As opinion polls for Labor keep falling, Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan are trying to recast the government as the friend of working people. But their timidity and mixed messages mean working class voters just aren’t buying it.
The economic crisis in Europe has become a political crisis after the architects of austerity in Greece were utterly smashed at the polls in the May 6 election.
Clare Fester looks at the impact of several decades of neo-liberal shock therapy on Australian universities—and how to drive it back
Amy Thomas analyses the The Greens’ role in left politics since the federal election
Freya Bundey looks at the way forward for the revolution that toppled a dictator
Hawke and Keating’s Accord agreement was designed to hold back wages and conditions and weakened union power, argues Feiyi Zhang
Labor’s obsession with a budget surplus has delivered more cuts and an on-going failure to fund services. Despite its talk there is only peanuts for spending on schools, dental and disability care in this budget.
On the same day the axe fell on academic jobs at Sydney University, students and staff hit the streets in a day of anger, and successfully blockaded a Senate meeting for several hours despite encountering severe police violence.
On Tuesday April 14, in a display of student radicalism not seen on an Australian campus in years, students from eight lecture halls walked out of class. In Biology, English and Anthropology the entire class walked out, while large contingents from other classes walked out and joined the rally against the VC’s proposed job cuts. With proposed cuts at ANU, Macquarie, La Trobe and Victoria, and all eyes on the fight at Sydney, now more than ever we need a clear political strategy to win, argue the Sydney University Solidarity students
Solidarity distributed this leaflet at the 2012 national Climate Action Summit, held this weekend in Sydney
One thousand five hundred students and staff marched down the University of Sydney’s Eastern Avenue on Wednesday 4 April in a defiant display of opposition to 340 proposed job cuts. Over 100 students then occupied the Faculty of Arts and delivered an ultimatum to the Vice Chancellor, demanding he back away from the cuts or face a “campaign of escalating direct action”.
Kate Davison interviewed Christine Buchholz, German Federal MP for Die Linke (”The Left” Party) and supporter of Marx21, about their efforts to build solidarity with Greek workers facing severe austerity measures imposed by the German government and the EU.
Solidarity meets in cities all around the country. Check here for details of the latest upcoming meetings.
It is all too clear that the current Labor government is determined to out flank Tony Abbott to the right on refugees. We need a strong movement to turn the tide. Join the campaign in your city to call for an end to mandatory detention of refugees and offshore processing.
Get involved in the campaign to stop the racist Northern Territory Intervention
Labor has announced they will pursue another version of a price on carbon. Much like the emissions trading scheme proposed by Kevin Rudd, the scheme is likely to dish out billions of dollars to polluters and do nothing to stop the mass expansion of coal-fired power happening all around the country. Get involved to demand real action on climate change.
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