Opposition grows to Ahpra’s attack on free speech over Palestine
The Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency announced it would use the IHRA definition of antisemitism when investigating complaints against practitioners. But opposition in the healthcare sector is growing.
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ACTU shuffles the deck chairs: McManus out, Donnelly in, but nothing’s changed
Melissa Donnelly has been declared the new secretary of the ACTU. She will be taking over a much-diminished union movement from Sally McManus who is stepping down on 31 August.
Fighting racism and anti-worker agenda vital to stopping One Nation
Pauline Hanson’s popularity may have slipped a little. But One Nation’s support remains disturbingly high.
Gas-fired data centre boom drives war and climate catastrophe
Paddy Gibson looks at the Albanese government's rush to join the data centre boom, the military connection and the threat they pose to communities and the climate
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Unions
Victorian teachers strike again after relentless campaign of rank-and-file organising
Victorian teachers and education support staff took strike action again on 23 July, with schools across the state severely affected. About 20,000 marched in a display of raw anger at conditions in schools.
Iran
Trump humbled as Iran deal shows US and Israel’s failure
The US might have the most powerful military in the world, but it’s Donald Trump who has been humiliated with the end of the war against Iran.
Royal Commission swallows baseless claims of antisemitism at universities
The royal commission into antisemitism has continued to call witness after witness conflating opposition to Israel and Zionism with antisemitism. This is designed to...
Racism and Indigenous rights
Busting Pauline Hanson’s racist lies
Pauline Hanson and One Nation have relentlessly scapegoated and demonised migrants for low wages, the housing crisis, stretched services, deteriorating infrastructure and crime. But migrants aren’t to blame for any of these problems.
Australia
From Palestine to AUKUS, Labor conference shuts down debate
Labor’s response to rank-and-file anger over Israel’s genocide in Gaza was to shut down debate at its federal conference.
Capitalism and the new wave of misogyny: Fighting sexism today
Elizabeth Grosshans looks at what's responsible for the wave of online misogyny and rising sexism, and how we can fight it.
International
Burnham’s tack left boosts British Labour—will it last?
Newly installed British Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham is talking left in an effort to revive the party’s fortunes. This has delivered a small boost in the polls, but will it last?
Long reads
Venezuela: from revolutionary transformation to imperialist victory
David Glanz reviews a new book that helps explain why the high hopes of the Bolivarian revolution ended in a squalid deal with US imperialism.
Radical history and theory
Why capitalism is addicted to oil
Tess Worley explains why oil has become so central to capitalism, and the imperialist scramble for control of the Middle East

















