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The third phase of the economic crisis
Ben Hillier 09 February 2010
First, the financial markets imploded under the weight of massive levels of debt and speculation. Then governments stepped in with bailouts and stimulus programs. The system stabilised. Now, as governments struggle with their own debt problems, the attacks on the working class have well and truly begun.  
 
Obama should not be welcomed
Corey Oakley 09 February 2010

Whenever George Bush came to Australia he was met by thousands of angry anti-war protesters. Barack Obama deserves the same when he arrives next month.
 
A tale of two apartheids
Vashti Kenway 09 February 2010

The similarity between Israel today and South Africa under apartheid does not end with the racist nature of both systems.
 
Equal Love stands out at Melbourne Pride March
James Vigus 09 February 2010
Melbourne’s annual LGBTI Pride Festival was noticeable this year for the enthusiasm toward Equal Love’s campaign against the government’s same-sex marriage ban. 
 
The class system that underpins homophobia
Liam Byrne 09 February 2010
It is impossible to understand homophobia without understanding the central role that class divisions play in capitalist society.
 
Labor factions almost destroy National Union of Students
Rebecca Barrigos 05 February 2010

Last December the corrupt and undemocratic practices of the student Labor factions at the National Union of Students conference in Ballarat led to the near abolition of our national union.
 
Corporate Australia's plunder of our region
Liz Walsh 05 February 2010
A report published by anti-poverty group Jubilee Australia shines a light on Australia's continuing plunder of Papua New Guinea.
 
Iran solidarity protest called
Afshin Nikouseresht 05 February 2010
Iran Solidarity Melbourne has initiated a national day of protest to coincide with the Islamic Republic’s symbolically significant day of “22 Bahman” (anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution).
 
Crisis, treason and hope in Iran
An Iranian socialist student 02 February 2010

The Iranian rebellion is continuing at the same time that divisions among the ruling establishment grow deeper and harder to hide.
 
Same-sex marriage ban legitimises homophobia
Roz Ward 02 February 2010

Homophobia is alive and well in Australia, despite the gains made by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
 
School: The Wonder Years or Hell on Earth?
David Garland 09 February 2010

The petty despotism of the school system is about training young people to accept their place in the class system and learn to be submissive, obedient workers.
 
Refugees & population growth not to blame for climate crisis
Michael Kandelaars 05 February 2010
Climate change will endanger the lives of millions of people all over the world. But there is a noxious argument that puts the blame on overpopulation.
 
How does capitalism work?
Josh Lees 05 February 2010

Marx and Engels famously wrote in The Communist Manifesto that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
 
When scholars join the slaughter
Dahr Jamail 05 February 2010

Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports on how the U.S. military has used anthropologists and other social scientists to further the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Teachers' union is right to oppose school league tables
Tess Lee Ack 02 February 2010

On January 28 the My School website was launched with great fanfare – but in the face of strident opposition from teacher and parent organisations.
 
Bank profits return, but no recovery for workers
Peter Jones 02 February 2010
We are being told that global economic recovery has begun. But life continues to get worse for the working class.
 
'How long do we have to wait?'
Liam Ward 02 February 2010

In the last few days of January, hundreds of detainees in the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre staged a heroic three-day protest.