Democracy

protesters with flags in Panama

Green Left’s Ben Radford sat down with José Cambra, an executive committee member of the Panama Teachers’ Association, about the country-wide strike and the government’s heavy-handed response.

protesters with Trump in the background

United States President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” represents one of the biggest transfers of wealth from workers and the poor to the billionaire class in US history, reports Malik Miah.

Queensland Socialist Alliance Queensland, buoyed by a successful federal election campaign is registering the party for state elections. Alex Bainbridge reports.

The campaign to restore voluntary assisted dying rights in the Northern Territory has taken a step forward, with the current inquiry opening for public consultations. Suzanne James reports.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.

Making profit the purpose of the childcare industry means that it will always be dangerous, argues former childcare worker Adam Bremner.

The final slate of reforms from the Equality Amendment Act came into effect, marking a significant step forward for transgender and non-binary people. Josh Adams reports.

Anti-Zionist Jewish groups have rejected Jillian Segal’s recommendations to the Australian government as an attempt to silence dissent about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Kerry Smith reports.

Ecosocialism 2025 organisers are excited to announce that the conference will host the biggest delegation of Asia-Pacific activists to the conference since 2019. But we need your help. Fred Fuentes reports.

Boris Kagarlitsky

Anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky delivered this recorded message to the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, United States.

Abdullah Ocalan delivering his message from Imrali Prison

Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.

Nearly 600 First Nations people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was tabled. We need a lot more truth-telling and real action, argues Peter Boyle