Lee Sustar explains how the intractable problems of the world economy have turned the G20 summit for global economic cooperation into a snake pit.

The annual AUSMIN meeting this week reaffirmed the determination of the world’s biggest warmonger to maintain its domination of the Asia-Pacific region, backed to the hilt by the Gillard government.

Reflecting the overwhelming support for marriage equality across the country, Perth and Canberra held more successful Equal Love demonstrations last weekend.

British workers and students have the capacity to forge, with the wider social justice movement, potentially the greatest popular resistance ever, argues John Pilger.

In the upcoming Victorian elections we need a left-wing alternative to Labor. That’s why Socialist Alternative is advocating a vote for Socialist Party candidate Steve Jolly in the seat of Richmond.

Republicans are trumpeting their big gains in the midterm elections as a mandate to turn the country sharply to the right. But it was the unwillingness of the Democrats to implement real change that opened the way for Republicans to do well.

On an evening this past spring, near midnight, a land cruiser pulled up to the house of a government official in Kandahar city. 

In a bout of breathtaking hypocrisy the Victorian ALP and the Murdoch press have savagely attacked a Greens candidate for representing a coal corporation in a dispute with the family of a workers killed on the job. The Greens though, have little defence to the charges put against them.

Nicole Colson reports on new revelations about the US war machine in Iraq – and the attempt by politicians and the media to deflect attention from the real crimes. 

The crisis across Europe and North America is shaking up the political situation.

A fifth aid convoy headed by the organisation Viva Palestine has, in the last week, made its way into Gaza.