Labor’s new laws appointing an administrator with absolute dictatorial powers to run every branch of the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union is the most serious attack on a union in living memory, argues Sam Wainwright.
Sam Wainwright
Labor is playing a game over Gaza. To claim to support a ceasefire while arming and giving political cover to the perpetrators of genocide is sick cynicism, argues Sam Wainwright
“Labor has betrayed us” is now a strong sentiment among large numbers of trade unionists, who are outraged at the Anthony Albanese government’s union-busting assault on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU).
The attack has been applauded by building industry bosses, who are now trying to renege on enterprise bargaining agreements so they can cut wages, conditions and weaken safety standards on the job.
Socialist Alliance recommends a Yes vote for the referendum on the Voice. But we also recognise that substantial measures to benefit Indigenous people require a strengthening of the grassroots movements for change. This will be true whatever the outcome on October 14, writes Sam Wainwright.
It's probably no surprise that the Intergenerational Report 2023 passed without much comment. It forecasts the need for greater income revenue, and that will fall to a younger generation. Sam Wainwright reports.
The Greens leadership is wrong to mainly focus on getting more MPs and believe that its someone else’s job to do the “street heat” it knows is needed, argues Sam Wainwright.
The Defence Strategic Review doesn’t contain any surprises. It abandons any pretence that military expenditure has anything to do with defence, conceding that it’s all about helping the United States project its military power into Asia.
For many young people, the fact that modern Australia emerged from a colonial-settler society founded on the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples is a self-evident fact.
Progressives need to build support for the right of the peoples of the Pacific to self-determination, free from interference, including from our own government
Any call for a republic that is disconnected from addressing the very real social and ecological crises will not be enough.
Not only are we being told to prepare for war with China, but to expect it. It’s the stuff of nightmares.
The Scott Morrison multiple-portfolio saga is just the tip of the credibility crisis plaguing politics. We need to look a lot further than the restoration of Westminster conventions.