Our Common Cause

Socialist Alliance condemns Israel and its聽Western聽allies, including Australia, for聽their聽role in escalating conflict in the聽Middle East.

Labor's draconian bill, which聽would allow聽the immigration minister聽to send asylum seekers back to countries where they could be killed, is one of the worst decisions it has made since being elected, argues Sue Bull.

The Anthony Albanese government鈥檚 treatment of Palestinian refugees escaping the genocide in Gaza presents another blatant example of state-sponsored racism, argues Jonathan Strauss.

Labor is playing a聽game over Gaza. To claim to support a ceasefire while arming and giving political cover to the perpetrators of genocide is sick cynicism, argues Sam Wainwright.

The Palestine solidarity movement is shaking politics up:聽81%聽want聽Israel to ceasefire聽and 53% want Labor to take more action to achieve a ceasefire. Chloe DS reports.

Labor鈥檚 鈥済rave concern鈥 about a 鈥渃atastrophic鈥 military operation in Rafah is not enough, says the Socialist Alliance. It must respect Palestinians鈥 calls for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, with no conditions.

Stop arming Israel

Globally, the Palestine movement鈥檚 demand for an arms embargo on Israel has had some success. We need to keep up the pressure here, argues Sue Bolton.

Nobody who supports justice could consider cutting funds to the main organisation trying to support Gazans fleeing from one end of the Gaza Strip to the other. Labor聽has to be pressured to reverse its untenable position, argues聽Alex Bainbridge.

A deceitful historical narrative, at best, dismisses the systematic dispossession and genocide of First Nations peoples as being in the distant past. It isn't聽and it needs to be stopped, argues Peter Boyle.

Labor and Coalition governments like to justify their policies聽as being based on聽supposed shared democratic values, which they then聽conflate聽with 鈥淎ustralian interests鈥. But the moral postering is coming underdone,聽as Peter Boyle argues.

Labor鈥檚 reaction to the High Court聽ruling聽that indefinite detention is unlawful underscores its聽continuing racist scapegoating of refugees, argues Jonathan Strauss.

Jacob Andrewartha argues that the more capitalist leaders聽try聽to normalise Israel鈥檚 genocidal聽war on Gaza,聽the more聽the movement for Palestine will grow and we all need to聽help.