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# Solidarity Online

Socialist organisation in Australia affiliated to the International Socialist Tendency

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## Posts

- [Opposition grows to Ahpra’s attack on free speech over Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/opposition-grows-to-ahpras-attack-on-free-speech-over-palestine/) - On 17 June the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency announced they would use the IHRA definition of antisemitism when investigating complaints against practitioners. But opposition in the healthcare sector is growing.
- [India's cockroach movement celebrates win against Modi](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/indias-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.
- [Fighting racism and anti-worker agenda vital to stopping One Nation](https://solidarity.net.au/top/fighting-racism-and-anti-worker-agenda-vital-to-stopping-one-nation/) - Pauline Hanson’s popularity may have slipped a little. But One Nation’s support remains disturbingly high.
- [Breaking the chains of sexism and oppression](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/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
- [Royal Commission swallows baseless claims of antisemitism at universities](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/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 undermine the widespread support for Palestine built up since 2023. Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal, for instance, suggested the ABC and SBS need an oversight committee specifically to monitor their reporting on
- [Busting Pauline Hanson's racist lies](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/busting-pauline-hansons-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](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/victorian-teachers-strike-again-due-to-rank-and-file-rage/) - 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.
- [From Palestine to AUKUS, Labor conference shuts down debate](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/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?](https://solidarity.net.au/international/burnhams-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?
- [Hamas agrees to disarm but Israel's not finished killing](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/hamas-agrees-to-disarm-but-israels-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](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/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](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/current/210/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
- [Families lead Kempsey march against deaths in custody to kick off weekend of action](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/families-lead-kempsey-march-against-deaths-in-custody-to-kick-off-weekend-of-action/) - Over 200 people joined a young, energetic rally in Kempsey last Friday, the home of Dunghutti man David Dungay Jnr, who was killed in Long Bay Jail in 2015.
- [Malcolm X—fighting racism by any means necessary](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/malcolm-x-fighting-racism-by-any-means-necessary/) - Casey Forsyth looks at the ideas of one of the US’s most uncompromising fighters against racism, and what they have to teach the Black Lives Matter movement today.
- [Woolies workers stand strong despite indefinite lockout in Wyong](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/woolies-workers-stand-strong-despite-indefinite-lockout-in-wyong/) - Workers at the Woolies distribution centre at Wyong in NSW have been locked out indefinitely since Friday after taking strike action demanding equal pay and reduced casualisation.
- [Campaigns that showed how to stop cuts on campus](https://solidarity.net.au/students/campaigns-that-showed-how-to-stop-cuts-on-campus/) - Lessons from the fight against job cuts at Sydney University in 2012 and the campaign to Save Sydney College of the Arts in 2016
- [Protester facing jail under COVID rules after police attack anti-cuts protest at Sydney Uni](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/protester-facing-jail-under-covid-rules-sydney-uni/) - Students and staff protested against plans for massive jobs cuts at the University of Sydney on Wednesday—only to again face a draconian and hypocritical police operation to disrupt and disperse them.
- [Police crackdown targets unionists’ convoy demanding income support through Sydney lockdown](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/police-crackdown-targets-unionists-convoy/) - Police have launched a crackdown against a car and bike protest convoy in Sydney demanding adequate income support payments and improved safety at work.
- [Amazon union win shows how workers can beat the billionaires](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/amazon-union-win-shows-how-workers-can-beat-the-billionaires/) - Workers at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse have become the first Amazon workplace in the US to unionise, in another example of workers in the US fighting back following the pandemic.
- [Mussolini and the rise of fascism in Italy](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/mussolini-and-the-rise-of-fascism-in-italy/) - Italy was the first country where fascism came to power. Casey Forsyth looks at what fascist rule meant and the lessons for stopping the far right today.
- [Attitudes shifting to the left but struggle still yet to rise](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/attitudes-shifting-to-the-left-but-struggle-still-yet-to-rise/) - The Australian Electoral Study has released a report after every election for the last 30 years. Its most recent on the 2022 election sheds light on Labor’s victory and current political attitudes.
- [Robodebt scandal shows how far government and public officials will go to punish the poor](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/robodebt-scandal-shows-how-far-government-and-public-officials-will-go-to-punish-the-poor/) - The Royal Commission into the Liberals’ Robodebt scheme has exposed the scale of lies and cover up that went into defending an illegal policy designed to punish the poor.
- [Border policies see hundreds of refugees left to drown off Greece](https://solidarity.net.au/international/border-policies-see-hundreds-of-refugees-left-to-drown-off-greece/) - While the desperate search for a missing submersible covered our news feeds, 750 refugees were left for dead in the Mediterranean after a fishing vessel capsized.
- [Workers left exposed as fires and extreme heat circle the globe](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/workers-left-exposed-as-fires-and-extreme-heat-circle-the-globe/) - Heatwaves and wildfires have been raging across the northern hemisphere. July was the hottest month ever recorded.
- [Israeli attack on UNRWA aid another genocidal act](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israeli-attack-on-unrwa-aid-another-genocidal-act/) - Israel’s allegations against the UNRWA aid organisation in Gaza have been rapidly exposed as lies.
- [How can the rise of France’s fascists be stopped?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/how-can-the-rise-of-frances-fascists-be-stopped/) - Despite the fascists’ failure to take government in France, they will continue rising if the left relies on electoral deals to halt them, argues Casey Forsyth.
- [Melbourne Uni students occupy to cut ties with Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/melbourne-uni-students-occupy-to-cut-ties-with-israel/) - Students at Melbourne Uni have occupied the Arts West building three weeks after they began their encampment in solidarity with Gaza.
- [Why capitalism is addicted to oil](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/current/210/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
- [Hundreds descend on Pine Gap to expose base’s role in genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/hundreds-descend-on-pine-gap-to-expose-bases-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.
- [Victorian Labor lurches further right under Carroll](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/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.
- [Victorian teachers revolt to reject pay deal and unbearable conditions](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/victorian-teachers-revolt-to-reject-pay-deal-and-unbearable-conditions/) - Victorian teachers and education support staff have overwhelmingly rejected their proposed pay deal, in a rank-and-file rebellion against pay cuts, unbearable conditions in schools and their own union leadership.
- [Inquest hears how police shot Aubrey Donahue](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/inquest-hears-how-police-shot-aubrey-donahue/) - A coronial inquest into the police killing of Muluridji man Aubrey Donahue has heard disturbing evidence about the moments leading up to the shooting.
- [Union campaign in Victoria wrong to avoid Hanson's racism](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/union-campaign-in-victoria-wrong-to-avoid-hansons-racism/) - Victoria faces the terrifying prospect of One Nation in government after November’s state election. One Nation could either win the most seats itself or do well enough that the Liberals need their support to form government.
- [Open letter to Socialists in Schools: Back teachers' strike on 4 August](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/open-letter-to-socialists-in-schools-back-teachers-strike-on-4-august/) - FTC and SIS both campaigned for rank-and-file teachers to vote No to the last offer from the Victorian government. SIS however is now declining to support FTC and the rank-and-file’s campaign for a strike on 4 August.
- [SA nurses: vote No, stay union and strike back](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/sa-nurses-vote-no-stay-union-and-strike-back/) - After their long running “Respect” campaign, which recently saw two 24-hour hospital strikes, public sector nurses and midwives in South Australia are furious at the settlement that their union’s leadership is recommending for a Yes vote.
- [Albanese and US hypocrisy over China's missile launch](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/albanese-and-us-hysteria-over-chinas-missile-launch-is-hypocrisy/) - Media delirium followed China’s testing of a ballistic missile launched from off the coast of China into the Pacific. But this arms race is a consequence of US imperial aggression.
- [Anti-imperialism and the Palestine movement: Lessons from Vietnam](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/anti-imperialism-and-the-palestine-movement-lessons-from-vietnam/) - Julie Monteiro looks at the how anti-imperialist politics and a focus on building working class support were key to the success of the movement against the Vietnam War
- [One Nation's rise fuels far right's attack on abortion rights](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/one-nations-rise-fuels-far-rights-attack-on-abortion-rights/) - One Nation has joined forces with other bigots to attack abortion. In June, there were anti-abortion proposals raised in three Australian parliaments.
- [Universities' complicity and the repression of Palestine protest](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/universities-complicity-and-the-repression-of-palestine-protest/) - A Palestinian student spoke at the symposium on Palestine and political expression at Sydney Uni in June. We print part of the speech below.
- [Disabled people's lives ignored as Labor pushes to cut NDIS](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/disabled-peoples-lives-ignored-as-labor-pushes-to-cut-ndis/) - Despite blanket opposition to the NDIS cuts from disabled people and disability advocacy groups, Labor is determined to push ahead with its devastating plan to cut $38.1 billion from the scheme and kick 240,000 disabled people off it within five years.
- [More arrests in Brisbane as protests defy Palestine slogan ban](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/more-arrests-in-brisbane-as-protests-defy-palestine-slogan-ban/) - A total of 31 people have now been arrested for defying the Queensland Crisafulli government’s ban on pro-Palestine phrases.
- [Fighting racism and the far right—One Nation can be stopped](https://solidarity.net.au/top/fighting-racism-and-the-far-right-one-nation-can-be-stopped/) - One Nation’s support may have dropped slightly after Pauline Hanson put her full agenda on show in her speech at the National Press Club. But One Nation’s rise has exposed a deep crisis in Australian politics.
- [Mexican teachers strike amid lavish World Cup spending](https://solidarity.net.au/international/mexican-teachers-strike-amid-lavish-world-cup-spending/) - Tens of thousands of teachers across Mexico have been waging a militant campaign for decent wages, adequate pensions and better public education funding amid the ongoing World Cup.
- [Fighting fascism: Lessons from the Spanish civil war](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/fighting-fascism-lessons-from-the-spanish-civil-war/) - Workers in Spain rose up to stop a fascist coup 90 years ago this month, sparking the civil war. This put revolution on the agenda—but holding it back led to defeat, argues Peter Robinson
- [Protests as Japan boosts military to back the US against China](https://solidarity.net.au/international/protests-as-japan-boosts-military-to-back-the-us-against-china/) - Japan is witnessing its largest wave of anti-war protests in decades as the government pushes up military spending in an effort to back US threats against China.
- [One Nation’s ideas gaining a hearing in workplaces](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/one-nations-ideas-gaining-a-hearing-in-workplaces/) - Workers who have never expressed support for One Nation before are sharing its content and calling for “Pauline for PM.”
- [Hanson's Press Club speech shows threat of Trumpism](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/hansons-press-club-speech-shows-threat-of-trumpism/) - Hanson's speech at the National Press Club laid out how she has embraced Donald Trump’s politics and the danger a bigger and more organised One Nation poses.
- [Convergence to expose Pine Gap's role in genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/convergence-to-expose-pine-gaps-role-in-genocide/) - Activists from across the continent will converge on the Pine Gap spy base in Central Australia in July for three days of protest and discussion.
- [West Papuans speak out against government plan for massive destruction of traditional lands](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/west-papuans-speak-out-against-government-plans-for-massive-destruction-of-traditional-lands/) - Maeve Larkins spoke to two members of Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat, an activist group based in West Papua, about the Indonesian government’s National Strategic Project in Merauke, a region in the south of West Papua.
- [CFMEU delegate facing charges for protest against Admin](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/cfmeu-delegate-facing-charges-for-protest-against-admin/) - A long-term Victorian CFMEU delegate is facing legal action because of a protest against Administration.
- [The 1973 Ford Broadmeadows strike: how migrant workers rose up](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2013/54/the-1973-ford-broadmeadows-strike-how-migrant-workers-rose-up/) - In 1973 migrant workers showed that they can be among the most determined in fighting for workers’ rights. There are lessons for us today, argues Tom Orsag The Ford Broadmeadows strike was one of the most explosive and militant disputes in the history of the Australian union movement. And at its heart were migrant workers.
- [Trump, US imperialism and the Cuban revolution](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/trump-us-imperialism-and-the-cuban-revolution/) - Mark Gillespie explains why Donald Trump wants regime change in Cuba and why we should oppose the US's plans, without pretending Cuba was ever socialist
- [Women's wartime strikes to win equal pay](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/womens-wartime-strikes-to-win-equal-pay/) - Joy Qiao explains how women challenged sexism and fought to demand equal pay after joining the workforce in large numbers during the Second World War
- [One Nation surge result of the system's racism and failures](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/one-nation-surge-result-of-the-systems-racism-and-failures/) - One Nation is now polling at more than 25 per cent, having won 22 per cent in the South Australia election and 39 per cent in the Farrer by-election, which delivered One Nation its first ever federal lower house victory.
- [Vic health professionals march for pay justice](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/vic-health-professionals-march-for-pay-justice/) - More than 3500 Victorian health professionals and workers, members of four unions, struck and marched on state parliament on 16 June, calling for an above-inflation pay rise.
- [Biased Royal Commission farce targets support for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/biased-royal-commission-farce-targets-support-for-palestine/) - The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is turning into a show trial with the Palestine solidarity movement in the dock.
- [Iraqi doctors stage two-week strike over unpaid wages and unsafe conditions](https://solidarity.net.au/international/iraqi-doctors-stage-two-week-strike-over-unpaid-wages-and-unsafe-conditions/) - Five thousand Iraqi medical graduates from the class of 2024, now working in the public health sector, staged a national strike from 1 June to 15 June, vowing to continue to fight until their demands are met.
- [Labor budget failure on cost of living is feeding workers' rage](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/labor-budget-failure-on-cost-of-living-is-feeding-workers-rage/) - It’s not sympathy for aspiring tech billionaires that means Labor's budget has been badly received. It has done nothing to provide the cost-of-living relief needed.
- [Trump humbled as Iran deal shows US and Israel's failure](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/trump-humbled-as-iran-deal-shows-us-and-israels-failure/) - The US might have the most powerful military in the world, but it’s Donald Trump who has been humiliated with the end of the war against Iran.
- [Victorian teachers: vote No and continue the fight](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/victorian-teachers-vote-no-and-continue-the-fight/) - Victorian teachers are fighting for an historic No vote to a union-recommended proposed agreement.
- [Tech oligarchs, capitalism and the AI arms race](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/tech-oligarchs-capitalism-and-the-ai-arms-race/) - Erima Dall looks at the impact of AI, including in the workplace, and the consequences of its use in the service of profit
- [Administration in chaos but attacks on CFMEU keep coming](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/administration-in-chaos-but-attacks-on-cfmeu-keep-coming/) - The attacks by the Administration of the CFMEU haven’t stopped since Mark Irving stepped down as Administrator in late April.
- [SA nurses’ ‘Respect’ campaign escalates with 24-hour rolling stoppages](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/sa-nurses-respect-campaign-escalates-with-24-hour-rolling-stoppages/) - Public sector nurses and midwives at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide’s northern suburbs struck for 24 hours on 4 June.
- [Venezuela: from revolutionary transformation to imperialist victory](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/venezuela-from-revolutionary-transformation-to-imperialist-victory/) - David Glanz reviews a new book that helps explain why the high hopes of the Bolivarian revolution ended in a squalid deal with US imperialism.
- [Gaza flotilla activist: 'The flotilla has shown we can take action into our own hands'](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/gaza-flotilla-activist-the-flotilla-has-shown-we-can-take-action-into-our-own-hands/) - Solidarity spoke to Zack Schofield, who has just returned after being captured by Israel on the Global Sumud Flotilla
- [Trump tries to rein in Israel in search of deal with Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/trump-tries-to-rein-in-israel-in-search-of-deal-with-iran/) - Donald Trump lashed at out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call in early June, calling him “fucking crazy” and telling him “everybody hates Israel”.
- [Disability services we need won't come from market profiteers](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/disability-services-we-need-wont-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.
- [Protest campaign forces Sydney Uni to drop disciplinary threats over Palestine poster](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/protest-campaign-forces-sydney-uni-to-drop-disciplinary-threats-over-palestine-poster/) - After widespread outrage, the University of Sydney has backed down on its threat to discipline two students over a poster for a Palestine protest used on campus.
- [No justice for Indigenous people under NT's police state](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/no-justice-for-indigenous-people-under-nts-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.
- [Court victory halts Minns' offensive against Palestine movement—now turn the tide](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/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.
- [Labor's budget failure on cost of living and its racist policies no antidote to One Nation](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/labors-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.
- [Capitalism and the new wave of misogyny: Fighting sexism today](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/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.
- [Israel imposes slow death in Gaza as genocide goes on](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/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.
- [Iran stares down a superpower as Trump faces defeat](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/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.
- [Labor cuts the NDIS but pours billions more into the military](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/labor-cuts-the-ndis/) - 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.
- [Strike for pay to beat war’s new cost of living crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/206/strike-for-pay-to-beat-wars-new-cost-of-living-crisis/) - The new cost of living crisis triggered by Trump’s war on Iran means real wages are falling.
- [Labor's austerity budget won't fix housing or cost of living crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/labors-austerity-budget-wont-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.
- [Twenty arrested in Brisbane as activists defy ban on Palestine protest slogans](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/twenty-arrested-in-brisbane-as-activists-defy-ban-on-palestine-protest-slogans/) - Twenty people were arrested yesterday for defying Queensland’s ban on Palestine protest slogans.
- [Nine days that shook Britain: the 1926 general strike](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/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
- [Eight Melbourne councils strike for pay rise to catch up with cost of living](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/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](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/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](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/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 Term 2. But escalated action was not planned at all. Instead of another 24-hour strike, AEU branch council voted for local rolling stoppages with schools striking for half a day. Industrial
- [US workers strike back at Trump on May Day](https://solidarity.net.au/international/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.
- [Algeria's anti-colonial struggle and the right to resist](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/algerias-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
- [Trump’s failure in Iran is a defeat for US power](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/trumps-failure-in-iran-is-a-defeat-for-us-power/) - The US-Israel war on Iran has brought death and destruction to Iranian cities. But it has also humiliated Donald Trump and highlighted the relative decline of American power.
- [Labor’s ‘progressive patriotism’ only feeds One Nation’s racism](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labors-progressive-patriotism-only-feeds-one-nations-racism/) - Anthony Albanese and Labor are embracing so called “progressive patriotism” in response to rising support for One Nation and the far right.
- [Rise up to punish Albanese for backing Trump’s murderous fiasco in Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/rise-up-to-punish-albanese-for-backing-trumps-murderous-fiasco-in-iran/) - Trump and Israel’s war has already compounded the cost of living crisis and had a drastic effect on the world economy.
- [War between Pakistan and Afghanistan fuelled by wider imperialist rivalries](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/war-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-fuelled-by-wider-imperialist-rivalries/) - The “open war” declared by Pakistan’s defence minister against Afghanistan marks a terrifying escalation in a region already reeling from conflict.
- [Ireland's Easter 1916 Rising: National liberation and socialism](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/irelands-easter-1916-rising-national-liberation-and-socialism/) - Ireland’s uprising against British rule in 1916 was designed to strike a blow against Empire and war. Liam McMullen looks at the attitude socialists took to it.
- [Price pain from Trump’s Iran war set to continue for months](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/206/price-pain-from-trumps-iran-war-set-to-continue-for-months/) - Workers will be feeling the impact of the oil crisis produced by Donald Trump’s attack on Iran for months yet—even if the ceasefire holds.
- [Capture the rage: Escalate the fight in Victorian schools now!](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/capture-the-rage-escalate-the-fight-in-victorian-schools-now/) - Forty thousand Victorian government school staff marched on 24 March, in a sea of red AEU shirts, with tens of thousands more out on strike. It was the first strike since 2013.
- [Cops aim to intimidate with wave of Herzog protest arrests](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/cops-aim-to-intimidate-with-wave-of-herzog-protest-arrests/) - NSW and Queensland police are raiding homes and arresting anti-genocide protesters in the latest attempts to scare the Palestine movement off the streets. Queensland police raided the Dorothy Day House, run by a Christian charity in Brisbane, because the occupants hung a banner with the slogan “From the river to the sea, come and get
- [Palestine protest slogans target of anti-protest law push](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestine-protest-slogans-target-of-anti-protest-law-push/) - NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns’ plans to ban the pro-Palestine phrase “globalise the intifada” appears to have stalled due to government concern over whether the attack on free speech would survive a constitutional challenge.
- [Open the borders, oppose Labor's refugee visa ban](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/open-the-borders-oppose-labors-refugee-visa-ban/) - The blanket ban on Iranian visa holders is an extension of the government’s ruthless practice of cancelling the visa on arrival of anyone they suspect might claim asylum
- [SA election confirms One Nation surge as Labor echoes its racism](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/sa-election-confirms-one-nation-surge-as-labor-echoes-its-racism/) - Recent months have seen a surge in the polls for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. The South Australian election confirmed what these polls had suggested.
- [Israeli onslaught on Lebanon aims to crush Hezbollah resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israeli-onslaught-on-lebanon-aims-to-crush-hezbollah-resistance/) - Within hours of the ceasefire announced with Iran, Israel launched its biggest and most destructive assault on Lebanon to date.
- [Israel lobby not the reason West backs the terror state](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-lobby-not-the-reason-west-backs-the-terror-state/) - US and Australian backing for Israel is the result of their imperialist interests in dominating the Middle East, not the power of the Israel lobby, writes Mark Gillespie
- [Palestinian resistance and the Second Intifada](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestinian-resistance-and-the-second-intifada/) - Sophie Cotton looks at what happened in the Second Intifada, why Palestinians have a right to resist and what it means to Globalise the Intifada
- [Manosphere shines light on growing misogyny but fails to challenge sexist ideas](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/manosphere-shines-light-on-growing-misogyny-but-fails-to-challenge-sexist-ideas/) - Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere follows some of the world’s most popular misogynist online influencers.
- [Big bank tech workers strike to reboot pay deal](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/big-bank-tech-workers-strike-to-reboot-pay-deal/) - This Easter, 200 tech workers at DXC Technology struck across Australia. In an industry wracked with fear and layoffs, the strike is a much-needed antidote.
- [The sordid world of Australia and the UAE](https://solidarity.net.au/international/the-sordid-world-of-australia-and-the-uae/) - The Albanese Government’s rush to give “defensive military support” to the UAE may appear to have come out of nowhere. However, Australia has been putting down a footprint in the UAE for years.
- [One Nation surge in SA election shows need for a fight against racism and right-wing Labor](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/one-nation-surge-in-sa-election-shows-need-for-a-fight-against-racism-and-right-wing-labor/) - South Australia’s election has confirmed the rapid growth in support for the racist One Nation party, while the Liberals are spiralling downwards.
- [Palestine supporters assaulted and kicked out of Mardi Gras](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/palestine-supporters-assaulted-and-kicked-out-of-mardi-gras/) - Supporters of Palestine were banned from this year’s Mardi Gras parade and thrown off floats by police, continuing the climate of repression created by NSW Premier Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws.
- [Albanese joins Trump’s war in Iran—time to break the US alliance](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/albanese-joins-trumps-war-in-iran-time-to-break-the-us-alliance/) - Donald Trump has unleashed weeks of savage bombing of Iran, threatening “death, fire and fury” as the regime refuses to capitulate.
- [‘21 and nothing' triggers strike at Curtin Uni](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/21-and-nothing-triggers-strike-at-curtin-uni/) - “Twenty one and nothing”: this was one of the reproaches that was directed at management at the Curtin University as staff held a 24 hour strike on Monday.
- [Trump’s plans for Gaza—occupy and plunder](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trumps-plans-for-gaza-occupy-and-plunder/) - The first meeting of Donald Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace” was held on 19 February. It was a sickening gathering of war criminals and plunderers, meeting to discuss their nightmarish plans for a post-war Gaza.
- [Defiance needed to new laws meant to silence Palestine solidarity](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/defiance-needed-to-new-laws-meant-to-silence-palestine-solidarity/) - Two protesters in Queensland were arrested for using the slogan “From the River to the Sea” at a rally on 11 March—the day new laws that ban the phrase came into effect. One of them now faces charges which carry the threat of two years’ jail.
- [Why US bombing won’t bring democracy to Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/205/why-us-bombing-wont-bring-democracy-to-iran/) - Donald Trump has denounced the Iranian government as “evil”. But US bombing and war will not bring democracy to Iran.
- [Trump’s imperialist strike on Iran risks backfiring](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/trumps-imperialist-strike-on-iran-risks-backfiring/) - Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran was supposed to demonstrate the US’s military might, through punishing or even bringing down the Iranian regime.
- [Labor fans Islamophobia as One Nation surges](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/labor-fans-islamophobia-as-one-nation-surges/) - One Nation is surfing a wave of anger and disillusionment with the major parties. Much of that momentum is fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis—but the party is also fomenting Islamophobia to harden up its supporters.
- [Australia’s growing role in the US’s empire of bases—From Pine Gap to North West Cape](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/australias-growing-role-in-the-uss-empire-of-bases-from-pine-gap-to-north-west-cape/) - The expansion of US bases here locks Australia in as a key part of the US’s military machine, and its strategy for war with China, writes Tom Fiebig
- [Resistance in Minneapolis forces back Trump’s racist violence](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/resistance-in-minneapolis-forces-back-trumps-racist-violence/) - Trump’s ICE agents have unleashed an orgy of racist violence in Minneapolis, but also faced a city in virtual uprising against them, writes James Supple
- [Dockworkers strike to stop arms to Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/dockworkers-strike-to-stop-arms-to-israel/) - Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.
- [Violent police exist to protect capitalism and the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/violent-police-exist-to-protect-capitalism-and-the-rich/) - Violence against protests is not the result of rogue officers. It is part of the basic role of the police.
- [Defying repression and police violence: Lessons from the 1978 Mardi Gras](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/defying-repression-and-police-violence-lessons-from-the-1978-mardi-gras/) - Jean Parker looks at how the first Mardi Gras led to a campaign that won the right to march, as well as victories for LGBTIQ+ rights.
- [Canada and Australia: allies in capitalist extractivism and militarisation](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/canada-and-australia-allies-in-capitalist-extractivism-and-militarisation/) - The Canadian leader visited Australia this week. Both Prime Ministers spoke of a “natural partnership” built on a shared British settler-colonial history and their possession of one third of the world’s mineral resources between them.
- [UWU members speak out on what’s at stake in the union election](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/uwu-members-speak-out-on-whats-at-stake-in-the-union-election/) - Solidarity spoke with United Workers Union members about the current union election
- [Which way forward for the UWU? ‘We need to take control of our union’](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/which-way-forward-for-the-uwu-we-need-to-take-control-of-our-union/) - The first contested election for Australia’s biggest blue-collar union, the United Workers Union, has become the focus of an intense debate about the way forward for the union.
- [Iran—how workers’ revolution was thwarted in 1979](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/iran-how-workers-revolution-was-thwarted-in-1979/) - Mike Grewcock reviews a new book that looks at how workers played a key role in bringing down regimes in Iran, Poland and South Africa, but then lost out to other forces
- [Iranian activist speaks out against the war](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/iranian-activist-speaks-out-against-the-war/) - Solidarity spoke to a young Iranian activist about the war
- [Why we need to defy ban on Globalise the Intifada](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/why-we-need-to-defy-ban-on-globalise-the-intifada/) - The Minns government in NSW is attempting to ban the phrase “Globalise the Intifada”, with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan also saying she hopes to prosecute people using it.
- [One Nation a threat as right-wing Labor dominates in SA election](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/one-nation-a-threat-as-right-wing-labor-dominates-in-sa-election/) - The 21 March state election in South Australia sees a confident Labor government likely to increase its majority. It is also the first major test of whether Pauline Hanson’s racist One Nation can replace a weak Liberal Party as the dominant force on the right.
- [Far right gains in France as mainstream parties blame the left for fascist’s death](https://solidarity.net.au/international/far-right-gains-in-france-as-mainstreamparties-blame-the-left-for-fascists-death/) - Mainstream and far right politicians are painting the left in France as violent after the death of a far right activist.
- [No to war, no to the Islamic Republic: freedom must come and will come from below in Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/no-to-war-no-to-the-islamic-republic-freedom-must-come-and-will-come-from-below-in-iran/) - I oppose the Islamic Republic because it is a capitalist regime built on inequality and the denial of basic freedoms. But I also am also opposed to imperialist war against Iran, because foreign intervention has never brought democracy.
- [New cost of living crunch as Labor and Reserve Bank hit workers](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/new-cost-of-living-crunch-as-labor-and-reserve-bank-hit-workers/) - The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.
- [How defiance defeated Bjelke’s protest ban—Lessons for the Palestine movement](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/how-defiance-defeated-bjelkes-protest-ban-lessons-for-the-palestine-movement/) - Ian Rintoul looks at the campaign of defiance that ended Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ban on street marches in Queensland and draws lessons for the Palestine movement today
- [How West Australian unions defeated Court’s protest ban](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/how-west-australian-unions-defeated-courts-protest-ban/) - Tom Orsag tells the story of how union power and solidarity broke WA's repressive anti-protest laws.
- [Liberals’ new leader stuck with same problems as One Nation gains at their expense](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/liberals-new-leader-stuck-with-same-problems-as-one-nation-gains-at-their-expense/) - The Liberals have a new leader. But they’re still stuck with their old problems—and Angus Taylor isn’t going to dig them out of a deep hole.
- [Stop Trump and Israel's bloody bombing of Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/stop-trump-and-israels-bloody-bombing-of-iran/) - After weeks of military threats, and despite ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the US and Israel have combined to rain bombs on cities across Iran.
- [Defiant protests disrupt Albanese’s embrace of war criminal Isaac Herzog](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/204/defiant-protests-disrupt-albaneses-embrace-of-war-criminal-isaac-herzog/) - Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit in the hope of boosting support for Israel. Instead mass protests, and anger at police violence in Sydney, showed the continuing depth of opposition to the genocidal state.
- [Hospital workers fight for healthy deal](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/hospital-workers-fight-for-healthy-deal/) - Hospital workers in Melbourne, members of the Health Workers Union, walked out on strike and rallied at the new Footscray Hospital.
- [Crown Casino workers need to go all in to call management’s bluff](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/crown-casino-workers-need-to-go-all-in-to-call-managements-bluff/) - Up to 500 workers at Crown Casino in Melbourne stopped work twice in four days to demand a fair deal.
- [Defiance at Uni Melb shows how to beat Palestine repression](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/defiance-at-uni-melb-shows-how-to-beat-palestine-repression/) - In the wake of the Bondi attack, governments are attempting to repress the Palestine movement, with anti-protest laws, federal hate crime laws and plans to ban chants such as “Globalise the Intifada”. The experience of activists at the University of Melbourne, mobilising hundreds to face down threats of police and academic sanctions, provide a rich
- [Israel extends land grabs and genocide in West Bank](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-extends-land-grabs-and-genocide-in-west-bank/) - While Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire”, at times killing over 20 people a day, it is also stepping up the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.
- [Epstein files expose the rich and powerful and their sick system](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/204/epstein-files-expose-the-rich-and-powerful-and-their-sick-system/) - The Epstein files expose the corruption and depravity of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
- [Stop work to stop racism: united action sends Hanson a warning](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/stop-work-to-stop-racism-united-action-sends-hanson-a-warning/) - Pauline Hanson’s screening in Melbourne of the reactionary film A Very Progressive Movie was challenged when cinema workers walked off the job and joined an anti-racism rally.
- [Huge protests against visit of Israel's President defy anti-protest laws and police violence](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/huge-protests-against-visit-of-israels-president-defy-anti-protest-laws-and-police-violence/) - Albanese’s hopes that he could use Isaac Herzog’s visit to win sympathy for Israel after the Bondi attack have blown up in his face.
- [Social media ban lets tech companies continue to spread toxic harm](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/social-media-ban-lets-tech-companies-continue-to-spread-toxic-harm/) - Anthony Albanese’s social media ban for under 16-year-olds was a stunt designed to give a do-nothing government the appearance of taking action to protect kids.
- [Labor feeds racist scapegoating of Muslims and migrants for Bondi attack](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/labor-feeds-racist-scapegoating-of-muslims-and-migrants-for-bondi-attack/) - In the wake of the Bondi attack, many migrants, particularly Arabs and Muslims, have faced an outpouring of racist bile on social media, in workplaces and on the streets.
- [Letter from Indonesia: the fight to free the August political prisoners](https://solidarity.net.au/long-reads/letter-from-indonesia-the-fight-to-free-the-august-political-prisoners/) - Anthony Albanese visited Indonesia in February to sign a security treaty with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. But there was not a word about Subianto's vicious jailing and torture of political prisoners. An Indonesian socialist tells the story that Albanese ignores
- [Protest vigils reject efforts to hijack Bondi grief to smear Palestine movement](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/protest-vigils-reject-efforts-to-hijack-bondi-grief-to-smear-palestine-movement/) - Hundreds joined protest vigils in Sydney and Melbourne on 22 December to reject the effort to blame the Palestine movement for the horrific antisemitic terror attack at Bondi, and to oppose further restrictions on protest.
