In Australia, a call to disaffiliate the Victorian Police Association from the state Trades Hall Council, backed by Aboriginal and refugee movements, is gaining steam.
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Book Review: The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
Bill Gammage documents the real history of Australia.
Young workers take on retail giant over COVID safety
The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia keeps gaining momentum, and many outbreaks are linked to workplaces across the country.
Educate, agitate, and organize
Freedom Socialist Party members join co-workers to fight for safety and economic security while FSP offers Marxist feminist analysis of the pandemic and response to it.
We must stop private profiteers fleecing taxpayers
Massive transfers of public wealth always go one way — into the hands of the rich.
Deportations prevented, but dispossession sidestepped by High Court of Australia
The February ruling by the High Court is another partial victory handed out by the State. A red-faced, embarrassed recognition of the racist undergarments of the colony, exposed once again.
Sovereignty on trial — The tale of two court cases
Two important and precedent-setting but partial wins in the courts for Indigenous people — one in Australia and one in Sweden.
Time for a fightback: Victoria’s bail regime creates a sexist and racist catastrophe
The human and economic costs of imprisonment are both spiralling out of control.
Stop the assault on workers: A call to unionists ready to take the reins of union business
On November 28, the Morrison government’s Ensuring Integrity Bill, dubbed by the media as the “union-busting bill,” failed to pass.
Ensuring union integrity: from Australia, a working-class recipe that knows no borders
What’s needed is genuine collective trade union democracy.
