Abbott can’t hide his rule for the rich agenda

Tony Abbott has been trying to avoid the media in his first month as Prime Minister. But more and more of the Coalition’s real agenda is emerging.

Seven strikes seal key conditions at Sydney Uni

After seven days of strike action this year Sydney University staff have won a deal that reduces casualisation, protects and strengthens existing conditions and avoids a pay cut.

Little at stake in Labor leadership battle

The Labor leadership contest between Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese has been put forward as a major step to rejuvenate Labor, by giving members a say in the party. But it will be meaningless without a fight to change Labor’s right-wing policies and political outlook.

Strike one against Liberals’ school cuts in WA

Teachers, Education Assistants and parents are fighting back against the Liberal’s cuts to education in Western Australia.

NT bus workers head resistance to public sector assault

Bus drivers in Darwin have held two 24-hour strikes in the last few weeks, with more that 40 drivers walking off the job to march to the NT Parliament.

Tensions mount: Morrison tries to stop the media but he hasn’t stopped the boats

Abbott and Morrison have wasted no time putting the boot into asylum seekers.

West Papuan asylum seekers returned to PNG

Seven West Papuans who requested asylum when they arrived in the Torres Strait have been denied the chance to make a protection application in Australia. Two days after arriving, on 4 October, they were spirited overnight to Port Moresby.

Fighting Abbott’s climate denial: why we shouldn’t defend the carbon tax

Tony Abbott says repealing the carbon tax will be his “first order of business” in the new parliament. Labor and the Greens have said they will oppose its repeal, setting up a stalemate until new Senators take over in July next year.

Has the carbon tax cut emissions?


Community campaign challenging East West tunnel plan

A community campaign is fighting the Victorian Liberal government’s planned East West toll link tunnel. The multi-lane road tunnel will cost $6-8 billion and involve the demolition of large areas of inner city parkland, sports fields, and wetlands, as well as the compulsory acquisition of homes.

Low paid women workers: Abbott’s first target

Tony Abbott has quietly rushed to attack the wages of aged care workers and childcare workers. Predominantly women, they are some of the lowest paid in the country.

Tecoma v McDonald’s: Community resistance to a corporate world

The campaign to stop the infamous corporate bully McDonald’s from setting up shop in Tecoma has become another symbol of the battle between real democracy and capitalist greed.

Zoe’s law an attack on abortion rights in NSW

Anti-abortionists are lining up behind a bill in NSW that threatens to set a legal precedent defining a foetus of over 20 weeks as a living person.

Workers the victims in US shutdown circus

In a sign of the chaos and instability that now afflicts the world’s sole superpower, the US government had been “shut down” by the right-wing Republicans’ refusal to pass a new budget. Around 800,000 government workers have been stood down without pay.

Protests force Greece to act on fascist Golden Dawn

The growing opposition to Golden Dawn and its increasingly brazen attacks have forced the Greek government to act.

Strikes and resistance have Greek government on the brink

The Greek government again faces collapse with a new wave of strikes against the austerity being imposed by the Troika of the EU, IMF and the European Central Bank.

Bangladesh ablaze with garment workers’ anger

A mass strike wave of garment workers hit Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka in September.

Whatever happened to Labor’s Left?

The lack of any distinct policy differences between Labor’s Left and Right candidates in the leadership contest exposes the degeneration of the Left faction writes James Supple

Syria, war and imperialism: Why the main enemy is at home

The history of socialists’ opposition to war provides insights for today, argues Geraldine Fela

The New Guard: When Australia’s rulers flirted with fascism

As Australia suffered a major economic crisis in the 1930s, sections of business and the ruling class began to encourage a growing fascist movement, writes Tom Orsag

Inside the world of the corporate vultures

Antony Loewenstein’s latest book explores the corrupt and destructive alliances between governments and multi-national corporations. Loewenstein labels this vulture capitalism, where unaccountable corporations are more powerful than states and politicians are lobbied and bought, resulting in rampant privatisation and deregulation.

Inside the system

Newman’s G20 police state, VC’s collusion with police at Sydney Uni, Taxpayer junkets, Australia’s role in Pinochet coup and BHP boss’s $700,000 payout to move house

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