In April 2024 Albanese described violence against women as a “national emergency”. The Albanese Government introduced a $4.7 billion plan to end violence against women and children in a generation, 2022-2032.

Victorian Labor Premier Ben Carroll has created a royal commission into the construction industry in a bid to save his government from electoral wipe-out in the election on 28 November.

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.

In September the UK government announced new sanctions on goods exported from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, alongside 11 other governments. Shamefully, Anthony Albanese has refused to adopt similar sanctions.

Hundreds of Aboriginal people, including many children, chronic disease patients and DV survivors are facing forced relocation from Yilli Short Stay Accommodation, an Aboriginal community-controlled housing complex in Darwin for people suffering homelessness.

The cost-of-living squeeze is worsening but Labor is doing nothing to protect living standards. This will only fuel the rise of One Nation.

A horrifying sexual assault at Cornell University has produced a wave of global outrage and anger.

German politics is in turmoil after the fascist AfD (Alternative for Germany) outpolled all other parties in two recent state elections.

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.

Matilda Fay looks at how workers in Hungary exposed the lie that Stalinist Russia was socialist through rising up to try to take control of society into their own hands