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International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

A call for endorsers and volunteers to help Ukraine get through the difficult winter ahead
The Taliban: From Suppressing Protests to Their Official Prohibition – Women's Resistance Continues

The Taliban: From Suppressing Protests to Their Official Prohibition – Women’s Resistance Continues

From the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women, a statement decrying -- and standing up to -- a new level of repression against dissent.
Withdraw All Disciplinary Charges Against Prof. Willoughby-Herard

Withdraw All Disciplinary Charges Against Prof. Willoughby-Herard

For standing with her students at a protest in solidarity with Gaza, Professor Willoughby-Herard faces outrageous sanctions from the University of California at Irvine.
Women's Rights Day 2026: A Call to Action in Defense of Voting Rights

Women’s Rights Day 2026: A Call to Action in Defense of Voting Rights

FSP's sister organization, Radical Women, motivates organizing and fighting to defend not only the right to vote, but all our civil rights being erased.
Sydney: On 13 August, high school students held their first school strike to protest Pauline Hanson sweeping far-right agenda. Thousands walked out across the country and vowed to do so again. Photo by Zebedee Parks.

Unite and fight to stem the second rise of One Nation

Pauline Hanson only delivers for the wealthy – Australian voters fed up with political business-as-usual should instead consider socialist candidates.
Victorians are urged to vote socialist this state election. But with right wing populism gathering support, it will be necessary to do much more. We need to unite and organise as we did at this October 2025 rally against the right. Photo by Alison Thorne.

Sick of capitalist parties? Vote socialist!

Use your vote to keep out far-right politicians and send a message rejecting capitalist business as usual.
Georgiana Lilly distributing Members United CPSU Rank and File News outside the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne. Photo by Judy McVey.

Members United launches bold platform for upcoming union election

MU has formulated a detailed, member-focused platform for the union’s future.
Kelly Flanagan at an August protest against the No Air in Prison Bill. As well as strip searches, incarcerated people face other human rights abuses, including regular lockdowns. Photo by Alison Thorne.

Strip searching is state-sanctioned sexual assault. Ban it now!

A new report demands that all state and territory governments in Australia prohibit the ineffective and dehumanizing practice.
Some of the climate activists arrested at the 2024 Blockade celebrate with their supporters outside the Newcastle court. Photo courtesy of Rising Tide.

Celebrate Rising Tide’s Win – Ramp up the fight for our protest rights

The right to speak out is under sustained attack across Australia and around the world.
A sit-in in Khartoum, Sudan. This woman has written “Just Fall” on her arm to convey the demand of demonstraters for President Omer Al Bashir and his government to resign. Photo by Ola A Alsheikhh.

Sudan’s civil war and the feminist resistance

Historical colonialism and modern capitalism have led to a series of violent conflicts in the African country.
Outside NEXTDC: West Footscray demands a moratorium on data centres. Photo by Anthony Gracia.

Data Centres: mass pollution for the twenty-first century

The data centre boom, driven by the needs of tech giants and their shareholders, is detrimental to both human and natural environments.
The endangered Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo are only found in the south-west of Western Australia. Numbers continue to decline due to habitat loss. Photo by Alison Thorne.

Perth community stops a data centre

Plans for an AI data centre in Hazelmere, Western Australia were officially withdrawn following fierce local opposition.
Placards at the 2011 Slutwalk in New York. Photo by Charlotte Cooper.

Book Review — Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker’s Rights

Written by UK sex workers, the book gives a global view of the industry from angles as diverse as the circumstances that lead women there.
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union is a fighting union. In 2022, it launched historic, coordinated strike actions and work bans at Apple stores across Australia. The bitter dispute was the first nationwide retail strike against this giant. Photo courtesy of RAFFWU.

Hands off RAFFWU! Reject the ALP factional games — fight for unions controlled by their members

Workers don’t need more regulation about whom they can organize with.
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Responses from FSO readers.
25 years of Pride in Seattle: a graphic history

25 years of Pride in Seattle: a graphic history

FSP member Chris Smith explores the history of Seattle’s pride marches and rallies through his collection of event posters.
FSP NYC Supporter Drive – Make a lasting difference today

FSP NYC Supporter Drive – Make a lasting difference today

Donate now to help the NYC branch of FSP continue to educate, agitate, and organize.