- [Admin appoints ACTU lackey to run CFMEU as Zach Smith bows out](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/admin-appoints-actu-lackey-to-run-cfmeu-as-zach-smith-bows-out/) - The shock resignation of Zach Smith as both National Secretary and Victorian Branch Executive Officer should be welcomed by CFMEU members who have opposed Labor’s Administration.
- [Defiance needed to push back attacks on Palestine movement and the right to protest](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/defiance-needed-to-push-back-attacks-on-palestine-movement-and-the-right-to-protest/) - The terrorist attack in Bondi has been followed by an avalanche of new laws aimed at blaming the movement for Palestine.
- [The Cummeragunja walk-off: How workers backed struggle for Indigenous rights](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/the-cummeragunja-walk-off-how-workers-backed-struggle-for-indigenous-rights/) - Paddy Gibson looks at how unions and socialists provided support for one of the major struggles for Aboriginal rights and against the racist Protection system
- [‘No King, No leader, No Trump’—Iran rises up in revolt](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/no-king-no-leader-no-trump-iran-rises-up-in-revolt/) - Iran’s Islamic Republic regime has faced its biggest challenge from below since the 1979 revolution toppled the Shah.
- [Wins over protest rights and censorship show they won’t silence us on Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/wins-over-protest-rights-and-censorship-show-they-wont-silence-us-on-palestine/) - Since the Bondi attack, there has been an onslaught from the media and politicians demanding a crackdown on protests for Palestine and blaming Muslims and migrants.
- [Racist terror attempt at Invasion Day rally shows growing far right threat](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/racist-terror-attempt-at-invasion-day-rally-shows-growing-far-right-threat/) - In a shocking racist attack on Aboriginal people and supporters, a far-right terrorist targeted the Boorloo (Perth) Invasion Day rally on 26 January with a home-made bomb. It thankfully failed to explode.
- [One Nation surges as Labor paves the way for rise in racism](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/one-nation-surges-as-labor-paves-the-way-for-rise-in-racism/) - A January Newspoll is showing that One Nation has nearly quadrupled its support since May’s federal election.
- [Naked imperialism and Trump’s new world order](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/naked-imperialism-and-trumps-new-world-order/) - Trump’s openly imperialist grab for resources and profits in Venezuela and elsewhere is a product of capitalist competition and the US’s declining position, argues Jack Stubley
- [Admin’s summer assault on the CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/admins-summer-assault-on-the-cfmeu/) - Administration’s strangulation of the CFMEU construction union and further attempted asset-stripping continued apace over summer, despite Admin kicking a couple of own goals.
- [Minneapolis rises up against Trump's deportation raids after ICE murder](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/minneapolis-rises-up-against-trumps-deportation-raids-after-ice-murder/) - Minneapolis has become the latest flashpoint in the fight against Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign after ICE agents murdered Renee Good, a 37-year-old American citizen.
- [What do we mean by Intifada?](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/what-do-we-mean-by-intifada/) - Intifada usually refers to two popular uprisings by the Palestinians in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank that shook the Israeli occupation.
- [Widespread protests rock Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/international/widespread-protests-rock-iran/) - Iran has been the scene of widespread protests for days. Starting in the capital Tehran and focused on economic issues, the protests have spread to become an explosion of public anger against the government and its policies.
- [Hands off Venezuela, no to Trump’s gangster invasion](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/hands-off-venezuela-no-to-trumps-gangster-invasion/) - Donald Trump has declared that US will “run” Venezuela after its military captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and launched airstrikes on the Latin American country.
- [Hundreds rally to defy NSW protest ban and say no to Herzog visit](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/hundreds-rally-to-defy-nsw-protest-ban-and-say-no-to-herzog-visit/) - Over 400 people gathered at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 16 January to rally against Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws and genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit to Australia. It was the first Palestine solidarity protest since NSW Premier Chris Minns introduced his draconian restrictions on protest on Christmas eve and was co-hosted by Stop
- [Trump’s colonial plan puts war criminals and billionaires in control of Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/trumps-colonial-plan-puts-war-criminals-and-billionaires-in-control-of-gaza/) - Trump’s “ceasefire” hasn’t stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
- [Strikes for Palestine and against arms spending across Europe](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/203/strikes-for-palestine-and-against-arms-spending-across-europe/) - Europe has seen a series of strikes against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and surging military spending.
- [Maduro and the history of Venezuela’s popular uprising](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2026/203/maduro-and-the-history-of-venezuelas-popular-uprising/) - Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a beacon for all those who wanted an alternative to neoliberalism and United States imperialism.
- [Queensland healthcare ban part of wider attack on trans rights](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/queensland-healthcare-ban-part-of-wider-attack-on-trans-rights/) - The Queensland government’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children was overturned in October, with Supreme Court Judge Peter Callaghan ruling it unlawful.
- [Workers strike for pay and penalty rates at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw books](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/workers-strike-for-pay-and-penalty-rates-at-harry-hartog-and-berkelouw-books/) - Workers at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books have walked out on strike again from Saturday 20 December for five days until Christmas Eve, after another insulting wage offer from management.
- [Nazis gain confidence from growth of racist rallies](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/nazis-gain-confidence-from-growth-of-racist-rallies/) - The Nazi National Socialist Network rally outside NSW Parliament in November was a sign of their growing confidence following the racist March for Australia rallies.
- [Bondi attack the bitter fruit of genocide in Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/bondi-attack-the-bitter-fruit-of-genocide-in-gaza/) - In the aftermath of the mass shooting at Bondi beach, the right is on the offensive. It is trying to blame the movement for Palestine for fuelling antisemitism and encouraging the attack.
- [Bondi beach attack no excuse for smearing Palestine movement](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/bondi-beach-attack-no-excuse-for-smearing-the-palestine-movement/) - The mass shooting targeting the Jewish Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach is horrific. But already there are attempts to use it to smear the pro-Palestine movement and further demonise Arabs and Muslims.
- [Where does racism come from—and how does it survive?](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/where-does-racism-come-from-and-how-does-it-survive/) - David Glanz looks at the origins of racism and how it continues to be pushed from the top of society in the interests of our rulers.
- [Indonesia's invasion 50 years on—How Australia betrayed Timor-Leste](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/indonesias-invasion-50-years-on-how-australia-betrayed-timor-leste/) - For decades Australian governments backed Indonesia’s occupation and repression in Timor-Leste to advance their own interests in the region, argues Maeve Larkins.
- [Much ado about paid NUS positions but not about Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/students/much-ado-about-paid-nus-positions-but-not-about-palestine/) - Socialist Alternative/Students for Palestine have been in a bitter fight over the paid office-bearer positions at NUS. But despite all the noise SAlt generated online, their real concern was losing bureaucratic control, not building the Palestine movement.
- [Admin purge of CFMEU in Victoria targets militancy](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/admin-purge-of-cfmeu-in-victoria-targets-militancy/) - Administration’s control of the CFMEU ratcheted up further in November with Zach Smith, the Victorian Branch Executive Officer, putting all 30 Victorian organisers’ jobs on the line.
- [Exposing Australia's own imperialist agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/exposing-australias-own-imperialist-agenda/) - Clinton Fernandes’ new book Turbulence exposes Albanese’s own imperialist agenda in backing Trump and Israel, writes Adam Adelpour.
- [The racism that led to the Cronulla riots 20 years on](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/the-racism-that-led-to-the-cronulla-riots-20-years-on/) - James Supple looks at how the Cronulla riot was the result of the racism pushed by John Howard’s government and the media, and the lessons as we face a rising far right today
- [Unions recommit to fight for Gomeroi rights as Pilliga gas project stalled again in court](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/unions-recommit-to-fight-for-gomeroi-rights-as-pilliga-gas-project-stalled-again-in-court/) - Unions NSW has sponsored a new report, “We Stand With Gomeroi: Trade unions oppose the Santos Pilliga Narrabri gas project”.
- [Albanese still arming Israel as it keeps killing despite ‘ceasefire’](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/albanese-still-arming-israel-as-it-keeps-killing-despite-ceasefire/) - After consistently avoiding answering whether or not Australia has been supplying F-35 fighter jet parts or other military hardware for Israel, the Albanese government quietly imposed a ban on the export of some defence goods to Israel.
- [CSR strike: between a (Gyp)rock and a hard place](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/csr-strike-between-a-gyprock-and-a-hard-place/) - Some 68 skilled production and warehouse workers at CSR Gyprock in Yarraville, Melbourne, have been on strike for almost three weeks.
- [Albanese's Trump visit shows his enthusiasm for US and Israeli savagery](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/albaneses-trump-visit-shows-his-enthusiasm-for-us-and-israeli-savagery/) - Anthony Albanese’s visit to Donald Trump in Washington brought together two war criminals who have backed Israel’s genocide and now want to plan for war against China.
- [Israel steps up killing in Gaza as UN approves plan for colonial rule](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-steps-up-killing-in-gaza-as-un-approves-plan-for-colonial-rule/) - Israel massacred 70 Palestinians in two days of intense bombing this week in Gaza, as it continues killing on a near daily basis despite the “ceasefire”.
- [50,000 striking teachers give government a lesson](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/50000-striking-teachers-give-government-a-lesson/) - For the second time this year more than 50,000 Queensland teachers have walked off the job demanding better pay and conditions.
- [Zohran Mamdani's victory a blow against Trump and the US establishment](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/zohran-mamdanis-victory-a-blow-against-trump-and-the-us-establishment/) - Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York has horrified the whole US political establishment, giving hope to everyone desperate for an alternative.
- [Is Israel doomed to collapse?](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/is-israel-doomed-to-collapse/) - In Israel on the Brink: Eight Steps for a Better Future Ilan Pappe steps away from history to argue about Palestine’s future.
- [Rolling the right—building rank-and-file power in the NSW BLF](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/rolling-the-right-building-rank-and-file-in-the-nsw-blf/) - Tom Orsag looks at how the NSW BLF set the standard for militant construction unionism as a result of years of rank-and-file organising in the union.
- [Uni workers strike back over pay and drastic job cuts](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/uni-workers-strike-back-over-pay-and-drastic-job-cuts/) - A wave of strikes has hit universities across the country, as NTEU members begin the latest round of enterprise bargaining, and fight back against management restructuring.
- [‘Peacemaker’ Trump threatens military strikes on Venezuela](https://solidarity.net.au/international/peacemaker-trump-threatens-military-strikes-on-venezuela/) - Venezuela is under fire from US imperialism and Trump’s attempts to reassert US hegemony over Latin America.
- [Fresh atrocities in Sudan as rival generals tear country apart](https://solidarity.net.au/international/fresh-atrocities-in-sudan-as-rival-generals-tear-country-apart/) - The capture of the city of El Fasher in Sudan in late October by the Rapid Support Forces, following an 18-month siege, produced horrifying atrocities.
- [Uncovering Malaysia’s communist history](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/uncovering-malaysias-communist-history/) - David Lockwood, an Australian academic, has written a history of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) from 1930-48. While it is a short work—173 pages—it is invaluable for both the Malaysian and Australia Left.
- [Albanese’s racist scapegoating of migration only feeds far right](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/albaneses-racist-scapegoating-of-migration-only-feeds-far-right/) - Anthony Albanese’s fawning selfie with Donald Trump in New York showed his devotion to militarism and US power. He has worked desperately to secure a one-on-one meeting with Trump to shore up the deal to buy nuclear submarines under the AUKUS pact. Not satisfied with the $368 billion price tag of the subs, Albanese announced
- [What’s driving the ‘Gen Z’ revolts in the Global South?](https://solidarity.net.au/international/whats-driving-the-gen-z-revolts-in-the-global-south/) - Gen Z revolts are sweeping the Global South as people take to the streets against corruption and deprivation.
- ['It looks like a grenade was thrown at me deliberately'](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/it-looks-like-a-grenade-was-thrown-at-me-deliberately/) - Grace Dess describes the Victoria Police rampage against anti-racist protesters in Melbourne on 19 October.
- [Fifty years since the Whitlam Dismissal](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/fifty-years-since-the-whitlam-dismissal/) - In 1975 the ruling class in Australia conspired to subvert parliamentary democracy and sack the Labor government. Jean Parker discusses why they did it and the response.
- [No peace in Gaza as Israel blocks food and keeps killing Palestinians](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/no-peace-in-gaza-as-israel-blocks-food-and-keeps-killing-palestinians/) - Palestinians and their supporters celebrated the ceasefire as bringing hope of an end to the killing in Gaza. But it’s already clear it does not mean peace.
- [Gaza flotilla participant ‘I saw the mentality of the Zionist regime. We’re not going to stop’](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/gaza-flotilla-participant-i-saw-the-mentality-of-the-zionist-regime-were-not-going-to-stop/) - Solidarity spoke to Hamish Paterson, a member of the Maritime Union of Australia who joined the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, about their brutal treatment by Israel and what they learnt about the violence inflicted on Palestinians.
- [Saving jobs not the reason for Labor’s industry bailouts](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/saving-jobs-not-the-reason-for-labors-industry-bailouts/) - Labor is spending billions on propping up the metals industry, saying it’s about saving jobs. But the government’s main motivation is its drive to arm Australia for war with China.
- [Trump's deportation raids and authoritarianism meet resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trumps-deportation-raids-and-authoritarianism-meet-resistance/) - The Trump administration has escalated its racist migrant deportation campaign as the US President’s approval ratings trend downwards.
- [Why migrants aren’t to blame for the housing and rent crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/why-migrants-arent-to-blame-for-the-housing-and-rent-crisis/) - The far right wants to exploit frustration with house prices, rent increases and the cost of living and blame them all on migrants.
- [Thirty years on: How Weipa workers drew a line in the sand](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/201/thirty-years-on-how-weipa-workers-drew-a-line-in-the-sand/) - A defiant strike at the Weipa mine against individual contracts sparked a nationwide strike wave that halted a push to deunionise the country, writes Jacob Starling
- [Anti-racists counter March for Australia’s second round](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/anti-racists-counter-march-for-australias-second-round/) - March for Australia held its second round of racist anti-immigration rallies on 19 October. Their overall turnout was mostly lower than the first rallies in August, but they still drew large crowds.
- [Treaty in Victoria—Labor must be fought to win real change](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/treaty-in-victoria-labor-must-be-fought-to-win-real-change/) - The Statewide Treaty Bill passed the Victorian parliament on 30 October. But it returns no land, pays no compensation for dispossession and creates no rights that can be enforced against the state.
- [Peace plan relief but Gaza still an open-air prison](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/peace-plan-relief-but-gaza-still-an-open-air-prison/) - Palestinians and their supporters are celebrating the ceasefire and an end to the killing in Gaza. But the Trump-Netanyahu plan still leaves Gaza as an open-air prison under effective Israeli control.
- [Coffee workers give bosses a roasting](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/coffee-workers-give-bosses-a-roasting/) - Workers at the Padre coffee roasting factory in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick walked out on strike. Julie Monteiro spoke to delegate Ava Baldwin about the issues.
- [Thousands of public sector workers rally in Adelaide](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/thousands-of-public-sector-workers-rally-in-adelaide/) - Three thousand workers, mainly members of the Public Service Association, gathered on the steps of Adelaide’s parliament house to rally against the state government’s proposed enterprise agreement.
- [Israeli genocide and Trump’s new plans for Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israeli-genocide-and-trumps-new-plans-for-gaza/) - James Supple looks at whether the ceasefire can last and what the last two years of genocide and resistance show about the prospects for Palestinian liberation
- [Labor's Nauru deportation signals expanded offshore detention regime](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labors-nauru-deportation-signals-expanded-offshore-detention-regime/) - Labor's Nauru agreement has been triggered with the first non-citizen sent to Nauru on 24 October.
- [PNG and Vanuatu deals show Australia’s growing contest with China](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/png-and-vanuatu-deals-show-australias-growing-contest-with-china/) - Events around this year’s Pacific Islands Forum have shown how Australia and China are competing to win influence over the region, as the risk of war grows.
- [End to forced redundancies at ANU shows power of fighting campaign](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/end-to-forced-redundancies-at-anu-shows-power-of-fighting-campaign/) - After a year-long campaign, interim Vice-Chancellor Rebekah Brown has announced an end to forced redundancies under management’s drastic restructuring scheme, Renew ANU.
- [What do we mean by revolution?](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/what-do-we-mean-by-revolution/) - Casey Forsyth explains why revolutions happen and why such major social upheavals always involve violence.
- [Fighting back racism—lessons from defeating One Nation in the 1990s](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/fighting-back-racism-lessons-from-defeating-one-nation-in-the-1990s/) - Mark Gillespie looks at the role of counter-protests in defeating One Nation, and the lessons for the fight against March for Australia and the far right today
- [Fight cuts to disability support and say No to the market](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/fight-cuts-to-disability-support-and-say-no-to-the-market/) - The Labor government and the entire ruling class have waged a relentless campaign to cut the “unsustainable” growth of the NDIS. With children under 15 making up about half of NDIS participants, the government is targeting them first.
- [Two years of genocide result of a savage imperialist system](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/two-years-of-genocide-result-of-a-savage-imperialist-system/) - Albanese and the world’s most powerful governments have facilitated seemingly endless barbarism in Gaza in service of their own imperialist interests, argues David Glanz.
- [General strike in Italy blocks Israeli trade, backs flotilla](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/general-strike-in-italy-blocks-israeli-trade-backs-flotilla/) - Unions in Italy held a general strike for Palestine on 22 September, as global solidarity with Gaza continues to grow.
- [Fighting racism and the far right—how can we beat back March for Australia?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/fighting-racism-and-the-far-right-how-can-be-beat-back-march-for-australia/) - Anti-racist protests that outnumber the racist March for Australia rallies can demoralise them and make the racists less confident to come back.
- [Nepal’s Gen Z rises up in rebellion against the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/international/nepals-gen-z-rises-up-in-rebellion-against-the-rich/) - On 8 September, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, erupted. Tens of thousands of young people rallied against poverty, corruption and repression.
- [Highlights of 200 issues](https://solidarity.net.au/best/200-issues/) - To mark 200 issues we look at key articles, issues and covers that have appeared in Solidarity since our first issue
- [Australia’s brutal history of colonial rule in PNG](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/australias-brutal-history-of-colonial-rule-in-png/) - Australian direct colonial control of PNG lasted from 1906 to 1975. Like European colonialism everywhere, it was a brutal operation.
- [Mass defiance and arrests meet ban on Palestine Action UK](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/mass-defiance-and-arrests-meet-ban-on-palestine-action-uk/) - The British government’s decision to ban direct action group Palestine Action has triggered widespread anger and defiance.
- [As pressure mounts on ANU, fight to stop the cuts](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/as-pressure-mounts-on-anu-fight-to-stop-the-cuts/) - ANU management is facing a crisis of legitimacy over its $250 million proposed cuts.
- [Labor copies Trump playbook with ICE-style deportation laws](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/200/labor-copies-trump-playbook-with-ice-style-deportation-laws/) - Labor has passed a fourth law to clear the way for forced deportations to the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru.
- [Queensland LNP takes advantage of Administration to go after CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/queensland-lnp-takes-advantage-of-administration-to-go-after-cfmeu/) - One year on the Administration regime has secured a tight grip on the CFMEU.
- [Labor’s unambitious new climate targets rest on offsets fraud](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/labors-unambitious-new-climate-targets-rest-on-offsets-fraud/) - The world is on track for catastrophic warming and climate disasters are multiplying. Yet the Albanese government’s new climate targets refuse to meet the urgent need for action.
- [Recognising a Palestinian state: Plan for two states in Palestine a fraud](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/recognising-a-palestinian-state-plan-for-two-states-in-palestine-a-fraud/) - The prospect of a separate Palestinian state has been a ploy used to accelerate the dispossession of Palestinians and entrench Israel’s apartheid.
- [A broad, united anti-racist response to the ‘March for Australia’ is needed to defeat the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/a-broad-united-anti-racist-response-to-the-march-for-australia-is-needed-to-defeat-the-far-right/) - Solidarity Melbourne Branch Committee statement
- [Alexandra Kollontai: revolution and women's liberation](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/alexandra-kollontai-revolution-and-womens-liberation/) - Solidarity continues a series on the lives and struggle of revolutionary women The 1917 Russian Revolution saw women win greater political, civil and legal equality with men than in any other modern society. The activity and the writings of Alexandra Kollontai (the first female member of the Bolshevik party’s central committee) before, during and after the
- [Anti-migrant rallies show need for anti-racist unity](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/anti-migrant-rallies-show-need-for-anti-racist-unity/) - Thousands of racists joined anti-immigration marches across the country on Sunday. It was a sobering reminder of the urgent need to organise in defence of migrants, refugees and Indigenous people.
- [Labor’s failures are fuelling racism and the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/labors-failures-are-fuelling-racism-and-the-far-right/) - The March for Australia rallies were a stark warning of how discontent over Labor’s failures to address housing or cost of living issues can be pulled in a racist direction.
- [The Pacific war and the myth of liberation 80 years on](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/the-pacific-war-and-the-myth-of-liberation-80-years-on/) - Efforts across Asia to reimpose colonial rule at the end of the Second World War show that it was a struggle over the imperialist division of the world, argues Luke Ottavi.
- [UTS makes savage cuts to courses—but union power is growing](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/uts-makes-savage-cuts-to-courses-but-union-power-is-growing/) - UTS management has announced a suspension of new enrolments for more than 100 courses, leaving staff, students and community stakeholders reeling.
- [USyd staff fly the flag as union members back defiance](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/usyd-staff-fly-the-flag-as-union-members-back-defiance/) - On Thursday 28 August, a University of Sydney NTEU meeting of 140 people voted overwhelmingly to defy the five new speech policies introduced by management in June this year.
- [Iran blamed for orchestrated antisemitism crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/199/iran-blamed-for-orchestrated-antisemitism-crisis/) - Albanese has blamed Iran for orchestrating at least two of the antisemitic attacks late last year, after ASIO claimed it had tracked responsibility back to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
- [Israel begins razing Gaza City as Albanese stands by](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-begin-razing-gaza-city-as-albanese-stands-by/) - Israel’s genocide is entering a brutal new phase, as it continues to bomb hospitals and assassinate journalists with impunity.
- [CFMEU members must still organise to resist Administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/cfmeu-members-must-still-organise-to-resist-administration/) - Despite continuing rank-and-file anger among CFMEU members, there is now widespread resignation about the Administration of the union imposed by the Labor government.
- [Israel’s ethnic cleansing in West Bank rules out Palestinian state](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israels-ethnic-cleansing-in-west-bank-rules-out-palestinian-state/) - Israel is accelerating its genocide and annexation not just in Gaza, but also in the Palestinian West Bank.
- [Ukraine negotiations are an imperialist carve up not peace](https://solidarity.net.au/ukraine/ukraine-negotiations-are-an-imperialist-carve-up-not-peace/) - Donald Trump said his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska was a step towards ending the war in Ukraine. Putin, however, is stalling on further negotiations as he continues to bombard Ukrainian cities.
- [Sanctions now—what they mean and why they can stop Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/sanctions-now-what-they-mean-and-why-they-can-stop-israel/) - Adam Adelpour explains how sanctions work, what difference Australian sanctions would make and how they would hit Israel’s ability to continue the genocide in Gaza
- [Largest nationwide protests for Palestine so far demand sanctions now](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/largest-nationwide-protests-for-palestine-so-far-demand-sanctions-now/) - Last Sunday's protests for Palestine mobilised the largest nationwide crowds to date—and broadened the movement’s reach into the unions and sections of the Labor Party.
- [Artists’ protests win Khaled Sabsabi's reinstatement](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/artists-protests-win-khaled-sabsabis-reinstatement/) - In a major about-face, Creative Australia has reinstated artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as representatives of Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
- [South Australian toxic algae another climate disaster](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/south-australian-toxic-algae-another-climate-disaster/) - A toxic algal bloom twice the size of the ACT is causing apocalyptic scenes in South Australia. Since March, the algal bloom is estimated to have killed almost 14,000 marine animals from more than 400 species.
- [ANU fights back against savage cuts to jobs and courses](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/anu-fights-back-against-savage-cuts-to-jobs-and-courses/) - On Wednesday 30 July, more than 100 ANU students marched against the university’s proposed Renew ANU cuts.
- [Kumanjayi Walker inquest exposes systemic racism in NT police](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/kumanjayi-walker-inquest-exposes-systemic-racism-in-nt-police/) - NT Coroner Elizabeth Armitage’s report lays bare the “entrenched, systemic and structural racism” at the heart of the NT Police including “normalised” usage of racist, violent language that paints Aboriginal people as subhuman.
- [Bridge march shows tide has turned against Israel and Albanese](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/bridge-march-shows-tide-has-turned-against-israel-and-albanese/) - The march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge show the scale of support for action on Gaza. There is growing pressure on Anthony Albanese.
- [Why Big Tech drives energy-hungry data centre boom](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/why-big-tech-drives-energy-hungry-data-centre-boom/) - The virtual world of the internet depends on massive data centres in the real world. In 2024 Australia was one of the top five data centre hubs in the world.
- [Recognition a cover for Albanese’s failure to act on genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/recognition-a-cover-for-albaneses-failure-to-act-on-genocide/) - Anthony Albanese’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state is a cover for his ongoing refusal to impose sanctions on Israel.
- [Are ideas enough to change the world?](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/are-ideas-enough-to-change-the-world/) - The dominance of right-wing ideas reflects capitalism’s control of society, writes Jacob Starling, but new ideas alone are not what drives social change, in the next article in our series on what socialists say
- [Recognising Palestine won't stop Israeli terror](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/recognising-palestine-wont-stop-israeli-terror/) - The UK, France and Canada have all announced plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September at a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
- [Forty years since the historic defeat: How union leaders blew it at SEQEB](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/forty-years-since-the-historic-defeat-how-union-leaders-blew-it-at-seqeb/) - James Supple looks at the lessons from the historic union defeat at SEQEB in 1985, when Joh Bjelke-Petersen took on the unions and won.
- [Talisman Sabre exercises in Australia’s north prepare for war on China](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/talisman-sabre-exercises-in-australias-north-prepare-for-war-on-china/) - This year’s instalment of the Talisman Sabre war games was the largest yet—designed to send a message to China about growing preparations for war.
- [Harbour Bridge march defies threats against Palestine protests](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/harbour-bridge-march-defies-threats-against-palestine-protests/) - NSW Labor Premier Minns tried to stop the Harbour Bridge march, saying it would cause Sydney to “descend into chaos” and risk public safety.
- [Administration tightens grip but it’s not too late to defend the CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/administration-tightens-grip-but-its-not-too-late-to-defend-the-cfmeu/) - The two-day strike in Queensland following the High Court decision upholding Administration was fantastic. But with no similar response anywhere else in the country the Administration has moved quickly to tighten its grip on the union.
- [Protest at security headquarters in Egypt shows rage over Gaza betrayal](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/protest-at-security-headquarters-in-egypt-shows-rage-over-gaza-betrayal/) - On 25 July, young Egyptians launched a courageous action in solidarity with Gaza, exposing the appalling complicity of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s dictatorship in Israel’s genocide.
- [Syria’s new regime stirring sectarian tensions again](https://solidarity.net.au/syria/syrias-new-regime-stirring-sectarian-tensions-again/) - A new wave of sectarian violence has erupted in Syria, centred around the majority Druze area of Suweyda in the south.
- [Is AI enabling a new age of misogyny?](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/is-ai-enabling-a-new-age-of-misogyny/) - Laura Bates’s new book The New Age of Sexism claims that violence against women is being ‘coded into the fabric’ of our future. But sexism has deeper roots than new AI technology argues Sarah Bates
- [Indigenous resistance and settler-colonialism](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/indigenous-resistance-and-settler-colonialism/) - Paddy Gibson spoke to Stephen Gapps about his research on Indigenous resistance and his new book Uprising at this year’s Keep Left event
- [Grill’d strike sees young workers fight low pay and bullying bosses](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/grilld-strike-sees-young-workers-fight-low-pay-and-bullying-bosses/) - Fast food workers at the popular burger chain Grill’d took strike action last Friday, rallying outside the Flinders Lane store in Melbourne CBD to demand fair wages and better conditions.
- [Albanese's antisemitism envoy wants to silence opposition to genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/albaneses-antisemitism-envoy-wants-to-silence-opposition-to-genocide/) - Jillian Segal, Anthony Albanese’s appointed antisemitism envoy, has produced a series of Trumpian recommendations that have drawn widespread shock.
- [Albanese still arming Israel while Gaza starves](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/albanese-still-arming-israel-while-gaza-starves/) - Starvation in Gaza has reached a crisis point. But Albanese’s response has simply been to spout platitudes while continuing to allow the export of weapons components being used in the genocide.
- [Labor panders to big business with productivity push](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/labor-panders-to-big-business-with-productivity-push/) - Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declared “productivity” a centrepiece of the Labor government’s second term agenda.
- [LA rebellion takes on deportations and Trump regime](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/la-rebellion-takes-on-deportations-and-trump-regime/) - Los Angeles has risen up in rebellion against Donald Trump and a brutal effort to round up undocumented migrants for deportation.
- [Trump review another reason to dump AUKUS](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trump-review-another-reason-to-dump-aukus/) - News that the Trump administration is reviewing the AUKUS deal to ensure it is “aligned with the president’s ‘America first’ agenda” has reignited attacks on the plan.
- [Dockworkers in Europe stop weapons shipments to Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/dockworkers-in-europe-stop-weapons-shipments-to-israel/) - Dockworkers in France and Italy have taken industrial action to stop weapons exports to Israel, showing the kind of action needed to stop the Gaza genocide.
- [Albanese the US and Israel’s partner in crime over bombing Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/197/albanese-the-us-and-israels-partner-in-crime-over-bombing-iran/) - Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran was a bloody extension of the genocide in Gaza and risked a major escalation of war across the Middle East. Yet Anthony Albanese was quick to offer Labor’s full support.
- [Tutu: a fighter against apartheid, in South Africa and Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/tutu-fighter-apartheid-south-africa-palestine/) - One aspect of Tutu’s politics that most official “tributes” have avoided mentioning is his support for the Palestinian struggle.
- [Stop the march to war on China—join the protests against AUKUS](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/stop-the-march-to-war-on-china-join-the-protests-against-aukus/) - The Australian government is helping boost the chance of war through belligerent rhetoric against China, alongside its largest military build-up since the Second World War.
- [NSW teachers deserve a pay rise and planning time—fight till we win](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/nsw-teachers-deserve-a-pay-rise-and-planning-time-fight-till-we-win/) - Thousands of NSW Teachers Federation members took strike action today. Planning needs to begin for escalating action, including further strikes, in the first weeks of first term 2022.
- [France tries to smother Kanak resistance in New Caledonia](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/france-tries-smother-kanak-resistance-new-caledonia/) - France has now announced that the third referendum in New Caledonia will take place on 12 December, angering independence parties, which have called for a delay until late 2022.
- [Lack of ongoing movement allows sexist backlash against Brittany Higgins](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/lack-of-ongoing-movement-allows-sexist-backlash-against-brittany-higgins/) - Selective leaking of text messages and other evidence has been used to try to discredit Brittany Higgins, as part of a backlash against demands for action on sexism.
- [Parliament sexism report reveals a foul system: fight for change](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/parliament-sexism-report-reveals-foul-system-fight-change/) - A federal government review into workplace culture in federal parliament has found that an astonishing one in three staffers there have experienced sexual harassment.
- [Labor’s climate plan aims to please the bosses](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labors-climate-plan-aims-please-bosses/) - Labor’s new climate policy is nowhere near what’s needed to stop dangerous climate change.
- [US and Israeli onslaught aims to punish Iran’s defiance](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-and-israeli-onslaught-aims-to-punish-irans-defiance/) - Iran’s regime poses a challenge to US dominance of the Middle East, but is not a genuine alternative to imperialism, writes James Supple
- [High Court backs Labor's CFMEU takeover but it’s not too late to fight: Strike out Administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/high-court-backs-labors-cfmeu-takeover-but-its-not-too-late-to-fight-strike-out-administration/) - The High Court has dismissed the legal challenge to Labor’s Administration of the CFMEU. But the decision only confirms what CFMEU members already knew—bad laws need to be broken.
