Racism is bosses' ideology and fighting it should be core business for the union movement.
Social Justice
Safe access zones alone will not be enough to improve access to abortion, while the procedure remains in the criminal codes of those states and generally inaccessible through the public hospital system.
Australia is continuing to avoid any possibility that it might stand up for Palestinian sovereignty and human rights with its behaviour at the United Nations.
The wealthy and corporations got a visit from Santa Claus, but the rest of us got Scrooged again on Budget night.
Pill testing is an effective harm minimisation activity but to really save lives we need to end drug prohibition in Australia and to effectively regulate the quality and supply of drugs.
Newcastle unionist and socialist, Steve O'Brien proudly waves the red flag for workers rights on May Day.
We have a chance to get a socialist elected to parliament. If we’re successful, it will be the first time since 1944.
We shouldn’t confuse the idea of a liveable income as a right with UBI.
People are turned off participating in the political process in Australia but they are also moving leftward in their political attitudes.
Turkey’s war on Afrin is an attack not only on Kurdish self-determination, but on democracy and women's liberation in the Middle East.
Progressive, activist campaign groups such as GetUp!, 350.org and Friends of the Earth have been in the federal Coalition government’s sights for some time, but a new bill threatens to frustrate the work of all human rights, environmental, women’s, international aid and social justice NGOs and charities.
Communist and feminist Zelda D’Aprano became the symbol of the fight for equal pay when, in October 1969, she chained herself to the Commonwealth Offices in Melbourne, after becoming frustrated at the lack of pay equity for women.