The Communications Electrical Plumbing Union has slammed the Tasmanian Liberal government鈥檚 proposal to sell off energy assets. Kerry Smith 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Issue 1424
News
Join rallies across the country on March 15 to say 鈥楽top killing women鈥 and demand an end to violence against women, domestic abuse and misogyny.聽
More than 100 people helped launch long-term Merri-bek councillor Sue Bolton鈥檚 campaign for the seat of Wills. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
More than 100 high school students, of all ages, parents and community members demanded Sheik Wesam Charkawi be allowed back to Granville High, where he has been a student support officer for 13 years. Kerry Smith reports.
Jepke Goudsmit hopes that the full page of signatories聽in the Sydney Morning Herald聽and the聽Age opposing Israel鈥檚聽ethnic cleansing in Gaza will聽lead towards a further weakening and the eventual dismantling of the Zionist project.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has launched a campaign to push back against supermarket giants and other large employer groups wanting to abolish penalty rates in the retail sector. Jim McIlroy reports.
Victorian Socialist Alliance members from Geelong and Melbourne branches discussed the context in which to advance progressive campaigns at SA鈥檚 Victorian conference.聽Elizabeth Bantas reports.
Disrupt Burrup Hub activist Matilda Lane-Rose said environment minister Tanya Plibersek should not approve Woodside's North West Shelf Extension, reports Isaac Nellist.
NSW Greens MLC Amanda Cohn has introduced a bill to significantly expand access to abortion services across the state. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Protesters, including Aunty Gail Hickey, are still demanding that the NSW Police officers that chased TJ Hickey to his death in 2004 be brought to justice. Paul Gregoire reports.
Socialist Alliance launched its campaign for the seat of Rankin with its key focus for the government to break ties with the genocidal Israeli state, build public housing and climate action. Susan Price reports.
The City of Sydney became the first New South Wales council to pass a boycott and divest motion when nine other councillors, with the exception of the one Liberal, supported the move.聽翱濒颈惫颈补听濒耻谤颈苍肠颈肠丑 and Rachel Evans report.
A protest at Sydney Town Hall Square heard civil and social movement leaders condemn NSW Labor鈥檚 proposed new laws banning protests near places of worship. Jim McIlroy reports.
Socialist Alliance in Western Australia will run activist candidates in the federal seat of Fremantle and the Senate on a 鈥淧eople before Profit鈥 platform. Janet Parker reports.
Hundreds turned out to a 鈥淗ands off Hall Park鈥 rally to oppose the City of Mandurah鈥檚 decision to excise a portion of it for commercial development.聽Josh Nicholls reports.
罢丑别听惭耻谤诲辞肠丑-辞飞苍别诲 Geelong Advertiser described Sarah Hathway as 鈥渄ivisive鈥, reflecting her track record of standing up against corporate greed, which people expect of their local representative. Angela Carr reports.
Two independent reports refute Victorian Labor鈥檚 position that knocking and down and rebuilding 44 public housing towers is the best option to achieve a mix of private, social and affordable housing. Darren Saffin reports.
Analysis
While young people are generally more progressive, the far right is pushing misogyny to draw young men into their movement. Isaac Nellist reports.
After injecting $1.9 billion into the Whyalla Steelworks, Labor wants it run by private interests.聽Renfrey Clarke argues聽if taxpayers are to bear the cost, they are entitled to demand that the assets stay in public ownership.
Defence minister Richard Marles is keen to rebuke聽China for sending warnings to Australian military vessels and planes, but Australia is also playing chicken in the South China Sea. Pip Hinman reports.
Jackie Turner, Audrey Stringer 补苍诲听Nova Sobieralski discuss trans rights on the latest 麻豆传媒 Show.
Celebrate Palestine South West activists marched down the main street of Wooditchup with their flags and banners to show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for the 52nd week in a row. Ned Reilly looks at how the movement has grown.
The Western Australian election will be an opportunity to assess the major parties, as well as those offering progressive solutions, writes Cas Smith.
