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 …
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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 …
Robodebt: Government stole $720 million from society’s poorest
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The Australian government’s Robodebt scheme – an automated system for issuing Centrelink debts – was found illegal in a May ruling by the Federal …
Corruption scandal exposes Labor Party
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Last week a scandal blew up in the face of the Australian Labor Party, claiming the scalps of three ministers and a shadow minister. …
How to end racist policing?
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The nature of policing in the United States is inseparable from the violent, racist history of capitalism in this country. From slave patrols; to …
Governments seize on COVID-19 to extend repressive powers
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The Economist has described it as “the most dramatic extension of state powers since the second world war.” Across the globe governments have implemented …
Eco-destruction and plagues
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Raging fires in Australia and a plague of locusts in east Africa dominated global news at the start of 2020. These rapidly receded in …
Planning and democratic control needed more than ever
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The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing all the more clearly the fundamental failings of the capitalist economic system that we live under. Even before the …
COVID-19 & the climate crisis
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Capitalism is yet again inflicting more shock and horror on the world that is bound to traumatise the global population, leaving scars that will …
How would socialists distribute goods?
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Recently someone commented, “The bare supermarket shelves we’ve seen recently show that capitalism isn’t really equipped to deal with pandemics. How would socialists go …
