Jim McIlroy reviews Search for Security: AUKUS and the new militarism, which provides a comprehensive account, from a variety of perspectives, of the vital debate over the AUKUS disaster looming for Australia and the Asian region.
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After just four weeks of the illegal war on Iran and Lebanon, working people are struggling to afford the higher petrol/diesel and other essential consumer goods, making this war already very unpopular. Mary Merkenich argues we have to find the ways to organise to force Labor to oppose it.
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Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left us without adequate fuel, food and transportation security, argues Bevan Ramsden.
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Protests were held across the country calling for peace, justice and refugee rights on Palm Sunday. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Disenfranchised, working-class voters looking to lodge a protest vote against the major parties helps explain the high vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Markela Panegyres looks at the issues in the South Australian election.
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The Anthony Albanese government’s support for the United States–Israel war on Iran rests on claims about nuclear threat, humanitarian intent and non-involvement that do not withstand scrutiny. David Shoebridge highlights three lies.
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Peace and solidarity activists took to the streets to demand the Labor government pull back from its support for Israel and the United States’ illegal strikes on Iran and push for the US and Israel to halt all military action. Peter Boyle reports.
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Asked to sum up Australia’s geopolitical situation, Renfrey Clarke argues that we’re in bed with an axe murderer, with the complicity of Australia’s military establishment, backed by the rich and powerful.
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An Australian government that is serious about global peace — as opposed to maintaining US-Israeli dominance in the Middle East region — would not send military assistance to prop up the US-Israel war, argues Federico Fuentes.
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Anti-war and peace groups and parties have been quick to condemn Australia’s support for Israel and the United States’ illegal attacks on Iran. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Socialist Alliance is running Anne McMenamin as an independent for the seat of Port Adelaide in the South Australian elections. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Socialist Alliance condemns the attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States and calls on the Australian Labor government to immediately reverse its support for this dangerous new drive to war.