Our Common Cause

The US聽Department of Justice鈥檚 claim聽that the Wikileaks founder directed a complex hacking operation has exploded. Sam Wainwright聽argues聽we must continue to demand justice for Assange.

Unions and community organisations need to step up the push for real change, including a meaningful wage rise for low-paid workers, argues Alex Bainbridge.

For聽parties聽that supposedly stand for聽free speech, Coalition MPs are increasingly using defamation hearings to silence their critics. Alex Bainbridge looks at the right's culture war.

Asylum seekers like the Murugappan family must be given permanent residency, argues Pip Hinman.

The Federal Court's聽ruling that the government has a duty of care to protect young people from climate change is a win. Zane Alcorn argues it is due to mass mobilisations on the streets.

The Greens' proposal for wealth tax is a good start, but only a聽mass union and community campaign will be able to force聽the billionaire class to pay up,聽argues聽Peter Boyle.

Free Palestine rally in Sydney

The insistence on Israel鈥檚 鈥渞ight to exist鈥 is really a demand for the maintenance of a supremacist 鈥淛ewish鈥欌 state, in which Palestinians are second-class citizens, argues聽Sam Wainwright.

The federal government has delivered another budget for the billionaire class that is hell-bent on putting their profits ahead of the climate emergency, writes Peter Boyle.

Federal ministers have been brazenly beating the war drums in the latest round of verbal aggression against China,聽escalating聽the government鈥檚 anti-China propaganda to a dangerous new level, argues Peter Boyle.

Sam Wainwright asks聽how would bosses, who are currently demanding that Fair Work Australia not raise award wages, react to a legislated freeze on the price they charge for goods and services.

The property-owning class has come out of the pandemic richer and more determined to get even wealthier. Peter Boyle takes a look at what can be done to revert this situation.

Alex Bainbridge argues the Labor party鈥檚 policy conference demonstrated Anthony Albanese plans to continue its 鈥渟mall target鈥 strategy, offering working people very little in a pandemic recession and climate emergency.