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.
Theory
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.
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.
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.
Europe’s debt, war and decline
Australia’s ruling elite seems hopelessly tied to London and Washington. Abe David argues its time to cut the apron strings.
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.
For a single democratic state in Palestine
Hamish McPherson responds to David Lockwood arguing that a single democratic state is the demand needed for today’s solidarity movement.
Why we are launching Labor Tribune
With a world in crisis, the left is struggling to rethink how to engage in mass politics that are true to the radical traditions of Marxism. Labor Tribune aims to contribute to a renaissance.
Stateless in Gaza
Two states is dead, but is a ‘single democratic state’ any more viable? David Lockwood takes a look.