The Guardian • Issue #2158 • August 18, 2025
Issue #2158
Gaza: Resistance and solidarity
The Albanese government was shaken by the historic March for Humanity over the Sydney Harbour Bridge of 300,000 people as well as other large protest...
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News Corp stands up – for genocide
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is standing solidly with the Netanyahu line that any criticism of an ongoing genocide is akin to Nazism. Investigation by Australian...
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EDITORIAL
On 22 July this year, a 20% cut to the HECS/HELP (Higher Education Loan Program) payments students have to make after they finish tertiary education...
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The need for a Palestinian state
In Gaza the glaring moral and legal question is why the ‘international community’ has gone to so much effort to protect the aggressor, preserve Israel’s...
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Debate as entertainment turns real issues into thought experiments, sometimes with people who aren’t very good at thinking.” John Delmenico
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Parasites, productivity, and super funds
Recently a Superannuation Lending Roundtable was organised by The Australian Financial Review and the Visy cardboard packaging company owned by Anthony Pratt. The headline in...
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DINGO
Israel and US-backed food distribution centres in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shut down, a medical NGO working on...
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Employers ‘off the hook’
Australian Unions are urging the Albanese government to reject key elements of the Productivity Commission’s newly released interim report ‘Building a Skilled and Adaptable Workforce,’...
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‘Bullying’ ‘threats’ at ANU under Bishop and Bell
A respected and high-profile academic at the Australian National University has given a graphic account of alleged mistreatment and bad governance at the university under...
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Public housing? Sure, if you’re in the US military
From 2027, the US and the UK will be operating Submarine Rotational Force-West (SRF-West) out of HMAS Stirling on Meandup-Garden Island, off the coast of...
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Alliance to dismantle oil-gas rigs
A new analysis by an alliance of unions and leading environmental organisations has recommended a nation-first ‘decommissioning hub’ be built in Western Australia to manage...
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GREE NOTES
Extreme weather events are on the rise with no continent spared. Massive flooding, cyclones, out-of-control wildfires, drought, and extreme heat are taking a huge toll...
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Queensland: historic teachers’ strike
After an overwhelming vote in favour during the union ballot over 36,000 Queensland public school teachers undertook a 24-hour protected strike at 1,266 Queensland state...
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Class and freedom
One time someone sent me – as a correspondent for the Guardian – a series of questions to do with Communist attitudes to individual freedom....
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Engels at 130
We remember the legendary Friedrich Engels on the 130th anniversary of his passing (5 August 1895). Engel’s life works gave us the tools to understand...
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LETTERS
Duplicitous and out of touch I am appalled at the Prime Minister’s speech at GARMA 2025. $70 million for clean energy projects. I heard nothing...
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Solutions to Crossword
Guardian 11 August 2025 2157 Across 1. Kyoto – Japanese city, original target of atomic attack 6. Black Rain – A toxic precipitation caused by nuclear...
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Worth Reading: One more time for the road
We asked comrades to tell us about a book they’d like to read again Utz by Bruce Chatwin Graham Holton, contributor Bruce Chatwin’s novella Utz,...
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DPRK National Liberation Day and more
Upcoming historic anniversaries are very important to the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and its people. On 15 August the DPRK celebrates its 80th...
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Abu Dhabi: built on the blood of Sudan
The civil war in Sudan continues to spiral into severe crisis. 24.6 million people in Sudan face acute hunger. 13 million people are displaced. However...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested nearly 500 people protesting in support of the Palestine Action group, which was prescribed a terrorist organisation by the...
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Ireland to Lesotho – Trump’s tariffs hit hard
In April 2025 President Donald Trump introduced so-called ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, triggering the worst two-day drop in US stock market history, erasing trillions in value....
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WEASEL WORDS
Delivery PM Albanese has said that his government is “focused on delivery.” Good-oh, if you make a promise, you might as well keep it. Except...
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The world in a nutshell: an interview with Vijay Prashad
Guardian readers will be familiar with Vijay Prashad, Marxist writer, speaker, and academic, from the many pieces of his work published in the Guardian, as...
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‘Big Beautiful Bill’
10 million US citizens will lose health insurance coverage as a result of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ Hospital costs are expected to massively increase as...
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki – NEVER AGAIN?
For 80 years, the Hibakusha (survivors) of the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been warning the world — “never again.” Never...
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