- [Brisbane CFMEU members stop work in defiance after High Court upholds Administration](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/brisbane-cfmeu-members-stop-work-in-defiance-after-high-court-upholds-administration/) - Thousands of angry Brisbane construction workers walked off the job on Thursday morning, assembling outside the union’s office, where they voted for a 48-hour strike.
- [Vale Ray Peckham: Aboriginal communist who changed history](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/vale-ray-peckham-aboriginal-communist-who-changed-history/) - Paddy Gibson, Wendy Bowles and John Nolan look at the life of legendary working class Aboriginal activist Ray Peckham, and the lessons from his battles for Aboriginal rights
- [Gaza a 'killing field' as Israel steps up its genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/gaza-a-killing-field-as-israel-steps-up-its-genocide/) - Israel is unleashing horror after horror in Gaza in the wake of its ruthless bombing of Iran.
- [Striking mental health workers put Victorian Labor on notice](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/striking-mental-health-workers-put-victorian-labor-on-notice/) - Up to 500 public mental health workers across Victoria held a statewide strike on 17 June, demanding that Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan deliver fair pay and urgent reform to the state’s overwhelmed mental health system.
- [Victorian teachers start to fight the school underfunding crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/victorian-teachers-start-to-fight-the-school-underfunding-crisis/) - Hundreds of enraged teacher unionists rallied outside Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll’s office after school on 19 June, demanding the Labor government reverse its cut to public schools.
- [Albanese fails to act as deaths in custody and imprisonment surge](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/albanese-fails-to-act-as-deaths-in-custody-and-imprisonment-surge/) - At least 598 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission and there were more tragic deaths in June.
- [Trump’s Iran bombing another face of ‘America First’ imperialism](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/trumps-iran-bombing-another-face-of-america-first-imperialism/) - Trump’s bombing of Iran was another nail in the coffin of the supposed “rules-based international order”. The war was an open act of imperialist aggression by Israel and the US.
- [US bombing won’t bring democracy in Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/us-bombing-wont-bring-democracy-in-iran/) - There is deep opposition to the regime in Iran that has produced continuous waves of protest.
- [Interview with author Phil Marfleet: Imperialism and Palestine’s struggle for freedom](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/interview-with-author-phil-marfleet-imperialism-and-palestines-struggle-for-freedom/) - Phil Marfleet’s new book Palestine, imperialism and the struggle for freedom is a must read for everyone who’s taken action for Palestine. He spoke about why
- [UTS cuts ties with Technion in a win for Palestine campaigners](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/uts-cuts-ties-with-technion-in-a-win-for-palestine-campaigners/) - UTS has officially ended its Memorandum of Understanding with the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), following almost a year of consistent campaigning students and staff.
- [Why the West hates Iran](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/why-the-west-hates-iran/) - US and Australian hostility to Iran is not driven by concern at the regime’s repression at home but by competition for influence in the Middle East, writes Miro Sandev.
- [Morrison’s US pact is a plan for war](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/morrisons-us-pact-is-a-plan-for-war/) - The Coalition’s new military agreement with the US and Britain, known as AUKUS, brings war with China a big step closer.
- [Savage new job cuts planned at UTS and Macquarie Uni](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/savage-new-job-cuts-planned-at-uts-and-macquarie-uni/) - Universities across the country are rolling out savage job cuts.
- [EVs, tech industries and the US-China trade war](https://solidarity.net.au/china/evs-tech-industries-and-the-us-china-trade-war/) - David Glanz looks at how China is trying to dominate high-tech manufacturing, and why its economic challenge to the US is spilling over into imperialist conflict.
- [Capitalism and the politics of neurodiversity](https://solidarity.net.au/long-reads/capitalism-and-the-politics-of-neurodiversity/) - Lucy Honan examines the politics of neurodiversity and argues that we need to fight the pressures capitalism places on people, not just look for individualised solutions.
- [PKK disbands but Kurdish fight for freedom not over](https://solidarity.net.au/international/pkk-disbands-but-kurdish-fight-for-freedom-not-over/) - The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is disbanding, ending four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state.
- [Step forward for abortion access in NSW but major barriers remain](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/step-forward-for-abortion-access-in-nsw-but-major-barriers-remain/) - A bill aimed at improving abortion access has passed NSW Parliament, allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion pills up to nine weeks gestation.
- [As horror rises in Gaza, pressure grows for Albanese to act](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/as-horror-rises-in-gaza-pressure-grows-for-albanese-to-act/) - Anthony Albanese’s election win has given him a dominant position in parliament, with the Coalition reduced to a demoralised rump.
- [Food giant takes aim at safety rep for doing his job](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/food-giant-takes-aim-at-safety-rep-for-doing-his-job/) - Mission Foods, one of the world’s largest food processing companies, has stood down Navneet Bedi, a conscientious health and safety rep.
- [Demands for justice after another Aboriginal death at police hands in Alice Springs](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/demands-for-justice-after-another-aboriginal-death-at-police-hands-in-alice-springs/) - Momentum is growing behind a campaign for Justice for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu killed by police in the Coles supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs on Tuesday.
- [LA takes on ICE, LAPD, National Guard and Marines](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/la-takes-on-ice-lapd-national-guard-and-marines/) - Clare Lemlich, a member of Solidarity's US sister group, Marx21, reports from the frontline in Los Angeles.
- [Israel launches bloody assault on Iran with US backing](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-launches-bloody-assault-on-iran-with-us-backing/) - Israel has launched a massive series of strikes against Iran, extending its bloody footprint across the Middle East and threatening to ignite a major regional war.
- [Defend the CFMEU—no government administration, end the union bashing](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/defend-the-cfmeu-no-government-administration-end-the-union-bashing/) - Construction bosses and both state and federal Labor governments have seized on the opportunity to launch an attack on one of the strongest unions in the country.
- [Israel openly plans ethnic cleansing as it starves Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-openly-plans-ethnic-cleansing-as-it-starves-gaza/) - Israel’s genocide in Gaza is reaching its final monstrous stage.
- [Greens balance of power politics a road to nowhere](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/greens-balance-of-power-politics-a-road-to-nowhere/) - The Greens’ unexpected election losses, wiping out three of their four lower house MPs including leader Adam Bandt, has triggered questioning about the party’s direction.
- [Stop Andrews’ pandemic power grab](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/stop-andrews-pandemic-power-grab/) - The Victorian government has proposed legislation to cover the management of pandemics. It would enshrine the authoritarian response that has characterised the state’s handling of COVID-19.
- [Effort to vaccinate the world failing with rich countries still hoarding doses](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/effort-to-vaccinate-the-world-failing-with-rich-countries-still-hoarding-doses/) - As rich countries begin delivering booster shots, 98 per cent of people living in poor countries remain unvaccinated against COVID-19.
- [Sudanese revolutionaries resist military coup](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/sudanese-revolutionaries-resist-military-coup/) - The military coup in Sudan has been met with a huge wave of protests and strikes that have declared “revolution until victory”.
- [US workers begin to flex some industrial muscle](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-workers-begin-flex-industrial-muscle/) - American workers were on strike in their tens of thousands in October. More than 185 strikes have taken place in 2021 at about 255 workplaces across the US.
- [Why standing up for Palestine is not antisemitic](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/why-standing-up-for-palestine-is-not-antisemitic/) - Rob Ferguson is an anti-racist activist and a member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain who has written widely on the use of the IHRA definition on antisemitism. He spoke to Solidarity’s David Glanz.
- [Nurse speaks out: ‘Hospital staff are sick of working understaffed'](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nurse-speaks-out-hospital-staff-are-sick-of-working-understaffed/) - Damien Davis-Frank works as a nurse in the emergency department at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney and is the Vice-President of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association branch there. He spoke to Solidarity about the impact on hospitals of Sydney’s recent COVID outbreak and why the strain on the health system is not over.
- [Nuclear power—not green, not needed, not safe](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2021/154/nuclear-power-not-green-not-needed-not-safe/) - Nuclear power is no help in tackling climate change and remains linked with nuclear weapons development, writes Sarah Thorne
- [Left opposition to pandemic powers needed to undermine right-wing 'freedom' protests](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/left-opposition-to-pandemic-powers-needed-to-undermine-right-wing-freedom-protests/) - The right-wing “freedom rallies” last weekend are a worrying development. But counter-demonstrations that simply label the protesters as fascists are counter-productive.
- [COP26 failure shows why we need system change](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/cop26-failure-shows-why-we-need-system-change/) - World leaders promoted the Glasgow COP26 summit as a “last chance” to hold warming to the 1.5 degree limit agreed at the Paris summit in 2015. Yet it has ended in failure.
- [Australian troops return to Solomon Islands to keep out China](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/australian-troops-return-to-solomon-islands-to-keep-out-china/) - Last week the Australian government rushed troops, AFP riot police and a navy patrol boat to the Solomon Islands within a day of political protests there, which turned into rioting.
- [US marches against Texas abortion ban](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/us-marches-against-texas-abortion-ban/) - Hundreds of reproductive rights rallies took place across the US, one month after Texas’s near-total ban on abortions went into effect.
- [Editorial: Fight to fund hospitals, safety and jobs amid COVID reopening](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/editorial-fight-fund-hospitals-safety-jobs-amid-covid-reopening/) - Reopening must not mean a return to business as usual. As restrictions lift workers need to go on the offensive.
- [Why the right hates Critical Race Theory](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/why-the-right-hates-critical-race-theory/) - Tom Fiebig looks at the culture wars around Critical Race Theory and argues that understanding the systemic basis of racism is vital if we are to fight it.
- [NSW Liberals install new hard right Premier as Berejiklian departs](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nsw-liberals-install-new-hard-right-premier-as-berejiklian-departs/) - NSW’s new Premier is a hardline neo-liberal, anti-abortion conservative who celebrated Donald Trump’s election win in 2016.
- [Climate change adding to workplace health and safety risks](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/climate-change-adding-workplace-health-safety-risks/) - Climate change is a growing workplace risk and can lead to accidents and even death. Unions need the clear right to bargain around climate change and its impacts on workers.
- [Evergrande crisis shows Chinese growth figures built on sand](https://solidarity.net.au/international/evergrande-crisis-shows-chinese-growth-figures-built-sand/) - The looming potential default of the Chinese property giant Evergrande is sending shivers down the spines of capitalists across the world.
- [Why COP26 won't solve the climate crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/why-cop26-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis/) - Martin Empson explains what COP26 is and why global summits have a history of failure to take the action on climate change that’s needed, in an extract from his new pamphlet The Great Climate COP Out
- [Morrison's climate plan a fraud—fight to fund urgent transition and jobs](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/morrisons-climate-plan-a-fraud-fight-to-fund-climate-transition-and-jobs/) - Scott Morrison’s new climate plan is a total fraud. Morrison has finally announced support for the net zero by 2050 target but produced no new funding or policies to get there.
- [NSW Labor pushes ahead with plan to cut workers' compensation despite union campaign](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/nsw-labor-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-cut-workers-compensation-despite-union-campaign/) - The whole union movement has united in condemnation of the NSW Government’s proposed changes to the workers' compensation scheme.
- [Despite sweeping victory Albanese only offers more of the same](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/despite-sweeping-victory-albanese-only-offers-more-of-the-same/) - Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party won a sweeping victory in May. The Liberals suffered a historic wipe-out and the Coalition between the Liberal and National parties is now in crisis.
- [Resistance continues as Administration tightens grip on CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/resistance-continues-as-administration-tightens-grip-on-cfmeu/) - CFMEU Administrator Mark Irving has moved to tighten his grip on the union following Labor’s win in the federal election in May.
- [Palestine protests sweep graduation ceremonies at US universities](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestine-protests-sweep-graduation-ceremonies-at-us-universities/) - Students in the US have defied growing repression to stage a wave of protests during graduation ceremonies in solidarity with Gaza.
- [1925-27: When China’s workers challenged for power](https://solidarity.net.au/china/1925-27-when-chinas-workers-challenged-for-power/) - Griffin Phillips looks at the massive revolt that began in China 100 years ago and raised the possibility of real socialism based on workers’ power
- [Hundreds of students join Sydney Uni SGM to reject antisemitism smears against Palestine protests](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/hundreds-of-students-join-sydney-uni-sgm/) - Over 200 students packed a Student General Meeting at the University of Sydney this week, rejecting the university's new definition of antisemitism and standing up its crackdown on protest.
- [Rage at Trump’s racism and cuts spreads across the US](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/rage-at-trumps-racism-and-cuts-spreads-across-the-us/) - From escalating trade wars to a full-scale offensive against immigrants, the first months of Trump’s second term have seen horror after horror. But there are also signs of resistance.
- [Where does transphobia come from?](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/where-does-transphobia-come-from/) - Casey Forsyth looks at why the right is so obsessed with gender and how transphobia is part of maintaining the sexist and oppressive gender roles in the family.
- [Labor’s gas expansion: Climate vandalism that tramples on Aboriginal rights](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/labors-gas-expansion-climate-vandalism-that-tramples-on-aboriginal-rights/) - On Tuesday 6 May, Gomeroi people led a 150-strong crowd of trade unionists and climate activists on a march from the NSW Supreme Court to Parliament House.
- [Greens lose seats but millions of voters can still be a force for change](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/greens-lose-seats-but-millions-of-voters-can-still-be-a-force-for-change/) - The Greens have suffered a heavy blow in the 2025 election, losing most of their lower house seats and failing to win any new ones.
- [Kanak revolt: A history of anti-colonial resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/kanak-revolt-ahistory-of-anti-colonial-resistance/) - Rock Haocas, of the USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) from Kanaky-New Caledonia, spoke at this year’s Keep Left on the movement for independence from France. Below is a section of his speech.
- [Thumping win for Labor as Dutton’s Trumpism rejected](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/thumping-win-for-labor-as-duttons-trumpism-rejected/) - The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.
- [Albanese’s talk of ‘Australian values’ masks Labor’s pandering to the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/albaneses-talk-of-australian-values-masks-labors-pandering-to-the-rich/) - Anthony Albanese started his victory speech addressing “My fellow Australians”—and went on to invoke Australia no fewer than 43 more times over 22 minutes.
- [Israel plans new escalation as its starves Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-plans-new-escalation-as-its-starves-gaza/) - Israel has approved a new escalation of its offensive in Gaza, preparing to seize more land for a possible permanent occupation.
- [Labor’s historic vote hides continued major party decline](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/labors-historic-vote-hides-continued-major-party-decline/) - Labor’s election victory defied expectations, with the Albanese government increasing its majority in the lower house and on track to have the highest number of seats since Bob Hawke’s 1987 win.
- [US socialist: Resistance can force Trump back](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/us-socialist-resistance-can-force-trump-back/) - We warned during the first Trump presidency that next time they would come back more organised, more vicious. And that’s exactly what’s happened.
- [Israel ramps up war crimes as it reoccupies Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-ramps-up-war-crimes-as-it-reoccupies-gaza/) - Israel is ramping up its killing in Gaza, seizing more land to prepare for permanent military control and at times murdering more than 100 Palestinians a day.
- [MUA: here to stay, but not to slay](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/195/mua-here-to-stay-but-not-to-slay/) - The ABC's seven-part podcast “Conspiracy? War on the Waterfront” tells the story of the 1998 waterfront dispute, in which more than 1400 workers were sacked in a full-frontal assault on the Maritime Union of Australia.
- [Unions stop work against CFMEU Administration in Sydney on May Day](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/unions-stop-work-against-cfmeu-administration-in-sydney-on-may-day/) - More than 1500 unionists walked off the job to rally on 1 May in Sydney, including hundreds of CFMEU members.
- [Victorian Labor locks up more Black kids in law and order rampage](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/victorian-labor-locks-up-more-black-kids-in-law-and-order-rampage/) - The Victorian government has passed a bail law that includes removing the requirement to consider remand as a last resort for children.
- [Is this the end of the neoliberal order?](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/195/is-this-the-end-of-the-neoliberal-order/) - Joseph Choonara spoke to Socialist Worker UK about the breaks and continuities of neoliberalism as Trump’s trade war escalates
- [Parents stranded as childcare chains collapse](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/parents-stranded-as-childcare-chains-collapse/) - The collapse of two childcare centre operators last month has left hundreds of parents stranded.
- [Dutton’s support drops, but little on offer from Albanese](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/duttons-support-drops-but-little-on-offer-from-albanese/) - It will be a relief if Dutton is kept out of office. But the main reason for a Labor win will not be enthusiasm for Anthony Albanese.
- [Voices on the election—Sending Labor a message, keeping Dutton out](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/voices-on-the-election-sending-labor-a-message-keeping-dutton-out/) - Solidarity spoke to activists who have been organising around housing, Aboriginal rights, Palestine, and in defence of the CFMEU about the election campaign.
- [Delivering affordable housing requires ending investment handouts for the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/delivering-affordable-housing-requires-ending-handouts-for-rich-investors/) - Both Labor and Liberal have announced new policies designed to appeal to anger about the cost of housing. But neither will address the main cause of skyrocketing prices.
- [Climate emergency means we need to get off the gas](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/climate-emergency-means-we-need-to-get-off-the-gas/) - Peter Dutton is echoing Donald Trump’s climate denial. But Anthony Albanese is doing little to challenge him, desperate to hide his own climate inaction.
- [James Connolly—socialism and the struggle for Irish independence](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/james-connolly-socialism-and-the-struggle-for-irish-independence/) - James Connolly insisted that socialists had to support independence for Ireland, but that workers had to lead the fight if it was to mean real liberation, writes Phil Chilton
- [Administrator sets out plan to control CFMEU until 2028](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/administrator-sets-out-plan-to-control-cfmeu-until-2028/) - After months of inactivity, Mark Irving, the Labor-appointed administrator of the CFMEU has announced a plan to implement an undisclosed “Strategic Review” between now and 2028.
- [No need for alternative military spending plans](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/194/no-need-for-alternative-military-spending-plans/) - David Glanz explains why proposals for weapons to ‘defend Australia’—such as from The Greens—are no alternative to AUKUS and mean buying into warmongering against China.
- [Border policies breed racism and division among workers](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/border-policies-breed-racism-and-division-among-workers/) - We should oppose not just scapegoating migrants over the cost of housing, argues Jack Stubley, but borders and immigration restrictions altogether, in the first of a new series on what socialists say.
- [What do Trump’s tariffs mean for Australia?](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/what-do-trumps-tariffs-mean-for-australia/) - Global stockmarkets plunged in horror after Trump announced his so called “reciprocal tariffs” on virtually every country on Earth.
- [Trump's tariff wars threaten global economic chaos](https://solidarity.net.au/feature/trumps-tariff-wars-threaten-global-economic-chaos/) - Jayden Rivers looks at what's behind Trump's tariff onslaught and whether it will crash the global economy.
- [Thousands of NSW doctors strike for conditions, pay and public health](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/thousands-of-nsw-doctors-strike-for-conditions-pay-and-public-health/) - Thousands of NSW doctors from over 30 hospitals in NSW have taken strike action for the first time since 1998.
- [Adolescence shows the pressures on women and families that produce violence](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/adolescence-shows-the-pressures-on-women-and-families-that-produce-violence/) - Netflix is setting viewing records with Adolescence, a gritty four-part British drama about a 13-year-old working class boy who stabs a girl from his school to death in a car park.
- [Students defy uni attacks on right to protest for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/students-defy-uni-attacks-on-right-to-protest-for-palestine/) - Hundreds of students and staff rallied at universities nationwide to defy the crackdown on protests, joining a National Day of Action for Palestine.
- [Putin holds the cards over Ukraine as Trump pushes for a deal](https://solidarity.net.au/ukraine/putin-holds-the-cards-over-ukraine-as-trump-pushes-for-a-deal/) - Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promise to end the Ukraine War on “day one” of his presidency, his hopes of a peace deal have so far come to nothing.
- [Will Trump lead to a fascist America?](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/will-trump-lead-to-a-fascist-america/) - Adam Adelpour looks at the difference between fascism in power and other forms of far right politics, and the lessons from history on how to stop them
- [Labor's Indigenous jobs program: where are the jobs?](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/labors-indigenous-jobs-program-where-are-the-jobs/) - Albanese promised his government would create “real jobs” for Indigenous people. Its new program offers only 700 jobs this year.
- [Trump, imperialism and the new world order](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trump-imperialism-and-the-new-world-order/) - Trump’s bullying and threats against US allies are part of a crude effort to restore US power, and a display of naked imperialism, writes James Supple.
- [As the threat of Dutton looms: Why has Labor been such a failure?](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/as-the-threat-of-dutton-looms-why-has-labor-been-such-a-failure/) - Erima Dall looks at Labor’s drop in support and why it has disappointed its supporters.
- [Another election landslide in WA as Labor backs mining profits](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/another-election-landslide-in-wa-as-labor-backs-mining-profits/) - Labor has held onto power by another overwhelming margin in WA, with the rump of Liberal MPs failing to make significant ground.
- [Global call for end to Australian weapons to Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/global-call-for-end-to-australian-weapons-to-israel/) - More than 230 organisations worldwide have called on the Australian government to immediately halt the transfer of all F-35 jet components to Israel.
- [Fightback underway as hundreds of jobs face the axe at UTS and ANU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/fightback-underway-as-hundreds-of-jobs-face-the-axe-at-uts-and-anu/) - Up to 150 staff and students rallied at UTS on 12 March against plans for cuts to jobs and courses.
- [Warmongering panic over Chinese warships](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/warmongering-panic-over-chinese-warships/) - Livefire exercises by two Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast led to howls of outrage across the mainstream media in February.
- [Trump wants a deal with Putin to loot Ukraine for US interests](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trump-wants-a-deal-with-putin-to-loot-ukraine-for-us-interests/) - Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s public dressing down of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office sent shockwaves across the Western political establishment.
- [Protests erupt across US following attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/protests-erupt-across-us-following-attempt-to-deport-mahmoud-khalil/) - There has been a wave of outrage following Donald Trump’s attempt to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
- [Israel unleashes more terror on Gaza, aided by Trump and Albanese](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-unleashes-more-terror-on-gaza-aided-by-trump-and-albanese/) - Israel has flagrantly broken the terms of the ceasefire with Hamas, killing over 700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as it renewed the bombing of Gaza.
- [Albanese’s grovelling fails—time to stand up to Trump](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/albaneses-grovelling-fails-time-to-stand-up-to-trump/) - Donald Trump’s tariff war is creating economic chaos—and political trouble for Anthony Albanese as he heads to the federal election.
- [Turning point for CFMEU as High Court decision looms](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/turning-point-for-cfmeu-as-high-court-decision-looms/) - The combination of the imminent High Court decision on the challenge to administration and the looming federal election means the Victorian Building Industry Group of unions delegates’ meeting on 26 March comes at a critical moment.
- [‘Our lives over their profits’—huge Greek general strike demands justice over train crash](https://solidarity.net.au/international/our-lives-over-their-profits-huge-greek-general-strike-demands-justice-over-train-crash/) - Workers in Greece staged the country’s largest general strike in decades on the two-year anniversary of the Tempe train crash in 2023.
- [Germany—mainstream parties fuel the rise of fascist AfD](https://solidarity.net.au/international/germany-mainstream-parties-fuel-the-rise-of-fascist-afd/) - The racist AfD doubled its vote in the German election in February, finishing second with 20.8 per cent in the latest advance for the far right.
- [Resistance builds to antisemitism definition shutting down protest](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/resistance-builds-to-antisemitism-definition-shutting-down-protest/) - University managements are launching a McCarthyist offensive against the Palestine solidarity movement, with a new antisemitism definition that threatens academic freedom and freedom of speech.
- [Israel’s Likud aligns with Europe’s fascist right](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israels-likud-aligns-with-europes-fascist-right/) - Israel’s ruling Likud party has joined the European alliance of far-right parties as an observer member, aligning it with fascists and Holocaust deniers.
- [Serbian students and workers rock corrupt government](https://solidarity.net.au/international/serbian-students-and-workers-rock-corrupt-government/) - Huge student-led protests have rocked Serbia, with the potential to unseat the current regime.
- [Albanese’s failures boost Dutton’s Trumpist agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/top/albaneses-failures-boost-duttons-trumpist-agenda/) - Donald Trump has emboldened the far right everywhere, raining down attacks on immigrants, trans people and climate policies.
- [Why minority government is no way to win change](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/why-minority-government-is-no-way-to-win-change/) - Caitlin Doyle and James Supple look at the experience of minority government in the past and why it has not delivered serious change.
- [Trump, genocide, climate chaos—Why you need to be a socialist](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/trump-genocide-climate-chaos-why-you-need-to-be-a-socialist/) - In the face of global catastrophe and the horrors of capitalism, we need a socialist world run in the interests of people and planet, argues Jacob Starling
- [Palestine campaign win: Students stop Bezalel exchange](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestine-campaign-win-students-stop-bezalel-exchange/) - Sydney Uni has announced the end of its exchange program between Sydney College of the Arts and the Israeli Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, in a win for the campaign to cut ties with Israel.
- [Resist Trump’s brutal plan for ethnic cleansing in Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/resist-trumps-brutal-plan-for-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/) - Donald Trump has announced a sickening plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza. He wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East”.
- [Resisting Trump’s agenda for the billionaires](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/resisting-trumps-agenda-for-the-billionaires/) - Donald Trump has set out to radically reshape the institutions of power in the US, moving rapidly to impose his far-right agenda.
- [Israeli occupiers step up war on Palestinians in West Bank](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israeli-occupiers-step-up-war-on-palestinians-in-west-bank/) - A surge in attacks in the occupied West Bank has left at least 870 Palestinians dead there since October 2023.
- [‘I was attacked for wearing a hijab’](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/i-was-attacked-for-wearing-a-hijab/) - Childcare educator Ealaf Al-Easawi was brutally bashed by a stranger in a shocking Islamophobic incident. She told her story to Solidarity.
- [Are we facing a new attack on abortion rights?](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/are-we-facing-a-new-attack-on-abortion-rights/) - The “right to choose” remains popular and abortion has been decriminalised in every jurisdiction across Australia.
- [End systemic pressures inside the family to end violence against women](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/end-systemic-pressures-inside-the-family-to-end-violence-against-women/) - The problem is not straightforwardly men’s power over women but the unbearable pressure on everybody to perform socially recognisable gender roles in a nuclear family.
- [#MeToo at an impasse—Why is the government failing to stop violence against women?](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/metoo-at-an-impasse-why-is-the-government-failing-to-stop-violence-against-women/) - Critics argue the government response to violence against women is failing, writes Lucy Honan, but recognising its roots in capitalism and the family is necessary to addressing it.
- [The Freedom Ride 60 years on](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/the-freedom-ride-60-years-on/) - Tom Fiebig looks at the famous Freedom Ride in NSW, which saw students expose the racism and segregation against Aboriginal people across the state.
- [Anti-Zionist Jews stand in defence of Palestine solidarity](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/anti-zionist-jews-stand-in-defence-of-palestine-solidarity/) - Up to 400 Jews and supporters joined an anti-Zionist Jewish rally outside the Victorian Parliament in solidarity with Palestine.
- [Labor vote collapse points to workers’ growing anger](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/labor-vote-collapse-points-to-workers-growing-anger/) - Labor has won the Werribee by-election in Melbourne’s outer west by a whisker, with a massive swing against the party in what was formerly a rock-solid ALP state seat.
- [NT Liberals launch right-wing rampage](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/192/nt-liberals-launch-right-wing-rampage/) - The new Country Liberal Party government is on the rampage in the Northern Territory, inspired by Donald Trump’s rapid-fire reactionary policy announcements in the US.
- [Antisemitism smears used to crack down on support for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/antisemitism-smears-used-to-crack-down-on-support-for-palestine/) - Governments, university administrations and the mainstream media have opportunistically seized on a string of antisemitic attacks to try to demonise and discredit the Palestine movement.
- [NSW rail workers—Time to defy Fair Work orders](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/nsw-rail-workers-time-to-defy-fair-work-orders/) - Sydney rail workers have been banned from taking industrial action for four months, with the Fair Work Commission imposing a “cooling off” order lasting until 1 July.
- [Labor fails to stand up to Queensland’s attack on trans rights: fight to overturn the ban](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labor-fails-to-stand-up-to-queenslands-attack-on-trans-rights/) - Fresh off the back of Donald Trump’s latest attacks on gender affirming care, the anti-trans right in Australia is on the offensive.
- [The capitalist state is watching Trump](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/the-capitalist-state-is-watching-trump/) - As Musk and his tech bros influence the state, Trump is trying to cut "Big Government" and refashion his presidency around Nixon—but it was mass protest that took Nixon down
- [Universities collaborating with weapons companies and Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2025/192/universities-collaborating-with-weapons-companies-and-israel/) - The Palestine movement has uncovered connections with companies which are directly involved in supplying the missiles and machinery for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
- [Joyce Clague: a life of service and solidarity](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/joyce-clague-a-life-of-service-and-solidarity/) - Joyce Caroline Clague (nee Mercy), an incredible warrior for Aboriginal rights and justice for all oppressed peoples, died peacefully on 25 September, aged 86.
- [More Black kids locked up as racist imprisonment surges](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/more-black-kids-locked-up-as-racist-imprisonment-surges/) - The failure of the Voice referendum left racists and the right emboldened. There has been a particularly racist panic about “youth crime”.
- [Locked out paper workers fight pay cuts](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/locked-out-paper-workers-fight-pay-cuts/) - Around 300 pulp and paper workers at the Opal Paper mill in Maryvale, Victoria have been locked out since mid-January.
- [Trump’s Golden Age of racism and corporate greed fuels the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trumps-golden-age-of-racism-and-corporate-greed-fuels-the-far-right/) - Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a rallying call for the far right across the globe. He railed against climate change, ramped up anti-immigrant racism and fuelled transphobia.
- [Union democracy summit discusses Labor’s attack on CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/union-democracy-summit-discusses-labors-attack-on-cfmeu/) - Officials from nine unions met in Canberra in early December for the “Trade Unions for Democracy” summit, held in response to the Labor government’s union busting attack on the CFMEU.
- [Elon Musk promotes fascism and the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/elon-musk-promotes-fascism-and-the-far-right/) - Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has embraced the far right and fascist forces in the US and abroad. He even gave a fascist salute in a speech following Donald Trump’s inauguration.
- [Resistance helps stop coup attempt in South Korea](https://solidarity.net.au/international/resistance-helps-stop-coup-attempt-in-south-korea/) - Mass resistance and the threat of workers’ strikes stopped a half-baked coup attempt in South Korea in early December.
- [What's so special about the working class?](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/whats-so-special-about-the-working-class/) - Erima Dall explains why the working class is still the only force with the power to bring fundamental change—and a world run in the interests of people and planet.
- [Neoliberal onslaught brings NSW mental health system to crisis point](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/neoliberal-onslaught-brings-nsw-mental-health-system-to-crisis-point/) - Up to 200 psychiatrists in NSW have begun a mass exodus from the public mental health system in response to stalled union negotiations and government inaction.
- [Trump inauguration a horror show of reaction](https://solidarity.net.au/international/trump-inauguration-a-horror-show-of-reaction/) - Donald Trump used his inauguration as US President to unleash a barrage of attacks—on migrants, trans rights, climate action, public services and more.
- [Indigenous activist Ray Peckham: How unions helped stop segregation in the 1960s](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/indigenous-activist-ray-peckham-how-unions-helped-stop-segregation-in-the-1960s/) - Paddy Gibson spoke to Indigenous activist Ray Peckham about the fight against segregation and the Aboriginal Welfare Board, and how trade unions aided the struggle
- [Honour the Treaty—mass protests and the fight for Maori rights](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/honour-the-treaty-mass-protests-and-the-fight-for-maori-rights/) - The government is waging a major attack on Treaty principles in Aotearoa-New Zealand, writes Jayden Rivers, but gains for Maori did not come from the Treaty itself
- [LA fires are an unnatural disaster](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/la-fires-are-an-unnatural-disaster/) - The catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles are the city’s worst ever fires—and potentially its worst ever disaster of any kind.
- [Gaza ceasefire at last, but Israel's still not done killing](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/gaza-ceasefire-at-last-but-israels-still-not-done-killing/) - Israel has finally agreed to a ceasefire after 15 months of genocide in Gaza, following its killing of 46,700 people.
- [Revolution, civil war and Assad’s fall in Syria](https://solidarity.net.au/syria/revolution-civil-war-and-assads-fall-in-syria/) - After the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, Maeve Larkins looks at key questions on the legacy of the 2011 revolution and what his fall means for Syria and the region
- [Victorian Labor launches attack on right to protest](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/victorian-labor-launches-attack-on-right-to-protest/) - The Victorian Labor government is using the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue last month as an excuse to crack down on protesters.
