The Great Depression and the rise of the Communist Party Australia
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The Great Depression created a palpable crisis throughout Australia. Gross Domestic Production declined by 10% between 1929 and 1931 and one in three people …
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Black Summer bushfires: more impacts revealed
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Health experts estimate that around 445 people were killed by exposure to bushfire smoke during the disastrous summer fires. Government funding cuts to fire …
Australian capitalism built on forced labour
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison tried to cut across the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in June by claiming there was no slavery in Australia. He …
Indigenous deaths in custody continue
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Readers are advised that the following article contains names and descriptions of people who have died. At least 437 First Nations people have died …
Worsening housing crisis: resistance required
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Prior to the pandemic, ordinary Australians were already suffering from some of the highest housing prices in the world and record levels of household …
For liveable welfare not poverty payments
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Hundreds of thousands of people were forced out of work in recent months as a result of COVID-19 lock downs. Those pushed onto income …
Jobs crisis: Government schemes fail
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Official unemployment numbers reached an 18 year high in June as Australia entered its first recession in nearly 30 years. Despite the Morrison government …
COVID-19: Tertiary jobs under threat
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Many thousands of university workers are feeling the first shockwaves of the COVID-19 crisis, with many already unemployed or with their jobs under threat. …
Hong Kong national security law – Xi Jinping’s “nuclear option”
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The effect of the Chinese regime’s new law is similar to a military coup or second “June 4 (Tiananmen)” but using laws, secret police …
Who are the real looters?
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During the recent Black Lives Matter protests, following the murder of George Floyd, the mainstream media has been guilty of sensationalism, focusing on limited …
Ask The Socialist: How would socialists deal with the pandemic?
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One of our supporters recently asked us: “Capitalist governments around the world are doing a terrible job handling COVID-19, but what would socialists do …
Metro Train’s attempted coronavirus cover up backfires
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Bosses at Flinders Street Station attempted to cover up news of a sub-contracted cleaner testing positive for coronavirus last week. Workers are angry that …
