Kurdish community members and supporters gathered on July 27 to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria.
Susan Price
Socialist candidates are campaigning in the May 18 federal elections to put forward solutions to the growing wealth divide and looming environmental crisis.
NSW Labor lost the March 23 state election with its small-target strategy, its refusal to challenge the privatisation agenda and its sly accommodation to racism.
Susan Price is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Parramatta in the March 23 NSW state election. She has been an active unionist and socialist for more than 20 years. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Jim McIlroy asked Price about the Socialist Alliance election campaign, its aims and policies.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison鈥檚 鈥淚 stopped these [boats]鈥 desk trophy is symbolic of his government鈥檚 callous disregard for human rights. But you can be sure that Morrison won鈥檛 be stopping the Nauruan government from kicking M貥茅dicins Sans Fronti猫res (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) off Nauru.
Within days of Nauru鈥檚 decision that MSF鈥檚 mental health services would 鈥渘o longer be required鈥, news came through that an Iranian detainee on Nauru had self-harmed by swallowing washing powder.
The NSW government looks to be on the skids after a 30% swing against the Liberals in the September 8 byelection in the rural seat of Wagga Wagga. Independent Joe McGirr won the seat which had been a Liberal stronghold for 61 years.
The Socialist Alliance will contest the NSW state election, to be held in March next year. The Alliance鈥檚 ticket for the Legislative Council is made up of 18 activists from across the state. It has also preselected Susan Price to stand in the Legislative Assembly seat of Parramatta.
The WestConnex privatisation 鈥渋nvolves arguably the biggest misuse of public funds for corporate gain in Australian history鈥, Sydney University transport analyst Chris Standen on September 3.
Standen was commenting on the August 31 announcement by the New South Wales Coalition government that it was selling off 51% of the controversial WestConnex tollway complex to a Transurban-led consortium for $9.3 billion.
Amid the chaos of #libspill, the Coalition government's signature plan to cut the big business tax rate from 30 to 25% for companies with turnover above $50 million was blocked in the Senate on August 22. The vote was 36 to 30.
New South Wales is now officially in drought and parts of Queensland have been in continuous drought for years. But the climate denier federal government has its head in the sand.
The Finance Sector Union has slammed a plan to "embed" financial regulatory agency officers inside the Big Four banks and the financial management giant AMP. The FSU says that officers from the Australian Securities聽and Investments Commission (ASIC), which has been criticised for being 鈥渢oo close to the banks鈥, would be unable to penetrate the unethical internal culture of the banks.
The mounting scandals being revealed by the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry highlight the need for a comprehensive and radical solution to the crisis in the banking system.
The Big Four banks must be nationalised so people can take back their stolen wealth and a new public banking system must be created under democratic community control.
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