘no more police guns in communities’

US sees chance of Russian defeat in Ukraine and ramps up...

Australian resettlement ban imposes torture on refugees in Indonesia

An imperialist alliance: NATO’s bloody history

Power market failure—re-nationalise now and build public renewables

PSA members join the public sector strike wave in NSW

Labor’s Pacific charm offensive aims to shore up Australian and US...

Thirty years since the Mabo decision—why Native Title hasn’t delivered

Union fight for wage rises needed as cost of living set...

Fight for change needed to push beyond what Labor’s promised

Electoral shifts expose anger at both major parties

Teachers, aged care, transport workers strikes show how to fight for...

After 15 years of racism—chance to tear out the NT Intervention...

Racist neglect caused Indigenous woman’s death in Melbourne prison

Sri Lanka protests show alternative to poverty and racism amid economic...

Wave of anger as US Supreme Court to overturn right to...

US and NATO push for drawn-out proxy war in Ukraine

Red lines and imperialist rivalries—Australia is no friend of the Pacific

Lessons from the last Labor government

Can we ever get rid of sexism?

Morrison and the Liberals humiliated but no enthusiasm for Labor’s small...

Strike shuts down Sydney Uni for 48 hours as staff and...

Morrison a climate criminal, but Labor still backing coal and gas...

NSW teachers strike back against the Liberals—step up the strikes to...

Gas export giants make billions but pay no tax

Katherine Deves’ outright bigotry derails Morrison’s transphobic campaign

Whoever wins the election, unions will need to fight to boost...

Still unfinished business for the refugee movement after we turn back...

The West prepared to let Ukraine horror drag on

Fascists gain ground in French election despite Macron victory

Time for a reckoning with the system that breeds sexism

Has Labor in power ever made a difference?

Protest that helped refugees escape from detention—the Woomera breakout 20 years...

How war can lead to revolution

Australia’s own imperialism behind hysteria over Solomons-China deal

Amazon union win shows how workers can beat the billionaires

Right to protest under attack in NSW as new laws threaten...

Liberals hide behind COVID to force further cuts and marketisation of...

Morrison’s election bribes can’t disguise his budget failure on wages, aged...

Victorian school staff can still vote down below-inflation pay deal

South Australian vote shows Morrison’s on the ropes—strike back to knock...

Morrison still pushing to expand gas and fossil fuels

Cannon-Brookes and green capitalists won’t save us

No Guns! Warlpiri vow to step up fight for justice after...

Gomeroi reject agreement with Santos—step up the fight against the Pilliga...

Morrison’s hypocrisy over Ukraine refugees

NATO escalation will only lead to ongoing bloodshed

Our rulers engage in a grotesque dance of death

Defiant protests across Russia say no to war

Ukraine government’s Nazi links don’t make Putin an anti-fascist

Labor’s small target strategy guaranteed not to deliver change

The turn to America in 1941: Using US power to push...

Sanctions on Russia will punish ordinary people, not Putin

Ned Hargraves: ‘No more guns in our communities. It must never...

How NATO and the West fuelled the war in Ukraine

Floods show deadly climate disasters already here

Russian socialist writes: ‘Putin ramps up repression, but there’s less patriotic...

Ukraine war product of imperialism of both Putin and the West

Morrison and Santos drive gas-fired dispossession and climate disaster

Labor’s ‘green’ plan for Kurri Kurri plant still a climate disaster

Striking nurses rage against lack of staff in NSW hospitals

Companies using EBA termination to get their way

Afghan refugees demand permanent visas

Morrison’s push for bigotry bill backfires

Aged care deaths product of Morrison’s criminal boosters and funding failures

Austrian socialists: ‘We are against compulsory vaccination’

Capitalism’s war against nature

A history of anti-nuclear resistance from mining to missiles

Why you should be a socialist

As desperate Morrison falters—fight to finish him off

Morrison’s failures bring COVID chaos—kick him out

Djokovic deportation reveals more of Morrison’s immigration crimes

Australia’s ‘grotesque’ arms exports fuel barbarity and bloodshed

Spirit of revolt rocks Kazakhstan

Australian troops no solution in the Solomons

Climate action and the election—Backing Liberal-lite independents not the answer

Wool wars—when shearers’ unions took on state brutality

Morrison’s failures trash COVID safety for essential workers

Testing and hospitals crisis shows governments’ health failure as Omicron spreads

NTEU’s failure to condemn transphobic academics no grounds for quitting

Fed up NSW teachers strike over workloads, pay and staffing shortage

NSW teachers deserve a pay rise and planning time—fight till we...

