The very organization which is supposed to help during disasters is too mismanaged and racist to give much-needed aid.
Privatisation
Privatizing Medicare: A bipartisan stealth attack
Financial entities like hedge funds and private equity firms now compete with insurance companies and for-profit healthcare providers scrambling for Medicare enrollees.
A winning plan to save Preston Market from destruction: Conversations with Mannie De Saxe and George Kanjere
Preston Market is the only place of its kind in Melbourne’s north, and it has been the heart of the region since it opened in the 1970s.
Resistance flares internationally
Workers demonstrate for their rights in Argentina and Mexico while Brazilians protest their far-right head of state.
Stop the giveaway of California’s community colleges
Attempts to privatize these colleges have been met with fierce push back by students, staff and faculty.
The deadly consequences of private neglect
Australians have experienced a number of infrastructure breakdowns in the last few years. The country has vast supplies of energy, but the infrastructure to distribute it is at the point of collapse. This is life in late capitalist Australia.
Unionists and the community fire up to fight Centrelink cuts
Centrelink is a corporatised agency, which in 1997 replaced the Department of Social Security. It currently has contracts to deliver services on behalf of seven government departments. As each expires, these contracts will be put out for private tender, forcing Centrelink to compete for the delivery of welfare services.
Public Transport Attacks Must Be Defeated
This dispute must be widened, now, if it is to succeed. ARU members must ignore the union’s Executive Officers’ sellout policy and take industrial action, both in support of the workers and for their own jobs and conditions. This government is out to get all of us and if we don’t hang together, we’ll be hung separately.
