29 th November reminds us of the catastrophe of the 1948 Nakba. On that day people were expelled from their land and the ...

Comrades, friends, unionists – Our movement has never just been about wages and conditions in the narrow sense; it has always been about whose lives matter, whose voices count, and what kind of world ...

The Melbourne Gaol is famous for being the place where the bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged in 1880. In the early 1970s I saw a collection of death masks displayed on its walls. They were made after ...

The history of Australian horror movies is a fascinating journey, mirroring the nation’s cultural evolution, from colonial anxieties to a unique brand of modern ...

There are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentation of interested men, may call ...

This book, also published as ‘Against Fascism and War,’ is a series of speeches from August 1935 delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International on the class nature of fascism ...

More than 60,000 construction workers from the CFMEU, and other unionists and supporters took to the streets around the country on Tuesday 27 August demanding the repeal of the Fair Work ...

Aboriginal cultural knowledge is under threat of being stolen through the skilful, but sometimes deceptive, use of patents laws. Indigenous communities are frequently targeted, for example, by ...

The Queensland sugar industry annually generates $2 billion, and this industry began with indentured labour. In July 2021 the mayor of Bundaberg, Jack Dempsey, made a historic apology for the town’s ...

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, received from Chelsea Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, hundreds of thousands of classified or sensitive military and diplomatic documents, some of ...

A landmark decision by the NSW Court of Appeal to overturn the 2022 approval for Indonesian mining company MACH Energy, to extend its Mount Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook, comes after a ...

At a Wisconsin rally in 2024, President Donald Trump called illegal immigrants murderers: “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we’ve got a lot of bad genes in our ...