In 1942, the Australian ruling class was reaping the rewards of total war. While young men were sent to the front, the ...

International Women’s Day has become mainstream in recent years. But historically it was a socialist event. Clara Zetkin, a leading member of the German Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the early ...

Twenty-first century capitalism is a horror show. The genocide in Palestine demonstrates the degree of suffering and destruction our rulers are willing to inflict to advance the interests of the ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU), which covers more than 45,000 Victorian public school staff, is preparing for a statewide strike on 24 March in our campaign for a new agreement with the state ...

Anyone who believed that “easy-going” Australia was somehow immune from the far-right tide that has swept Europe and the US has been confounded by the rapid surge in support for One Nation, which has ...

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The Fair Work Commission’s nearly finalised new pay scale for the community sector is a disaster for workers. Emergency housing workers, social work caseworkers and counsellors, alcohol and other drug ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently called support for Israel “a lasting historical responsibility”. Germany is the second largest arms supplier to Israel, and the government suppresses ...

This Ramadan, Australian Muslims began their month of fasting in a climate of extreme Islamophobia. From politicians, in the press and on social media, there is a barrage of anti-Muslim racism that ...

The Washington regime knows no limits. Another country invaded. More lies to justify it. This time, channelling former President George W. Bush’s lies about Iraq 25 years ago, it’s that Iran posed an ...