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Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights
National News & Analysis

Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights

EditorDecember 18, 2020December 22, 2020
[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
International National News & Analysis

RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed

EditorDecember 1, 2020
[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
National News & Analysis

Reserve Bank Props Up Capitalism, But Can’t Solve Underlying Problems

EditorNovember 21, 2020
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
National News & Analysis

Jobseeker Cuts Leave Millions in Poverty

EditorNovember 16, 2020
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...
Melbourne’s ‘Second Wave’ of Coronavirus: Capitalism Is To Blame
National News & Analysis

Melbourne’s ‘Second Wave’ of Coronavirus: Capitalism Is To Blame

EditorOctober 26, 2020
[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...
The Covid Vaccine & the Failure of Capitalist Competition
International News & Analysis

The Covid Vaccine & the Failure of Capitalist Competition

EditorOctober 21, 2020October 21, 2020
This article was originally published by the Socialist Party, the Irish sister organisation of Socialist Action. The total failure of the capitalist system to deliver for the needs and aspirations...
Competition vs. Coordination: The Search for a Vaccine
International News & Analysis

Competition vs. Coordination: The Search for a Vaccine

EditorOctober 9, 2020October 10, 2020
This article was originally published on the website of Socialist Action's US sister section, Socialist Alternative. It was written in coordination with a shop steward at a pharmaceutical company in...
Belarus: Rigged election ignites revolution
International News & Analysis

Belarus: Rigged election ignites revolution

EditorAugust 24, 2020August 25, 2020
[caption id="attachment_20523" align="alignleft" width="1707"] A demonstration in Minsk. Photo by Aliaksei Lepik.[/caption] With the beautiful ironic humour that usually accompanies mass uprisings and revolutions, a video has appeared of Belarusian...
How to end racist policing?
International News & Analysis

How to end racist policing?

EditorJune 20, 2020June 19, 2020
The nature of policing in the United States is inseparable from the violent, racist history of capitalism in this country. From slave patrols; to Bull Connor’s unleashing dogs and fire...

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The rich get richer whilst the rest of us suffer under Covid-19

Healthcare workers need proper PPE!

Covid-19 and the housing crisis

Growing support for recognising Invasion Day

The national question in Wales

Neoliberalism: demise or adaptation?

Australia part of a global rise in gender based violence

Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights

RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed

Greece: Activists Defeat Authoritarian Protest Ban

Reserve Bank Props Up Capitalism, But Can’t Solve Underlying Problems

Veganism, Farming and Climate Change – What Socialists Say

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