Stop the march to war on China—join the protests against AUKUS

Australian troops return to Solomon Islands to keep out China

Left opposition to pandemic powers needed to undermine right-wing ‘freedom’ protests

Morrison lies as the planet dies—drive him out

Racist cops gun down more Aboriginal people

COVID outbreak scandal sees calls to free Medevac refugees grow

Nurse speaks out: ‘Hospital staff are sick of working understaffed’

Effort to vaccinate the world failing with rich countries still hoarding...

Victorian teachers begin industrial action over excessive workloads

Transport strikes win gains on job security

Nuclear power—not green, not needed, not safe

Why standing up for Palestine is not antisemitic

Why parliament and the state block real change

COP26 failure shows why we need system change

Morrison’s climate plan a fraud—fight to fund urgent transition and jobs

Australia dumps PNG refugees—keep up the fight to bring them here

Morrison still among world’s worst climate criminals as COP26 summit looms

University of Sydney concedes gender affirmation leave

US marches against Texas abortion ban

AUKUS and ‘national sovereignty’: Why Australia’s rulers back the US

Why COP26 won’t solve the climate crisis

Why the right hates Critical Race Theory

NSW Liberals install new hard right Premier as Berejiklian departs

Greek health workers strike to defend jobs against vaccine mandate

Strike shuts down Sydney trains as workers fight for jobs and...

‘Don’t scab, get the jab’—a slogan no unionist should use

Vilifying CFMEU protesters will only build the right

John Elliott—vile corporate raider and racist bigot

Protest at CFMEU office shows why vaccine mandates are a disaster

Editorial: Reopening can’t mean return to business as usual—fight for safe...

Liberals want to rewrite energy rules to boost coal power

Stopwork action shows how to fight for COVID safety

Will Clive Palmer’s millions buy another Liberal victory?

Delivery drivers strike for job security at Toll and StarTrack

More protests needed to open the border to Afghan refugees, end...

Thousands march against Palestinian Authority in West Bank

1971 accident pay strike showed how to fight for safety

Why ending war means ending capitalism

Racism and neglect drives COVID outbreak in Wilcannia

Urgent call for prison releases after COVID outbreaks in NSW

Residents speak out against punitive policing under lockdown from Camperdown to...

9/11 horror triggered new wave of US terrorism and war

NSW reopening plan fails on health and workplace safety

More action needed to ensure COVID safe return-to-school plan in NSW

Iran’s Khuzestan province rocked by protests and strikes

Lockdowns, Delta and a new stage in the pandemic

How the Tampa crisis cemented Australia’s brutal border policies

Financial support and workplace safety still missing as Delta heads out...

Poverty, police powers and life under lockdown in Western Sydney

Earth’s climate on edge of the abyss, warns IPCC report

Fires, floods and extreme weather lash Europe, America and China

New report shows massive jobs and energy potential of offshore wind

Labor ditches efforts at change in empty bid for power

ANZUS and the US alliance—A plan for war and regional domination

Pressure grows for urgent intake as Morrison abandons Afghan refugees

US humiliated in Afghanistan as Taliban seizes Kabul

Vaccine inequality produces surge in deaths across Africa and Asia

Olympics fuel nationalism that distracts from our real problems

Stopwork at Coles warehouse shows companies can’t be trusted to stop...

Police crackdown targets unionists’ convoy demanding income support through Sydney lockdown

Australia outbids China on vaccines as contest for Pacific influence grows

Fair wages are long overdue: Geelong library workers strike for a...

