Former Nauru refugee: “We can’t let this happen again”
On 26 August 2001, the MV Tampa rescued Palapa 1, with 438 asylum seekers on board (369 men, 26 women and 43 children). In September 2001, the Howard government...
Bridging visas mean life in limbo for asylum seekers
Since the Labor government announced the re-opening of offshore detention on Nauru and Manus Island on 13 August last year over 19,000 asylum seekers have arrived by boat. The...
Hall Greenland: “The best opposition to Abbott is The Greens”
Hall Greenland, a longtime left-wing activist, is The Greens candidate for the seat of Grayndler in Sydney’s inner west. Hall participated in the Freedom Ride for Aboriginal rights and...
The other foreign workers—exploitation, racism and international students
The collapse of Swan Cleaning has brought to light the exploitation of international students in Australia. Nearly 2500 workers, most of them international students, have lost their jobs. Because...
Victorian teachers’ rage is stoppered (for now)
Victorian AEU officials lowered the coffin of our EBA campaign into the ground in June with one final and successful push for a yes vote to an atrocious agreement....
Fight for jobs stalls—now Sensis want to police behaviour
Sensis has launched a new attack on its workers, with management proposing to introduce a new behaviour based pay system.
Sensis management are confident to go on the attack...
Turkey’s revolt, Islam and the military
A small protest that began with 50 people in Gezi Park, Istanbul, to save it from becoming a shopping mall, became the spark for weeks of resistance against Turkey’s...
Imperialism a growing threat to Syria’s revolution
Syria's revolution, which was inspired by the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, has now become a full blown civil war open to growing imperialist interference. But it retains...
Wave of anti-Muslim hate follows attack in Woolwich
British politicians and the media have been singing from the same Islamophobic song sheet following the murder of British soldier, Lee Rigby, in Woolwich. This has fed a wave...
Send in the clowns: the politics of Bob Katter and Clive Palmer
David Glanz looks at what’s behind the rise of maverick Bob Katter’s Australia party, and mining billionaire Clive Palmer’s Palmer United Party
On 13 May, the ABC’s Q&A program saw...
“We want bread and roses too!”
100 years ago, in one of the most famous strikes in US history, women and migrant workers in Lawrence challenged oppression and proved their ability to organise and fight,...
Aboriginal child removal rates skyrocket: a new Stolen Generation
One of the first acts of the Labor government in 2008 was to apologise to the Stolen Generations. Then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said “the injustices of the past...
Six years of shame: Aboriginal assimilation and the NT Intervention
Six years after Howard sent in the troops to Aboriginal communities to begin the Northern Territory Intervention, Paddy Gibson surveys the impact of assimilationist policies
On June 21 2007, Liberal...
Latin America’s new left governments—on the road to socialism?
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions
By Roger Burbach, Michael Fox and Federico Fuentes
Zed Books $34.95
The new millennium has seen the rise of new left governments across Latin America, from the more...
An apology for American wars and racism
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Directed by Mira Nair
Coming to DVD
Mira Nair’s film The Reluctant Fundamentalist is particularly outrageous viewing in light of the racist backlash to the Woolwich murder. Nair’s protagonist...
Weather Underground: dead end strategy for fighting US power
The Company You Keep
Directed by Robert Redford
In cinemas now
The political commotion of the late 1960s and early ‘70s gave rise to many radical organisations, including America’s Weathermen, whose ex-members...
Inside the system
Police kill the mentally ill
New statistics from the Australian Institute of Criminology show almost half of all people shot dead by Australian police over the last 22 years had...
Sydney Uni: five strikes in, staff show they can win
Staff at Sydney University from the NTEU and CPSU held their fifth successful day of strike action this year on 5 June as they face off against the aggressive...
