At a mass meeting, the ACTU departed from previous election campaigns by urging unionists to vote for either Labor or the Greens.Zita Henderson reports.
Issue 1342
News
Aged people are being discriminated against in homes with inadequatestaff-to-patient ratios, reportsJack Williams.
Anti-war and peace activists are planning to picket a naval arms bazaar, Indo Pacific Expo, being organised in Sydney. Pip Hinman reports.
National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Sydney havevotedto strike for 48 hours on May 11–12 over work conditions.Georgie Dixon reports.
A spirited action against the commodification of education outside Sydney University’s Fisher Library heard from staff and students. Rachel Evans reports.
Scott Morrison's “captain’s pick” for the seat of Warringah isKatherine Deves has long been an anti-LGBTI rights campaigner.Shane Crocker reports.
Civil rights activists are angry that the federal government's witch hunt against Bernard Collaery is continuing. Kerry Smith reports.
Inner West residents were shocked to be told by the council’s general manager that they were effectively being shut out of the preparation of the demerger case. Peter Boyle reports.
NSW bus drivers are striking to receive the same pay and conditions for the same work across the network, reports Jim McIlroy .
Unionists rallied outside Liberal National MP Warren Entsch's office to call for better wages and conditions for workers, an end to insecure work and for a change in government. Isaac Nellist reports.
Thousands marched in the annual Palm Sunday’swalk for justice for refugees in Melbourne. Supporters of refugee rights also took to the streets in Canberra and Newcastle.Chloe DS, Elizabeth Trenchos,Paul Oboohov andSteve O'Brienreport.
Pacific Outreach Officer at the Edmund Rice Centre Maria TiimonChi-Fang, from the tiny Pacific island state Kiribati, warned at the Palm Sunday rallythat her community is the"collateral damage to the greed of distant colonising powers".
The Palm Sunday marchon April 10took up the intersecting issues of war, refugees and climate emergency.
Four Fireproof Australia activists were arrested and charged under the new draconian anti-protest laws. Rachel Evans reports.
Protesters gathered outside the Federal Court to demand Santos withdraws its bid to try to override the Gomeroi’s opposition to a coal seam gas plant in the Pilliga Forest in north-west New South Wales. Jim McIlroy reports.
Brunswick residents, who have been battling to stop a Bunnings Warehouse from being built in a residential area for nearly two years, have won. Andrea Bunting reports.
Analysis
Exaggerated coverage of Anthony Albanese’s supposed day one “gaffe” in this election campaign,including by the ABC, help disguise the lack of difference between the two partiesand tips the scales towards the Coalition, argues Alex Bainbridge.
Suzanne James spoketo Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW SenateDr Niko Leka aboutrefugee and asylum seeker policy, addressing the climate crisis and the need for universal health care.
Jim McIlroy reports onTom McDonald's long involvement in Australia’s trade union and Communist movements.
Tucked away at the end of Labor’sSecure Australian Jobs Planfor this election is a promise to abolish the ABCC. Workers will need to hold Laborto account if elected, argues Sue Bull.
Socialist Alliance candidate Kamala Emanuel spoketo Alex Bainbridge about what is motivating her to run in the federal election.
John Shipton addressed questions after the premiere of Ithaka, afilmabout the campaign to free his son Julian Assange which isscreening across the country.
War and climate change are linked: one cannot be solved without solving the other, and neither can be resolved by capitalism. Because this is all too obvious, William Briggsargues a lot of time and effort is spent on obscuring the truth.
Suzanne Jamesspoke to trade unionist and Socialist Alliance candidate for the Victorian SenateAngela Carrabout Australia’s economic and social equity crisis.
Alex Bainbridge speaks with John Shipton, aboutthe campaign to free Julian Assangeinthe 鶹ý Show #20.
Labor will not commit to raising the JobSeeker payment of $44 a day, backing down on a promise it made in 2019 to review it. Isaac Nellist reports on the response.
Suzanne James spoketo Angela Carr, Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in Victoria, about housing, health, National Disability Insurance Schemeand the party'splans to address the growing socio-economic inequality crisis.
If war were not such a profitable enterprise for capitalism, the arms industries would not be so huge, writes William Briggs.
Morrison, Joyce andDutton are salivating at the prospect of purchasing hypersonic missiles. They believe it will makeAustralia “attractive” — in an existentially doomed way — to other powers in the region, writesBinoy Kampmark.
World
This month, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government joined an ignominious collective in announcing a refugee deal with Rwanda, seedily entitled the UK-Rwanda Migration Partnership, reports Binoy Kampmark.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's fate now rests in the hands of British Home Secretary Priti Patel, writes Binoy Kampmark.
An underground anti-war movement continues to organise in Russia and neighbouring Belarus, despite facing harsh repression, reports Dick Nichols.
A delegation led by Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) presidential candidate Leody de Guzman came under gunfire in Mindanao on April 19, while meeting with members of an Indigenous tribe on their occupied lands, reports Susan Price.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the 116th justice of the Supreme Court on April 7, reports Malik Miah. While a victory, racism remains central to politics in the US.
Since he lost power, former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s rhetoric against the United States has intensified. However, Khan’s anti-US stand cannot be called anti-imperialism, writes Farooq Tariq.
The May 9 national elections in the Philippines are taking place as the country reels under the blows of multiple system crises — climate, economic and social — compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Reihana Mohideen.
John Mullen shares his initial analysis of the French presidential election results.
Culture
Melbourne-based visual artist Nina Sanadze launched her thought-provoking installation Call to Peace on March 27, reports Mayura Ashok.
The Basque liberation movement, ETA, waged war on the Spanish state for about 60 years. Maixabel is obligatory viewing to understanding the emotional and spiritual impact of armed struggle, writes Barry Healy.
Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books for activists.
Ben Lewis, translator and editor of Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism,sits down totalkwith 鶹ý.