I will happily take any opportunity to wave a red flag in public. My chance to do so this year was on May 1, the International Workers' Day.
Our Common Cause
This federal election is taking place at a time when the need for radical social and economic change is palpable: the escalating climate crisis and rampant and growing inequality are two major symptoms of the bankruptcy of capitalism.
Activists from the Australian Council of Trade Union鈥檚 campaign to 鈥渃hange the rules鈥 for workers were told the day before pre-polling started that its official how-to-vote for the May 18 federal election would call on voters to put Labor first.
Disappointed, though not too surprised by the decision, some activists have decided not to聽hand out for the campaign.
Most workers cannot wait to get rid of this dreadful federal Coalition government. But fewer believe that a Bill Shorten-led Labor government will actually change the rules, writes Sue Bull.
The farcical by Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his minister for small and family business Senator Michaelia Cash says a lot about the state of Australian politics.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg only mentioned the word 鈥渃limate鈥 twice in his election budget , and almost as an afterthought.
NSW Labor lost the March 23 state election with its small-target strategy, its refusal to challenge the privatisation agenda and its sly accommodation to racism.
The Socialist Alliance has a vision for a better world 鈥 and we are running in the federal election to share that vision and help make it become a reality.
After Commissioner Kenneth Hayne released the banking royal commission鈥檚 interim report in September, many of the headlines and takeaway quotes focused on its claim that banks 鈥減ut profits before people鈥.
聽鈥淲hy did it happen?鈥 the asked. 鈥淭oo often the answer seems to be greed 鈥 the pursuit of short term profit at the expense of basic standards of honesty. How else is charging continuing advice fees to the dead to be explained?...
Celebrating January 26 is a state-sanctioned exercise that rubs salt into the wounds of Indigenous Australia. It proclaims, 鈥淵ou lost, we won. Know your place.鈥
But the desire for an honest conversation about modern Australia's origins in the violent and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous people is not going away.
Across the country Invasion Day marches were both bigger than ever, and took place in many more places. More local governments have dropped their January 26 activities and finally the ABC allowed Triple J to shift its Hottest 100.
For a party only launched in May, Victorian Socialists achieved some exceptional results in the November 24 state elections.
This November 30, I, along with hundreds 鈥 possibly thousands 鈥 of high school students will be participating in a student strike for climate action, writes Leo Crnogorcevic.
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