Workers are being put in harm's way and the Australian Unemployed Workers鈥 Union and Living Incomes for Everyone want that to change. Isaac Nellist reports.
Issue 1318
News
A听social housing estate in Sydney's Inner West听run by Mission Australia听was put into hard lockdown on September 2, without the residents being given any warning. Rachel Evans reports.
The Socialist Alliance will contest the Newcastle City Council elections, with a听focus on affordable housing and real climate action. Kathy Fairfax reports.
The North Parramatta Residents Action Group does not agree with relocating听Willow Grove听and is accusing the NSW government of using COVID-19 to desecrate听the site. Susan Price reports.
Climate activists disrupted, locked on to and boarded a seismic testing ship in the port of Geelong on its way to search for new oil and gas deposits off the coast of King Island. Sue Bull reports.
A large听zoom rally called for more Afghan refugees to be听accepted and for permanent visas for refugees living here. Chris Slee reports.
Given the long-running United States' blockade on Venezuela, activists听are raising money for a childcare centre there. Chris Slee听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission cartel case against the听Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union听ACT and secretary Jason O鈥橫ara has collapsed. Jim McIlroy reports.
Wangan and Jagalingou senior cultural custodian Adrian Burragubba听is demanding that the government respect their rights.
Sex workers have welcomed the Queensland Labor government's intention to decriminalise sex work, reports Alex Bainbridge.
Hundreds of Afghan-Australians marched to the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide听to demand听the federal government lift the country's humanitarian intake of refugees trying to flee Afghanistan. Kerry Smith reports.
Frontline health workers say the system is 鈥渙n the brink鈥 as a result of underfunding. 91自拍论坛 interviewed Maya*, a student nurse, who has been forced to take on a critical role.
The federal government is not off the hook as UNESCO's听World Heritage Committee will again vote on whether or not to put the Great Barrier Reef on the听鈥渋n danger鈥 list next year. Margaret Gleeson reports.
After a heroic effort by the Darwin community, the last family of听refugees was freed from unjust detention. But they are not stopping there. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Jim McIlroy reports on a week of actions against听the proposed Kurri Kurri gas plant.
Seven thousand Transport Workers Union听delivery drivers took 24-hour strike action on August 27 after talks between the union and Toll collapsed. Alex Salmon reports.
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott,听an elder of the Triabunna people in听the Lake Eyre region of far northern South Australia, is campaigning for Santos and other gas companies to be prevented from destroying country.听Renfrey Clarke reports.
The Socialist Alliance will field two long-term activists for the Victorian Senate on People and Planet before Profit platform, reports Chloe DS.
Activists were treated to an early-morning raid听by an anti-terrorist outift for听chalking a protest sign against oil and gas giant Woodside Energy, reports 颁丑谤颈蝉听闯别苍办颈苍蝉.
听
A huge rally demanded the federal government extend听its听humanitarian visa program for asylum seekers from Afghanistan and grant听permanent protection to refugees听on temporary visas. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Anne McMenamin reports on another huge show of solidarity听for the Afghan community.
A large a protest called for freedom for Afghanistan, women鈥檚 rights, refugee rights and much more support the Afghani community.听 Susan Austin reports.
Rachel Evans reports on growing community opposition to the proposed redevelopment of Blackwattle Bay.
Analysis
Australia鈥檚 already听unrepresentative听
Peter Boyle argues the federal government's increasingly shrill campaign to lift COVID-19 restrictions and "live with the virus" only serves the interests of big corporations.
The quick collapse of the puppet government in Afghanistan and its army should not come as a surprise given the听imperialists' criminal听record.听Sue Bolton argues that Australia's听war criminals need听to be held to account.
No matter which landholder you talk to about water troubles in New South Wales, they all blame government failures. Daniel Pedersen reports.
On the 20-year anniversary of the formation of the Socialist Alliance,听Peter Boyle reflects on its early days and听the left's ongoing听challenge to听link up with broader forces in a听struggle for system change.
A recording of a public forum on left perspectives of the Afghanistan war and aftermath hosted by 91自拍论坛 and the听Socialist Alliance.
Jim McIlroy argues that the lesson of Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021 is that imperialist invasion and domination lead to disaster.听
A political response is needed to win people away from those peddling conspiracies, or worse, in the growing so-called 鈥渇reedom鈥 rallies, argues Alex Bainbridge.
The US-NATO听20-year war on Afghanistan unleashed terrible suffering, including a massive loss of life and the wholesale destruction of the country鈥檚听civil infrastructure.听Bevan Ramsden听argues the Australia-US military alliance must be questioned.
The NSW government's policing-first approach to a complex health emergency has led to its own 鈥渟ocial harms鈥 including exacerbating听existing prejudices held by police, writes听Paul Gregoire.
So many aspects of the debate about how best to keep the community safe from COVID-19 relies on blaming individuals. Sue Bull argues governments prefer to focus on an individual's bad behaviour because it takes the focus away from systemic failures.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison boasts that Australia is rescuing Afghans, resettling refugees and will implement humanitarian programs. However, as Stuart Rees writes, this is cover for cowardice.
While the church hierarchy enjoys access to influence the federal government on its Religious Freedom Bill, those wanting to stay democratic and secular, are left out in the cold.听Suzanne James听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
World
A group of young Afghan women secretly held a press conference in a Kabul suburb on August 28 to launch a new women's movement against the Taliban and present their demands, reports Farooq Sulehria.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict the picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online Urdu-language paper is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author鈥檚 real name), these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media.
Pakistani leftist Farooq Sulehria interviews Sudaba Kabiri, one of the women who organised the first protest against the Taliban in Kabul.
The tourist industry in Cuba has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and the United States鈥 economic, financial and commercial blockade, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.
More and more US transnationals have opened up in Mexico over the past few decades, taking advantage of unfair trade agreements, super-exploitative labour conditions and cheap utilities, reports Tamara Pearson.
Indigenous peoples are mobilising in huge numbers against a proposal to open up their lands to mining and agribusiness, reports Felipe Goldman Irony.
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened global food insecurity. An estimated 132 million more people have been tipped into acute malnutrition since the pandemic began, writes Barry Healy.
We cannot trust capitalism to do what is necessary to avoid runaway climate change, argues Barry Sheppard.
As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, Afghanistan's history is suppressed, writes John Pilger.
Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission co-director Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) about the unfolding situation on the ground.
The belief by liberal feminists in the ostensibly feminist nature of the imperialist interventionist project headed by the United States and its European allies is false, writes Yanis Iqbal.
As some of the world鈥檚 wealthiest countries move closer towards fully vaccinating their populations against COVID-19, there could not be a starker contrast when looking at countries in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
91自拍论坛鈥檚 Pip Hinman spoke to Shayaan, a member of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan about the situation on the ground in the country.
Culture
Not content with f#%*ing our planet, billionaires are now competing in a self-indulgent race to f#%* space, while thousands die of COVID, writes Helchild.
Mat Ward takes a look back at August's political news and the best new music that related听to it.
The primary inspiration for The Red Deal was the People鈥檚 Agreement of Cochabamba, adopted at the World People鈥檚 Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in 2010, writes Simon Butler.
Barry Healy reviews Every Brilliant Thing, a new play from Black Swan Theatre in Western Australia.
French journalist Valentin Gendrot spent two years infiltrating the French police. Barry Healy reviews his disturbing account.