Sink AUKUS now!
Marcus Strom welcomes the AUKUS Inquiry report, a landmark exercise in citizen democracy, but says workers need their own defence policy.
Tag: ALP
Winning union elections won’t deliver socialism
Martin Greenfield responds to Daniel Friedman’s call for rank-and-file union tickets to capture the Labor Party for socialism.
The Australian left needs a strategy to win
Daniel Friedman argues if we reform the unions, we can take state power.
End the ALP ‘protected species’ culture
Bob Sparks outlines the manoeuvres by state ALP leaderships to impose their own choice of candidates against the wishes of the membership.
UWU election: the winners took it all
Bob Sparks assesses the wash up of the fiercest national union election battle seen in years.
Why Labor’s National Conference is so tame
Labor Tribune has obtained a detailed list of conference delegates. Its contents help explain the nature of Labor’s internal life, writes Martin Greenfield.
Left unions abandon Husic on Palestine
Ed Husic took a moral stand at National Conference on the Israeli genocide against Gaza only to have the rug pulled from under him.
LFOP, LAW letter to NSW ALP general-secretary
Labor Friends of Palestine and Labor Against War urge conference to open the floor to debate.
The loneliness of the middle power
David Lockwood searches the foreign policy section of the proposed ALP National Platform – but finds almost nothing there.
A guaranteed right to strike means repealing the Fair Work Act
The ICJ has ruled that the right to strike is protected by ILO convention. But this means little to workers while the Fair Work Act remains in place. Bob Sparks investigates.
ALP Draft National Platform: on immigration
David Lockwood says the working class must fight national chauvinism and racist scapegoating.
National Conference: testing the limits of party democracy
The draft National Platform is out and delegates are being elected – except where they are appointed, writes Iain Kerr.