The Guardian • ALP
Issue #2161
The Iran beat-up
Israeli interventions prompted the Albanese government to expel Iran’s ambassador to Canberra. Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer praised Albanese for taking “threats seriously” against the...
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Issue #1978
From the Accord to the IR Omnibus Bill
Over the past forty years, since the implementation of the Accord agreement between the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP), wages and salaries have not progressed.
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Issue #2127
Remembering the Russian Revolution and revolutions since with Vijay Prashad
On 5 November on the eve of Presidential elections in the US empire, visiting Indian Marxist intellectual Vijay Prashad gave a talk at Perth’s 43...
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Issue #2045
PEACE NOTES
The current debate over who can decide if Australia goes to war is more urgent and important than ever, now that the rhetoric around war...
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Issue #2129
A Long March
Kim Carr’s A Long March, is not simply the autobiography of a life-long stalwart of the ALP. It traces a political path and unwittingly chronicles...
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Issue #2162
Socialist Register 2025
The sixteen articles that make up this annually published book are most suited to functionaries of the Australian Labor Party (and associated “think” tanks) and...
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Issue #2135
Israel lobby’s assassins
A rich-list of Jewish business and finance moneybags has rallied around former Coalition federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, to “raise millions to fight antisemitism.” Frydenberg, currently...
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Issue #2095
IPAN in Geelong
Activists from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) in Geelong Victoria have been holding speak-outs, rallies and pickets against AUKUS, against the militarisation of...
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Issue #2140
GREEN NOTES
Jim Chalmers’ Budget Speech failed to mention the words ‘climate change’ and ‘environment’ although $7.3 billion is allocated in recovery payments for ‘natural’ disasters that...
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Issue #2136
Victoria: rank-and-file group begins election campaign, protests job cuts
H Launton Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) rank-and-file group Voice For Members held a rally opposing the ALP Allan government announcement of a “review”...
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Issue #2129
The way forward
The federal government has shown itself to be a tool of the big banks and corporations. These huge institutions are no longer prepared to be...
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Issue #2163
A tale of two envoys
The Albanese government has appointed two special envoys: Jillian Segal in July 2024 to combat antisemitism and almost three months later, Aftab Malik to counter...
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Issue #2169
DINGO
Did you ever write to an MP or a Senator and get an oily answer back very quickly? If so, you’ll be aware that these...
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Issue #2168
The ALP’s 5 per cent deposit debacle
The local Federal ALP member for the Sydney Electorate has put out this wonderful sounding advertisement in local papers. Under the heading ‘5% housing deposits’...
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Issue #2140
On the election beat in Western Australia
On Saturday 8 March West Australian comrades helped the Greens hand out how-to-vote material. I chose a booth at a Primary School in the north...
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Issue #2135
CPA Statement on the upcoming federal election
The betrayal of the people by the Albanese labor government has opened the door for the Coalition to form a minority government with the support...
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Issue #2168
Rare earths deal – will it succeed?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seems to have sealed a deal on rare earths with US President Donald Trump. Australia and the US will put $1...
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Issue #2175
EDITORIAL
The United States’ illegal attack on Venezuela and abduction of Venezuelan president Maduro (see Chavismo survives US attacks on Venezuela) came as a shock to...
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Issue #2161
Penalty rates protection welcomed
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has welcomed the Senate’s passage of the Albanese government’s Bill to protect penalty and overtime rates for Australian workers....
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Issue #2147
Not a trade deal
The Albanese government is looking to enter a trade agreement spanning Pacific and European countries called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. But...
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Issue #2134
Labor’s big fail
Labor has been in office for almost three years. It has introduced a number of progressive reforms, but in the lead-up to the federal elections...
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Issue #2127
DINGO
A new draft of a deal on cash to adapt to climate change released at the United Nations climate summit (COP29) “has angered” developing nations....
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Issue #2143
EDITORIAL
By the time you read this, the federal election will be finished. After a long and tiring campaign, it’s understandable that a lot of people...
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Issue #2123
Whose side are you on?
Twenty-seven workers died in the construction industry in 2023. Without the CFMEU that figure, in this spectacularly dangerous industry, would have been much higher. The...
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Issue #2144
Need for electoral reform
Parliament and parliamentary campaigns have an important place in the whole process of the struggle to advance the interests of the people – provided that...
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Issue #2133
DINGO
Hate symbols and terror offences in Australia will now be subject to mandatory sentencing with new laws, which could bring prison terms ranging from one...
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Issue #2170
Trigger backflip: ‘a deal for corporate profits’
The Albanese government is doing yet another backflip on policy. This time it relates to climate change – pretending to protect the environment and biodiversity...
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Issue #2159
EDITORIAL
On Monday 11 August, Prime Minister Albanese announced that Australia would recognise a Palestinian state. Australia was the latest in a line of countries to...
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Issue #2160
A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL
The Albanese government’s much-heralded Economic Reform Roundtable last month revealed the government and employer agenda to use class collaboration as a shackle on organised labour...
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Issue #2134
TWO-PARTY POWER GRAB
In a move reflecting the common ground in policies between the government and Coalition, and to sideline the Greens and independents, the Albanese Labor government...
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Issue #2133
Return the CFMEU to its members!
Since the Construction Division of the CFMEU was stolen from its members by the Albanese Labor government last year, attacks on the union, the industry...
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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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Issue #2168
EDITORIAL
So you’ve heard about ‘Taco trades’? Taco stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. A Taco Trade is when a stockbroker bets on US President Donald...
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Issue #2178
Fire season: Albanese adds petrol
Australia is breaking records, but not the sort to be proud of. Some parts of Australia recorded their highest temperatures ever this January. South Australia’s...
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Issue #2133
EDITORIAL
Australia will have an election very soon. It could be as early as 12 April. So what’s on offer? As this edition of the Guardian,...
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Issue #2127
EDITORIAL
Young people are in the news again. At a time when everyone has cost of living pressures on their mind, the Albanese Labor government has...
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Issue #2149
EDITORIAL
PM Albanese has said, and made sure it’s reported, that he won’t do anything too radical in his second term in power. By being so...
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Issue #2149
Australia-US ‘alliance’
The alliance with “our great and powerful friend” the USA comes at a human and financial cost to Australians, currently demonstrated by the Albanese government’s...
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Issue #2144
Labor has no mandate
The Albanese government has no mandate to implement its anti-people agenda. Behind the swing to Labor in terms of seats in the Lower House, the...
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