Australia occupies a peculiar place in the world system. On the one hand, it has always been a component of a larger empire.

The Labor government is falling over itself to celebrate the brave escape of members of the Iranian women’s soccer team.

A bit over a month ago, I wrote in Red Flag that the hate speech laws tabled by the Queensland LNP government were an “extreme, authoritarian attack on the Palestine movement and civil liberties”.

The Australian prime minister’s response is sycophantic even compared with some of the US’s other close allies.

National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at Sydney University have taken an important step towards reclaiming some of our wages lost to the inflation crisis of the last few years. At a meeting ...

Emma and Chloe discuss the appalling US-Israeli war on Iran. They explain why Trump has started this war, the Australian government's response, and the recent sordid history of US imperialism.

More than 1,200 dead, schools blown up, entire streets flattened, vital infrastructure destroyed—this is the cost of the US ...

International Women’s Day has become mainstream in recent years. But historically it was a socialist event. Clara Zetkin, a ...

Twenty-first century capitalism is a horror show. The genocide in Palestine demonstrates the degree of suffering and destruction our rulers are willing to inflict to advance the interests of the ...

In 1942, the Australian ruling class was reaping the rewards of total war. While young men were sent to the front, the ...

The United States ruling class has chosen the road of mass violence—and there is now likely no turning back. According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, under Donald Trump, the US ...

The Fair Work Commission’s nearly finalised new pay scale for the community sector is a disaster for workers. Emergency housing workers, social work caseworkers and counsellors, alcohol and other drug ...