August 2024 - May Day Victoria

France heads for a new crisis as Macron continues to block the election winners

30 August 2024 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes France is entering into a new phase in its political crisis. Embattled president Emmanuel Macron continues to hold out on allowing last month’s election victors to form a government. France is now effectively without […]

Huge marches in defence of the CFMEU seen across Australia

30 August 2024 Editor 0

By Joe Montero and Ben Wilson Albo has serious problem on his hands. He did what to many Labor stalwarts, unions members, and just about anyone in favour of fair play as unthinkable. He went […]

Rally to support the CFMEU from attack

26 August 2024 Editor 0

join the Melbourne rally to give support to the CFMEU and help to fight of this unjust on the right of construction workers to belong to a union of their choice, have leaders that they […]

The U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Just Buying More Time for Israel’s Genocide

26 August 2024 Editor 0

Sunjeev Bery says (The Intercept 22 August 2024) breaking this cynical cycle requires getting honest about Biden and Harris’s roles in this blood-soaked charade. Washington talks peace while continuing to support Israel’s killing through military […]

Mass Anger, Capitalism, and 2024 Elections

22 August 2024 Editor 0

Richard D Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts and visiting fellow of International Affairs at New York’s New School University puts forward his view about the connection between rising anger and […]

The attack on the CFMEU denies justice and democratic control

20 August 2024 Editor 0

Contributed A realisation that there is more to the move to suppress the Construction division of the CFMEU than dealing with people involved in crime gangs. This is an attack on the basic right to […]

Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources?

19 August 2024 Editor 0

The following article Diane Kraal is an expert on Australian taxation law and policy and an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash Business School (The Conversation 14 August 2024) makes the case against Australia’s allowing […]

High cost of living and inflation the result of bad debt and stagnant wages

19 August 2024 Editor 0

By Joe Montero Economics writer for The Guardian and policy director at the Centre for Future Work, Greg Jericho, is right to counter the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) deputy governor assertion that the economy […]

forum on Venezuela’s Presidential election 2024

11 August 2024 Editor 0

Special guests Tim Anderson was an eyewitness observer of Venezuela’s presidential election on 28 July 2024. Fransisco Dominquez in a Chilean born leading solidarity with Venezuela campaigner in London. This is about what happened during […]

Venezuelans mobilise to support election of Nicolas Maduro

6 August 2024 Editor 0

Washington supported ultra-right elements unleash a wave of violence, as part of an orchestrated campaign against the election of Nicolas Maduro. They have targeted hospitals, schools, railway stations, and forced drivers out of cars to […]

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