- [Australia spends big to keep China out of region](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/australia-spends-big-to-keep-china-out-of-region/) - The Albanese government is spending almost a billion dollars to bolster Australia’s dominant position in the region and lock out Chinese influence.
- ['They didn’t count on how strong we are': Teanau Tuiono on the movement against the Treaty Principles bill](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/they-didnt-count-on-how-strong-we-are-teanau-tuiono-on-the-movement-against-the-treaty-principles-bill/) - Paddy Gibson from Solidarity interviews Teanau Tuiono, a Māori and Pasifika Greens MP in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- [Austudy Five campaign images](https://solidarity.net.au/uncategorized/austudy-five-campaign-images/)
- [Aboriginal people hit hard by homelessness crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/aboriginal-people-hit-hard-by-homelessness-crisis/) - Recent weeks have seen a series of homeless people die on the streets of Perth. Last year there were at least 56 deaths.
- [NTEU committee pushes back on employer vaccine mandate](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nteu-committee-pushes-back-on-employer-vaccine-mandate/) - The branch committee of the National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Melbourne yesterday called on their employer to hold off on a vaccine mandate and to discuss COVID safety with union members.
- [‘Don’t scab, get the jab'—a slogan no unionist should use](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/dont-scab-get-the-jab-slogan/) - Unions have rightly been encouraging members to get vaccinated. But the idea that people unsure about getting a jab are all “anti-union” or “scabs” is wrong.
- [Delivery drivers strike for job security at Toll and StarTrack](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/delivery-drivers-strike-for-job-security-at-toll-and-startrack/) - StarTrack workers are set to strike for 24 hours this Thursday. This follows a strike of over 7000 truck drivers at Toll in late August.
- [More action needed to ensure COVID safe return-to-school plan in NSW](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/more-needed-for-covid-safe-nsw-return-to-school-plan/) - The NSW government has announced a staggered return to school from 25 October for those areas of the state in lockdown.
- [Urgent call for prison releases after COVID outbreaks in NSW](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/call-for-prison-releases-after-covid-outbreaks-in-nsw/) - Advocates are calling for the release of low-risk inmates from prisons following COVID outbreaks in three NSW jails.
- [Thousands march against Palestinian Authority in West Bank](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/thousands-march-against-palestinian-authority-in-west-bank/) - Thousands of Palestinians have joined marches against the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, after it launched a wave of arrests against protesters and activists.
- [Why ending war means ending capitalism](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/why-ending-war-means-ending-capitalism/) - Adam Adelpour continues our series on Marxist classics, looking at how Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy explains a system of global rivalry and war
- [Social Reproduction Theory and fighting oppression](https://solidarity.net.au/long-reads/social-reproduction-theory-and-fighting-oppression/) - Judy McVey looks at the rise of a new attempt to understand oppression and asks if it can help us fight back today.
- [9/11 horror triggered new wave of US terrorism and war](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/9-11-triggered-new-wave-of-us-terrorism-and-war/) - The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington caused incredible shock and killed around 3000 people. But what 9/11 represented more than anything was the violence the US had inflicted worldwide for decades coming home.
- [John Elliott—vile corporate raider and racist bigot](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/john-elliott-corporate-raider-and-racist-bigot/) - John Elliott, who died ten days short of his 80th birthday, was a corporate raider of the 1970s and 1980s and loyal servant of the Melbourne establishment and the Liberal Party.
- [Will Clive Palmer’s millions buy another Liberal victory?](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/will-clive-palmers-millions-buy-another-liberal-victory/) - Millions around the country have been spammed in recent weeks by Craig Kelly, newly installed leader of the United Australia Party, the UAP.
- [Protest at CFMEU office shows why vaccine mandates are a disaster](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/cfmeu-protest-shows-why-vaccine-mandates-are-a-disaster/) - The anger from workers at yesterday’s protest over mandatory vaccination outside the CFMEU Melbourne offices has shocked and bewildered many unionists.
- [Vilifying CFMEU protesters will only build the right](https://solidarity.net.au/top/vilifying-cfmeu-protesters-will-only-build-the-right/) - The leadership of the Victorian CFMEU and the ACTU, along with most of the left, have condemned the protesters at the Victorian CFMEU office last week as everything from “drunken morons” to “right-wing extremists” and “neo-Nazis”.
- [Stopwork action shows how to fight for COVID safety](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/stopwork-action-shows-how-to-fight-for-covid-safety/) - As NSW begins to ease COVID-19 restrictions, workplace transmission remains a significant threat. But recent stopwork actions provide a glimpse of the type of fight we need for safety at work.
- [NSW reopening plan fails on health and workplace safety](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nsw-reopening-plan-fails-on-health-and-workplace-safety/) - The NSW government has released a "roadmap to freedom" for when it reaches the 70 per cent “double-dose” COVID vaccination target.
- [Trump will let Israel off the leash](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trump-will-let-israel-off-the-leash/) - Donald Trump masqueraded as a peace candidate. But he has already made it clear how strongly he backs Israel, threatening there would be “hell to pay” if Israeli hostages are not released.
- [Trump’s cronies prepare to launch reactionary agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trumps-cronies-prepare-to-launch-reactionary-agenda/) - Incoming US President Donald Trump has named a rogues’ gallery of loyalists, billionaires and racists to staff his new administration.
- [Why Trump won—and what it means for the left](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/why-trump-won-and-what-it-means-for-the-left/) - Trump appealed to racism and bitterness about the Democrats’ failures on cost of living to attract some workers, but most are far from won over, writes James Supple.
- [The centre cannot hold: German government collapses as far right gains](https://solidarity.net.au/international/the-centre-cannot-hold-german-government-collapses-as-far-right-gains/) - Just hours after Donald Trump emerged victorious in the US presidential election, the German government collapsed, plunging the biggest economy in Europe into confusion.
- [Albanese short-changing workers and still backing Israel’s war crimes](https://solidarity.net.au/top/albanese-short-changing-workers-and-still-backing-israels-war-crimes/) - Labor’s failure over the cost of living means Albanese could easily follow Kamala Harris and the Democrats out of office.
- [Ceasefire in Lebanon but no sign Israel will end its wars](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/ceasefire-in-lebanon-but-no-sign-israel-will-end-its-wars/) - The ceasefire in Lebanon was scarcely hours old before Israel launched fresh attacks, firing into the southern Lebanese town of Markaba, wounding two people. Israel also shelled the villages of Taybah and Khiam.
- [Woolies workers strike back: 'We are not robots!'](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/woolies-workers-strike-back-we-are-not-robots/) - More than 1500 members of the United Workers Union have been on indefinite strike at four Woolworths distribution sites in NSW and Victoria since 21 November.
- [Don’t rely on court case to end CFMEU administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/dont-rely-on-court-case-to-end-cfmeu-administration/) - Rebel blue collar unions were set to meet in a “Trade Unions for Democracy Summit” as this was written, ahead of the opening of the unions’ High Court challenge to the CFMEU administration regime.
- [Rail bans suspended for New Year’s Eve, but workers willing to fight](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/rail-bans-suspended-for-new-years-eve-but-workers-willing-to-fight/) - Suspending industrial action only gives the government breathing space and prolongs the inevitable showdown with the Minns government.
- [Labor's refugee shame as Liberals claim 'we are running the Immigration system'](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/labors-refugee-shame-as-liberals-claim-we-are-running-the-immigration-system/) - The three anti-refugee laws rushed through Parliament in the dying days of the last parliamentary sitting are even worse than those of the Howard and Dutton era.
- [Uni staff fight job cuts as Labor scapegoats international students](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/uni-staff-fight-job-cuts-as-labor-scapegoats-international-students/) - Hundreds of university staff in Canberra and Wollongong have rallied against job cuts, as universities across the country roll out attacks in the wake of Labor’s plans to slash the numbers of international students permitted to study in Australia.
- [End of Assad's brutal rule opens new space for Syria's popular movement](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/end-of-assads-brutal-rule-opens-new-space-for-syrias-popular-movement/) - After decades of bloody and brutal dictatorship, the Assad regime in Syria has been toppled in a matter of days.
- [Imperialism a growing threat to Syria's revolution](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2013/57/imperialism-a-growing-threat-to-syrias-revolution/) - Syria's revolution, which was inspired by the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, has now become a full blown civil war open to growing imperialist interference. But it retains a democratic core which is determined to maintain its independence. Since 2011 the Arab revolutions have dissolved the certainties that competing imperial and regional powers have
- [How the Tampa crisis cemented Australia's brutal border policies](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/how-the-tampa-crisis-cemented-australias-brutal-border-policies/) - The Tampa affair, 20 years ago this month, made the demonisation of refugees central to Australian politics
- [Olympics fuel nationalism that distracts from our real problems](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/olympics-fuel-nationalism-that-distracts-from-our-real-problems/) - As the Games wrap up, it is clearer than ever that they have represented a very expensive insult to public health for the Japanese people
- [Vaccine inequality produces surge in deaths across Africa and Asia](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/vaccine-inequality-produces-surge-in-deaths-across-africa-and-asia/) - With so few vaccinated in the Global South, countries are seeing an appalling—and largely unnecessary—surge of deaths.
- [Worried about health? It’s a matter of class](https://solidarity.net.au/web/worried-about-health-its-a-matter-of-class/) - Working class people have poorer health than the rich—and things are only getting worse, according to a new report.
- [Fires, floods and extreme weather lash Europe, America and China](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/fires-floods-and-extreme-weather-lash-europe-america-and-china/) - Record-breaking floods, fires and heat waves have swept North America, China and Europe.
- [Earth’s climate on edge of the abyss, warns IPCC report](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/earths-climate-on-edge-of-the-abyss-warns-ipcc-report/) - The new IPCC report is a drastic warning to the world to avoid uncontrollable heating.
- [Lockdowns, Delta and a new stage in the pandemic](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/lockdowns-delta-and-a-new-stage-in-the-pandemic/) - Sydney's Delta outbreak has dramatically changed the situation with the pandemic in Australia.
- [Financial support and workplace safety still missing as Delta heads out of control](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/financial-support-and-workplace-safety-still-missing-as-delta-outbreak-surges/) - The Delta outbreak has now infected thousands in Sydney, leaking into rural NSW, Victoria, the Northern Territory and New Zealand.
- [Poverty, police powers and life under lockdown in Western Sydney](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/poverty-police-powers-and-life-under-lockdown-in-western-sydney/) - Solidarity spoke to residents of Western Sydney about the police targeting of the area to impose stay at home orders and how people are struggling under lockdown
- [Stopwork at Coles warehouse shows companies can't be trusted to stop COVID's spread](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/stopwork-at-coles-warehouse-shows-companies-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-covids-spread/) - Companies are still risking workers’ lives by cutting corners over COVID safety through Sydney’s lockdown.
- [ANZUS and the US alliance—A plan for war and regional domination](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/anzus-and-the-us-alliance-a-plan-for-war-and-regional-domination/) - The ANZUS treaty has been key to Australia’s efforts to secure US backing for its own imperialist interests in the local region, writes Miro Sandev
- [Labor ditches efforts at change in empty bid for power](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/labor-ditches-efforts-at-change-in-empty-bid-for-power/) - Labor has dumped their opposition to tax cuts for the rich and their policies to limit tax handouts for wealthy property investors, as the party tries to narrow their differences with the Liberals for the next election.
- [Pressure grows for urgent intake as Morrison abandons Afghan refugees](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/pressure-grows-for-urgent-intake-as-morrison-abandons-afghan-refugees/) - The Afghan crisis has exposed everything that is rotten about Morrison and the government’s anti-refugee policies.
- [US humiliated in Afghanistan as Taliban seizes Kabul](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-humiliated-in-afghanistan-as-taliban-seizes-kabul/) - The 20-year occupation of Afghanistan has ended in a major defeat for the US and its allies.
- [High school students march against sexism in Adelaide](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/high-school-students-march-against-sexism-in-adelaide/) - The Youth March Against Sexual Violence on Kaurna land (Adelaide) on 24 June saw a spirited crowd of up to 1000 take to city streets.
- [Morrison's failures leave workers exposed as new COVID outbreaks spread](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/morrisons-failures-leave-workers-exposed-as-new-covid-outbreaks-spread/) - Morrison’s failure on support for workers and the vaccine have left Australia dangerously exposed in the face of the new more contagious Delta variant of COVID.
- [Australia outbids China on vaccines as contest for Pacific influence grows](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/australia-outbids-china-on-vaccines-as-contest-for-pacific-influence-grows/) - Vaccine diplomacy has become the latest front in Australia’s cold war with China, as the two governments battle for influence in the Pacific islands.
- [Prison killed Wayne Fella Morrison, now prison guards derail inquiry](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/prison-killed-wayne-fella-morrison-now-prison-guards-derail-inquiry/) - A coronial inquest has revealed a string of efforts by prison guards to obstruct investigations into the death of Wayne Fella Morrison.
- [More border controls not the answer to Morrison's COVID failures](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/more-border-controls-not-the-answer-to-morrisons-covid-failures/) - Renewed lockdowns in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and the Northern Territory show that the pandemic is still far from under control.
- ['Freedom rallies' no answer to lockdown woes](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/freedom-rallies-no-answer-to-lockdown-woes/) - The rallies of thousands against lockdown in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities on Saturday show how the pandemic and governments’ responses are driving many people to breaking point.
- [Cubans are right to protest, but US sanctions must end](https://solidarity.net.au/international/cubans-are-right-to-protest-but-us-sanctions-must-end/) - Thousands of people have joined protests in Cuba over increasing prices of food, power shortages and rising cases of COVID.
- [Cops swarm Western Sydney as migrant communities scapegoated for virus’ spread](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/cops-swarm-western-sydney-as-migrants-scapegoated-for-virus-spread/) - A major police operation is underway in south-west Sydney, as the NSW government looks to scapegoat and punish workers and migrant communities for the current COVID-19 outbreak.
- [Pressure cooker valve: the AFL and the business of sport](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/pressure-cooker-valve-the-afl-and-the-business-of-sport/) - Michael Warner’s book The Boys’ Club sets out to examine the inner workings of the Australian Football League (AFL)—run as a particularly obnoxious capitalist business.
- [Ramp up NSW rail workers' and nurses' strikes to win on pay](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/ramp-up-nsw-rail-workers-and-nurses-strikes-to-win-on-pay/) - NSW nurses held their third day of strike action in November, as rail workers also ramped up industrial action over pay.
- [Construction workers' strike shows the power to beat Crisafulli and administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/construction-workers-strike-shows-the-power-to-beat-crisafulli-and-administration/) - Thousands of construction workers in Brisbane walked off the job today and marched on the Queensland Parliament.
- [Oppose Labor’s scapegoating of international students](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/190/oppose-labors-scapegoating-of-international-students/) - Albanese’s plans to cap the number of commencing international students for 2025 have stalled, after the Senate rejected the legislation. But it will continue reducing international students through other measures to restrict visas.
- [Rich countries refuse to pay for climate action at talks in petrostate](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/rich-countries-refuse-to-pay-for-climate-action-at-talks-in-petrostate/) - Another greenwashing climate summit was held in petrostate Azerbaijan in November, in the wake of climate denier Donald Trump’s re-election in the US.
- [Vale Mannie De Saxe, gay Jewish socialist](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/vale-mannie-de-saxe-gay-jewish-socialist/) - The LGBTIQ community, and the broader left, lost a stalwart fighter this week with the death of Mannie De Saxe at age 98.
- [China's rise and workers' resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/chinas-rise-and-workers-resistance/) - Griffin Phillips reviews a new book that charts China’s emergence as an economic power, the growth of an immense working class and the likely turmoil ahead.
- [New study says offsets scheme a sham](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/new-study-says-offsets-scheme-a-sham/) - Many of Australia’s offset schemes remove almost no carbon from the atmosphere, a new study has found, despite claiming hundreds of million of dollars worth of credits.
- [Over 100 days fighting for permanent visas](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/over-100-days-fighting-for-permanent-visas/) - Almost exactly five years ago, then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tried, and failed, to deport the Tamil family from Biloela to Sri Lanka.
- [ANU faces fight against restructures and hundreds of job cuts](https://solidarity.net.au/students/anu-faces-fight-against-restructures-and-hundreds-of-job-cuts/) - Over 400 staff and students attended a rally on 16 October at ANU in defense of jobs and pay, marching to the Chancelry building and office of the Vice-Chancellor.
- [Sub-imperialist powers fuel Sudan’s civil war](https://solidarity.net.au/international/sub-imperialist-powers-fuel-sudans-civil-war/) - Sudan is being ravaged by a civil war between the country’s generals. Outside powers are feeding the conflict—but on this occasion it is mostly a struggle between sub-imperialist regional powers, not the world’s biggest states.
- [Last minute lurch left not enough to save Queensland Labor](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/last-minute-lurch-left-not-enough-to-save-queensland-labor/) - Labor has lost office in Queensland after nearly a decade. While early polling indicated an LNP landslide, in the end Labor managed to avoid total humiliation—but still suffered a substantial 7 per cent swing.
- [CFMEU stops work in Sydney in defiance of administration threats](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/cfmeu-stops-work-in-sydney-in-defiance-of-administration-threats/) - Thousands of CFMEU members in Sydney stopped work today for the third time since August to protest administration, standing up to threats from the administrators and bosses.
- [Big pharma’s vaccine profits create eight new billionaires](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/big-pharmas-vaccine-profits-create-eight-new-billionaires/) - With governments around the world bankrolling the development of COVID vaccines, Big Pharma is expecting big profits this year. But millions of people around the world still can’t get a jab.
- [Resisting the new Cold War panic on China](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/resisting-the-new-cold-war-panic-on-china/) - David Brophy’s new book China Panic outlines an alternative to the rising militarism and xenophobia around China. He spoke to Solidarity about how to understand the tensions
- [Alternative to the anti-China xenophobia and militarism](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/alternative-to-the-anti-china-xenophobia-and-militarism/) - David Brophy’s book China Panic is a timely intervention into the growing nationalist hysteria about China.
- [On climate and China, Morrison incites global conflict and chaos—kick him out](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2021/149/on-climate-and-china-morrison-incites-global-conflict-and-chaos-kick-him-out/) - Scott Morrison's G7 visit saw him he dial up rhetoric against China and continue his refusal to act on climate.
- [New leader Chris Minns taking NSW Labor further right](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/new-leader-chris-minns-taking-nsw-labor-further-right/) - NSW Labor has installed a new leader, Chris Minns, following the resignation of Jodi McKay in the aftermath of its loss in the Upper Hunter by-election.
- [Carceral feminism—will new laws and longer sentences protect women?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/carceral-feminism-will-new-laws-and-longer-sentences-protect-women/) - New laws around coercive control have been proposed as a way to tackle violence against women. But the police can never be relied on to protect women, argues Thandi Bethune
- [Colombia paralysed by protests against tax hikes and inequality](https://solidarity.net.au/international/colombia-paralysed-by-protests-against-tax-hikes-and-inequality/) - Millions of Colombians, at times up to 10 per cent of the population, have been on the streets for over a month against attempts to make ordinary people pay for the costs of the COVID crisis by the right-wing government of President Ivan Duque.
- [Australia's own imperialism behind hysteria over Solomons-China deal](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/australias-own-imperialism-behind-hysteria-over-solomons-china-deal/) - China’s security treaty with the Solomon Islands, finally signed this week, has caused hysteria in Australian ruling class circles.
- [Labor backs Coalition’s indefinite detention powers](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/labor-backs-coalitions-indefinite-detention-powers/) - The government has rammed through legislation that dramatically entrenches its powers to indefinitely detain refugees.
- [West Papua: a rising tide of struggle for liberation](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/west-papua-a-rising-tide-of-struggle-for-liberation/) - David Glanz talked to Veronica Koman, an Indonesian human rights lawyer exiled in Australia, about the fight for freedom in West Papua and the rise of a solidarity movement within Indonesia, inspired by Black Lives Matter.
- [Palestine strikes ‘from the river to the sea’ to defy Israeli terror](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/palestine-strikes-from-the-river-to-the-sea-to-defy-israeli-terror/) - Palestinians are fighting back against Israeli terror. On 18 May, they held a general strike across Israel and the occupied territories.
- [Palestinians are right to resist Israeli terror](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestinians-are-right-to-resist-israeli-terror/) - Israel’s latest assault has exposed it as a racist, violent state. People who say ‘both sides’ must end violence are really siding with the oppressor, argues Nick Clark Two recent quotes sum up the regime of violence that Israel forces on Palestinians. The first was a chant by Israelis tearing through Palestinian neighbourhoods—“Death to Arabs.” That’s
- [Editorial: Morrison spends up on fossil fuels and election fixes—keep fighting to force him out](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/editorial-morrison-spends-up-on-fossil-fuels-and-election-fixes-keep-fighting-to-force-him-out/) - Scott Morrison is hoping budget spending will put his failure on sexism and the vaccine rollout behind him.
- [Palestinians defy campaign of Israeli terror](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestinians-defy-campaign-of-israeli-terror/) - Israel has unleashed a reign of terror on Palestinians, first attacking worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and then bombing the Gaza Strip, killing at least 67 since Monday. But Palestinians are fighting back.
- [Labor’s small target strategy fails to dent NSW Coalition](https://solidarity.net.au/web/labors-small-target-strategy-fails-to-dent-nsw-coalition/) - NSW Labor is in crisis, with leader Jodi McKay resigning after last week’s Upper Hunter by-election loss. McKay took the small target strategy to the extreme, essentially disappearing from public view. It didn't pay off.
- [Liberals returned in Tasmania but no joy for Morrison](https://solidarity.net.au/web/liberals-returned-in-tasmania-but-no-joy-for-morrison/) - The Tasmanian election has seen a Liberal government returned for a third consecutive term but overall the Liberals suffered a 1.5 per cent swing against them.
- [Budget spending can’t hide Liberals’ big business, fossil fuel agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/budget-spending-cant-hide-liberals-big-business-fossil-fuel-agenda/) - The Liberals are preparing for the next election by spending money on issues that have hurt them in recent months—aged care and violence against women. But their budget offers no real solutions and is riddled with nasty measures that illustrate their real agenda.
- [Are world leaders finally acting on climate change?](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/are-world-leaders-finally-acting-on-climate-change/) - Recent pledges from Joe Biden and other wealthy nations suggest deep emissions cuts are on the way. But they go nowhere near what’s needed argues James Supple
- [Organising at work key to stopping wave of harassment against women](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/organising-at-work-key-to-stopping-wave-of-harassment-against-women/) - To fight sexual harassment at work, we need to fight for secure and well paid jobs that give women the confidence to stand up to abuse.
- [Myanmar: ongoing resistance defies military crackdown](https://solidarity.net.au/international/myanmar-ongoing-resistance-defies-military-crackdown/) - Three months on, inter-ethnic solidarity is propelling Myanmar towards a federal democracy in a way unimaginable before the coup.
- [Labor’s climate cowardice shows need for stronger movement](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/labors-climate-cowardice-shows-need-for-stronger-movement/) - Labor is moving away from action on climate change, stepping up its support for the fossil fuel industry
- [Derek Chauvin is guilty, and so is the whole rotten system](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/derek-chauvin-is-guilty-and-so-is-the-whole-rotten-system/) - Relieved celebrations broke out as police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last year.
- [Busting Morrison’s myth: Why gas is not a transition fuel](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/busting-morrisons-myth-why-gas-is-not-a-transition-fuel/) - In announcing a power deal with South Australia in April, Morrison claimed that supporting renewables also requires “getting more gas into the market”.
- [Socialism, Biden and the fight for real change in the United States](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2021/147/socialism-biden-and-the-fight-for-real-change-in-the-united-states/) - Following the rise of democratic socialism and the explosive Black Lives Matter protests Clare Lemlich discusses the prospects for the left in the US under Joe Biden’s presidency
- [Trump returns after Democrats back genocide and a rigged system](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trump-returns-after-democrats-back-genocide-and-a-rigged-system/) - A racist far right figure with a history of extreme sexism will sit at the top of the world’s most powerful country, after Donald Trump regained the US Presidency.
- [It's right to defy administration—industrial action can win](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/defy-admin/) - Tuesday’s strike and demonstration by NSW CFMEU rank and file and union supporters, in defiance of the Labor-appointed administrator, is just what the campaign against administration needed.
- [Rank-and-file teachers step up for Palestine and Lebanon](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/rank-and-file-teachers-step-up-for-palestine-and-lebanon/) - Teachers and School Staff for Palestine from over 40 NSW schools held a successful week of action in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon in late October.
- [Trump’s return a warning as Labor fails on genocide and cost of living](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trumps-return-a-warning-as-labor-fails-on-genocide-and-cost-of-living/) - Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential elections will boost the right around the world.
- [Israel's bloody agenda in Lebanon and Hezbollah's resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israels-bloody-agenda-in-lebanon-and-hezbollahs-resistance/) - Hezbollah emerged as a resistance movement to Israeli occupation and has humbled Israel before but recent years have shown its limitations, argues James Supple.
- [Yallourn closure’s threat to jobs shows need for publicly-run power](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/yallourn-closures-threat-to-jobs-shows-need-for-publicly-run-power/) - The announcement that the closure of the Yallourn power station has been brought forward by four years to 2028 is another nail in the coffin for coal-fired energy.
- [Nathan Reynolds’ inquest shows still no justice for Black deaths in custody](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/nathan-reynolds-inquest-shows-still-no-justice-for-black-deaths-in-custody/) - On 10 March, the findings of a coronial inquest into the death of Nathan Reynolds were handed down in the Lidcombe Coroner’s Court.
- [Workers can block coup in Myanmar](https://solidarity.net.au/international/workers-can-block-coup-in-myanmar/) - The struggle against the 1 February military coup in Myanmar is entering a crucial stage.
- [Labor wins big in WA election but bosses can breathe easy](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labor-wins-big-in-wa-election-but-bosses-can-breathe-easy/) - Labor has won the West Australian election in a landslide, on course to take 52 of the state’s 59 lower house seats. But its policies are no threat to business's priorities.
- [CFMMEU split a diversion from fight for a just transition](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/cfmmeu-split-a-diversion-from-fight-for-a-just-transition/) - A major left-wing union, the CFMMEU, is in turmoil, with its mining division looking to split away. Tom Orsag argues why demerger won't help win the fight for a just transition.
- [Royal Commission: Funding cuts, lack of staff cause aged care horrors](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2021/146/royal-commission-funding-cuts-lack-of-staff-cause-aged-care-horrors/) - The recently released findings of the three-year Royal Commission into Aged Care show that the sector is permeated by a severe level of neglect and suffers from chronic shortages of funding.
- [Facebook v Murdoch—Battle of the media giants tramples voices of dissent](https://solidarity.net.au/web/facebook-v-murdoch-battle-of-the-media-giants-tramples-voices-of-dissent/) - The decision by Facebook to ban news from feeds in Australia took millions by surprise and highlighted the company’s power to control what we see.
- [Navalny’s arrest sparks mass protests against Putin’s authoritarian regime](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/navalnys-arrest-sparks-mass-protests-against-putins-authoritarian-regime/) - Protests erupted across almost 200 Russian cities in late January. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets demanding the release of Alexei Navalny, a key opposition leader.
- [Mass revolt needed to stop Myanmar coup](https://solidarity.net.au/web/mass-revolt-needed-to-stop-myanmar-coup/) - Myanmar’s military junta has staged a coup, detaining National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi and key party officials before a new session of parliament could open.
- [Victorian lockdown highlights gaps in public health system](https://solidarity.net.au/web/victorian-lockdown-highlights-gaps-in-public-health-system/) - The snap Victorian lockdown in response to a COVID cluster at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne airport marks a further failure of the state’s under-resourced public health system.
- [Parliament House rape highlights sexism at the heart of the system](https://solidarity.net.au/web/parliament-house-rape-highlights-sexism-at-the-heart-of-the-system/) - The rape of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins by a colleague at Parliament House has exposed the depth of sexism and contempt for women at the heart of the Morrison government.
- [Vaccine hoarding and profiteering compromise rollout](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/vaccine-hoarding-and-profiteering-compromise-rollout/) - The development of working COVID-19 vaccines within just ten months shows medical research can achieve when there is significant state investment and scientific focus. Previous vaccines have taken ten years on average to develop.
- [Trump's Capitol riot shows dangerous rise of the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trumps-capitol-riot-shows-dangerous-rise-of-the-far-right/) - The invasion of the US Capitol building showed the dangers of the movement that Donald Trump has created. But rallying around the Democrats or Congress as the defenders of democracy will do nothing to stop the rise of the far right.
- [Injustice never ended as racist policing and imprisonment grows](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/injustice-never-ended-as-racist-policing-and-imprisonment-grows/) - The overpolicing, imprisonment and poverty Indigenous people face is growing far worse.
- [Invasion day protests are right to challenge COVID anti-protest rules](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/invasion-day-protests-are-right-to-challenge-covid-anti-protest-rules/) - Mass protests planned for Invasion Day on 26 January are shaping up to be a more serious confrontation with anti-protest COVID-19 regulations.
- [Morrison’s laws deliver wage cuts to fuel COVID recovery for business](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/morrisons-laws-deliver-wage-cuts-to-fuel-covid-recovery-for-business/) - Scott Morrison and the Liberals are determined to use the COVID crisis to benefit business and strip away workers’ rights.
- [Lessons from Melbourne’s 112-day lockdown](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/lessons-from-melbournes-112-day-lockdown/) - There is now talk of Melbourne’s lockdown as a model for the rest of the world. But this is the wrong lesson.
- [US election—Biden's narrow win ensures ongoing crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-election-bidens-narrow-win-ensures-ongoing-crisis/) - Joe Biden may have defeated Trump, but his weak position and centrist politics mean he will be unable to deal with the crises that dominate the US, writes James Supple
- [Australia and the New Caledonian independence vote: keeping the 'sons of Gaul' in the Pacific](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/australia-and-the-new-caledonian-independence-vote-keeping-the-sons-of-gaul-in-the-pacific/) - The defeat of the second vote for independence in New Caledonia was a setback for the indigenous peoples. But the increased vote in favour of independence still has alarm bells ringing in Noumea, Paris and Canberra.
- [Handouts for business and the rich in budget that fails those hit by pandemic](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/handouts-for-business-and-the-rich-in-budget-that-fails-unemployed/) - The Liberals will shovel billions in subsidies and handouts to business and the rich, in a budget that fails those worst hit by the pandemic.
- [Blaming white workers for racism lets our rulers off the hook](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/blaming-white-workers-for-racism-lets-our-rulers-off-the-hook/) - White Fragility is feeding a market hungry for ideas about how to join the fight against racism since the recent Black Lives Matter protests rocked the world.
- [Race for a vaccine fuels imperialist power play](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/race-for-a-vaccine-fuels-imperialist-power-play/) - Across the globe a race is on to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, with the major powers scrambling to ensure supply to get their economies back on track.
- [End of Trump won't fix unravelling of America](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/end-of-trump-wont-fix-unravelling-of-america/) - Trump has fed the polarisation of US society, but neither he nor Joe Biden have a solution to the multiple crises facing America, writes David Glanz
- [Don't cheersquad for lockdown—governments and the health failure over COVID-19](https://solidarity.net.au/best/dont-cheersquad-for-lockdown-governments-and-the-health-failure-over-covid-19/) - We should not promote lockdowns as a response to COVID-19. If governments had taken adequate health measures, they would not be necessary
- [Melbourne needs more support for workers and the health system, not authoritarian controls](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/melbourne-needs-more-support-for-workers-and-the-health-system-not-authoritarian-controls/) - Melbourne faces months more of authoritarian lockdown measures, following Daniel Andrews' announcement yesterday
- [Morrison's gas plans designed to paint climate action as a threat to jobs](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/morrisons-gas-plans-designed-to-paint-climate-action-as-a-threat-to-jobs/) - In a series of energy announcements, the Morrison government has doubled down on its climate denialism and thrown its support behind a “gas-fired recovery”.
- [Hypocrisy as protests targeted and banned under COVID rules](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/hypocrisy-as-protests-targeted-and-banned-under-covid-rules/) - There has been a concerted attack on the right to protest under the cover of the coronavirus. The Liberals and the Murdoch media have set out to scapegoat protests as somehow responsible for the virus’s spread.
- [Explosion triggers new uprising in Lebanon](https://solidarity.net.au/international/explosion-triggers-new-uprising-in-lebanon/) - “We have been fighting the system for a long time, now our anger has overflowed, it has gone beyond everything normal because the explosion at the harbour means we have to change everything.