Rochelle Porteous, an聽indefatigable campaigner, suddenly died earlier this year. Hall Greenland writes about her activism, noting many of her greatest victories came while she was in a minority on Leichhardt Council.
Matilda Lane-Rose, from Disrupt Burrup Hub, joins the 麻豆传媒 Show to discuss why we must oppose the destructive gas project.
Shamikh Badra told Peter Boyle that Palestinians will resist Donald Trump鈥檚 plans to make Gaza a beach resort, just as they have resisted Israel鈥檚 occupation armies for decades.
Antoinette Lattouf鈥檚 unlawful dismissal case against the ABC reveals the extreme lengths to which the media establishment will stoop to silence dissenting voices, argues Isaac Nellist.
The interest rate cut will bring some relief for borrowers, but it will not significantly ease the cost-of-living crisis. 笔别迟别谤听叠辞测濒别 argues for four measures that聽will.
Israeli-Australian Ofir Birenbaum skulked聽away from the Cairo Takeaway with a聽Daily Telegraph聽journalist and camera person after their mission to find聽鈥渆vidence鈥 of an escalation of antisemitism failed. Wendy Bacon reports.
There is no question that we must oppose and fight antisemitism. However, its weaponisation 鈥 specifically in relation to anti-Zionism 鈥 is now so pervasive that it underlies every attempt to shut down the movement for Palestinian rights, argues Janet Parker.
World
Isaac Nellist asks US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan, members of the Democratic Socialists of America Bread and Roses caucus, about Trump鈥檚 attacks on immigrants, workers and human rights.聽
The shopping centre collapse in Trujillo highlights the extent of government inaction and corporate greed that has allowed shopping centres to operate without meeting minimum safety standards, reports Ben Radford.
Salih Muslim聽spoke to 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Peter Boyle about the significance for Rojava of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan鈥檚 call for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party.聽
About 2000 people demonstrated in Montreal on February 15 against the closure of Amazon鈥檚 seven warehouses and distribution centres in Quebec, reports Marc Bonhomme.
麻豆传媒鈥檚 Peter Boyle spoke to Ebru G眉nay after she visited Australia with a Peoples鈥 Equality and Democracy Party delegation from Turkey.
Thousands of Indonesian students across the country are taking to the streets protesting the Prabowo Subianto administration, launching a new movement against the former military general鈥檚 program of 鈥渂udget efficiency鈥, reports聽Girard Mariano Lopez.
The situation in Sudan is described as the 鈥渂iggest humanitarian catastrophe on Earth鈥, with children dying at a rate of 13 a day in the famine-stricken Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons, reports Pavan Kulkarni.
As former United States President Joe Biden left office, he commuted 80-year-old political prisoner Leonard Peltier鈥檚 life sentences to home incarceration, reports Malik Miah. Peltier is a long-time leader of the First Nations movement in the US.
In a 鈥渟lash and burn鈥 rampage, multi-billionaire and Donald Trump appointee Elon Musk is spearheading job cuts and closures across United States government departments, report聽Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
Federico Fuentes sat down with聽Venezuelan sociologist Atenea Jim茅nez, co-founder of the Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy,聽which is bringing together Venezuelan left-wing movements and activists.
Donald Trump鈥檚 neofascist administration is seeking direct agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the expense of the Ukrainian people, argues Gilbert Achcar.
Peruvian farmers are getting a raw deal thanks to unfair prices for their produce, water shortages and unregulated corporate profiteering, reports Ben Radford.
More than 230 civil society organisations in countries involved in the F-35 fighter jet program are demanding their governments immediately halt all direct and indirect arms transfers to Israel, reports Kerry Smith.
Culture
Mat Ward looks back at February's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Hysteria surrounds the dropping of Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator聽Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, argues Binoy Kampmark.
Multimedia journalist and producer Michael Fox is back with a new podcast series, Stories of Resistance, which is packed with glimpses of inspiration in these dark times, reports Federico Fuentes.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism.