Donald Trump has unleashed weeks of savage bombing of Iran, threatening “death, fire and fury” as the regime refuses to capitulate.

The first contested election for Australia’s biggest blue-collar union, the United Workers Union, has become the focus of an intense debate about the way forward for the union.

The world is on track for catastrophic warming and climate disasters are multiplying. Yet the Albanese government’s new climate targets refuse to meet the urgent need for action.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.

Pauline Hanson’s screening in Melbourne of the reactionary film A Very Progressive Movie was challenged when cinema workers walked off the job and joined an anti-racism rally.

The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.

The Queensland government’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children was overturned in October, with Supreme Court Judge Peter Callaghan ruling it unlawful.

Mainstream and far right politicians are painting the left in France as violent after the death of a far right activist.

Anthony Albanese visited Indonesia in February to sign a security treaty with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. But there was not a word about Subianto's vicious jailing and torture of political prisoners. An Indonesian socialist tells the story that Albanese ignores

Tom Orsag tells the story of how union power and solidarity broke WA's repressive anti-protest laws.