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Liberals’ COVID contempt puts workers’ lives at risk
The fourth Victorian lockdown has highlighted how the Morrison government’s incompetence and negligence is putting millions at greater risk from the COVID pandemic.
Unions, students and the community reject Morrison’s $600 million Kurri Kurri gas plant
Opposition is growing to Scott Morrison’s $600 million plan for a new gas plant at Kurri Kurri in NSW.
Zionism and the Middle East—why the West arms Israel
Israel was established as a colonial settler state with the backing of the great powers, argues James Supple, and is still key to imposing Western control of the Middle East
Unions
General Mills workers stage indefinite strike for a decent pay rise
Workers at General Mills in Sydney have been on strike for 11 days, fighting efforts to attack their conditions and demanding a decent pay rise.
Morrison funding spree promotes more gas and fossil fuels
The Federal Budget was silent on climate jobs, environmental protection, or climate action. Instead, the Morrison government has decided to throw more public money at carbon intensive industries.
Racism and Aboriginal rights
Labor backs Coalition’s indefinite detention powers
The government has rammed through legislation that dramatically entrenches its powers to indefinitely detain refugees.
International
Israel’s brutal dispossession continues despite halt to bombing
Israel has paused its pummelling air strikes on the Gaza Strip, but its genocidal war against the Palestinians continues.
Fighting sexism
Carceral feminism—will new laws and longer sentences protect women?
New laws around coercive control have been proposed as a way to tackle violence against women. But the police can never be relied on to protect women, argues Thandi Bethune
Radical history and theory
Marx, alienation and the working class
Lachlan Marshall examines Karl Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts, where he analysed the alienation of working class life in the developing factory system
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