Northern Rock–return to state intervention

BRITISH PM Gordon Brown has nationalised the Northern Rock bank after attempts to fend off its collapse failed. In a humiliating back flip, his New Labour government has used

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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.

CSR strike: between a (Gyp)rock 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 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.