Letters to the editor

Are we losing the right to protest?
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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.

NSW Socialists rally January 2026

NSW Socialists founding conference

A NSW Socialists member asks if the group offers a new hope for left unity or whether old sect tensions will destroy the project?

Suggested principles for CFMEU renewal

We need a movement-wide discussion and organisation for the rebuilding of a militant construction union. Labor Tribune editors here contribute to the discussion.

Universal Basic Income and the left

ALP activist Alex Rooney raises concerns that support for a UBI focuses on state distribution at the expense of workers’ control of production.

Defence Minister Richard Marles (centre) and Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy (second left) on USS Asheville at HMAS Stirling in WA. Photo US Indo-Pacific Command/Flickr

The empty claim that AUKUS is good for jobs

Professor Al Rainnie from the University of South Australia argues we should fight for jobs that are socially meaningful, not dependent on militarism and the war machine

Karl Kautsky in 1895

Historic achievement of Karl Marx

Karl Kautsky – before he became a ‘renegade’ – outlines here that Marx’s great achievement was uniting theory with the labour movement. We need that again.