UWU: formidable Labor left powerbroker
The ferocity for control of the United Workers Union underscores the role it plays in the labour bureaucracy. Bob Sparks investigates.
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Back the rebel Labor MPs
Chris Minns and the Zionist movement tried to silence protests against genocide and failed. Marcus Strom and Clarrie Lewis examine the politics.
Fight is on for the soul of Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras 78er Ken Davis says democratic gains made by activists in the 1970s are being wound back by corporate and establishment elites.
United Workers Union: winner takes all
Do the UWU elections offer a real alternative? Or have apparatchiks merely fallen out? Bob Sparks investigates.
US strategy: a fighting retreat?
Behind Trump’s bluff and bluster, could there be plans to limit America’s military reach? David Lockwood explores the Pentagon’s new strategy.
Treading water ahead of a tsunami
Managerialism, not ambition, is the order of the day as the ALP top brass looks ahead to the next election, writes Marcus Strom
Capitalism fuels the cost-of-living crisis
Clever government reforms or inspired Treasurers can’t fix capitalism’s economic malaise. It’s hardwired into the system, says Don Sutherland.
Albanese still ‘living within the lie’
After the ‘rupture’ in international affairs described by Canadian PM Mark Carney’s ‘truth bombs’, Hamish McPherson calls for a working-class foreign policy.
We won’t be silenced
Zionists continue to politicise the Bondi attack in efforts to silence the Palestine solidarity movement, writes Marcus Strom. We must make sure they fail.
Against the Mullahs, Shah and imperialism
Protests in Iran not only reveal imperialist aggression and a vicious regime, but the programmatic weaknesses of the left, writes David Lockwood.
Beyond spontaneity: why workers need a plan
A Marxist organisation needs a political program which contains both minimum demands and a maximum vision of the future.
NSW Socialists forced to register under different name
Bob Sparks looks at ongoing barriers to socialist unity outside the ALP.