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Pokies and working-class life: fighting back
If you want to really deal with gambling you can’t be satisfied with legal reforms: you have to attack capitalism, and the hollow kinds of entertainment it promotes, at the root.
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The culture war against Lidia Thorpe
Whether it comes to a No campaign, or changing the process before it comes to that, it will require a frank and open position that we support the existing demands of Blak peoples and their rejection of the constitution and processes of Recognition in favour of Truth.
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New year, new us
Our website broke, so now we have a new one. It’s mostly better, but crucially, it will break less.
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Industrial reforms to benefit the bosses
These uneven and fragmented legislative changes simply continue the decades-long project of governments seeking to shift power away from the workplace and into stricter legal, electoral channels. These reforms, like any that are enacted from above, place the potential for industrial change in the hands of legislators, commissioners, lawyers and ultimately, bosses – not in…
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#VicVotes for meh
The only way to actually strike out the Liberals is for unionists to keep on striking. This is why our members in the nurses and teachers unions will keep on pushing for industrial action against the government now, as well as after the election in March. There’s only one way to get what we want:…
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The Year the Cops Were Kicked Out of Trans Day of Remembrance
In 2019, a major shift occurred in Sydney in its annual marking of Trans Day of Remembrance, a day which observes the lives lost to transphobia around the world.
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Victorian Socialists – for real change, look beyond the ballot box
With less than two weeks to go until the Victorian state election, we look critically at the most significant radical left electoral project in the country, Victorian Socialists. What impact would its victory have on working-class politics – and on its parent organisation, Socialist Alternative?
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Climate justice and class struggle: the fight for workers’ self-management
The Albanese Labor Government has been in power for several months now, and their action on climate change has been predictably pathetic. Their newly legislated target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 is not only inadequate in the urgent fight against climate change, but actively harmful to the climate…
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Deaths in Custody – the Yuendumu Demands
It is only through the realisation of transformative programs that the cycle of abuse handed down from the state and its judicial, carceral and police arms can be put to an end. It is our duty therefore to stand in solidarity with working-class First Nations communities, and to ensure we bring the Yuendumu demands to…