Healthcare workers need proper PPE!
Many of us have shown our gratitude to healthcare workers by giving them a round of applause as this pandemic has reminded us of the importance of proper access to...
Covid-19 and the housing crisis
Housing affordability in Australia was close to the worst in the developed world well before COVID-19 struck, with over 600,000 out of 2.6 million renting households experiencing housing stress. Now...
Growing support for recognising Invasion Day
January 26 will once again see Invasion Day rallies for Indigenous rights across Australia. More and more people in Australia recognise the hurt associated with the official 'Australia Day' holiday....
Australia part of a global rise in gender based violence
As 2021 begins, there are mounting reports noting a rise of domestic violence in Australia. The same trend is unfolding across the world. In places as far from each other...
Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights
[caption id="attachment_20724" align="alignleft" width="2560"] Public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington. Photo by Chris McLay via Unsplash[/caption] An investigation by the Victorian Ombudsman has found that the July lockdown...
RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed
[caption id="attachment_20716" align="alignleft" width="2560"] Photo by Dominik Lückmann via Unsplash[/caption] Fifteen countries signed on to the world’s biggest trade deal in mid-November. Despite the pro-capitalist propaganda this new free trade...
Reserve Bank Props Up Capitalism, But Can’t Solve Underlying Problems
Early in November the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced it would intervene to stimulate the economy more directly than it has before. Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, a...
Jobseeker Cuts Leave Millions in Poverty
Fearing the economic and political repercussions of an unemployment spike, the Morrison government was forced to increase the Newstart unemployment allowance by $550 per fortnight earlier this year. But despite...
Victorian Government Cuts Down Sacred Trees For Highway Expansion
At the same time as lockdown restrictions were being lifted, VicRoads and Victoria Police began forcibly removing activists protecting sacred trees on Djab Wurrung country, near Ararat in western Victoria....
Melbourne’s ‘Second Wave’ of Coronavirus: Capitalism Is To Blame
[caption id="attachment_20660" align="alignleft" width="2500"] Melbourne's usually bustling streets were empty during the August-October lockdown. Photo: Fabian Mardi via Unsplash[/caption] In late June the second wave of coronavirus infections spread through...
US: Democratic National Convention locks out workers and progressives
“Nothing will fundamentally change.” This promise made by Joe Biden to rich donors months ago has now been fully confirmed by the Democratic National Convention. Despite a primary which demonstrated...
The Australia-China conflict: a socialist view
A new stage of hostility has opened in the strained relationship between the Australian and Chinese governments. At a time when international cooperation is needed more than ever, Canberra and...
Have women always been oppressed?
Nine out of ten nurses are women. They also make up more than two thirds of fast food workers and supermarket workers. On top of this women still bear the...
The Great Depression and the rise of the Communist Party Australia
The Great Depression created a palpable crisis throughout Australia. Gross Domestic Production declined by 10% between 1929 and 1931 and one in three people were unemployed by 1932. Workers wages...
Black Summer bushfires: more impacts revealed
Health experts estimate that around 445 people were killed by exposure to bushfire smoke during the disastrous summer fires. Government funding cuts to fire services and corporate carbon pollution are...
Australian capitalism built on forced labour
Prime Minister Scott Morrison tried to cut across the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in June by claiming there was no slavery in Australia. He was quickly forced to retreat. Australia’s...
Indigenous deaths in custody continue
Readers are advised that the following article contains names and descriptions of people who have died. At least 437 First Nations people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal...
Worsening housing crisis: resistance required
Prior to the pandemic, ordinary Australians were already suffering from some of the highest housing prices in the world and record levels of household debt. The big banks and the...