- [Aged care disaster exposes understaffing and corporate greed](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/age-care-disaster-exposes-understaffing-and-corporate-greed/) - The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh spotlight on the state of aged care, revealing a system that all too often delivers suffering, isolation and humiliation to the elderly.
- [The US working class—a history of radicalism and resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/the-us-working-class-a-history-of-radicalism-and-resistance/) - Far from any natural conservatism, ordinary people in the US have a history of bitter and explosive struggles against exploitation and racism, writes Jacob Starling.
- [Why is Albanese's Labor so useless and right-wing?](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/why-is-albaneses-labor-so-useless-and-right-wing/) - Anthony Albanese’s Labor government has disappointed many who voted for it and betrayed others like the CFMEU. James Supple looks at why Labor has sunk so low.
- [NTEU commits to academic boycott of Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/nteu-commits-to-academic-boycott-of-israel/) - On 5 October, the National Council of the NTEU voted to endorse an institutional academic boycott of Israel.
- [Crackdown on the right to protest for Palestine at uni](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/crackdown-on-the-right-to-protest-for-palestine-at-uni/) - Universities are cracking down on Palestine activism in a blatant attack on free speech and the right to protest.
- [Industrial action the key to ending CFMEU administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/industrial-action-the-key-to-ending-cfmeu-administration/) - CFMEU members in NSW are set to strike on 12 November in protest at the Albanese government placing the CFMEU into administration.
- [Disasters in Spain and Florida a sign of growing climate chaos](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/disasters-in-spain-and-florida-a-sign-of-growing-climate-chaos/) - Last month, Hurricane Helene and Milton ripped through Florida, killing 241 people and wiping out hundreds of billions in homes and infrastructure.
- [Why hasn’t the US restrained Israel?](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/why-hasnt-the-us-restrained-israel/) - US President Joe Biden has spent the past 13 months tut-tutting over the death toll as Israel has committed genocide. But the flow of American weapons to the IDF has never stopped.
- [EXCLUSIVE: Bosses’ letter to Labor reveals conditions, union rights the real reason for attack on CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/exclusive-bosses-letter-to-labor-reveals-conditions-union-rights-the-real-reason-for-attack-on-cfmeu/) - A letter from four construction bosses’ organisations to Murray Watt, Minister for Employment, has blown open the real agenda behind the attack on the CFMEU.
- [CFMEU administrators get snouts in the trough](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/cfmeu-administrators-get-snouts-in-the-trough/) - Leaked figures show that the CFMEU Administrator and his staff appointed by Labor are gorging themselves at the expense of construction workers.
- [Authoritarian display in racist lockdown of Melbourne towers](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/authoritarian-display-in-racist-lockdown-of-melbourne-towers/) - The lockdown imposed on public housing residents in Melbourne is a piece of racist authoritarianism that has to end.
- [Andrews’ failures produced Melbourne outbreak, not distancing slip-ups](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/andrews-failures-produced-melbourne-outbreak-not-slips-up-on-distancing/) - The new wave of infections in Melbourne is the first large-scale community spread of coronavirus Australia has seen.
- [Draconian new security law imposed on Hong Kong](https://solidarity.net.au/international/draconian-new-security-law-imposed-on-hong-kong/) - With the passage of a new national security law, the Chinese government is attempting to quash Hong Kong’s protest movement.
- [Racist government policies fuel deaths in custody](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/racist-government-policies-fuel-deaths-in-custody/) - Paddy Gibson examines how racist government policies have led to the surge in Indigenous imprisonment and deaths in custody
- [‘Black Thursday for the Kanak people’ as French repression continues in Kanaky](https://solidarity.net.au/international/black-thursday-for-the-kanak-people-as-french-repression-continues-in-kanaky/) - Four months after protests first broke out in Kanaky-New Caledonia, the French state continues to repress the Indigenous Kanak people.
- [One year resisting Gaza genocide—is freedom for Palestine any closer?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/one-year-resisting-gaza-genocide-is-freedom-for-palestine-any-closer/) - David Glanz looks at what the movement for Palestine has achieved in the last year and how it can move forward.
- [What has one year of Gaza genocide taught us?](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/what-has-one-year-of-gaza-genocide-taught-us/) - After a year of slaughter, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza shows no sign of stopping.
- [Labor ramps up missile production as part of US war plans](https://solidarity.net.au/top/labor-ramps-up-missile-production-as-part-of-us-war-plans/) - The recent brutal suppression of protests against the Land Forces Expo in Melbourne shows Albanese’s Labor government is deadly serious about preparing for war on China and ramping up arms manufacturing in Australia.
- [Melb Uni students rally to cut ties with Israeli university](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/melb-uni-students-rally-to-cut-ties-with-israeli-university/) - Eighty students joined a Students Against War rally at Unimelb on 10 September demanding the university cut its ties with Israel.
- [Julia's glorification of former Prime Minister's record on sexism falls flat](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/julias-glorification-of-former-prime-ministers-record-on-sexism-falls-flat/) - Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Julia, directed by Sarah Goodes, is a dramatic retelling of the events leading up to Julia Gillard’s famous 2012 “Misogyny Speech”.
- [Solving the jobs and climate crises together](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/solving-the-jobs-and-climate-crises-together/) - Penny Howard looks at the proposals to create hundreds of thousands of jobs through government stimulus that addresses climate change, and how we can win them
- [COVID-19 crisis shows childcare should be a public service](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/covid-19-crisis-shows-childcare-should-be-a-public-service/) - The COVID-19 crisis initially threatened the sector with collapse. Government funding for free childcare will end on 12 July, with the sector due to “snap back” to the previous arrangements.
- [Defund the police—until we can abolish them completely](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/defund-the-police-until-we-can-abolish-them-completely/) - The demand to defund the police has resonated with the multi-ethnic Black Lives Matter demonstrations in hundreds of US cities.
- [Rebellion against racist cops and a racist system sweeps the US](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/rebellion-against-racist-cops-and-a-racist-system-sweeps-the-us/) - Night after night of mass protests and riots have swept the US following the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
- [Eyewitness from LA: Burning rage engulfs the US in rebellion against racism](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/eyewitness-from-la-rebellion-against-racism/) - The combination of the public health crisis, with the pandemic killing people of colour at the highest rates, the economic misery many face due to lockdowns, and Trump’s catastrophic leadership have created a tinderbox which Floyd’s execution set aflame.
- [Morrison’s ‘Accord 2.0’ talks are a trap for the unions](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/morrisons-accord-2-0-talks-are-a-trap-for-the-unions/) - Scott Morrison has set a trap for the union movement and the ACTU has walked straight in.
- [Conspiracy theories don’t explain society’s problems](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/conspiracy-theories-dont-explain-societys-problems/) - Recent anti-lockdown protests have given voice to a range of conspiracy theories—the belief that secret networks of powerful individuals rule the world.
- [Gillard’s anti-sexism hypocrisy](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/gillards-anti-sexism-hypocrisy/) - Was it the “real Julia” on display or was it a politician desperately trying to cover up an inglorious political history and her own hypocrisy? But, then, that is the real Julia. Of course, it was great to see Gillard tell some home truths about Abbott. For 15 minutes Gillard even seemed to have some
- [Labor’s budget cuts begin Abbott’s work early](https://solidarity.net.au/abbott/labors-budget-cuts-begin-abbotts-work-early/) - Rather than use their last budget to provide real change, Labor have imposed sweeping cuts that Abbott will be happy to keep when he more than likely comes to power in September.
- [US election—falling behind Kamala Harris no answer to Trump](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-election-falling-behind-kamala-harris-no-answer-to-trump/) - Fear of another Trump presidency means much of the left in the US is swinging behind Kamala Harris, weakening the movements that are needed to win real change, writes Matilda Fay.
- [Now’s the time for a fightback against Albanese’s right-wing rule](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/nows-the-time-for-a-fightback-against-albaneses-right-wing-rule/) - Albanese’s right-wing agenda is bringing Labor unstuck. There is a widespread sense that he is running a useless government that is failing working class people.
- [Luck, not Morrison's management, explains Australia's control on coronavirus](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/luck-and-geography-not-morrison-responsible-for-australia-coronavirus-escape/) - Australia has avoided a similar coronavirus catastrophe to elsewhere mostly because of geography and luck
- [Poverty and unemployment surges as coronavirus sweeps Indonesia](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/poverty-and-unemployment-surges-as-coronavirus-sweeps-indonesia/) - Alang, a member of Socialist Unification and the union Sentral Gerakan Buruh Nasional in Indonesia explains the impact of the coronavirus and the economic crisis it has triggered.
- [Why taking wage cuts won't save jobs](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/why-taking-wage-cuts-wont-save-jobs/) - The calls to accept wage cuts or forego wage rises won’t save jobs, they will simply encourage bosses to demand even more concessions, argues David Glanz
- [Pressure on women and families during lockdowns due to sexist system](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/pressure-on-women-and-families-during-lockdowns-due-to-sexist-system/) - The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the reliance of capitalism on the nuclear family and women’s unpaid domestic labour.
- [Marx, ecology and industrial agriculture](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/marx-ecology-and-industrial-agriculture/) - British climate activist and socialist Martin Empson writes on why the fight against climate change must be a fight for system change and for socialism
- [Virus exposes class inequality of US capitalism](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/virus-exposes-class-inequality-of-us-capitalism/) - The United States, the world’s richest nation, is struggling to deal with the coronavirus due to decades of government cutbacks and a dysfunctional political system headed by Donald Trump.
- [Teachers pay the price as COVID-19 exposes school inequality and workload crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/teachers-pay-the-price-as-covid-19-exposes-school-inequality-and-workload-crisis/) - There can be no talk of a return to “normal” in schools. The COVID-19 crisis has exposed pre-existing inequalities in education.
- [Coronavirus─the myth that we're 'all in it together'](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/coronavirus-all-in-it-together/) - “There are no more unions or bosses. There are just Australians now.” So said Scott Morrison last week.
- [Morrison and Trump fuel racism in opportunistic attack on China over COVID-19](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/morrison-and-trump-fuel-racism-in-opportunistic-attack-on-china-over-covid-19/) - Scott Morrison has joined Donald Trump in fuelling anti-Chinese racism, with escalating attacks on China over the COVID-19 outbreak.
- [Coronavirus spending—How can governments suddenly fund everything?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/coronavirus-spending-how-can-governments-suddenly-fund-everything/) - The scale of the government spending announced in recent weeks is staggering. Scott Morrison has revealed three huge spending packages totalling $320 billion.
- [Editorial: Even amid health crisis, business profits at centre of Morrison’s concerns](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/even-amid-health-crisis-business-profits-at-centre-of-morrisons-concerns/) - Morrison keeps claiming that “We are all in this together”—but he has made it clear that, “business is at the centre of the economy.”
- [Coronavirus and capitalism—Big Pharma's addiction to profit](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/coronavirus-and-capitalism-big-pharmas-addiction-to-profit/) - As the coronavirus spreads around the world, David Glanz looks at how capitalism and the corporate control of medicine means profit comes before public health
- [Refugee encampments push Labor for visa justice](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/refugee-encampments-push-labor-for-visa-justice/) - Despite persistent harassment from local councils and police, after more than 80 days the refugee encampments demanding permanent visas are still standing strong in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
- [Privilege theory and the fight against oppression](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2015/82/privilege-theory-and-the-fight-against-oppresssion/) - Privilege theory weakens opposition to oppression, because it misdiagnoses its source and portrays those who aren’t oppressed as incapable of fighting it, writes Lucy Honan
- [Albanese complicit as Israel rains terror on Lebanon](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/albanese-complicit-as-israel-rains-terror-on-lebanon/) - Israel has murdered Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and is now on the brink of all out war in Lebanon.
- [No just transition for Holden workers after failure to fight for jobs](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/no-just-transition-for-holden-workers-after-failure-to-fight-for-jobs/) - The final end of the car-maker General Motors Holden came in February. But there was never a serious fight for the one thing that could have saved the jobs—nationalisation.
- [Big pharma’s thirst for profit has held back vaccine research](https://solidarity.net.au/coronavirus/big-pharmas-thirst-for-profit-has-held-back-vaccine-research/) - One reason for the vaccine delay is that the big pharmaceutical companies have been disinterested in developing virus treatments, fearing they won’t be profitable.
- [It’s Morrison to blame for spreading the virus](https://solidarity.net.au/morrison/its-morrison-to-blame-for-spreading-the-virus/) - Morrison and the national cabinet have announced what he called “stage one restrictions” closing cafés, restaurants, pubs, churches and cinemas.
- [Morrison fails on coronavirus: expand testing, medical services and sick pay now](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/morrison-fails-on-coronavirus-expand-testing-medical-services-and-sick-pay-now/) - The spread of the coronavirus has created a global health crisis and precipitated a global economic crisis. Australia’s economy was already stalling and is now almost certainly in recession.
- [Editorial: Morrison’s failure to stop the virus the result of a sick system](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/editorial-morrisons-failure-to-stop-the-virus-the-result-of-a-sick-system/) - The coronavirus pandemic could see 150,000 people in Australia die in a “worst case scenario” if it spreads unchecked.
- [Morrison spends big to bail out business not protect workers](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/morrison-spends-big-to-bail-out-business-not-protect-workers/) - The coronavirus pandemic means the world is facing a major recession. Morrison has announced $189 billion in economic measures—but his focus is overwhelmingly on bailouts for business, not workers.
- [Democratic Party unites to crush Bernie Sanders](https://solidarity.net.au/international/democratic-party-unites-to-crush-bernie-sanders/) - The Democratic Party is now all but certain to run establishment figure Joe Biden in the election against Donald Trump in November.
- [Threat to CFMEU EBAs shows need to keep fighting administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/threat-to-cfmeu-ebas-shows-need-to-keep-fighting-administration/) - For the second time in a month, tens of thousands of CFMEU members across the country took strike action on 17 and 18 September to oppose the Labor-imposed administration of the union.
- [CFMEU members stand firm against lockout from emboldened bosses at Etex](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/cfmeu-members-stand-firm-against-lockout-from-emboldened-bosses-at-etex/) - Around 40 CFMEU and ETU members at the multinational building materials manufacturer Etex in Matraville, Sydney are standing strong after being locked out for almost five weeks.
- [NTEU members back BDS and Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/nteu-members-back-bds-and-palestine/) - Support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel within the university staff union, the NTEU, is growing.
- [Why the CFMEU is right to break bad laws](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/why-the-cfmeu-is-right-to-break-bad-laws/) - Australia has some of the most restrictive anti-strike laws in the developed world.
- [Build the resistance as Albanese and Labor race to the right](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/build-the-resistance-as-albanese-and-labor-race-to-the-right/) - Albanese’s appalling union busting attack on the CFMEU with the support of the Liberals is a new low, as Labor lurches even further to the right
- [Warning from Europe—fascists top poll in state election in Germany](https://solidarity.net.au/international/warning-from-europe-fascists-top-poll-in-state-election-in-germany/) - The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made major gains in Germany’s recent state elections—even as it moves in a more openly fascist direction.
- [‘Green’ Kurri Kurri plant to run on diesel](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/green-kurri-kurri-plant-to-run-on-diesel/) - Almost three years after Anthony Albanese promised to build a new hydrogen-powered generator in Kurri Kurri in NSW using public funds, the plant is now likely to run entirely on diesel fuel for its first year.
- [Labor weakens environment law to please mining companies](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/labor-weakens-environment-law-to-please-mining-companies/) - The Albanese government has continued to prioritise profit over the environment, signalling their intention to make a deal with the Liberals to water down the powers of their proposed environment regulator, Environment Protection Australia.
- [SGM for Palestine draws 500 students at UNSW](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/sgm-for-palestine-draws-500-students-at-unsw/) - More than 500 students showed up to join a Student General Meeting for Palestine at UNSW on 25 September.
- [Support grows for CFMEU across the union movement](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/support-grows-for-cfmeu-across-the-union-movement/) - Support for the CFMEU has grown in the weeks since Labor imposed administration.
- [Editorial: Morrison still pushing coal and gas despite climate disaster](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/morrison-still-pushing-coal-and-gas-despite-climate-disaster/) - Morrison may have adjusted his language over climate change, but, he continues his push to expand fossil fuel use.
- [Trump's plan for total Israeli domination of Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/international/trumps-plan-for-total-israeli-domination-of-palestine/) - After years of build-up Donald Trump has finally released his “deal of the century”, touted as a “peace settlement” between Israel and the Palestinians.
- [How Germany phased out coal—without sacking workers](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/how-germany-phased-out-coal-without-sacking-workers/) - While Australia plans to open new coal mines, Germany is in the process of closing down its mining sector.
- [Morrison’s coronavirus travel ban fuels anti-Chinese racism](https://solidarity.net.au/morrison/morrisons-coronavirus-travel-ban-fuels-anti-chinese-racism/) - Following Donald Trump, Scott Morrison’s travel ban on everyone from China who is not an Australian citizen or permanent resident has fuelled the racist response here.
- [Why capitalism can't act on the climate crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/why-capitalism-cant-act-on-the-climate-crisis/) - The competitive drive structured into capitalism prevents the rich and powerful from acting on the climate crisis, argues Feiyi Zhang
- [Can Bernie beat the corporate Democrats this time?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/can-bernie-beat-the-corporate-democrats-this-time/) - Bernie Sanders’ campaign has galvanised support in the early Democratic primaries, but will he be sabotaged again, asks Lachlan Marshall
- [Spread of new virus no excuse for racist panic](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/spread-of-new-virus-no-excuse-for-racist-panic/) - Media-driven panic over the spread of a new coronavirus has produced a wave of anti-Chinese racism.
- [Injustice ongoing as Indigenous people jailed and killed](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/injustice-ongoing-as-indigenous-people-jailed-and-killed/) - This year began with another shocking Aboriginal death in custody, the product of an injustice system set up to criminalise, jail and kill.
- [Smug Scomo left Australia to burn—step up the demands to fund renewables and action on climate](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/smug-scomo-left-australia-to-burn-step-up-the-demands-to-fund-renewables-and-action-on-climate/) - Scott Morrison has been badly damaged by his response to the bushfire crisis, after weeks of refusing to act.
- [Weeks-long strike wave in France draws a line against neo-liberalism](https://solidarity.net.au/international/weeks-long-strike-wave-in-france-draws-a-line-against-neo-liberalism/) - France is in the grip of an extraordinary strike wave against President Emmanuel Macron’s assault on pensions.
- [Climate disasters—how governments and the rich leave workers and the poor to die](https://solidarity.net.au/best/climate-disasters-how-governments-and-the-rich-leave-the-poor-to-die/) - The bushfire crisis has shown the desperate need for disaster assistance in the face of climate change. But the official response can highlight the class divide writes Ruby Wawn
- [Captain Cook—rotten crook?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/captain-cook-rotten-crook/) - The 250th anniversary of Cook’s landing in April will see him defended as a great navigator and explorer. But he was part of the imperialist scramble to colonise the world, writes James Supple
- [Capitalism and the rich create climate catastrophe](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/capitalism-and-the-rich-create-climate-catastrophe/) - We are in a climate emergency. Australia’s bushfire crisis has brought this home to millions of people.
- [Fighting the far right: Lessons from the 1930s popular front](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/fighting-the-far-right-lessons-from-the-1930s-popular-front/) - The Popular Front against fascism in France in the 1930s weakened resistance and meant restraining one of the greatest workers’ upsurges in history, writes James Supple
- [Student activist Bea Tucker’s expulsion overturned](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/student-activist-bea-tuckers-expulsion-overturned/) - Student activist Bea Tucker has had their expulsion from the ANU in Canberra overturned by a university appeals committee, in a victory for free speech and the campaign for Palestine.
- [All out to defend the CFMEU—Stop Labor's foul union busting attack](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/all-out-to-defend-the-cfmeu-stop-labors-foul-union-busting-attack/) - The Albanese Labor government has imposed administration on the whole CFMEU construction division.
- [Refugee protest camps keep fighting to demand Labor deliver permanent visas](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/refugee-protest-camps-keep-fighting-to-demand-labor-deliver-permanent-visas/) - Refugees have begun a series of continuous 24-hour protests for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as well as protests in Adelaide.
- [Albanese fans Islamophobia in attack on Palestine protests](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/albanese-fans-islamophobia-in-attack-on-palestine-protests/) - The Albanese government is stirring up Islamophobia to try to demonise the Palestine movement and justify its efforts to keep out Palestinian refugees from Gaza.
- [Cops run riot to defend warmongers’ profits](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/cops-run-riot-to-defend-warmongers-profits/) - About 1500 Palestine and anti-war activists gathered from early morning on 11 September to protest the Land Forces military expo in Melbourne.
- [Corbyn's compromises with Labour right led to defeat](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/corbyns-compromises-with-labour-right-led-to-defeat/) - The British election is less a rejection of Corbyn’s left-wing policies than a judgement on his compromises over Labour’s position on Brexit.
- [After decisive vote, no more excuses on delivering independence for Bougainville](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/after-decisive-vote-no-more-excuses-on-delivering-independence-for-bougainville/) - The people of Bougainville, a province of Papua New Guinea, have voted for independence by a huge 98.31 per cent, in their long-awaited referendum held in November.
- [Climate jobs and funding needed to tackle bushfire crisis—but Morrison’s in denial](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/climate-jobs-and-funding-needed-to-tackle-bushfire-crisis-but-morrisons-in-denial/) - Scott Morrison and the Coalition are desperate to shut down discussion of the link between the fires and climate change.
- [Outrage at police killing in Yuendumu forces murder charge](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/outrage-at-police-killing-in-yuendumu-forces-murder-charge/) - A wave of outrage and protest has forced murder charges against police officer Zachary Rolfe, after he shot 19-year-old Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi Walker.
- [As climate change melts the Arctic, all oil companies see are new chances for profit](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/as-climate-change-melts-the-arctic-all-oil-companies-see-are-new-chances-for-profit/) - Trump is moving to sell off leases over 1.6 million acres of the Arctic, opening the area up to oil and gas exploration for the first time.
- [Exploring a world in revolt](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/exploring-a-world-in-revolt/) - With anti-government movements erupting across the globe, Sadie Robinson looks at the root causes and how the struggles can win
- [Election review confirms Albanese’s rush to the right](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/election-review-confirms-albaneses-rush-to-the-right/) - Labor’s post-election review has confirmed the party’s shift to the right which began when Anthony Albanese became leader.
- [Replace Liddell with renewable energy—no extensions for coal](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/replace-liddell-with-renewable-energy-no-extensions-for-coal/) - The ageing Liddell coal power station is at the heart of a battle over the future of energy generation in Australia.
- [Cops crackdown on Extinction Rebellion—defend the right to protest](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/cops-crackdown-on-extinction-rebellion-defend-the-right-to-protest/) - Extinction Rebellion actions blocking traffic and producing dozens of arrests have ignited a media backlash. Police have launched a major crackdown.
- [Kurds abandoned by US imperialism—again](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/kurds-abandoned-by-us-imperialism-again/) - Turkey has begun a military offensive against Kurdish areas of northern Syria, after US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops giving the green light for the operation.
- [Why green business can't solve climate change](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/why-green-business-cant-solve-climate-change/) - The trillions invested in fossil fuels and the cost of shifting to alternatives economy-wide means green business cannot solve the climate crisis, writes Lachlan Marshall
- [What causes domestic violence?](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/what-causes-domestic-violence/) - Lucy Honan looks at a new book by award-winning journalist Jess Hill on the causes of domestic violence—and what can be done about it
- [More women deserve places in STEM—no to sexism at UTS](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/more-women-deserve-places-in-stem-no-to-sexism-at-uts/) - Removing barriers for women in gaining entry to STEM courses is a welcome step in addressing entrenched sexism.
- [Don’t side with xenophobia about threat from China](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/dont-side-with-xenophobia-about-threat-from-china/) - Recent weeks have seen a growing campaign against “Chinese influence” in Australia, mainly from right-wing figures in the Liberal Party.
- [Workers and the climate movement have the power to strike back](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2019/130/workers-and-the-climate-movement-have-the-power-to-strike-back/) - Scott Morrison’s government still supports burning fossil fuels. Instead of closing coal power stations, it wants to extend the life of the power plant at Liddell.
- [Climate rebellion, civil disobedience and system change](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/climate-rebellion-civil-disobedience-and-system-change/) - Civil disobedience can strengthen the campaign for climate action, but on its own it lacks the power to bring fundamental change, writes James Supple
- [Concession will not stop movement in Hong Kong](https://solidarity.net.au/international/concession-will-not-stop-movement-in-hong-kong/) - A mass pro-democracy movement has forced Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam to grant a major concession. But many protesters are vowing to continue their struggle until all of their demands are met.
- [Tory crisis as Boris threatens Brexit crash out](https://solidarity.net.au/international/tory-crisis-as-boris-threatens-brexit-crash-out/) - Boris Johnson’s determination to exit the EU on 31 October, deal or no deal, has created an enormous political crisis in the UK.
- [A dream betrayed by racism and exclusion](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/a-dream-betrayed-by-racism-and-exclusion/) - The Australian Dream is a powerful documentary on racism in Australia, but it misses an opportunity to also expose the racist nature of Australian nationalism.
- [Hong Kong rises up against repression](https://solidarity.net.au/international/hong-kong-rises-up-against-repression/) - Hong Kong’s extraordinary protest movement has now lasted over ten weeks. Every weekend brings new demonstrations, and battles with police.
- [Labor conference endorses Albanese’s conservative agenda and military build-up](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/labor-conference-endorses-albaneses-conservative-agenda-and-military-build-up/) - Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles staked their credibility on defeating dissent over AUKUS. It was not much of a gamble.
- [Vietnam and the 1960s student rebellion](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/vietnam-and-the-1960s-student-rebellion/) - The US student movement in the 1960s began by rejecting ideology and the ‘old left’, but was soon forced to grapple with the power of capitalism and the state, says Sophie Cotton
- [No Medevac repeal: Break Morrison's blockade, Bring them here](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/no-medevac-repeal-break-morrisons-blockade-bring-them-here/) - As expected, in the first sitting of the new Parliament, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton moved to repeal the Medevac Bill.
- [Iran crisis: Why US aggression is to blame](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/trump-ratchets-up-us-aggression-against-iran/) - The Trump administration and a coterie of allies—including Australia—are ratcheting up aggression against Iran and another disastrous war in the region shouldn’t be ruled out.
- [Liberals put their surplus above jobs and the economy](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/liberals-put-their-surplus-above-jobs-and-the-economy/) - Scott Morrison went to the election boasting about the “strong economy” that six years of Liberal government had delivered. That claim has already unravelled.
- [Tiananmen square—30 years since China's revolt](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/tiananmen-square-30-years-since-chinas-revolt/) - In 1989 students in Beijing sparked an upheaval that drew in millions of ordinary workers, and spread all across the country, writes Mark Goudkamp
- [Players are right to boycott the national anthem](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/players-are-right-to-boycott-the-national-anthem/) - Indigenous players caused a storm by refusing to sing the Australian national anthem during the opening State of Origin rugby league game in Brisbane in early June.
- [Why didn't workers trust Labor?](https://solidarity.net.au/best/why-didnt-workers-trust-labor/) - Labor was unable to win over working class voters at the election with its promises of change—reflecting long term decline in its class roots and credibility, writes James Supple
- [The Liberals are the real thugs, Albanese is doing the bosses’ dirty work—But Setka should stand down](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/the-liberals-are-the-real-thugs-albanese-is-doing-the-bosses-dirty-work-but-setka-should-stand-down/) - The campaign against John Setka, Victorian branch secretary of the CFMEU, has reached fever pitch. But the domestic violence charges against Setka are a very serious issue.
- [Religious freedom no excuse for Folau’s homophobia](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/religious-freedom-no-excuse-for-folaus-homophobia/) - The right has seized upon the sacking of football superstar Israel Folau to further a homophobic campaign in the name of “religious freedoms”.
- [Fighting for climate jobs, pay and union rights](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/fighting-for-climate-jobs-pay-and-union-rights/) - New jobs in renewable energy and low emissions industries need to be well-paid and unionised if workers are going to welcome them as an alternative writes Penny Howard
- [Labor backs plans for more US warplanes in northern Australia](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/labor-backs-plans-for-more-us-warplanes-in-northern-australia/) - The high-level AUSMIN talks between Australia and the US in August underlined the Albanese government’s commitment to deepening its ties with the US empire.
- [Black incarceration crisis deepens as Labor races to the right](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/black-incarceration-crisis-deepens-as-labor-races-to-the-right/) - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the most incarcerated group on the face of the planet.
- [Australia uses Indonesia and the US to choke China](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/australia-uses-indonesia-and-the-us-to-choke-china/) - In late August, the Albanese government and the President-elect of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, agreed to a new “defence” treaty that is wholly about China.
- [Union power on display as CFMEU rallies against administration](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/union-power-on-display-as-cfmeu-rallies-against-administration/) - Tens of thousands of construction workers walked off the job to protest the attack on the CFMEU on Tuesday in a nationwide strike.
- [Critical care—nurses’ unions and the AIDS crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/critical-care-nurses-unions-and-the-aids-crisis/) - In November 1982, the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Australia. In the 1980s, life expectancy for those diagnosed with AIDS was three years. Geraldine Fela’s new book tells the story of the nurses on the frontline of the response. She spoke with Solidarity’s David Glanz.
- [Racist riots in Britain as far right takes to the streets](https://solidarity.net.au/international/racist-riots-in-britain-as-far-right-takes-to-the-streets/) - A surge of far right rallies and violence across Britain and Northern Ireland aimed at refugees and migrants shocked millions last month.
- [Fight for change must continue after students bring down Bangladeshi regime](https://solidarity.net.au/international/fight-for-change-must-continue-after-students-bring-down-bangladeshi-regime/) - In early August, a mass student uprising in Bangladesh overthrew the 15-year rule of dictator Sheikh Hasina.
- [Indonesia: behind the rise of Prabowo from war criminal to president](https://solidarity.net.au/long-reads/indonesia-behind-the-rise-of-prabowo-from-war-criminal-to-president/) - Prabowo Subianto will take office as President of Indonesia in October. He is a military strongman with a sordid history of killings and human rights abuses. How did he win the election? An Indonesian socialist explains the background to his rise.
- [Lessons from the last Labor government](https://solidarity.net.au/best/lessons-from-the-last-labor-government/) - The last Labor government was ultimately destroyed by its determination to defend the interests of big business and manage capitalism, writes Mark Gillespie
- [Albanese aids Israel and smears protests as horror unfolds in Rafah](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/albanese-aids-israel-and-smears-protests-as-horror-unfolds-in-rafah/) - Israel has begun its long-threatened assault on Rafah. Hundreds have already been killed, thousands more will likely die as Israel’s savagery continues.
- [Kanak resistance rocks colonial government but Albanese stands by France](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/kanak-resistance-rocks-colonial-government-but-albanese-stands-by-france/) - More than two weeks of resistance on the streets of Kanaky-New Caledonia has rocked the government of French President Emmanuel Macron.
- [Encampments show spread of solidarity with Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/encampments-show-spread-of-solidarity-with-gaza/) - The spread of student encampments for Palestine around the world has been an inspiration for all those fighting to end Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza.
- [AUKUS billions won’t deliver jobs bonanza for SA](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/aukus-billions-wont-deliver-jobs-bonanza-for-sa/) - The AUKUS subs will come at an outrageous cost, but will also do little to deliver jobs, the UK experience shows.
- [Labor never campaigned on clear call to tax the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labor-never-campaigned-on-clear-call-to-tax-the-rich/) - In the aftermath of Labor’s shock loss, commentators have blamed its plans as too radical and ambitious. But the real failure was their unwillingness to fight for their policies as attacks on the rich.
- [Editorial: Election shock—but Morrison can be fought](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2019/126/editorial-election-shock-but-morrison-can-be-fought/) - The election result has shocked everyone—from the pollsters to the pundits, Labor and even Scott Morrison himself.
- [Jokowi wins Indonesian election after cave in to religious conservatism](https://solidarity.net.au/international/jokowi-wins-indonesian-election-after-cave-in-to-religious-conservatism/) - Incumbent Joko Widodo has claimed victory in the 2019 Indonesian presidential election against Prabowo Subianto.
