May Day Victoria

Effective change is the only choice there is

16 September 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero It is not all that unusual to hear people respond to any suggestion to change the political course of the nation by branding it idealistic and that it could never happen. Anyone […]

Help give support to the people of Venezuela

1 September 2020 Editor 0

Join in a great Saturday afternoon. Speakers who will be there are active in Venezuela, and in the solidarity movement in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia. An Australian delegation Venezuela earlier this year […]

White supremacist militias becoming an auxiliary to US police shootings

1 September 2020 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes The situation is going form bad to worse in the United States. As the movement ignited by the killing on a black man George Floyd continues, brutal attacks and killings at police […]

Trump faction may still torpedo presidential election

1 September 2020 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes Donald Trump continues to hedge his bets on the coming U.S. Presidential election. Fearful of bombing out on the polls, he has been ratcheting up his raving against fraud in the postal […]

Biden or Trump is a big win for warmongers either way

1 September 2020 Editor 0

Written by Dave DeCamp (la Progressive 15August 2020), the following draws a connection between the current Trump assertion that the Chinese are trying to get Joe Biden elected. Neither assertion is based on evidence and […]

Lawyers call for Julian Assange’s release from U.S. extradition charges

25 August 2020 Editor 0

Jess Glass writes (The Canberra Times, 17 August 2020), an impressive group of lawyers and academics have called for the release of Julian Assange from what they say, amounts to a show trial and serious […]

Torres Strait Islanders opposed by Morrison government at the United Nations

25 August 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero The Morrison government has had the gall to ask the human rights committee of the United Nations, to vote against a claim by the Torres Straights Islanders, that climate change caused rising […]

War with Iran Trump’s election eve shocker?

25 August 2020 Editor 0

This opinion piece (Asia Times 12 August 2020) Bob Dreyfuss, writer, investigative journalist, who has written for Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, The New Republic and others, and is a contributing editor at […]

End the transformation of JobKeeper into welfare for corporations and the rich

25 August 2020 Editor 0

By Ben Wilson The inadequacies of JobKeeper are becoming more obvious the longer it continues. At first it was that many of those who were left without an income due to Covid-19 missed out.

Video: Murdoch does he have too much power?

18 August 2020 Editor 0

From the United States to Australia, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire regularly courts controversy. Its coverage of COVID-19, however, is on another level. Video from Al Jazeera English