The Guardian • Issue #2023 • September 12, 2022
Jobs and Skills Summit: dangerous illusions for workers
Workers and their families are looking for real change – real wage rises, secure jobs, safe working conditions, with adequately funded and staffed health and...
Read moreNurses strike for better pay and conditions
Earlier this month, Nurses and midwives across NSW went on strike for 24 hours, while maintaining life-preserving care. The demands are simple: The NSW Nurses...
Read moreNuclear submarines = uranium mines
On 15th September 2021, the AUKUS trilateral security pact was signed between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Under the pact, the United...
Read moreClass collaboration won’t deliver for workers
Practice, time and time again, has shown class collaboration doesn’t deliver for workers. Efforts by social democracy to water down class struggle through the introduction...
Read moreDINGO
In July, the second asylum boat turn-back to Sri Lanka under the Albanese Labor government highlighted the fundamental breach of human rights involved in such...
Read moreThe rent is too high!: RAHU speaks truth to power at the Victorian state election
On 2nd September, the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) launched their state election campaign in Victoria, on the platform that “the rent is too high.”...
Read moreWEASEL WORDS
BOLD /bəʊld/ A good thing to be! Superman is bold. Action heroes are bold. Used weaselly, “bold” means that a politician is going to do...
Read moreJuvenile justice a system in crisis
With frequent unlawful lock downs of over twenty hours per day, ostensibly caused by staff shortages, incarcerated youth are being denied access to formal education,...
Read moreThe Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: war and recovery 1941-1945
J Nielsen This is the third part of an edited translation from the third edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia on the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist...
Read moreStriking Kaiser mental health clinicians joined by colleagues in Hawaii
Over 2,000 striking mental health clinicians hit the picket lines in front of Kaiser Permanente facilities in northern California and the Central Valley on the...
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