Labor’s anti-immigration measures boost One Nation—we need to fight back

One Nation’s win in the Secret Harbour by-election in Perth saw it take a safe Labor seat with a swing of 18.7 per cent. This shows how much of threat Hanson really is.

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Wharfies defiant in face of management bullying

Eighteen wharfies at the bulk goods handler Quantem at Coode Island, West Melbourne, have been locked out.

Victorian teachers—lessons from a union rank-and-file revolt

Lucy Honan spoke to Solidarity about the lessons from Victorian teachers and school staff's bargaining campaign and the role of rank-and-file organising in it.

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.

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Unions

Tell Victorian Labor – hands off RAFFWU

New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is rewarding the conservative union that has backed his career by moving to shut down its more militant rival.

Iran

Trump backs down on Iran again but still faces defeat

Donald Trump has again backed down from a major escalation of his war on Iran, saying another deal was close that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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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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.

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Victories for the left inside Democratic Party show mood for change in the US

The deepening economic, social and political crisis in the United States, combined with the polarisation produced by Donald Trump’s rule, is fuelling a revival of the Democrats.

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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

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