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Labor’s cost of living band-aids in budget leave real problems ignored
Labor’s budget is about making it look like the government is acting on the cost of living, in the hope of dampening the anger workers feel about it in time for an election in the next year.
End systemic pressures inside the family to end violence against women
The problem is not straightforwardly men’s power over women but the unbearable pressure on everybody to perform socially recognisable gender roles in a nuclear family.
NTEU at Sydney Uni backs the academic boycott of Israeli universities
Sydney University staff have passed an unprecedented motion that will push forward the movement in Australia for the boycott, divestment and sanction of Israel.
Unions
Firies, sparkies and pilots fight cost-of-living pain
Read Solidarity's monthly round-up from the frontline of workers' struggle.
Climate action
Labor locks in gas expansion in new crime against the climate
Labor’s new gas strategy pledges its support for a massive fossil fuel expansion, going all out to back mining industry profits.
An Israeli Jewish activist speaks: ‘Today I don’t believe in the Zionist entity at all’
Solidarity spoke to an anti-Zionist Jewish activist in Israel about why a handful of dissenters continue against all the odds.
Racism and Indigenous rights
Labor wants Trump-like powers to deport refugees
The new Bill is Labor’s latest shocking, and desperate, measure to trash refugee rights.
Australia
AUKUS billions won’t deliver jobs bonanza for SA
The AUKUS subs will come at an outrageous cost, but will also do little to deliver jobs, the UK experience shows.
Sexism and LGBTIQ
Matildas’ success caught up in a wave of nationalism
The widespread admiration for the Matildas has been a blow against sexism but it has also fuelled nationalism.
International
Modi’s Islamophobia on full display as India faces election
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on track to win India’s upcoming election, giving him a third term in office and allowing him to cement his reactionary and racist agenda.
Long reads
White Australia and the labour movement
This is the text of the 2023 Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture, delivered by Phil Griffiths. With thanks to the Brisbane Labour History Association.
Radical history and theory
How colonial war led to revolution in Portugal
The revolution in Portugal beginning 50 years ago in 1974 with a revolt in the army, saw workers take control of hundreds of factories, writes Luke Ottavi
Feature articles
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