- [Bob Hawke—Australia's Thatcher](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/bob-hawke-australias-thatcher/) - Bob Hawke has been lauded for his consensus politics, but he waged a brutal assault on unions and Labor’s own working class supporters, argues Ian Rintoul
- [Extinction rebellion manifesto—How do we build a climate movement that wins?](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/extinction-rebellion-manifesto-how-do-we-build-a-climate-movement-that-wins/) - Extinction Rebellion founder, Roger Hallam, has published his ideas on how to build a movement that can win real change. Sadie Robinson responds
- [Editorial: Kick the Liberals out and start the fight for real change](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/editorial-kick-the-liberals-out-and-start-the-fight-for-real-change/) - Between now and 18 May we need more mass stopwork rallies and demonstrations to kick out the Coalition government on the best possible terms.
- [Winning a 100 per cent renewable revolution](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/winning-a-100-per-cent-renewable-revolution/) - The transition to 100 per cent renewable energy could happen by 2030, writes Chris Breen, but will require far more ambition than either Labor, let alone the Liberals, will muster
- [Lessons from Labor's last time in power](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/lessons-from-labors-last-time-in-power/) - The last Labor government was ultimately destroyed by its determination to defend the interests of big business and manage capitalism, writes Mark Gillespie
- [Rich reap the real benefits from Morrison's tax handouts](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/rich-reap-the-real-benefits-from-morrisons-tax-handouts/) - The tax cuts at the centre of Morrison’s budget were a transparent effort to buy votes.
- [People power protests in Algeria topple dictator](https://solidarity.net.au/international/people-power-protests-in-algeria-topple-dictator/) - Mass protests in Algeria have forced 82-year-old dictator Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign after 20 years in power. Since 22 February, protesters have taken to the streets every Friday to demand he not seek re-election for a fifth term. Millions of protestors took to the streets again for the seventh week following Bouteflika’s resignation, marking the
- [Urgent need for resistance as Labor passes laws to seize control of CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/urgent-need-for-resistance-as-labor-passes-laws-to-seize-control-of-cfmeu/) - Labor has struck a deal with the Liberals to pass savage new legislation allowing the takeover and gutting of the CFMEU, in one of the most appalling acts of union-busting in decades.
- [Mass protests topple Bangladesh’s authoritarian leader](https://solidarity.net.au/international/mass-protests-topple-bangladeshs-authoritarian-leader/) - Bangladesh’s authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country following weeks of mass student demonstrations.
- [System change not climate change: Solidarity student statement](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/system-change-not-climate-change-solidarity-student-statement/) - To win real climate action we will need a movement with the right demands with the power of the working class at its heart.
- [Capitalism vs the climate: Why we need system change](https://solidarity.net.au/best/capitalism-vs-the-climate-why-we-need-system-change/) - The action needed to avert climate catastrophe means fighting the logic of capitalism and profit, argues James Supple
- [Interview: Islamophobia, the far right and anti-racism in France](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/interview-islamophobia-the-far-right-and-anti-racism-in-france/) - Jad Bouharoun will visit Australia in April to speak at the Keep Left conference. He spoke to Solidarity about the fight against racism and the far right in France
- [Desperate Morrison plays Christmas Island card](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/desperate-morrison-plays-christmas-island-card/) - The passing of the Medivac Bill has driven the government into a frenzy of desperation and hate-mongering. Scott Morrison declared himself to be “a brick wall”. But he knows that the Bill has punched a hole in the wall of offshore detention.
- [Climate campaign must fight for jobs, not just target Adani](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/climate-campaign-must-fight-for-jobs-not-just-target-adani/) - The Adani mine should be stopped. But there is a big gap between Stop Adani and the kind of platform of demands we need to stop runaway climate change.
- [Racist murder in Christchurch a product of Morrison and mainstream’s Islamophobia](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/racist-murder-in-christchurch-a-product-of-morrison-and-mainstreams-islamophobia/) - The shocking murder of 50 Muslims at Friday prayers in Christchurch is the direct product of the Islamophobia that has been stirred up and promoted by the likes of Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott.
- [Resisting the attack on the CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/resisting-the-attack-on-the-cfmeu/) - The CFMEU is facing a major attack that could leave the union seriously weakened and strip back safety, conditions and wages across the industry.
- [Refugees take fight for permanent visas to Labor's doorstep](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/refugees-take-fight-for-permanent-visas-to-labors-doorstep/) - Refugees have dramatically stepped up their campaign for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
- [The truth about the claims against the CFMEU](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/the-truth-about-the-claims-against-the-cfmeu/) - Solidarity looks at the justifications for attacking the union and what administration will mean.
- [SA union leaders join discussion on climate action and Rising Tide's Newcastle blockade](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/sa-union-leaders-join-discussion-on-climate-action-and-rising-tides-newcastle-blockade/) - Representatives of two key blue collar unions were featured panel members at a 1 August film screening on Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide to build this year’s Rising Tide blockade of the Newcastle coal port.
- [Mass meeting at Sydney Uni votes to cut ties with Israel and back Palestine’s right to resist](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/mass-meeting-at-sydney-uni-votes-to-cut-ties-with-israel-and-back-palestines-right-to-resist/) - Over 600 students at Sydney Uni have voted overwhelmingly not just to cut the uni’s ties with Israel, but affirming the right of Palestinians to armed resistance and endorsing one, secular, democratic state in Palestine from the River to the sea.
- [Imane Khelif row exposes sexism and transphobia in sport](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/imane-khelif-row-exposes-sexism-and-transphobia-in-sport/) - A toxic wave of sexism, racial stereotypes and transphobic hate was unleashed after Algerian boxer Imane Khelif beat Angela Carini in just 46 seconds in the Paris Olympics.
- [How Labor’s union busting broke the BLF](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/how-labors-union-busting-broke-the-blf/) - There are lessons for the CFMEU today from the way Labor succeeded in breaking the Builders' Labourers Federation in 1986, argues Tom Orsag.
- [Resisting the imperialist coup in Venezuela](https://solidarity.net.au/international/resisting-the-imperialist-coup-in-venezuela/) - The effort to oust Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro came to a head on 23 January, with National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó appointing himself interim president.
- [Women in parliament won’t lead a fight against sexism](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/women-in-parliament-wont-lead-a-fight-against-sexism/) - Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young's suggestion that it was time for a women’s caucus in Parliament to combat sexual harassment and bullying completely missed the mark.
- [Corporate irrigation profits drain towns and rivers of life](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/corporate-irrigation-profits-drain-towns-and-rivers-of-life/) - Towns are running out of water and fish are dying in alarming numbers in Western NSW, providing a glimpse of what is at stake as the climate crisis drives temperatures to record levels.
- [Editorial: Strike out Morrison's Coalition of climate deniers](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2019/123/editorial-strike-out-morrisons-coalition-of-climate-deniers/) - The Liberals are in chaos as they head for a crushing defeat at May’s federal election.
- [Alex Bhathal resigns—the latest victim of Greens’ drift right](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/bhathal-resigns-latest-victim-of-greens-drift-right/) - Alex Bhathal’s resignation from The Greens came after a sustained right-wing campaign to take the Darebin branch in a more electoralist direction.
- [Yellow Vests movement against inequality humbles Macron](https://solidarity.net.au/international/yellow-vests-movement-against-inequality-humbles-macron/) - The Yellow Vest movement in France shows no sign of fading away after ten weeks of protests, blockades and battles with police. Charlie Kimber from Socialist Worker UK looks at what the movement shows about struggle—and asks how it can win
- [Tory divisions produce Brexit chaos](https://solidarity.net.au/economic-crisis/tory-divisions-produce-brexit-chaos/) - The Brexit process has thrown British politics into crisis. The failure of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal means there is still no resolution in sight.
- [Buckingham finally gone, but The Greens’ crisis remains](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/buckingham-finally-gone-but-the-greens-crisis-remains/) - Right-wing NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham resigned from the party in December. But none of the political issues at stake have been resolved.
- [Liberals' racism feeds fascists and the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/liberals-racism-feeds-fascists-and-the-far-right/) - In early January 150 racists and fascists gathered at St Kilda beach in Melbourne, boasting that it would be “Cronulla 2.0” where they would “reclaim the beach” and recreate the racist riot of 2005.
- [CFMEU’s fight for workers’ rights at Brisbane’s Cross River Rail is no crime](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/186/cross-river-rail/) - As Solidarity goes to press industrial action at Queensland’s biggest infrastructure project, Brisbane’s Cross River Rail, continues.
- [Is racism the cause of genocide and war?](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/is-racism-the-cause-of-genocide-and-war/) - Racism accompanies every major war, and while it can serve as a justification the fundamental cause of war is imperialism and capitalist competition, argues Jack Stubley
- [New details on how Australia pushed the US for nuclear subs](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/new-details-on-how-australia-pushed-the-us-for-nuclear-subs/) - Andrew Fowler's new book documents in meticulous detail the way in which Scott Morrison’s government campaigned to win US support for the project.
- [Settler-colonialism and the working class in Israel and Australia](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/settler-colonialism-and-the-working-class-in-israel-and-australia/) - Although Australia and Israel share a history of settler colonialism, workers here have history of fighting for Indigenous rights while those in Israel cannot, writes Paddy Gibson.
- [Israeli aggression threatens wider war as support for Gaza spreads](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israeli-aggression-threatens-wider-war-as-support-for-gaza-spreads/) - Israel’s escalating aggression is again risking a war across the Middle East.
- [NSW nurses rally to demand 15 per cent pay hike](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nsw-nurses-rally-to-demand-15-per-cent-pay-hike/) - Thousands of nurses and midwives across NSW held protests outside hospitals in late July as part of their campaign for an immediate 15 per cent pay rise.
- [Vic teachers win union to stand with Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/vic-teachers-win-union-to-stand-with-palestine/) - Members of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine made a big impact as the Australian Education Union conference in Melbourne took significant steps in solidarity with Palestine.
- [Former WA Labor member speaks out on Gaza: 'There's a lot of members resigning or expressing discontent'](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/former-wa-labor-member-speaks-out-on-gaza-theres-a-lot-of-members-resigning-or-expressing-discontent/) - Adam Demir, who resigned from Labor's WA Multicultural branch, spoke to Solidarity about Fatima Payman and the party's betrayal over Gaza.
- [Julian Assange’s freedom a blow against the warmongers](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/186/julian-assanges-freedom-a-blow-against-the-warmongers/) - Julian Assange is finally free, returning to Australia in June after accepting a plea deal following five years in London’s Belmarsh prison.
- [Kamala Harris’ record is no different to Joe Biden’s](https://solidarity.net.au/international/kamala-harris-record-is-no-different-to-joe-bidens/) - The Democratic Party establishment is piling in behind Kamala Harris after Joe Biden bowed out of the United States presidential race.
- [Why revolution is the only route to real change](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/why-revolution-is-the-only-route-to-real-change/) - Radical parties that have tried to introduce sweeping change through parliament have continually failed, argues James Supple, because the system is set up to stop them
- [Islam, imperialism and the fight for change](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/islam-imperialism-and-the-fight-for-change/) - Islamic politics inspire some of the most powerful movements against imperialism in the Middle East. Luke Ottavi looks at how the left should respond
- [Why are union leaders dragging their feet over Palestine?](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/why-are-union-leaders-dragging-their-feet-over-palestine/) - Chris Breen examines why most union leaders still haven’t mobilised their members to support Palestine, despite the efforts at rank-and-file action
- [Negotiations have failed—NSW nurses must call a strike now and prepare for sustained action](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/negotiations-have-failed-nsw-nurses-must-call-a-strike-now-and-prepare-for-sustained-action/) - The Minns government has shown no sign of backing down from their paltry pay offer of 10.5 per cent over three years for all nurses and midwives.
- [Defend Boris Kagarlitsky and the Russian anti-war movement](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/defend-boris-kagarlitsky-and-the-russian-anti-war-movement/) - The Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign calls on the left around the world to demand an end to the unlawful imprisonment of Russians who oppose the war on Ukraine.
- [Vale Jane McAlevey: a fighter for our class](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/vale-jane-mcalevey-a-fighter-for-our-class/) - At 59 years of age, the untimely death of Jane McAlevey from skin cancer came as a shock to the many unionists across the world intent on rebuilding rank-and-file power in their unions.
- [Payman’s stand shows pressure on Albanese over Gaza still growing](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/paymans-stand-shows-pressure-on-albanese-over-gaza-still-growing/) - Senator Fatima Payman’s resignation shows that the pressure on the Labor government over Gaza is still growing.
- [Children the losers as the right fights its reading wars](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/children-the-losers-as-the-right-fights-its-reading-wars/) - As if relishing his power to demoralise teachers and take the crisis in schools to new lows, Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has joined the other state and federal education ministers throwing their weight behind the right wing of the reading wars.
- [Calling out the dead end of ‘smug’ identity politics](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/calling-dead-end-smug-identity-politics/) - Jeff Sparrow’s Trigger Warnings argues that the left’s abandonment of mass organising and its commitment to identity politics has allowed the right to gain ground in the US and Australia.
- [Ten years since the financial crisis: Is capitalism headed for another crash?](https://solidarity.net.au/economic-crisis/ten-years-since-financial-crisis-capitalism-headed-another-crash/) - Ten years on, the world economy has not fully recovered from the 2008 crash, writes Adam Adelpour, and levels of global debt are again at record highs
- [A mine worth killing for: Australia's bloody war in Bougainville](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/mine-worth-killing-australias-bloody-war-bougainville/) - Thirty years on, Tom Orsag looks at how Australia funded the PNG government’s ruthless war to crush resistance to the Panguna mine in Bougainville
- [Australia ‘steps up’ efforts to counter China in the south Pacific](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/australia-steps-efforts-counter-china-south-pacific/) - November’s APEC summit in PNG saw the Australian government increase its efforts to buy influence in the Pacific, with a raft of announcements designed to counter China.
- [Stop Adani, funding for renewables and green jobs now](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/stop-adani-funding-renewables-green-jobs-now/) - Thousands joined the school student strike for climate on 30 November. “If you were doing your job properly, we wouldn’t be here,” Deanna Athanosos, a year 10 student, told Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Despite increasingly urgent warnings, world leaders are failing to act. A new UN Emissions Gap report has found that major countries including
- [Morrison narrowly avoids defeat in parliament, but cracks in offshore detention widen](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/morrison-narrowly-avoid-defeat-parliament-cracks-offshore-detention-widen/) - Kerryn Phelps’ attempt to pass the Urgent Medical Treatment Bill amendments has stalled in the Senate.
- [Show of unity leaves refugees and union rights in the lurch at Labor conference](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/show-unity-leaves-refugees-union-rights-lurch-labor-conference/) - Labor leader Bill Shorten told the party’s national conference in Adelaide people were looking to them for “unity” and “stability”. And the Labor factions made sure they gave it to him.
- [George Bush Senior–mass murderer and father of a mass murderer](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/george-bush-senior-mass-murderer-father-mass-murderer/) - George HW Bush was a brutal conservative whose invasion of Iraq in 1991 laid the basis for the further horrors visited on that country, and Afghanistan, by Presidents to come, including his son, George W.
- [Liberals' thumping defeat in Victoria ends last hopes for Morrison](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/liberals-thumping-defeat-victoria-ends-last-hopes-morrison/) - The Liberals’ election rout in Victorian is also a massive defeat for Scott Morrison and the federal Liberal Party.
- [Morrison uses Bourke Street attack to spread racism and fear](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/morrison-uses-bourke-street-attack-spread-racism-fear/) - Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have again blamed the Muslim community and spread fear and racism following the violent attack in Melbourne's Bourke Street last Friday.
- [Backlash against Trump in US elections, but Democrats a dead end](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/backlash-trump-us-elections-democrats-dead-end/) - The Democratic Party made big gains in US mid-term elections on 6 November, in what was widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump.
- [Why do the union leaders back Labor?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/union-leaders-back-labor/) - Union leaders see the Labor Party as a vehicle for their interests in parliament, argues David Glanz, even though Labor ultimately governs in the interests of capitalism
- [Resistance needed as far right president wins power in Brazil](https://solidarity.net.au/international/resistance-needed-far-right-president-takes-power-brazil/) - Brazil has a far right president after Jair Bolsonaro won 55 per cent in the final run-off election. His surge in support is a product of Brazil’s economic collapse and disillusionment with the Workers’ Party.
- [Coalition's cuts undermine potential of NDIS](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/coalitions-cuts-undermine-potential-ndis/) - Unfortunately for the NDIS and people it hoped to empower, the Coalition's priority is not delivering social services but delivering a balanced budget.
- [Historic swing in Wentworth shows Liberals are all but finished](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/historic-swing-wentworth-shows-liberals-finished/) - The Wentworth result makes it clear that the government is all but finished. The focus is now on what a future Labor government will deliver—and the struggle that will be needed to reverse the damage of five years of Liberal rule.
- [Victorian delegates meet, but electoral campaign for Labor on the agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/victorian-delegates-meet-electoral-campaign-labor-agenda/) - More than 1700 workers attended Trades Hall’s mass delegates meeting on 25 September, to plan for the next Change The Rules stopwork rally on 23 October—this time branded in Victoria as “Australia Needs a Pay Rise”.
- [US Senators dismiss sexual assault claims to back Kavanaugh](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/us-senators-dismiss-sexual-assault-claims-back-kavanaugh/) - Donald Trump’s nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, has been confirmed to the Supreme Court despite multiple allegations of sexual assault against him.
- [China cracks down on student labour activism at Jasic factory](https://solidarity.net.au/international/china-cracks-student-labour-activism-jasic-factory/) - In late August Chinese police raided an apartment, arresting 50 student activists supporting workers attempting to unionise their factory.
- [Corbyn under attack, but opposing Israel is not anti-semitic](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/corbyn-attack-opposing-israel-not-anti-semitic/) - Opponents of Britain’s left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have mounted a major campaign accusing supporters of the Palestinians, and Corbyn himself, of anti-semitism.
- [Weak, divided and heading for defeat—Finish the Liberals off](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2018/118/weak-divided-heading-defeat-finish-liberals-off/) - The knifing of Malcolm Turnbull has only further damaged and destabilised the Coalition. Their defeat at the election now looks almost certain.
- [Nazi rampage in Chemnitz a warning from Germany](https://solidarity.net.au/international/nazi-rampage-chemnitz-warning-germany/) - On Sunday 26 August news agencies around the world broadcast shocking footage of thousands of Nazis rampaging through the streets of Chemnitz in Eastern Germany hunting for “foreigners”.
- [British Labour takes office but little enthusiasm on show](https://solidarity.net.au/international/british-labour-takes-office-but-little-enthusiasm-on-show/) - Labour won a big majority in Britain’s election. But the results saw a surge towards the far right Reform UK party while pro-Palestine independents won five seats.
- [Boat turnbacks condemn refugees to poverty and despair in Indonesia](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/boat-turnbacks-condemn-refugees-poverty-despair-indonesia/) - The government’s boat turnback policy is leaving thousands of refugees to rot in Indonesia. They are struggling to survive and have no hope of a future, as next to none will get the chance of resettlement.
- [Agriculture and the first states](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/agriculture-first-states/) - The emergence of agriculture and the first states were among the most dramatic changes in human history. James C. Scott has produced an accessible and thought provoking account of how the first states arose and functioned.
- [Sudanese youth step up the fight against racist media and politicians](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/sudanese-youth-step-fight-racist-media-politicians/) - A defiant 500-strong protest led by South Sudanese youth and students stood up to the barrage of government and media racism, rallying on Saturday 28 July against Channel 7.
- [Weak and divided Liberals install Morrison—now let's finish them off](https://solidarity.net.au/turnbull/weak-divided-liberals-install-morrison-now-lets-finish-off/) - Malcolm Turnbull has been toppled and Scott Morrison installed as Prime Minister. But Morrison’s election won’t change anything.
- [ACTU Congress—union demands far more than Labor will deliver](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/actu-congress-union-demands-far-labor-will-deliver/) - The ACTU Congress in July spelled out the union movement’s demands for change on industrial relations, targeted at influencing an incoming Labor government.
- [Super Saturday win for Labor: Now step up the fight to get rid of Turnbull](https://solidarity.net.au/turnbull/super-saturday-win-labor-now-step-fight-get-rid-turnbull/) - The Super Saturday by-elections were a major blow against Malcolm Turnbull.
- [Capitalism and the social source of mental distress](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/capitalism-social-source-mental-distress/) - Iain Ferguson’s new book is a useful examination of the current worldwide mental health crisis, and a detailed history of the understanding of mental distress from Freud, to the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s, to the psychiatrists’ handbook the DSM-5.
- [Tories fall out over Brexit plans](https://solidarity.net.au/international/tories-fall-plans-brexit-please-bosses/) - Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans continue to unravel amid renewed division in the Tory party.
- [Trump retreats amid outrage at detention of migrant children](https://solidarity.net.au/trump/trump-retreats-amid-outrage-detention-migrant-children/) - The Trump administration has been forced to partially back down on its “zero tolerance” immigration policy which resulted in the separation of children from their parents at the border. This reversal comes following mass outrage and protests.
- [Albanese shows he’s not to the left of Shorten](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/albanese-shows-hes-not-left-shorten/) - Labor left MP Anthony Albanese has used a major speech to position himself as alternative Labor leader and in the process of doing so, made a point of criticising Bill Shorten from the right.
- [Australia wants to keep control as China encroaches in south Pacific](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/australia-wants-keep-control-china-encroaches-south-pacific/) - Since the beginning of 2018, the Turnbull government has renewed efforts to assert Australian control and dominance in the Pacific.
- [Pine Gap base aiding Israel's operations in Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/pine-gap-say-base-aiding-israels-operations-in-gaza/) - The Albanese government is directly aiding Israel’s war in Gaza through allowing the sharing of intelligence information from the spy base at Pine Gap.
- [Universities crack down on student protests for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/185/universities-crack-down-onstudent-protests-for-palestine/) - Melbourne Uni has brought misconduct charges against 21 students involved in the encampment for Gaza and the sit-in at Mahmoud’s Hall.
- [Eurydice Dixon and the sexism of the system](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/eurydice-dixon-sexism-system/) - In the immediate aftermath of Eurydice’s murder, the Victorian police reproduced the standard victim blaming script. But focusing on changing men's behaviour in response risks taking attention away from the real causes of structural sexism and violence.
- [Imperialist power games still in the way of peace in North Korea](https://solidarity.net.au/international/imperialist-power-games-still-way-peace-north-korea/) - Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un congratulated themselves after signing their agreement in Singapore. But little was finalised in the talks.
- [Warning for the left as racist right brought to power in Italy](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/warning-left-racist-right-brought-power-italy/) - “The good times for illegals are over. Get ready to pack your bags”, said Italy’s new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, head of the far right League. One of his first moves was to refuse to allow a rescue boat carrying 600 asylum seekers from Africa to land in Italy.
- [Class, Power and Revolution—Anarchism or Marxism?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/class-power-revolution-anarchism-marxism/) - Anarchists and socialists share a common aim, but anarchism’s rejection of leadership, party organisation and the need for a workers’ state doom it to failure, writes Caitlin Doyle
- [Fighting for Gaza after the end of Sydney Uni encampment](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/fighting-for-gaza-after-the-end-of-sydney-uni-encampment/) - Although all encampments except those at Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle have ended, the Palestine movement has emerged stronger from the experience.
- [Israel fails to crush Gaza resistance after nine months of horror](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-fails-to-crush-gaza-resistance-after-nine-months-of-horror/) - Israel has failed to achieve its goal of eliminating Hamas after nine months of war and the butchering of 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
- [Dutton’s nuclear power plan aims to extend coal power](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/duttons-nuclear-power-plan-aims-to-extend-coal-power/) - Coalition leader Peter Dutton has attempted to breathe new life into nuclear power as a serious energy policy option.
- [Eleven years of refugee torture, enough!](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/eleven-years-of-refugee-torture-enough/) - Eleven years ago, on 19 July 2013, the then Labor Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that the government had struck a deal to transfer all asylum-seekers who arrived by boat to Manus Island in PNG.
- [Mass protests in Kenya win concessions after government shoots down protesters](https://solidarity.net.au/international/mass-protests-in-kenya-win-concessions-after-government-shoots-down-protesters/) - At least 39 people have been shot dead in a wave of mass protests in Kenya, forcing the Western-backed government of President William Ruto to scrap its planned Finance Bill 2024.
- [Historic vote sees overwhelming victory for abortion rights in Ireland](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/historic-vote-sees-overwhelming-victory-abortion-rights-ireland/) - Ireland has once again made history, voting resoundingly to repeal its 35-year-long constitutional ban on abortion.
- [Change sweeps Malaysia as Najib swept from power](https://solidarity.net.au/international/change-sweeps-malaysia-najib-swept-power/) - Against all odds and despite blatant vote-rigging, the Barisan Nasional coalition which has ruled Malaysia since independence in 1957 was thrashed in the election on 9 May.
- [How much would a Labor government change the rules at work?](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/much-labor-government-change-rules-work/) - The modest scope of changes Labor wants to make to workplace laws is starting to become clear. The party’s official draft platform, released in preparation for its national conference in July, shows what to expect.
- [120,000 stop work in Melbourne to Change the Rules](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/120000-stop-work-melbourne-change-rules/) - Around 120,000 workers took over the streets of Melbourne on 9 May in an awesome display of working class power.
- [New sinews of working class power](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/new-sinews-working-class-power/) - American socialist Kim Moody’s important new book on the restructuring of capital in the past four decades argues that the working class, far from disappearing, has renewed potential power, writes Mark L Thomas.
- [Western attacks on Syria will only bring more horror](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/western-attacks-syria-will-bring-horror/) - The US, Britain and France have launched new airstrikes against targets in Syria. More Western bombing only increases the chances of the war escalating even further.
- [The rise of China—a dilemma for Australia's rulers](https://solidarity.net.au/best/rise-china-dilemma-australias-rulers/) - China’s rise poses a dilemma for Australia’s rulers, writes David Glanz. The left needs to oppose both imperialist powers, as well as Australia’s own imperialist bullying
- [Palestinian marchers massacred in brutal Israeli assault](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestinian-marchers-massacred-brutal-israeli-assault/) - Palestinians in Gaza have defied a murderous Israeli assault as they stage protests marking 70 years of dispossession.
- [Di Natale at the press club—which way for The Greens?](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/di-natale-press-club-way-greens/) - The Greens’ latest proposal to legalise adult cannabis use will be widely welcomed. It is a very modest, sensible, and safe proposal. But it can’t hide the fact that The Greens are in deep turmoil.
- [Zuma’s fall a sign of ANC’s failure in South Africa](https://solidarity.net.au/international/zumas-fall-sign-ancs-failure-south-africa/) - The demise of President Jacob Zuma has exposed has far the ANC government of South Africa has fallen. His mammoth corruption had been public knowledge for years.
- [Greens’ loss in Batman shows Di Natale’s strategy a dead end](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/greens-loss-batman-shows-di-natales-strategy-dead-end/) - The Greens’ Alex Bhathal has lost a very close contest to Labor’s Ged Kearney in the Batman by-election. The vote holds important lessons for The Greens.
- [1936 and the occupation of the factories: How workers’ unity set France on fire](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/1936-and-the-occupation-of-the-factories-how-workers-unity-set-france-on-fire/) - Workers’ unity was able to defeat fascism and take control of the factories, but a Left government made sure France’s 1936 movement was derailed, writes Feiyi Zhang
- [Barnaby and Turnbull: Hypocrites on parade](https://solidarity.net.au/top/barnaby-turnbull-hypocrites-parade/) - The furore surrounding Barnaby Joyce has plunged the Turnbull government into yet another crisis. Turnbull’s “bonking ban” is symptomatic of a puritanical government in terminal decline.
- [Stockmarket slump sign of capitalism’s ongoing crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2018/111/stockmarket-slump-sign-capitalisms-ongoing-crisis/) - A sudden tumble on US stockmarkets has sent panic around the world. US stocks had their worst week for two years in February, down at one point by 10 per cent.
- [Back the Sydney rail workers' strike](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/back-sydney-rail-workers-strike/) - Rail workers are set to shut down Sydney’s transport system, voting to strike for 24 hours on Monday 29 January and impose days of overtime bans. They deserve everyone’s support.
- [Racist campaign against Sudanese is the real crime](https://solidarity.net.au/racism/racist-campaign-sudanese-real-crime/) - The media panic about “African gangs” went into overdrive in January, as news outlets including Murdoch’s Herald-Sun in Melbourne declared “an explosion of African gang crime”.
- [Sydney’s rail strike banned—time to fight for the right to strike](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/sydneys-rail-strike-banned-time-fight-right-strike/) - Sydney's proposed 24-hour rail strike has been ruled illegal in a snap hearing of the “Fair Work Commission”. The decision exposes how far the law is now stacked against strike action.
- [Changing the date won’t give us anything to celebrate](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/changing-date-wont-give-us-anything-celebrate/) - The move to change the date of “Australia Day” is gaining momentum. But no matter what date Australia Day was held, there still would be nothing to celebrate.
- [Sanction Israel not Senator Payman](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/sanction-israel-not-senator-payman/) - Every supporter of Palestine must get behind Senator Fatima Payman, following Anthony Albanese's decision to sanction her for crossing the floor in the Senate to vote with The Greens to recognise a Palestinian state.
- [Robert Mugabe—from anti-colonial hero to dictator](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/robert-mugabe-anti-colonial-hero-dictator/) - Charlie Kimber looks at Mugabe’s move from leading the struggle against British colonial rule to authoritarianism and compromise with imperialism
- [Democratic Party a dead end for the anti-Trump rebellion](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/democratic-party-dead-end-anti-trump-rebellion/) - A slew of Democratic victories in November’s state and local elections have offered hope to those committed to the dead end of reclaiming the party for the left.
- [Manus resettlement: Why NZ and PNG aren’t game to defy Australia](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/manus-resettlement-nz-png-arent-game-defy-australia/) - Malcolm Turnbull has flatly turned down New Zealand’s offer to take 150 refugees from Manus Island. But why it is Australia that has the power to control everything that happens on Manus?
- [Israel’s 1967 war: Six days that entrenched imperialism](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israels-1967-war-six-days-entrenched-imperialism/) - Israel’s war on the Arab states 50 years ago entrenched Western imperialism in the Middle East and led to misery for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, writes Tooba Anwar
- [Student bulletin: The movement we need to free the refugees](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/student-bulletin-movement-need-free-refugees/) - Young people are flooding into the refugee movement in response to the Manus crisis, bringing passion and energy to end the abject cruelty of Australia’s government. But many questions are also being thrown up.
- [Editorial: Turnbull’s nightmare continues—our chance to strike back](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/editorial-turnbulls-nightmare-continues-chance-strike-back/) - The coalition is in chaos. Every week seems to bring a fresh disaster for Malcolm Turnbull.
- [Trump, racism and the alt-right: Is fascism on the rise?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trump-racism-alt-right-fascism-rise/) - Racist populists and far right parties are breaking through in elections across the US and Europe. How do we drive them back, asks James Supple
- [#MeToo exposes systemic problem of sexual assault](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/metoo-exposes-systemic-problem-sexual-assault/) - #MeToo shows how pervasive sexual harassment and abuse are in the lives of all women. The Weinstein case is just the tip of the iceberg in an industry where wealthy sexual predators operate with impunity.
- [Australian capital tied to Israel by a thousand threads](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/australian-capital-tied-to-israel-by-a-thousand-threads/) - As the horror of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has grown, the clearer has become the depth and intimacy of the Australian ruling class’s military connections with the Zionist entity.
- [A letter from New Zealand](https://solidarity.net.au/top/letter-new-zealand/) - The formation of the Labour coalition government in New Zealand shows the party's serious lack of political principles, in seeking a Coalition with the anti-immigrant New Zealand First. This has been compounded by the support for the Labour/NZ First coalition by the NZ Greens. New Zealand First’s Winston Peters is now Deputy Prime Minister and
- [Market failure: coal plants, power prices and privatisation](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/market-failure-coal-plants-power-prices-privatisation/) - Privatisation is responsible for the crisis in the power industry, writes Chris Breen
- [Dissecting the moral panic over Safe Schools](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/dissecting-moral-panic-safe-schools/) - Benjamin Law’s Quarterly Essay “Moral Panic 101” is a timely dissection of the 2016 backlash against the Safe Schools program, the non-compulsory set of resources that schools could use to progress toward eliminating LGBTI school bullying.
