In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to US socialist activist and author Sam Gindin about the impact of United States President Donald Trump’s tariff war on workers, and how they can respond.
Economy
The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman.
Amid the biggest housing crisis in Australia’s history and public housing being sold off, the most vulnerable public housing tenants say they are now even more isolated. Suzanne James reports.
In the first part of our interview, Canadian socialist activist and author Sam Gindin discusses the impacts of United States President Donald Trump’s tariff war on global capitalism with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes.
Indignation and resistance to United States President Donald Trump’s bullying, deportations and economic reprisals are spreading across Latin America, writes Steve Ellner.
Environmentalists say the toxic practices of industrial-scale fish farms damage Tasmania’s reputation as “clean and green”. Philippa Skinner reports.
Trade unions have led the fight for peace since the fight against conscription in World War I. Steve O’Brien argues that we need to resist attacks on the trade union movement, because it will stymie the peace movement.
Latin America is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis, characterised by rising costs and falling real wages, reports Ben Radford.
Workers in Peru’s Lima and Callao regions went on strike in protest over the Dina Boluarte government’s failure to combat rising violence and insecurity, reports Ben Radford.
United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered”. Peter Boyle argues that this is an inversion of reality.
Peter Dutton’s new policy to force gas companies to increase supply to the domestic market merely appears to stand up to the gas corporations. Alex Bainbridge argues it does the opposite.
In this interview with Federico Fuentes, Marxist economist Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by United States President Donald Trump and how they fit into Trump’s broader project to reassert US global hegemony.
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