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An Israeli Jewish activist speaks: ‘Today I don’t believe in the Zionist entity at all’
Solidarity spoke to an anti-Zionist Jewish activist in Israel about why a handful of dissenters continue against all the odds.
Pine Gap aiding Israel’s war
Spy base Pine Gap is almost certainly playing a key role feeding intelligence to Israel for use against Gaza.
Despite Labor’s claims, cost of living still rising faster than wages
Workers are still feeling the cost of living crunch, with Anthony Albanese refusing to do anything that would make a real difference.
Unions
Firies, sparkies and pilots fight cost-of-living pain
Read Solidarity's monthly round-up from the frontline of workers' struggle.
Climate action
Dutton’s nuclear push intended to delay climate action
The Coalition’s Peter Dutton has launched a push for nuclear power. The move is a product of hostility to any serious increase in renewable energy.
Albanese keeps backing Israel even as aid workers murdered
After six months of slaughter, Israel’s atrocities in Gaza are becoming more and more obscene.
Racism and Indigenous rights
Labor wants Trump-like powers to deport refugees
The new Bill is Labor’s latest shocking, and desperate, measure to trash refugee rights.
Australia
Labor’s naval build-up pours billions more into war
In late February, the war-hawk Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, announced Labor would spend an extra $11.1 billion to double the number of Navy surface ships, taking total naval spending in the next decade to an eye-wateringly obscene $54.2 billion.
Sexism and LGBTIQ
Matildas’ success caught up in a wave of nationalism
The widespread admiration for the Matildas has been a blow against sexism but it has also fuelled nationalism.
International
Modi’s Islamophobia on full display as India faces election
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on track to win India’s upcoming election, giving him a third term in office and allowing him to cement his reactionary and racist agenda.
Long reads
White Australia and the labour movement
This is the text of the 2023 Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture, delivered by Phil Griffiths. With thanks to the Brisbane Labour History Association.
Radical history and theory
How colonial war led to revolution in Portugal
The revolution in Portugal beginning 50 years ago in 1974 with a revolt in the army, saw workers take control of hundreds of factories, writes Luke Ottavi
Feature articles
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