- [Victory as La Trobe Uni drops attack on Safe Schools co-founder](https://solidarity.net.au/web/victory-as-la-trobe-uni-drops-attack-on-safe-schools-co-founder/) - In a concerning attack on academic and political freedom, Roz Ward, co-founder of Safe Schools, was suspended from her position at La Trobe university for misconduct on 1 June. In a private Facebook post, Ward had described the Australian flag on top of the Victorian parliament as racist. Her comments followed the raising of the
- [Players defy Trump as anti-racist protests sweep the NFL](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/players-defy-trump-anti-racist-protests-sweep-nfl/) - Football fields, baseball pitches and basketball courts across the US have transformed into the latest political battlegrounds against racism, police violence and President Donald Trump.
- [Catalonia on the brink as Spanish state unleashes crackdown](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2017/107/catalonia-brink-spanish-state-unleashes-crackdown/) - The Spanish government is facing a major crisis as the struggle for independence in the Catalonia region intensifies.
- [Trump, China and the new world disorder](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/trump-china-new-world-disorder/) - The decline of US power has led to increased imperialist tensions and war, with the rise of Donald Trump a new element of instability, writes James Supple.
- [Why equality alone won't bring LGBTI liberation](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/equality-alone-wont-bring-lgbti-liberation/) - Winning equal marriage will be a blow against bigotry, but homophobia and transphobia will persist until we get rid of capitalism and the family, write Amy Thomas and James Supple.
- [US rejects Trump and the far right  after murder in Charlottesville](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-rejects-trump-far-right-murder-charlottesville/) - On 12 August a white supremacist ploughed his car into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, killing anti-fascist activist Heather Heyer. This was the shocking end result of the most significant mobilisation of the US far right in recent memory.
- [Equal marriage campaign must take on the bigots](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/equal-marriage-campaign-must-take-bigots/) - It is right to point out that equal marriage is an issue of equal rights and ending discrimination. But the campaign for marriage equality will be the most effective blow against homophobia and transphobia in general if it takes on the wider bigotry as well.
- [Rudd under the pump?](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/rudd-under-the-pump/) - IS RUDD'S honeymoon coming to an end? Recent weeks have seen him blunder over fuel prices, his Howardesque moralism over Bill Henson and brewing battles with unions over pay disputes and the rollback of Workchoices. For the first time since its election, the Rudd government is looking on the back foot. Elected on the back
- [Rudd's Iraq withdrawal and the new US plan](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2008/4/rudds-iraq-withdrawal-and-the-new-us-plan/) - Robert Nicholas explains the realities of Rudd's "withdrawal" from the occupation of Iraq and the new US bid for ongoing control of the region. ON JUNE 28 Kevin Rudd will attend a parade in the streets of Brisbane to welcome the 550 Australian soldiers recently withdrawn from Iraq. The parade forms part of a broader
- [Newcastle Climate Camp fosters national debate and planning on climate change](https://solidarity.net.au/web/newcastle-climate-camp-fosters-national-debate-and-planning-on-climate-change/) - Climate Camp, a protest against the coal industry in Newcastle NSW, was a success and an important step forward in continuing to build a movement for real solutions to stop global warming. It brought hundreds of activists together for a week of discussion and protest, and the main protest on Sunday drew 1000 people with
- [Salute - “I’m not talking about the 200 metres, I’m talking about the human race.”](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/salute-review-im-not-talking-about-the-200-metres-im-talking-about-the-human-race/) - Who is Australia’s fastest sprinter ever? At which Olympic Games did he win the silver medal? Why is he a hero for many US track athletes? Don’t know, don’t care? Well watch Salute and you will. Peter Norman found himself in the middle of the Black civil rights struggle at the Mexico City Olympics in
- [Is the carbon tax the end of dirty coal power?](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/is-the-carbon-tax-the-end-of-dirty-coal-power/) - Labor and the Greens claim the carbon price means the beginning of the end for coal-fired power. But at best we will see a large expansion of gas-fired power, which the government labels a “cleaner fuel”. Greg Combet told Lateline in April, “What we’re really talking about is bringing on baseload gas-fired electricity generation”. But
- [Forget the spin, this is no battlers' budget](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2012/45/forget-the-spin-this-is-no-battlers-budget/) - Wayne Swan has been accused by the media and Tony Abbott of waging class warfare with the budget. We wish. Labor’s obsession with achieving a budget surplus has delivered more cuts and continued their failure to adequately fund our public services. Despite the talk, there is only peanuts for spending on schools, dental and disability
- [Coup culture: Why is Australian politics so unstable?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/coup-culture-australian-politics-unstable/) - Malcolm Turnbull has become the latest Prime Minister dumped by his own party. Miro Sandev looks at how the neo-liberal ‘reform agenda’ has brought political instability
- [Walden Bello: 'US power its lowest for a quarter of a century"](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/walden-bello-us-power-its-lowest-for-a-quarter-of-a-century/) - Solidarity interviewed one of the key thinkers from the global justice movement, Walden Bello, of Focus on the Global South, during his visit to Sydney to talk about the decline of US power The conflict in Georgia shows how the world has become more unstable in recent years—why do you think this is? Clearly a
- [Editorial: Capitalist greed threatens recession](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2008/8/editorial-capitalist-greed-threatens-recession/) - Despite George W. Bush’s controversial bailout package (see page 5), we have by no means seen the back of the current economic crisis. Up to 1000 more banks are expected to close across the US and firms are being bailed out across Europe. This is the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression of the
- [Campaign against sell-off brings down Iemma](https://solidarity.net.au/privatisation/campaign-against-sell-off-brings-down-iemma/) - THE TOPPLING of NSW Premier Morris Iemma and Treasurer Michael Costa, and the defeat of their plans to privatise the power stations, is a real victory against Labor’s agenda of privatisation and economic rationalism. It is also a blow against Kevin Rudd who made it clear that power privatisation fitted with federal Labor’s economic agenda.
- [Robbo goes to parliament](https://solidarity.net.au/web/robbo-goes-to-parliament/) - What does it do for the union movement’s credibility when its elected leader joins the government? I’d just checked my email and read that the NSW government wants TAFE teachers like me to work longer hours and for less overtime just to get a 5% pay rise to keep up with inflation. Then I heard
- [Garnaut climate plan to suit big business](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/garnaut-climate-plan-to-suit-big-business/) - IN HIS final report to the government, Professor Ross Garnaut echoes the calls from industry to abolish the one measure the Rudd government has in place that will actually make any difference in the climate crisis: the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) of 20 per cent by 2020. Garnaut acknowledges the coal industry will continue
- [Can China protect Australia from the economic crisis?](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2008/8/can-china-protect-australia-from-the-economic-crisis/) - Kevin Rudd and many in the mainstream press once said that Australia’s economic relationship with China would provide a cushion in the current economic crisis. Tom Barnes examines the state of the Chinese economy and whether this is still true “CHINA’S POSITION as the last bastion of support in a weaker world economy is not
- ['Afghanistan is becoming like Iraq'](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2008/8/afghanistan-is-becoming-like-iraq/) - Academic and author Elaheh Rostami-Povey visited Sydney recently, speaking on her research in Afghanistan under the US-led occupation. Below we reprint part of a speech she gave I HAVE been to Afghanistan twice. In February 2002 just after the fall of the Taliban women and men that I talked to were extremely hopeful that things
- [Will Rudd's spending package save Australia from economic disaster?](https://solidarity.net.au/economic-crisis/will-rudds-spending-package-save-australia-from-economic-disaster/) - There have been three constant themes in the Rudd government's rhetoric about the global financial crisis. The first is that Australian banks are fundamentally sound, unlike those in America, because Australian regulation has been better. There is no sub-prime crisis in Australia. The second is that Australia is unlikely to go into recession because of
- [NSW teachers plan 48 hour strike in January 09](https://solidarity.net.au/web/nsw-teachers-plan-48-hour-strike-in-january-09/) - 20,000 teachers at meetings around the state have voted to take 48 hours of industrial action from the start of the 2009 school year, in the event of the NSW government not abandoning its attacks on wages, conditions and the staffing of public schools. The unpopular government - now headed by Premier Nathan Rees after
- [Unions after the Rights at Work campaign](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/unions-after-the-rights-at-work-campaign/) - The union campaign against WorkChoices succeeded in getting Howard voted out, but has not put unions in a stronger position to organise and fight. Solidarity examines why.
- [Land rights not leases](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/land-rights-not-leases/) - A MAJOR investment program in Aboriginal housing in the NT is being used as a weapon to further break up community control, push people out of remote areas and entrench the NT intervention. The $647 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP) is a joint venture between the Federal and NT governments. Under SIHIP,
- [ABC Learning--save the centres, save the jobs](https://solidarity.net.au/privatisation/abc-learning-save-the-centres-save-the-jobs/) - As Solidarity goes to print, the fate of up to 386 ABC Learning child care centres is in doubt. That represents one-tenth of the national child care resources. The centres look after 30,000 children and employ over 4000 people. Besides the possible loss of these jobs, there are another 8000 casual staff effected. On top
- [Mosul ‘liberation’ leaves city destroyed](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/mosul-liberation-leaves-city-destroyed/) - Last month Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory against Islamic State in Mosul. But there was little to celebrate for the city’s residents.
- [French socialist: 'There will be no honeymoon for Macron'](https://solidarity.net.au/top/french-socialist-will-no-honeymoon-macron/) - Denis Godard, a member of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, spoke at the SWP's Marxism 2017 festival in London on Macron and the political situation in France.
- [Greens’ direction at stake in attack on Lee Rhiannon and NSW left](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/greens-direction-stake-attack-lee-rhiannon-nsw-left/) - The decision to exclude Lee Rhiannon was a disgraceful attack on her, the NSW Greens, internal party democracy and the left in the party. The compromise announced by Richard Di Natale, to establish a pretentiously named “Balance of Power Subcommittee” involving all the other Greens MPs except Lee, does not resolve anything.
- [Temporary migration in Australia under the microscope](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/temporary-migration-australia-microscope/) - Peter Mares’ book, published mid-last year, argues there has been a significant shift towards temporary visas away from permanent migration in Australia. He sets out to uncover the impact on temporary migrants, who can go years living in uncertainty without the rights held by other workers.
- [How the West creates terrorism](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/west-creates-terrorism/) - It is not Islam or extremist ideas but the destruction of the Middle East by Western imperialism, and the racism accompanying it, that causes terrorism, argues Miro Sandev.
- [Trump abandons climate deal as world dithers on action](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/trump-abandons-climate-deal-world-dithers-action/) - Donald Trump’s decision to quit the Paris climate treaty has been condemned worldwide. It means one of the world’s two largest carbon polluters has abandoned the global effort to tackle climate change.
- [Corbyn surge shows support for left alternative](https://solidarity.net.au/feature/corbyn-surge-shows-support-left-alternative/) - Jeremy Corbyn’s dramatic success in the British election shows the wide support for left-wing ideas.
- [Enterprise bargaining and the un-Fair Work Act](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/enterprise-bargaining-un-fair-work-act/) - The system of Enterprise Bargaining restricting lawful strike action to bargaining periods is at the core of laws that have removed the right to strike explains David Glanz
- [Turnbull budget targets students, workers, unemployed—but no real pain for the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/top/turnbull-budget-targets-students-workers-unemployed-no-real-pain-rich/) - Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison have delivered a budget aimed at avoiding unpopular cuts, in a desperate effort to reverse their slide in the polls. The pundits say it’s a budget Labor could have delivered. But its tax increases deliver no real pain for the rich. Instead ordinary workers and the unemployed are being targeted.
- [NSW Labor funds coal power extension in climate failure](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/nsw-labor-funds-coal-power-extension-in-climate-failure/) - The Minns Labor government in NSW has struck a deal with Origin Energy to extend the life of the coal-fired Eraring power station from its original closure date of 2025 until 2027.
- [Palestine activist expelled at ANU](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestine-activist-expelled-at-anu/) - ANU has decided to expel student activist, Palestine supporter and participant in the encampment, Beatrice Tucker, for comments they made in an ABC radio interview.
- [Workers and the alternative to capitalism](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/workers-and-the-alternative-to-capitalism/) - The history of workers’ struggles shows the possibility of a socialism based on mass democratic control of society, writes Judy Cox.
- [Voters punish ruling ANC in South African election](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/voters-punish-ruling-anc-in-south-african-election/) - The African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, has slumped below 50 per cent of the vote for the first time in the general election held at the end of May.
- [University, submarine, sugar and dairy workers strike](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/university-submarine-sugar-and-dairy-workers-strike/) - Read Solidarity's round-up of workers fighting back around the country.
- [CFMEU strikes for safety and conditions on Brisbane’s Cross River Rail](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/cfmeu-strikes-for-safety-and-conditions-on-brisbanes-cross-river-rail/) - Construction workers on Brisbane’s $7 billion Cross River Rail project staged a one-week strike last month as part of a major dispute over substandard conditions.
- [University of California workers strike for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/university-of-california-workers-strike-for-palestine/) - More than 30,000 workers across six campuses of the University of California have taken weeks of strike action in solidarity with Palestine protests on campus.
- [Reject Dutton’s racism—migrants aren’t to blame for housing crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/reject-duttons-racism-migrants-arent-to-blame-for-housing-crisis/) - Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton is blaming migrants for the housing crisis gripping Australia but it is rich Australian investors and the government that are to blame.
- [On to the streets to stop the Euro fascists](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/on-to-the-streets-to-stop-the-euro-fascists/) - Far-right political parties have enjoyed electoral success in the recent European Parliament elections, emerging on top in some countries while making electoral gains in others.
- [British Labour set for office as purge against the left continues](https://solidarity.net.au/international/british-labour-set-for-office-as-purge-against-the-left-continues/) - Britain’s Labour Party is a near certainty to win the snap general election on 4 July.
- [Trump’s threats against North Korea a dangerous game](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trumps-threats-north-korea-dangerous-game/) - US President Trump has issued a series of military threats as he pursues gunboat diplomacy against North Korea.
- [Nordic socialism: the alternative we need?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nordic-socialism-alternative-need/) - Bernie Sanders and others hold up Nordic welfare states as a model for winning change through reforming capitalism. But they too are under attack writes James Supple
- [Don’t fall for Turnbull’s racist campaign against migrant workers](https://solidarity.net.au/top/dont-fall-turnbulls-racist-campaign-migrant-workers/) - In a further slide to the right, Malcolm Turnbull has announced the end of 457 visas and new tougher citizenship requirements for migrants. Racist Pauline Hanson celebrated the moves as the work of One Nation.
- [‘Fair Work Commission’ process designed to benefit the bosses](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/fair-work-commission-process-designed-benefit-bosses/) - The Fair Work Commission’s cut to penalty rates is the latest in a long line of Arbitration Commission decisions attacking workers.
- [SBS documents racism in Australia that isn't fading away](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/sbs-documents-racism-australia-isnt-fading-away/) - Journalist Ray Martin’s documentary, part of SBS’s “Face up to Racism” week, exposes the racism of everyday life in Australia. But it fails to target the source of racism in Australia in government and major institutions, and show how we can fight it.
- [Imperialism in the Pacific: Does the US want war on china?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/imperialism-pacific-us-want-war-china/) - John Pilger’s new film exposes the ruthless US military buildup against China, but also refuses to let the Chinese government off the hook, writes Mark Gillespie
- [Trump and the rise of fake news:  How powerful is the media?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trump-rise-fake-news-powerful-media/) - Trump’s attack on the media as “fake news” shows his authoritarian style, writes Miro Sandev, but the mainstream media itself reflects the values of the rich and powerful
- [Defy the law to defend penalty rates and fight Turnbull](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/defy-law-defend-penalty-rates-fight-turnbull/) - New ACTU leader Sally McManus gave heart to unionists everywhere when said that workers were right to break unfair laws. This is exactly what we will we need to do to stop the attack on penalty rates, scrap the ABCC and win basic union rights.
- [WA election: Liberals humiliated, One Nation flops](https://solidarity.net.au/top/wa-election-hanson-liberals-humiliated/) - After two terms of government under Colin Barnett the Liberals have taken a belting in Western Australia. Anger at high unemployment and the threat of further privatisation has delivered the ALP a landslide win.
- [Penalty rates fightback needed after savage cuts](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/penalty-rates-fightback-needed-savage-cuts/) - Workers are seething after the industrial umpire slashed penalty rates for some of the lowest paid workers in the country. An immediate union response can stop the cuts.
- [Trump’s racist shock and awe builds on Obama legacy](https://solidarity.net.au/top/trumps-racist-shock-awe-builds-obama-legacy/) - Trump’s first days in power produced a sweeping series of executive orders. Most dramatic was his ban on people from seven Muslim majority countries entering the US.
- [US eyewitness: resistance to Trump spreading](https://solidarity.net.au/top/us-eyewitness-resistance-trump-spreading/) - Crisis after crisis has plagued Donald Trump’s first month in the White House. He has the lowest approval ratings of any incoming president ever recorded.
- [Editorial: Time to resist as Turnbull backs Trump and fans the far right](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/editorial-time-resist-turnbull-backs-trump-fans-far-right/) - Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims and refugees entering the US has ignited demonstrations across the US and across the world. Malcolm Turnbull distinguished himself as practically the only world leader to support the appalling, racist ban.
- [NSW Greens: Left Renewal goes public… but the right is going hard](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/nsw-greens-left-renewal-goes-public-right-going-hard/) - Left Renewal has held successful public launches in Sydney and Canberra, to showcase its vision for The Greens and begin a badly-needed discussion. But, just days after the Sydney launch, the right of the party escalated its attack on the left.
- [Defend the Left and fight for the soul of The Greens](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/defend-left-fight-soul-greens/) - For the broad left nationally, those inside and outside of the Greens, the declaration of Left Renewal is a very welcome development. Its formation as a left pole has already pulled the debate in The Greens to the left, exposing the ongoing offensive by the Richard Di Natale-led right and their NSW allies, and has spurred the broader left in the NSW Greens to respond publicly.
- [Greens leaders on the attack: Hands off the left; Defend Lee Rhiannon](https://solidarity.net.au/top/greens-leaders-attack-hands-off-left-defend-lee-rhiannon/) - The attack by former leader Christine Milne on the NSW Greens factional grouping Left Renewal and left-wing Greens MPs Lee Rhiannon and David Shoebridge is more evidence of the campaign being waged by the right of the party.
- [Trump's dangerous games in Asia](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/trumps-dangerous-games-asia/) - Donald Trump’s preparation for office has been laced with a series of threats aimed at China and the US’s NATO allies, underlining the uncertainty his election has injected into global politics.
- [Syria: the defeat of a popular revolution](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/syria-defeat-popular-revolution/) - While the most powerful forces in Syria are now the ruthless dictatorship and reactionary armed groups, the echo of the popular revolution is still visible, writes James Supple
- [Josh Cullinan: ‘We needed a union for retail and fast food that would fight’](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/josh-cullinan-needed-union-retail-fast-food-fight/) - Solidarity spoke to Josh Cullinan, secretary of the newly-established Retail and Fast Food Workers Union
- [Editorial: Liberal Minister resigns: one down—but they’ve all got to go](https://solidarity.net.au/top/editorial-liberal-minister-resigns-one-theyve-got-go/) - While the world prepares for the inauguration of Donald Trump, the good news in Australia is that one greedy, self-entitled Liberal former Minister for Health, Sussan Ley, has resigned.
- [Human disaster looms in Mosul amid US-led offensive](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/human-disaster-looms-mosul-amid-us-led-offensive/) - A US-led coalition is entering the eighth week of a major assault on the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, currently controlled by the Islamic State.
- [Instrument of power: How Mitchell’s Australian shaped a ruling class agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/instrument-power-mitchells-australian-shaped-ruling-class-agenda/) - It’s often said that journalism is the first rough draft of history. But when a book is by a very senior Murdoch journalist, you have to wonder whose history is being written. Chris Mitchell is not just any Murdoch journalist. He was editor-in-chief of The Australian from 2002 to 2015, having spent the previous seven
- [Turnbull and Shorten mimic Trump’s racist campaign](https://solidarity.net.au/top/turnbull-shorten-mimic-trumps-racist-campaign/) - Donald Trump’s election shows the political danger when disgust with the system is pulled to the right. It is already having its effect on Australian politics.
- [Report from the US: Wave of protests show hope for resisting Trump](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/report-us-wave-protests-show-hope-resisting-trump/) - Trump’s election is being met with a wave of resistance all over the US. Angry marches blocked downtown LA every evening the week after the election.
- [Duterte pivots from US to China to play off both powers](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/duterte-pivots-us-china-play-off-powers/) - After months of growing tension between the Philippines and the US, Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte announced in late October he was cutting ties with the US, one of the Philippine’s closest allies, and leading a pivot towards China.
- [Ford exposes a sexist society, but how do we fight it?](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/ford-exposes-sexist-society-fight/) - Feminist and media personality Clementine Ford’s first book Fight Like a Girl has gained enormous attention since its publication in October.
- [Trump's win shows danger of racist right](https://solidarity.net.au/top/trumps-win-shows-danger-racist-right/) - Trump's election has emboldened Pauline Hanson and far right parties everywhere. If anger at inequality is turned in a racist direction the results will be extremely dangerous.
- [Trump's right-wing populism channelled anger in US society](https://solidarity.net.au/top/trumps-right-wing-populism-channelled-anger-us-society/) - Trump’s election is an astounding upset that defies almost all the predictions. It shows how anger at the political system can be pulled to the right, as with the Brexit vote in the UK earlier this year.
- [Trump’s foul sexism mirrors the sexism of the system](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/trumps-foul-sexism-mirrors-sexism-system/) - The outrage against Donald Trump’s revolting sexism has dealt a possibly fatal blow to his presidential campaign.
- [Nationalism and the end of White Australia](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nationalism-end-white-australia/) - Although Australian nationalism has changed to try to incorporate a multiracial nation, the culture of White Australia remains dominant, argues James Supple
- [Who were the Black Panthers?](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2016/96/who-were-the-black-panthers/) - The Black Panther Party inspired millions of black Americans to stand up to racism, argues Matt Meagher, but their strategy for revolution wasn’t up to the task
- [Bersih 5.0: fighting corruption, racism and inequality in Malaysia](https://solidarity.net.au/top/bersih-5-0-fighting-corruption-racism-inequality-malaysia/) - Tens of thousands joined the latest Bersih march in Malaysia over the weekend. The Bersih rallies, as well as solidarity actions in Australia and across the world, are a powerful demonstration for the basic democratic rights denied to Malaysians.
- [Stalemate with right-wing as Corbyn re-elected leader](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/stalemate-right-wing-corbyn-re-elected-leader/) - British left-winger Jeremy Corbyn has won a landslide victory to be re-elected as Labour Party leader. He actually increased his share of the vote to 62 per cent despite a campaign by the right-wing that blocked 130,000 members from voting, most of whom were pro-Corbyn.
- [Liberals’ embrace legitimises Hanson’s racism](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/liberals-embrace-legitimises-hansons-racism/) - The Essential poll showing 49 per cent support for Pauline Hanson’s call to ban Muslim immigration caused widespread shock. Even if it slightly exaggerates the figure, it’s clear there is a pressing need to combat Islamophobia. Hanson is far from solely responsible for this.
- [Bernie Sanders—What happened to the revolution?](https://solidarity.net.au/top/bernie-sanders-happened-revolution/) - Bernie Sanders’ loss in the Democratic primaries exposes the true nature of the party—and why efforts to change it from within are a dead end, argues Solidarity
- [Captured by parliament: Why MPs betray the cause](https://solidarity.net.au/greens/captured-parliament-mps-betray-cause/) - The nature of parliament exerts conservative pressures on left-wing MPs, as the history of sending them into parliament shows, writes James Supple Most people who want change look to parliament to achieve it. We are told the parliament is a democratic body that can represent everyone’s interests. But the history of electing radical reformers to
- [Kalgoorlie rages against racism after 14-year-old run down](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/kalgoorlie-rages-racism-14-year-old-run/) - The murder of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty in Kalgoorlie has shone another spotlight on the brutal racism inflicted on Aboriginal children in Australia.
- [Wake up call for the left in NSW Greens](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/wake-call-left-nsw-greens/) - The right-wing of the NSW Greens has declared war on the left. It is clear that the right of the party now thinks it can use Justin Field’s election to go the offensive.
- [Islamophobia, secularism and the French left](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/islamophobia-secularism-and-the-french-left/) - Nick Riemer writes on how Islamophobia has become shockingly acceptable in France, even on the left, in the wake of efforts to ban Muslim women wearing burkinis from French beaches.
- [Greens’ moderate electoralism a road to nowhere](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/greens-moderate-electoralism-a-road-to-nowhere/) - “It’s only a matter of time” before more seats go Green, leader Richard Di Natale said, after missing out on any new seats in the election. Given other independents and minor parties picked up record votes, this result was a disappointment.
- [Exposing a racist history but conflicted on solutions for today](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/exposing-a-racist-history-but-conflicted-on-solutions-for-today/) - Stan Grant’s book is a memoir, a conflicted memoir that sometimes reads like he is talking to himself, as much as he is talking to his country.
- [Hillary Clinton—the best President US capitalism could ask for](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2016/92/hillary-clinton-the-best-president-us-capitalism-could-ask-for/) - Hillary Clinton reflects the true values of the Democratic party, argues Lachlan Marshall.
- [Labor promised to fund services, but also backed cuts](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labor-promised-to-fund-services-but-also-backed-cuts/) - “Labor is back”, claimed a triumphant Bill Shorten in his election night speech. But in truth, the result was Labor’s second lowest primary vote in history. Of an overall 3.71 swing against the Coalition, only 2.27 per cent went to Greens and Labor.
- [Editorial: Weak and divided—the Liberals can be beaten](https://solidarity.net.au/top/editorial-weak-and-divided-the-liberals-can-be-beaten/) - The election has delivered a savage blow to Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition government.
- [Construction workers walk off to support ANU encampment](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/construction-workers-walk-off-to-support-anu-encampment/) - Construction workers walked off the job at ANU in Canberra to support the Gaza solidarity encampment after a series of threats from the university.
- [Labor dancing to Dutton’s racist tune on immigration detainees—again](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/labor-dancing-to-duttons-racist-tune-on-immigration-detainees-again/) - On 7 June, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles caved in yet again to the Coalition’s relentless racist campaigning against immigration detainees.
- [Pressure gets to Albanese as anger at genocide complicity grows](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/pressure-gets-to-albanese-as-anger-at-genocide-complicity-grows/) - The pressure from eight months of protests is getting to the government. Albanese has launched a wild series of attacks on Palestine protests and The Greens.
- [The Kanaky-New Caledonia revolt and imperialism in the Pacific](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/the-kanaky-new-caledonia-revolt-and-imperialism-in-the-pacific/) - Riots in Kanaky-New Caledonia are a response to France’s attempts to rule out any hope of independence for the Indigenous people, writes Paddy Gibson.
- [Brexit vote brings Tory crisis—don’t cry for the EU](https://solidarity.net.au/top/brexit-vote-brings-tory-crisis-dont-cry-for-the-eu/) - Britain has voted to exit the EU. No doubt, some people voted Leave for anti-immigration reasons. But this was also an anti-austerity vote—a revolt against big business and the politicians.
- [All out to make sure it’s time up for Turnbull](https://solidarity.net.au/top/all-out-to-make-sure-its-time-up-for-turnbull/) - There’s now a real chance the Liberals will lose the election on 2 July. As the election campaign has dragged on, it’s become clearer and clearer that Malcolm Turnbull stands for handouts to big business and the top end of town.
- [Robots, universal income and the future of work](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/robots-universal-income-and-the-future-of-work/) - The way to deal with the threat to jobs from new technology is to build union power in the workplaces, argues Miro Sandev
- [Dutton’s racism backfires, but refugees are an election issue](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/duttons-racism-backfires-but-refugees-are-an-election-issue/) - In true Liberal fashion, as the election gets closer and Turnbull sags in the opinion polls, they have reached for the refugee card.
- [A Greens-Labor coalition? Parliament, elections and running the system](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/a-greens-labor-coalition-parliament-elections-and-running-the-system/) - The Greens are right to side with Labor above the Liberals, but taking part in coalition governments is no way to win meaningful change, argues James Supple
- [Changes target negative gearing rort, but housing still unaffordable](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2016/91/changes-target-negative-gearing-rort-but-housing-still-unaffordable/) - Negative gearing saves the rich billions in tax each year. It allows those who can afford investment properties to reduce their tax.
- [Nuit Debout—France’s new movement  challenging politics as usual](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nuit-debout-frances-new-movement-challenging-politics-as-usual/) - A promising new protest movement has emerged in France. Triggered by new labour laws which drastically favour employers, the “Nuit Debout”—“up all night”—movement started on 31 March with the occupation of a central Paris square after a union-called demonstration
- [Turnbull’s budget delivers for business and the rich](https://solidarity.net.au/top/turnbulls-budget-delivers-for-business-and-the-rich/) - The centrepiece of Turnbull’s budget is handouts to business and high income earners. But for workers and the poor there are only cuts.
- [No matter who wins the election: It’s the rich who rule](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/no-matter-who-wins-the-election-its-the-rich-who-rule/) - The rich run society in the interest of profit—and we can’t vote them out come July, explains James Supple
- [Race, class and the Republican Party: Behind the rise of Donald Trump](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/race-class-and-the-republican-party-behind-the-rise-of-donald-trump/) - Donald Trump has tapped into the rage and insecurity of white workers in the US with his own brand of racism and populism, writes Hannah McCann
- [Panama Papers: capitalism working well for obscenely rich](https://solidarity.net.au/top/panama-papers-capitalism-working-well-for-obscenely-rich/) - The Panama Papers show us, once again, that capitalism is a system where governments help their mates to hide their income and wealth while all the time businesses pretend they are paying their “fair share” of tax.
- [Left union leader on ABCC: ‘The Greens’ actions are helping the government’](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/left-union-leader-on-abcc-the-greens-actions-are-helping-the-government/) - Peter Simpson, Queensland ETU State Secretary spoke to Solidarity about The Greens’ decision to pass Senate voting reform, ignoring the risk that this gives Malcolm Turnbull his best chance yet of passing the ABCC legislation.
- [Fortress Europe: open the borders](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/fortress-europe-open-the-borders/) - Governments across Europe are shutting the door to refugees. James Supple argues they can welcome the boats and open the borders
- [A red in the white house? Bernie sanders, socialism and the Democrats](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/a-red-in-the-white-house-bernie-sanders-socialism-and-the-democrats/) - Bernie Sanders has shown radical ideas can find a serious audience in the US. Peter Jones looks at what he stands for and where his campaign for president is headed
- [What’s the point of Malcolm Turnbull?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/whats-the-point-of-malcolm-turnbull/) - So ran a recent headline in the Financial Review. The ruling elite is getting worried.
- [Senate reform snared in fight over anti-union ABCC](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2016/88/senate-reform-snared-in-fight-over-anti-union-abcc/) - Malcolm Turnbull’s plan to change the way people vote in Senate elections has triggered a complex political fight.
- [US primaries shake the candidates of the corporations](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/us-primaries-shake-the-candidates-of-the-corporations/) - As the US presidential race gets under way, both major parties are being shaken by a revolt against the preferred candidates of the party establishment and the corporate elite.
- [Let them stay, close the camps: How can the refugee campaign win?](https://solidarity.net.au/web/let-them-stay-close-the-camps-how-can-the-refugee-campaign-win/) - The High Court decision that offshore processing is lawful has triggered a wave of protest, from the churches to the Labor Party. If we can harness the opposition, we can win the demand to let them stay and build the movement against offshore processing and mandatory detention. Solidarity argues that three things are critical: A
- [Venezuela’s election: end of the road for the revolution?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/venezuelas-election-end-of-the-road-for-the-revolution/) - The defeat of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the National Assembly elections of 6 December came as a shock for much of the left internationally, and has led to a wave of soul searching.
- [Close Nauru and Manus—Australia the only place to resettle refugees](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/close-nauru-and-manus-australia-the-only-place-to-resettle-refugees/) - The Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, made headlines in mid-January threatening to send 72 children back to Nauru. The children are among the 260 asylum seekers and refugees who have been brought from Nauru and Manus for medical reasons.
- [Racists use Cologne attacks to demonise Muslims and refugees](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/racists-use-cologne-attacks-to-demonise-muslims-and-refugees/) - Racist politicians are trying to use horrific New Year’s Eve attacks on women in German cities to undermine solidarity with refugees. These attempts are also boosting racist groups. They hope to stir up racism against the 1.1 million refugees that have arrived in Germany through the Syrian refugee crisis in the last year. But all
- [Tax avoidance is big business](https://solidarity.net.au/web/tax-avoidance-is-big-business/) - The Australian Tax Office released the Corporate Tax Transparency Report in December. This first report specifically names the companies who paid new tax.
