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Mass arrests at climate protest in Brisbane
Those of us who arrived early at Queensland state parliament to participate in the “Day of Rebellion” for the climate on 6 August were treated...

Australian imperialism in an era of US-China tensions
The danger of major international conflict is growing as tensions rise between a US global empire in relative decline and a rapidly rising China....

Don’t believe the hype about the ‘rules-based order’, capitalism is perpetual war
Why is war, or the threat of it, a permanent feature of our society? The most common answers point to contingencies – the psychology of...

From rebellion to revolution: socialism and the environmental crisis
Every day brings news of the depth of the environmental emergency we face. The northern summer has been punctuated by record-breaking and deadly...

Why we sell a socialist publication
“The first and essential requirement of a movement is to have an organ to record its proceedings, to communicate through, to appeal through, to...

To fight Texas-style terror, we must support open borders
This is Trump’s United States: on the morning of Saturday 3 August, a white supremacist gunman walked into a crowded Walmart store in El Paso,...

Theft is at the heart of the capitalist economy
George Calombaris is the latest money-grubbing boss scrambling to save face after being caught out for wage theft. The hospitality bigwig stole...

Silica is one part of a sick system
Michael Nolan is a 33-year-old man with just a few years left to live. He wasn’t born with a life-shortening condition. There wasn’t something...

Glass workers: ‘We’ve had enough’
Kaye Broadbent in Brisbane The O-I Glass workforce started a week of industrial action on Monday 15 July, establishing a picket outside the South...

DP World escalates waterfront dispute with redundancy threat
One thousand eight hundred wharfies employed by DP World are facing one of the most serious attacks on waterfront workers’ conditions and jobs in...