The COVID-19 pandemic is having a particularly hard impact on working class women all over the world. It’s exacerbating all the inequalities that women already experience.
Women make up the large majority of...
Healthcare for all
-An end to all funding cuts, closures and privatisations in healthcare.
-For huge investment into pubic healthcare to significantly increase capacity and prepare for future shocks.
-For mass COVID-19 public testing, and an...
As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, a dangerous crisis is looming within Australia’s healthcare system. There are far too few hospital beds, inadequate staff and facilities, and a shortage of personal protective equipment.
A vaccine for...
“Shame on you. Shame on Europe. Stop this circus now.” These words did not come from an angry demonstrator but from the French Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire, during the last...
In late March, Tim Kennedy, the national secretary of the United Workers Union (UWU), released a document that has stirred up some positive discussion in the trade union movement.
Titled ‘Workers’ plan to survive...
The threat posed by COVID-19 was not a secret. The devastating spread of the virus in China, and the fact that it could be transmitted person-to-person was world news by the middle of January....
Thanks to one of our Facebook followers, Jen, for nominating Alan Jones for our latest ‘Rogue of the month’ column. Coincidentally, Jones announced he was retiring from his radio jobs this week...
Jones is...
In recent months, a raft of new measures have been introduced by governments in the name of fighting COVID-19. Increased government funding is widely accepted as necessary, but new measures that wind back democratic...