- [General strikes in Greece—this time against Syriza’s austerity](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/general-strikes-in-greece-this-time-against-syrizas-austerity/) - The fight against Syriza’s austerity measures in Greece has begun, with workers staging two general strikes in the space of three weeks.
- [More bombing of Syria won’t ‘destroy’ Islamic State](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/more-bombing-of-syria-wont-destroy-islamic-state/) - French President Francois Hollande called the attacks in Paris an “act of war”. Within days, France responded by bombing Raqqa, the so-called capital of Islamic State in Syria. There will be more to follow, with France moving its only aircraft carrier, which Hollande boasted would “triple our capacity to take action”, to the region.
- [Target Muslims, stoke fear: Australian politicians and the media’s response to Paris](https://solidarity.net.au/top/target-muslims-stoke-fear-australian-politicians-and-the-medias-response-to-paris/) - After the attacks in Paris, the Coalition and the Murdoch media worked hand-in-glove, casting around for ways to make political mileage.
- [Letter from Paris—from Charlie Hebdo to Paris killings: France's 'war on terror' and the backlash](https://solidarity.net.au/web/letter-from-paris-from-charlie-hebdo-to-paris-killings-frances-war-on-terror-and-the-backlash/) - Friday night’s horrifying carnage in Paris has caused revulsion around the world. But the response of French political leaders will only fan the flames of violence and retard the possibility of peace, writes Nick Riemer.
- [Paris tragedy is the bitter fruit of war and racism](https://solidarity.net.au/web/paris-tragedy-is-the-bitter-fruit-of-war-and-racism/) - The mass killings in Paris were horrendous acts. They will only allow France and other powers to respond with more violence and more anti-Muslim racism.
- [Understanding the rise and fall of Syriza](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/understanding-the-rise-and-fall-of-syriza/) - Through all the twists and turns of the last six months, Kevin Ovenden has been a key source of English-language updates on the Syriza government and events taking place in Greece. Now he has produced one of the first detailed accounts of the events that made the radical left’s rise to government possible, and Syriza’s rapid capitulation to EU-imposed austerity.
- [Are amalgamations the answer to union membership woes?](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/are-amalgamations-the-answer-to-union-membership-woes/) - The talk of union amalgamations and the latest statistics on union membership have again raised the question of how to build unions.
- [Turnbull stirs Islamophobia over raids and radicalisation](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/turnbull-stirs-islamophobia-over-raids-and-radicalisation/) - The Turnbull led-Coalition claims to be “resetting” the relationship between the government and the Muslim community. Turnbull has junked reference to “Team Australia”, as well as Abbott’s favoured term for Islamic State, “death cult”. But changing the rhetoric hasn’t changed the substance.
- [Malcolm Turnbull—Prime Minister for the millionaires](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2015/83/malcolm-turnbull-prime-minister-for-the-millionaires/) - Turnbull is fully committed to delivering policies that benefit big business and the rich through cutting spending and delivering “economic reform”, promising "a thoroughly Liberal Government".
- [Turnbull—a new salesman but the same agenda](https://solidarity.net.au/web/turnbull-a-new-salesman-but-the-same-agenda/) - Just two years into his term as Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has been toppled by his own party. This is cause for celebration for all those disgusted with his cuts, racism and anti-worker policies. Abbott’s savage budget cuts and his right-wing extremism destroyed his credibility. His conservatism over same-sex marriage, dismissal of remote Aboriginal communities
- [Abbott’s Syria refugee announcement: Too little,  too discriminatory and too hypocritical](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/abbotts-syria-refugee-announcement-too-little-too-discriminatory-and-too-hypocritical/) - As the refugee crisis unfolded in Europe and the photo of the lifeless body of a three year-old on a Turkish beach galvanised calls for action, an outpouring of public pressure has forced the Abbott government to take 12,000 Syrian refugees.
- [Abbott’s ship sinking quick—time to build the resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2015/82/abbotts-ship-sinking-quick-time-to-build-the-resistance/) - The Abbott government continues to lurch from one disaster to the next. The Canning by-election, due as we went to press, could be the final straw. Even a big swing against the Liberals will again put Abbott’s leadership on life support.
- [Shorten and the AWU:  The best friends Abbott and the bosses ever had](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/shorten-and-the-awu-the-best-friends-abbott-and-the-bosses-ever-had/) - Shorten and the AWU’s model of unionism short-changed workers through doing favours for the bosses writes Mark Gillespie
- [Failure of reformism led to Greek tragedy](https://solidarity.net.au/greece/failure-of-reformism-led-to-greek-tragedy/) - Prime minister Alexis Tsipras, of radical left party Syriza, asked the vultures to compromise. When they said no, he had no Plan B but surrender.
- [Workers stand up to bipartisan Border Force disgrace](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/workers-stand-up-to-bipartisan-border-force-disgrace/) - On a cold July Saturday morning, almost 300 medical professionals (doctors, nurses, social workers, physiotherapists) gathered on the steps of Sydney’s Town Hall to demonstrate their defiance of the Border Force Act.
- [Editorial: Unpopularity contest as Labor embraces Abbott’s policies](https://solidarity.net.au/abbott/editorial-unpopularity-contest-as-labor-embraces-abbotts-policies/) - The Morgan Poll in early July, taken during ALP leader Bill Shorten’s appearance at the Royal Commission into Trade Unions, showed the lowest two-party preferred rating for Labor in a year—51 to 49. Still ahead of the Liberals, but only just.
- [The Killing Season: failing to explain Labor's crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/web/the-killing-season-fails-to-explain-labors-crisis/) - The ABC’s The Killing Season explains nothing, yet exposes everything, about what is wrong with Labor today.
- [How governments treat Muslims as the enemy within](https://solidarity.net.au/best/how-governments-treat-muslims-as-the-enemy-within/) - The obsession with radicalisation and the programs to supposedly combat extremism treat wide swathes of the Muslim community as suspect, writes James Supple
- [Editorial: Labor’s silence lets Abbott’s fear campaign run rampant](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/labors-silence-lets-abbotts-fear-campaign-run-rampant/) - Abbott is determined to use racism and Islamophobia to revive his electoral support. The results can be seen in the opinion polls over the last few months. Although Labor would still win an election, Abbott has crept up in the leadership satisfaction ratings.
- [Parliament house cleaners lay down their brooms](https://solidarity.net.au/web/parliament-house-cleaners-lay-down-their-brooms/) - It was a moving moment. On International Cleaners Day, 41 striking cleaners walked out of Parliament House.
- [Editorial: Abbott on the ropes again after same-sex marriage debacle](https://solidarity.net.au/abbott/editorial-abbott-on-the-ropes-again-after-same-sex-marriage-debacle/) - In the aftermath of the Bronwyn Bishop travel rorts affair, Abbott has slumped in the polls. Labor is leading 54-46 according to Newspoll.
- [Racist abuse of Goodes fanned from the top of society](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/racist-abuse-of-goodes-fanned-from-the-top-of-society/) - The booing of Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes has exposed the faultline over racism in Australia. When the racist targeting drove Goodes to contemplate an early retirement, we saw a tidal wave of support for him from across the country.
- [Populism, anti-politics and the left](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/populism-anti-politics-and-the-left/) - Anti-political movements and new left parties like Podemos and Syriza are only inconsistent opponents of the system, writes James Supple
- [Syriza backsliding in Greece as EU tightens the screws](https://solidarity.net.au/economic-crisis/syriza-backsliding-in-greece-as-eu-tightens-the-screws/) - Greece narrowly avoided default in May by scraping together the €750 million debt repayment due to the IMF. The European Union is tightening the screws, demanding the new radical left Syriza government capitulate to accept further austerity in exchange for another bailout.
- [Syria between both Assad's and IS’s counter-revolution](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/syria-between-both-assads-and-iss-counter-revolution/) - What began in Syria in March 2011 as peaceful pro-democracy protests inspired by the Arab Spring’s demands for democracy and social justice has become a nightmarish military quagmire.
- [Editorial: Abbott’s cuts and lies still coming, time to hit back](https://solidarity.net.au/abbott/editorial-abbotts-cuts-and-lies-still-coming-time-to-hit-back/) - Abbott’s response to the standoff that left at least 8000 Rohingya asylum seekers stranded on the high seas, without adequate food or medical supplies, was obscene.
- [Imperialism intensifies Yemen’s crisis](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/imperialism-intensifies-yemens-crisis/) - At midnight on March 27 Saudi Arabia began a campaign of airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Saudis are leading the military assault as part of an alliance that includes nine Arab nations and Pakistan. In early April the UN reported that over 600 people had been killed, with civilians making up over half
- [Netanyahu re-election exposes racism at Israel’s heart](https://solidarity.net.au/web/netanyahu-re-election-exposes-racism-at-israels-heart/) - In March Israelis voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. The result shows how clearly the Israeli state relies on deep racism and savagery towards Palestinians.
- [Abbott ramps up attack on Muslims in desperate search for support](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/abbott-ramps-up-attack-on-muslims-in-desperate-search-for-support/) - Tony Abbott made his most explicit attack on the Muslim community yet in a “national security statement” in late February, surrounded by Australian flags.
- [Dumping Abbott no guarantee of Liberal recovery](https://solidarity.net.au/abbott/dumping-abbott-no-guarantee-of-liberal-recovery/) - After facing down the leadership spill Abbott gushed to Channel Nine’s Karl Stefanovic of feeling “young and vigorous and at the height of your powers.”
- [Syriza’s challenge to austerity in Greece](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/syrizas-challenge-to-austerity-in-greece/) - Alex Callinicos looks at the challenges facing Greece’s new left government—and the ideas behind its strategy
- [Political chaos as out of touch parties govern for the elite](https://solidarity.net.au/abbott/political-chaos-as-out-of-touch-parties-govern-for-the-elite/) - Australian politics is in turmoil. Labor under Rudd then Gillard tore itself to pieces and lost all credibility within six years. Now the Liberals are repeating the experience. What’s going on?
- [Shock result as Queensland rejects austerity, Abbott left reeling](https://solidarity.net.au/web/shock-result-as-queensland-rejects-austerity-abbott-left-reeling/) - It was an astonishing result. Despite their enormous majority in the Queensland parliament, Campbell Newman and the LNP have followed the Victorian Liberal government to be thrown out of office after just one term.
- [Abbott and world leaders are hypocrites on free speech](https://solidarity.net.au/islamophobia/abbott-and-world-leaders-are-hypocrites-on-free-speech/) - Following the attacks in Paris Tony Abbott and other leaders pledged to stand up in defence of freedom of speech. This is gross hypocrisy.
- [Can a Syriza victory end austerity in Greece?](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2015/74/can-a-syriza-victory-end-austerity-in-greece/) - Greece’s snap election on 25 January will almost certainly see left-wing party Syriza take power. This would be an important victory against austerity—but there are immense challenges ahead.
- [Charlie Hebdo—the issue is Islamophobia not free speech](https://solidarity.net.au/web/charlie-hebdo-the-issue-is-islamophobia-not-free-speech/) - Tony Abbott, along with racists and the right-wing everywhere, have leapt on the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office in France to scaremonger and beat up Islamophobia.
- [Vaccinations need to be encouraged, not compulsory](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/vaccinations-needs-to-be-encouraged-not-compulsory/) - Vaccinations save lives. But should employers be able to make vaccinations compulsory for their workers? We argue, No.
- [Wider support needed to force universities  to break ties with Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/wider-support-needed-to-force-universities-to-break-ties-with-israel/) - The Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Sydney has rejected an offer from management designed to have the camp clear out “and not resume”.
- [Public servants attacked over open letter opposing Israeli arms trade](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/public-servants-attacked-over-open-letter-opposing-israeli-arms-trade/) - More than 2000 public servants have signed an open letter since 30 May, condemning the Australian Government for its complicity in the Palestinian genocide.
- [Palestine movement can’t afford to dismiss Labor dissidents and unionists](https://solidarity.net.au/labor-party/palestine-movement-cant-afford-to-dismiss-labor-dissidents-and-unionists/) - Involving dissenting Labor members in the Palestine movement is necessary to pull in the large number of Labor supporters and unionists we need to win, argues Ian Rintoul
- [ANU expels pro-Palestine student but continues links with arms manufacturers](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/anu-expels-pro-palestine-student-but-continues-links-with-arms-manufacturers/) - The Australian National University in Canberra has expelled student Beatrice Tucker for comments made on ABC radio.
- [Melbourne uni occupation ends with a win, but beware Admin's dirty tricks](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/melbourne-uni-occupation-ends/) - A month after their encampment began and eight days after they occupied, students at Melbourne Uni have scored an initial win in the fight to cut the uni’s ties with Israel.
- [Labor backs more money for weapons in $330 billion plan](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/labor-backs-more-money-for-weapons-in-330-billion-plan/) - In the run-up to the budget, Labor unveiled its new National Defence Strategy, announcing over $330 billion in spending on new weapons and military hardware over the next decade as it gears up for war on China.
- [Labor locks in gas expansion in new crime against the climate](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/labor-locks-in-gas-expansion-in-new-crime-against-the-climate/) - Labor’s new gas strategy pledges its support for a massive fossil fuel expansion, going all out to back mining industry profits.
- [Ukraine faltering as US agrees to feed in more weapons](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/ukraine-faltering-as-us-agrees-to-feed-in-more-weapons/) - After months of delays, the US Congress has approved a further $90 billion of aid as Ukraine faces growing pressure from fresh Russian advances.
- [ANU threatens to discipline students and disperse Gaza solidarity camp](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/anu-threatens-to-discipline-students-and-disperse-gaza-solidarity-camp/) - ANU management in Canberra is demanding a number of students leave their encampment in solidarity with Gaza, threatening them with disciplinary action if they refuse.
- [Australian grab for regional domination behind Tuvalu climate treaty](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/australian-grab-for-regional-domination-behind-tuvalu-climate-treaty/) - Labor is framing its treaty with the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu as an act of climate change solidarity. But the primary motivation is to strengthen Australian influence in the South Pacific and block China’s search for allies.
- [Labor's cost of living band-aids in budget leave real problems ignored](https://solidarity.net.au/australia/labors-cost-of-living-band-aids-in-budget-leave-real-problems-ignored/) - Labor’s budget is about making it look like the government is acting on the cost of living, in the hope of dampening the anger workers feel about it in time for an election in the next year.
- [NTEU at Sydney Uni backs the academic boycott of Israeli universities](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/nteu-at-sydney-uni-backs-the-academic-boycott-of-israeli-universities/) - Sydney University staff have passed an unprecedented motion that will push forward the movement in Australia for the boycott, divestment and sanction of Israel.
- [Unions support Palestine at Sydney 1 May rally](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/183/unions-support-palestine-at-sydney-1-may-rally/) - Thousands of workers downed tools to march through Sydney on 1 May, with construction and maritime unions making May Day an annual stop work rally.
- [Approval laws delayed in further effort to do the bidding of coal and gas industry](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/approval-laws-delayed-in-further-effort-to-do-the-bidding-of-coal-and-gas-industry/) - New environmental protection laws promised before the last election have been put indefinitely on hold, in another effort by the Albanese government to serve the coal and gas industry.
- [Haunting Holocaust film that resonates amid Gaza genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/haunting-holocaust-film-that-resonates-amid-gaza-genocide/) - Director Jonathan Glazer’s speech after winning Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards punctured the banality of the ceremony.
- [Direct action, mass protests and the fight for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/direct-action-mass-protests-and-the-fight-for-palestine/) - Direct action protests that disrupt business as usual should not be seen as an end in themselves but as part of a broader strategy of mass action, writes Adam Adelpour
- [Frantz Fanon—Decolonisation and violence](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/frantz-fanon-decolonisation-and-violence/) - Frantz Fanon’s writings on racism and the difference between colonial violence and violent resistance to it remain valuable today, writes Miro Sandev
- [Blood for oil—Why the West arms Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/blood-for-oil-why-the-west-arms-israel/) - Control of the Middle East has been a key focus for the world’s big powers due to its immense reserves of oil, and Israel remains vital to preserving it, writes James Supple
- [Modi’s Islamophobia on full display as India faces election](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/modis-islamophobia-on-full-display-as-india-faces-election/) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on track to win India’s upcoming election, giving him a third term in office and allowing him to cement his reactionary and racist agenda.
- [Despite Labor’s claims, cost of living still rising faster than wages](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/despite-labors-claims-cost-of-living-still-rising-faster-than-wages/) - Workers are still feeling the cost of living crunch, with Anthony Albanese refusing to do anything that would make a real difference.
- [An Israeli Jewish activist speaks: 'Today I don’t believe in the Zionist entity at all'](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/an-israeli-jewish-activist-speaks-today-i-dont-believe-in-the-zionist-entity-at-all/) - Solidarity spoke to an anti-Zionist Jewish activist in Israel about why a handful of dissenters continue against all the odds.
- [Uni encampments for Gaza demand end to ties with Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/uni-encampments-for-gaza-demand-end-to-israeli-ties/) - Gaza solidarity encampments have spread to university campuses across the country, inspired by the movement in the US.
- [Pine Gap aiding Israel’s war](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/pine-gap-aiding-israels-war/) - Spy base Pine Gap is almost certainly playing a key role feeding intelligence to Israel for use against Gaza.
- [Australia’s defence industry is arming Israel’s genocide](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/australias-defence-industry-is-arming-israels-genocide/) - Recent months have seen an increasing number of protests directed at the arms industry in Australia and its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
- [Labor wants Trump-like powers to deport refugees](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/labor-wants-trump-like-powers-to-deport-refugees/) - The new Bill is Labor’s latest shocking, and desperate, measure to trash refugee rights.
- [How colonial war led to revolution in Portugal](https://solidarity.net.au/radical-history/how-colonial-war-led-to-revolution-in-portugal/) - The revolution in Portugal beginning 50 years ago in 1974 with a revolt in the army, saw workers take control of hundreds of factories, writes Luke Ottavi
- [Whitlam’s three years show women can’t rely on Labor](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/whitlams-three-years-show-women-cant-rely-on-labor/) - What a state concedes, a state can take back. This book is an argument for a new women’s movement.
- [Labor falling short on women’s equality and wages](https://solidarity.net.au/sexism/labor-falling-short-on-womens-equality-and-wages/) - The Labor government has been talking up its commitment to women’s rights since it came to power.
- [The hidden history of Jewish anti-Zionism and radicalism](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/the-hidden-history-of-jewish-anti-zionism-and-radicalism/) - Clare Fester reviews a new book that looks at the history of Jewish working class radicalism and struggle that Zionism has sought to hide.
- [Palestine protesters block Port Botany demanding sanctions against ZIM shipping](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestine-protesters-block-port-botany-demanding-sanctions-against-zim-shipping/) - Nineteen people, including the Secretary of the Sydney branch of the MUA Paul Keating, were arrested as pro-Palestine protesters attempted to block Sydney’s Port Botany.
- [Strike action heats up at RMIT University](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/strike-action-heats-up-at-rmit-university/) - There’s an upbeat mood among RMIT workers after an all-out strike for three and a half days in the week leading up to Easter.
- [Firies, sparkies and pilots fight cost-of-living pain](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/firies-sparkies-and-pilots-fight-cost-of-living-pain/) - Read Solidarity's monthly round-up from the frontline of workers' struggle.
- [Albanese keeps backing Israel even as aid workers murdered](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/albanese-keeps-backing-israel-even-as-aid-workers-murdered/) - After six months of slaughter, Israel’s atrocities in Gaza are becoming more and more obscene.
- [Albanese’s weakness risks LGBTIQ+ rights in schools](https://solidarity.net.au/lgbti/albaneses-weakness-risks-lgbtiq-rights-in-schools/) - In a fresh demonstration of the federal government’s cowardice, Anthony Albanese has sought Peter Dutton’s support to take a bipartisan approach to religious discrimination laws that risk opening LGBTIQ+ people up to further bigotry.
- [Dutton’s nuclear push intended to delay climate action](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/duttons-nuclear-push-intended-to-delay-climate-action/) - The Coalition’s Peter Dutton has launched a push for nuclear power. The move is a product of hostility to any serious increase in renewable energy.
- [AUKUS and the nuclear subs: delayed, dirty and dangerous](https://solidarity.net.au/australian-imperialism/aukus-and-the-nuclear-subs-delayed-dirty-and-dangerous/) - The AUKUS military pact is burning huge sums of money and has the potential to make Australia a global destination for nuclear waste, as well as accelerating the drive to war between China and the US.
- [Labor governments set to throw more Indigenous kids in prison](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/labor-governments-set-to-throw-more-indigenous-kids-in-prison/) - State governments nationwide are stepping up their war on Indigenous kids, with measures that will see more children in jail.
- [How Indonesia’s people fought colonial rule](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/182/how-indonesias-people-fought-colonial-rule/) - A new book by author David Van Reybrouck reveals a fascinating history of resistance to colonialism in Indonesia, writes Simon Basketter
- [Antisemitism and the origins of Zionism](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/antisemitism-and-the-origins-of-zionism/) - Zionism emerged as a response to antisemitism in Europe but its aim of building a state with the support of imperialist powers has proven disastrous, writes Jacob Starling
- [Labor’s naval build-up pours billions more into war](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/labors-naval-build-up-pours-billions-more-into-war/) - In late February, the war-hawk Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, announced Labor would spend an extra $11.1 billion to double the number of Navy surface ships, taking total naval spending in the next decade to an eye-wateringly obscene $54.2 billion.
- [Smears of antisemitism over Palestine ring hollow](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/smears-of-antisemitism-over-palestine-ring-hollow/) - As the death toll mounts and hunger stalks Gaza, supporters of Israel are finding it harder to defend the genocide. Instead, they are turning to smearing supporters of Palestine as antisemitic.
- [Western alarm as Russia makes gains in Ukraine proxy war](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/western-alarm-as-russia-makes-gains-in-ukraine-proxy-war/) - The two-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine was marked by the Russian capture of the strategically important Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.
- [The First Intifada: When Palestinians rose up against Israel](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/the-first-intifada-when-palestinians-rose-up-against-israel/) - The Palestinian Intifada that began in 1987 exposed the brutality of life under occupation and how Palestinians have no choice but to organise resistance, writes Maeve Larkins.
- [Gomeroi win in the Federal Court: now kill off gas in the Pilliga](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/gomeroi-win-in-the-federal-court-now-kill-off-gas-in-the-pilliga/) - Gomeroi people have won a stunning legal victory over gas giant Santos, as the Federal Court upheld an appeal against a Native Title Tribunal ruling from December 2022.
- [Victory for strikers at Egypt’s Mahalla factory](https://solidarity.net.au/international/victory-for-strikers-at-egypts-mahalla-factory/) - Thousands of workers at Egypt’s Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Company have won pay rises after a week-long strike.
- [Albanese an accessory to murder as Israel bombs and starves Gaza](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/albanese-an-accessory-to-murder-as-israel-bombs-and-starves-gaza/) - After five months and well over 31,000 dead, there is no end in sight to Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.
- [White Australia and the labour movement](https://solidarity.net.au/long-reads/white-australia-and-the-labour-movement/) - This is the text of the 2023 Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture, delivered by Phil Griffiths. With thanks to the Brisbane Labour History Association.
- [Abortion access still faces barriers due to sexist system](https://solidarity.net.au/reviews/abortion-access-still-faces-barriers-due-to-sexist-system/) - Barbara Baird has written extensively on abortion law and politics. In this book, she examines the state of abortion provision in Australia in a history of reproductive health since 1990.
- [‘I’m comfortable’ says Albanese as Labor embraces offshore detention](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/im-comfortable-says-albanese-as-labor-embraces-offshore-detention/) - When 39 asylum-seekers were discovered at Beagle Bay, 150 kilometres north of Broome on 19 February, Opposition leader and former offshore detention jailer, Peter Dutton, thought he was on a winner for the Dunkley by-election just a couple of weeks away on 2 March.
- [Student Gaza protest shows challenge ahead](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/student-gaza-protest-shows-challenge-ahead/) - The nationwide “Student Strike for Palestine” on 29 February showed both the potential and the striking amount of work still to be done to win students to taking action over Gaza.
- [Israel starving Gazans to death](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-starving-gazans-to-death/) - Gaza is on the brink of widespread starvation, with Israel refusing international appeals to let aid shipments in.
- [Fallujah—how the US murdered a city](https://solidarity.net.au/imperialism/fallujah-how-the-us-murdered-a-city/) - The US assault on Fallujah in 2004 was one of the US’s worst war crimes in Iraq. Angus Dermody explains how the US set out to crush resistance to foreign occupation
- [A new McCarthyism: War and the crackdown on support for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/a-new-mccarthyism-war-and-the-crackdown-on-support-for-palestine/) - Repression of Palestine activism echoes the crackdown during previous wars, argue James Supple and Tom Orsag.
- [NT government declares open season for gas fracking](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/nt-government-declares-open-season-for-gas-fracking/) - Fracking is set to resume in the Northern Territory, with the Territory government finalising a Code of Practice for gas companies.
- [Setback in early childhood pay campaign as action called off](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/setback-in-early-childhood-pay-campaign-as-action-called-off/) - After campaigning since 2018, Early Childhood Educators are demanding a 25 per cent pay rise. But a walkout planned for this week was called off.
- [ASU members walk off work for Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/asu-members-walk-off-work-for-palestine/) - Union members in social and community services in Melbourne took up to four hours of unprotected strike action for Palestine on Friday 22 February.
- [ZIM, blockades and the unions: Lessons from Webb Dock](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/zim-blockades-and-the-unions-lessons-from-webb-dock/) - For almost four days in January protest action with workers refusing to cross the community picket succeeded in preventing work on the ZIM shipping-line at Webb Dock in Melbourne.
- [Why capitalism breeds imperialism and war](https://solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/why-capitalism-breeds-imperialism-and-war/) - Isabel Ringrose explains that imperialism is about more than major countries dominating the smaller ones.
- [Myanmar's generals face defeat](https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2024/180/myanmars-generals-face-defeat/) - A new armed offensive poses a major challenge to Myanmar’s military dictatorship after years of resistance, writes Vivian Honan.
- [Charges against police possible over Jai Wright death](https://solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/charges-against-police-possible-over-jai-wright-death/) - Criminal charges are being considered against a police officer over the death of 16-year-old Jai Wright, after the NSW Coroner suspended the inquest after two days on 30 January.
- [Corruption shows offshore detention is rotten to the core—Labor can't hide](https://solidarity.net.au/refugees/corruption-shows-offshore-detention-is-rotten-to-the-core-labor-cant-hide/) - The long-awaited review of Australia’s offshore detention was finally made public on 12 February, confirming all the issues with corruption that have been known for years.
- [Labor extending the life of coal and gas amid climate emergency](https://solidarity.net.au/climate-change/labor-extending-the-life-of-coal-and-gas-amid-climate-emergency/) - The NSW Labor government is set to lock in more pollution through extending the life of Eraring, the country’s largest coal-fired power station.
- [Mass protests target German AfD as far right on the rise](https://solidarity.net.au/international/mass-protests-target-german-afd-as-far-right-on-the-rise/) - About 1.4 million people marched across Germany at the end of January against the far right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party.
- [Hamas and the politics of Palestinian resistance](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/hamas-and-the-politics-of-palestinian-resistance/) - Hamas grew out of the legitimate Palestinian resistance to Israel’s violence, writes James Supple, but its focus on armed struggle has not delivered liberation.
- [DP World workers make big gains on pay but fall short on rosters](https://solidarity.net.au/unions/dp-world-workers-make-big-gains-on-pay-but-fall-short-on-rosters/) - After more than four months of determined industrial action, wharfies at DP World port terminals have won a 25.6 per cent pay rise over four years, while accepting changes to rostering.
- [Teachers won't be silenced on Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/teachers-wont-be-silenced-on-palestine/) - More than 70 Victorian teachers and school staff attended a forum “Teachers for Palestine: why there’s no ‘neutrality’ on genocide” on 22 January, despite the Opposition Education spokesperson calling for the Education Department to discipline attendees.
- [‘Why we went on strike for Palestine’](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/why-we-went-on-strike-for-palestine/) - Union members at the Foundation for Young Australians across the country joined the Global Strike for Gaza, demanding their employer make a statement of solidarity with Palestine.
- [Western attacks on Yemen risk spreading war](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/western-attacks-on-yemen-risk-spreading-war/) - The attacks on Yemen show that President Joe Biden’s calls for Israel to exercise “restraint” are hollow hypocrisy.
- [Israel set to launch murderous assault on Rafah as Albanese sits by](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/israel-set-to-launch-murderous-assault-on-rafah-as-albanese-sits-by/) - With more than 30,000 dead and much of Gaza reduced to rubble Israel’s genocidal assault shows no sign of relenting.
- [Electricity workers strike for 8 per cent a year](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/electricity-workers-strike-for-8-per-cent-a-year/) - More than 1000 Endeavour Energy and Transgrid workers, members of the Electrical Trades Union, walked out on strike last week for 24 hours.
- [Palestine movement should welcome dissenting Labor members](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/palestine-movement-should-welcome-dissenting-labor-members/) - Palestine activists should encourage Labor members to support our demands and seek to draw them into the movement.
- [Attack on Yemen raises risk of wider war](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/attack-on-yemen-raises-risk-of-wider-war/) - Labor has backed the savage attack on at least 60 targets in 16 locations around Yemen by the US and Britain.
- [Victorian teachers defy intimidation to support Palestine](https://solidarity.net.au/palestine/victorian-teachers-defy-intimidation-to-support-palestine/) - As Israel ramped up its genocide, and or own state and federal education ministers threw their weight behind it, teachers in Victoria used our rank-and-file networks and the Trade Unionists for Palestine campaign to take collective action.
- [After the Voice, Albanese's inaction on Indigenous rights is exposed](https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/after-the-voice-albaneses-inaction-on-indigenous-rights-is-exposed/) - The failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum has exposed Anthony Albanese’s commitment to racist policies and severe neglect in Indigenous Affairs.

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- [Malaysia](https://solidarity.net.au/articles/malaysia/)
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- [Issue 152 - Sep](https://solidarity.net.au/articles/mag/back/2021/152/) - Issue 152 – September-October 2021
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- [2022](https://solidarity.net.au/articles/mag/back/2022/)
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- [universities](https://solidarity.net.au/articles/universities/)
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- [Ukraine](https://solidarity.net.au/articles/ukraine/)
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- [Kagarlitsky](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/kagarlitsky/)
- [McAlevey](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/mcalevey/)
- [union organising](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/union-organising/)
- [Bangladesh](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/bangladesh/)
- [kpi](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/kpi/)
- [Subianto](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/subianto/)
- [Jokowi](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/jokowi/)
- [South China Sea](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/south-china-sea/)
- [Land Forces](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/land-forces/)
- [militarism](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/militarism/)
- [Lebanon](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/lebanon/)
- [Harris](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/harris/)
- [Hezbollah](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/hezbollah/)
- [Woolworths](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/woolworths/)
- [rail workers](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/rail-workers/)
- [BLF](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/blf/)
- [AFD](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/afd/)
- [wild fires](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/wild-fires/)
- [psychiatry](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/psychiatry/)
- [Werribee](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/werribee/)
- [antisemitism](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/antisemitism/)
- [Northern Territory](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/northern-territory/)
- [Serbia](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/serbia/)
- [F-35 jet](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/f-35-jet/)
- [arms trade](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/arms-trade/)
- [Likud](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/likud/)
- [tariffs](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/tariffs/)
- [Mission Foods](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/mission-foods/)
- [neurodiversity](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/neurodiversity/)
- [data centres](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/data-centres/)
- [AI](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/ai/)
- [technology](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/technology/)
- [NSN](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/nsn/)
- [Nepal](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/nepal/)
- [Gen Z](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/gen-z/)
- [MFA](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/mfa/)
- [treaty](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/treaty/)
- [Mamdani](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/mamdani/)
- [Malaya](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/malaya/)
- [pappe](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/pappe/)
- [QTU](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/qtu/)
- [Gomeroi](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/gomeroi/)
- [Pilliga](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/pilliga/)
- [CSR](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/csr/)
- [fernandes](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/fernandes/)
- [Bondi](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/bondi/)
- [One Nation](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/one-nation/)
- [Hanson](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/hanson/)
- [Crown Casino](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/crown-casino/)
- [HWU](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/hwu/)
- [health workers](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/health-workers/)
- [UAE](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/uae/)
- [Professionals Australia](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/professionals-australia/)
- [manosphere](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/manosphere/)
- [ben carroll](https://solidarity.net.au/tag/ben-carroll/)