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Climate change protesters arrested for obstructing traffic have been given “absurd” bail conditions that ban them from “going near” or contacting members of Extinction Rebellion, which civil liberties groups say infringes on freedom of political communication.
On Monday, 30 people – including (...)
Major environment groups, including the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace, back XR protests
The head of one of Australia’s largest environment groups has warned Extinction Rebellion protesters they could be creating division on environmental issues at a time when “cool heads” are (...)
Peter Dutton has described protesters as ‘a scourge’, with the threat of increased penalties and imprisonment in several states
On Monday, the activist group Extinction Rebellion will begin a week of global protests.
In Brisbane, home to the grassroots organisation’s first Australian chapter, (...)
On 18 May, Australians will cast their votes in an election that has workers’ rights at centre-stage. In what has been declared by the main opposition Labor Party as a “referendum on wages”, the proposed policies on workplace relations have not been more divergent in over a decade.
Emerging as a (...)
Sydney meeting hears calls for party to be more proactive on Uluru Statement from the Heart and economic policy
Labor’s left faction is beginning to raise its voice about the plight of children on Nauru – concerns have been raised at a meeting of factional convenors and union bosses, and there (...)
The Australian capital has seen five prime ministers in the past six years, the result of uprisings within the alternately governing Liberal and Labor Parties. No prime minister has served a full electoral term since 2007.
Malcolm Turnbull, the sitting prime minister and leader of the (...)
The purpose is to maintain an economy for the benefit of the rich under the pretext of fighting inflation
The website of the Reserve Bank of Australia is probably not a place most people would visit for a laugh but, in the debate about unemployment, the pitiful rate of Newstart and a (...)
World Vision Australia chief advocate says bill is part of a ‘zeitgeist of a silencing and gagging of civil society’
Tim Costello, chief advocate of the aid body World Vision Australia, has compared the Australian government’s foreign donations bill to attempts to stifle dissent in Vladimir (...)
Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, the standard bearer for a more radical politics in the Australian Greens, has found herself compared to Jeremy Corbyn but the impact of Corbyn may be more significant on the Australian Labor Party.
The whole world may, or may not, be watching Jeremy Corbyn and (...)
Victoria has become the first Australian state to introduce a permanent ban on onshore fracking and coal seam gas exploration. Hailed as a stunning and inspiring victory of a “grassroots” movement fighting against a strong streak of climate change denial in the national government and the (...)
Australia’s offshore detention regime is a fortress of secrecy, intimidation and repression. The Guardian’s “Nauru Files” have knocked some of the bricks out of this edifice; what they reveal is horrifying.
The files contain more than 2,000 incident reports involving harm or threatened harm to (...)
“Finally, I see so many people standing here together, standing in solidarity. We are uniting against these bigots, these clowns.” These were the words of Rasheed, one of a hundred or so young Muslim locals who joined several hundred socialists, anarchists and other local residents to drive the (...)
The Australian left has lost one of its outstanding revolutionary comrades. Doug Lorimer, a committed socialist activist for 42 years and a remarkable writer and educator in the ideas of Marxism, died in Sydney on 21 July after a year of deteriorating health. Doug dedicated his whole life to (...)
Report on discussions between Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative.
A meeting was held in Melbourne on November 4 between Peter Boyle, Sue Bolton and Susan Price (representing the leadership of Socialist Alliance) and Mick Armstrong, Sandra Bloodworth and Corey Oakley (representing the (...)
November 3, 2012 — Green Left Weekly — Socialist Alliance candidate Sue Bolton (pictured above) was elected to Moreland City Council in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in the October 27 municipal government elections. Bolton received 9.5% of the first-preference votes in the council’s north-east (...)
In a very positive development for the revolutionary left in Australia, Socialist Alternative is engaged in unity discussions with the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP). The initial discussions have been highly productive and have been conducted in a comradely and constructive manner.
The (...)
The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) held its third congress on 29-30 September. The RSP was founded in 2008, after a long struggle inside the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), in defence of seeking to build a political party that publicly defends and explains revolutionary socialism and (...)
Socialist Alternative has received the following correspondence from the Socialist Alliance National Executive writes the organisation. Socialist Alternative has agreed to attend an initial and exploratory discussion about possible collaboration and unity. September 15, 2012
Socialist (...)
Malalai Joya speaks to the Marxism 2012 conference. Photo: Socialist Alternative/Flickr
The decision by the organisers of the three-day Marxism 2012 to invite a broader range of international speakers and allow other socialist groups to set up stalls at its three-day Marxism 2012 conference in (...)
Malalai Joya addresses the conference. Photo: Daniel Taylor.
This year’s Marxism conference was attended by 925 people.
The stories of resistance from around the world – Afghanistan, Palestine, the US, the Philippines, Europe, Egypt, Bahrain, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Chile (...)
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