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TERFWatch: ABC’s Media Watch Parrots TERF Propaganda
The kind of obsessive, delusional transphobia that is most prominent in the UK has made gains in Australia, after last night’s episode of Media Watch aired a breathless segment parroting TERF talking points about trans’ rights issues.
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Capitalism and refugees: unpacking the torture
To state that the liberation of refugees is contingent on the ending of capitalism is not to state that refugee struggles in the present are worthless – in fact, it is stating the direct opposite. Refugee struggles are not simply requests for minor adjustments to capitalism, they strike at the heart of this fundamentally inhumane…
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The state of the NSW Labor Party
The NSW Labor Party has nothing to offer workers, students, and communities in this state. We should be prepared to intensify each of our campaigns under a potential ALP state government come March next year. This means supporting workers in all unions, but especially the public sector, to escalate their activity and resist the efforts…
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NSW nurses continue the fightback – it’s up to us to support them!
Members of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) celebrated the first day of spring with massive industrial action, involving dozens of public hospitals across the state and tens of thousands of nurses and midwives. This was the fourth action taken by these workers this year, and it was the most serious: strikes…
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Federal election wrap-up
The recent federal election saw an embarrassing end to nine years of Coalition rule – the party of austerity, bigotry, climate devastation, and union busting which has been met with grassroots resistance (with no help from Labor) at every step. It was the Liberals’ worst electoral results in their history.
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Transition leave: making queer rights a union fight
The recent struggle at the University of Sydney between staff and management has involved something with little precedent in Australian working-class history: a popular demand for ‘transition leave’. This refers to time off work for gender diverse staff to undergo the various surgeries, therapies, and treatments necessary to affirm their identity and for their general…
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Blockade Australia: our perspective
As anarchist communists, a just transition isn’t our end-goal, but the starting point for something more – the social revolution. This is why we must prioritise building mass industrial action as workers, rather than individual blockades as isolated and disorganised citizens.
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Inflation: The profit-price spiral driving up costs
Capitalism is an inherently crisis-ridden system; it cannot be anything else. It’s for this reason that the communist movement has historically sought to go beyond the demand of a fair wage for a fair day’s work and instead fight for the abolition of the wages system altogether.
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Public sector strike wave: breathing new life in the union movement
We all have an interest in a world where workers’ needs are not sacrificed for the profits of bosses. We can only win this by fighting as a united working class, not by asking politicians or officials to do the fighting for us.