The Dark Emu debate—Respecting Indigenous societies doesn’t require claims of agriculture

Morrison’s failures leave workers exposed as new COVID outbreaks spread

Eight years is enough—refugee detention onshore and offshore must end

Prison killed Wayne Fella Morrison, now prison guards derail inquiry

Economic recovery for some, millions still struggling

High school students march against sexism in Adelaide

Cubans are right to protest, but US sanctions must end

Major oil workers’ strike shakes Iran

Australia and US brought 20 years of horror and war to...

War crimes—why Australian troops bring terror

Marx’s Capital—inside a system based on exploitation

Queensland to invest $2 billion in renewables—but not in publicly-owned power

Lack of government support in Sydney lockdown leaves workers desperate

Cops swarm Western Sydney as migrant communities scapegoated for virus’ spread

NSW teachers set for action on workloads, staff shortages and pay

More border controls not the answer to Morrison’s COVID failures

Nurses and paramedics force NSW Liberals to lift workers’ pay

Will communicative consent laws keep women safe?

Resisting the new Cold War panic on China

Alternative to the anti-China xenophobia and militarism

On climate and China, Morrison incites global conflict and chaos—kick him...

Liberals’ COVID contempt puts workers’ lives at risk

New leader Chris Minns taking NSW Labor further right

Big pharma’s vaccine profits create eight new billionaires

Colombia paralysed by protests against tax hikes and inequality

Unions, students and the community reject Morrison’s $600 million Kurri Kurri...

Zionism and the Middle East—why the West arms Israel

Carceral feminism—will new laws and longer sentences protect women?

Protest works, but the Tamil family is only half-way to freedom

General Mills workers stage indefinite strike for a decent pay rise

Israel’s brutal dispossession continues despite halt to bombing

Editorial: Morrison spends up on fossil fuels and election fixes—keep fighting...

Morrison funding spree promotes more gas and fossil fuels

Australia beats the drums of war and fuels confrontation with China

Labor backs Coalition’s indefinite detention powers

Palestinians are right to resist Israeli terror

Are world leaders finally acting on climate change?

The Pilbara strike—how Aboriginal workers defied forced labour and exploitation

McAlevey’s union organising model decentres rank-and-file activity

Palestine strikes ‘from the river to the sea’ to defy Israeli...

Youth survivors on the march against Morrison’s ongoing failure on sexism

‘He was treated like a dog’: Bailey Mackander’s father on his...

Jane McAlevey’s organising strategy and the NTEU

Strike against Scomo to save our planet

Busting Morrison’s myth: Why gas is not a transition fuel

Labor’s climate cowardice shows need for stronger movement

Derek Chauvin is guilty, and so is the whole rotten system

‘We are not cattle’—refugees moved again from hotel prison but more...

Liberals’ plan for NDIS cuts stalled—now stop them for good

Myanmar: ongoing resistance defies military crackdown

Biden’s spending plans aim to bail out US capitalism

Socialism, Biden and the fight for real change in the United...

Marx, alienation and the working class

Kevin Cook—from BLF unionist to land rights activist

Editorial: Turn rage at Morrison’s failure on rape into fightback against...

Yallourn closure’s threat to jobs shows need for publicly-run power

Nathan Reynolds’ inquest shows still no justice for Black deaths in...

Labor conference to cull policies and confirm move to the right

Royal Commission: Funding cuts, lack of staff cause aged care horrors

Workers can block coup in Myanmar

How the FBI murdered the ‘Black messiah’—revolutionary Fred Hampton

Sexist Liberals run a sexist system

The Paris Commune 150 years on—when workers stormed heaven

Medevac refugees stuck in detention Catch-22—free them all

Teaching consent won’t counter the sexism all around us

Sexism, rape, private schools and the Liberals: a sexist elite overseeing...

‘Porter must go’: Students rage against sexism and rape

Smeaton Grange starved back to work—But Coles workers could have won

Editorial: Turn anger at Morrison’s contempt for women and the...

Morrison’s plan driving gas-fired climate catastrophe

Labor still in retreat as Albanese charts road to nowhere

Casuals win against wage theft at the University of Melbourne

Militant fight shuts down scab operation on the waterfront

Don’t expect serious change from Joe Biden

Indian farmers revolt against Modi’s neo-liberal laws

Pearl Gibbs—women, workers and the fight for Aboriginal rights

The case for socialism

As more Medevac refugees released, protests continue to demand: Free them...

Vere Gordon Childe: the Australian activist who explained what happened in...

Parliament House rape highlights sexism at the heart of the system

Facebook v Murdoch—Battle of the media giants tramples voices of dissent

More stalling from union as Smeaton Grange starves

Navalny’s arrest sparks mass protests against Putin’s authoritarian regime

Locked out for 11 weeks, but Smeaton Grange workers reject Coles’...

Injustice never ended as racist policing and imprisonment grows

Heroic fight, but union inaction helps Coles starve Smeaton Grange back...

Morrison wants workers to pay for COVID recovery—make the rich pay

Medevac refugees freed—now free the rest

Calls for Sydney lockdown ring hollow as outbreak contained

As Morrison backs fossil fuels, is the world finally acting on...

Vaccine hoarding and profiteering compromise rollout

Australian war crimes show bloody reality of Afghan war

Trump’s Capitol riot shows dangerous rise of the far right

Fascism is more than a racist movement

Chicka Dixon—Unionist and mentor to a generation of Aboriginal radicals

The Egyptian Revolution—18 days that shook the world

Smeaton Grange Coles workers vote NO to non-union agreement

Invasion day protests are right to challenge COVID anti-protest rules

Vote No, step up the action—Coles moves for non-union agreement at...

Trump supporters’ Washington riot shows dangerous rise of the far right

Five day strike pushes back against casualisation at Hanes

Crunch time at Smeaton Grange—Step up the pickets to stop Coles’...

Morrison’s laws deliver wage cuts to fuel COVID recovery for business

Shut down Coles’ corporate profiteering at Smeaton Grange

Coles warehouse workers determined to fight despite three month lockout

Invading Afghanistan was a war crime

Editorial: Dump Morrison’s Trumpism—fight for climate jobs and funding

Lessons from Melbourne’s 112-day lockdown

Right to protest win as hypocritical ban beaten in NSW

Andrews government pushes on with attack on Djap Wurrung

Holding the line against Dutton—protest can free the refugees

Corbyn suspended as Labour leadership declares war on the left

A window into the upsurge for Women’s Liberation

US election—Biden’s narrow win ensures ongoing crisis

Why did 73 million vote for Trump?

A corporate Democrat in the White House won’t end systemic racism...

Workers left behind in NSW Liberals’ energy plan—keep fighting for public...

Bill Ferguson—Unions, Aboriginal rights and the racist protection system

The revolutionary ideas of Friedrich Engels—200 years on

Medical Science academics hold afternoon stop work to protest job cuts

Ten days on strike and counting as Hussmann workers fight for...

Biden’s establishment approach offered voters no solutions

Victory for Labor’s conservatism in Queensland as One Nation takes a...

Editorial: Morrison’s recovery plan means cuts and casualisation—it’s time to start...

MUA should defy effort by Patrick bosses and the Liberals to...

No time for delay in fight to save uni jobs

Defiant student protests fight to stop cuts at Sydney Uni

Santos gas project goes ahead in climate disaster

Pay cut for NSW workers on pandemic frontline

Greek Nazis jailed in victory for the anti-fascist movement

Protests as Indonesia uses pandemic to rip away workers’ rights

Win for the left in Bolivian vote

Biden no antidote to Trump’s racism and the far right

Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict fed by outside powers

Blaming white workers for racism lets our rulers off the hook

William Cooper—activist who helped found the Aboriginal rights movement

One hundred years on—The Communist Party of Australia’s radical beginnings

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