Tim Gooden celebrates those workers who won the 8-hour working day and proposes five campaigns the union movement must fight for today.
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Events marking the 20th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq were organised across Australia, with calls to scrap AUKUS and free Julian Assange. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Italian artist Davide Dormino’s life-sized bronze sculptures of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden invite the public to show solidarity with whistleblowers. Peter Boyle reports.
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A protest about soaring rents and a lack of housing affordability was organised outside Parliament House. Renfrey Clarke reports.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has decided at the last moment to impose his pension bill by decree, reports John Mullen.
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Young people are moving away from the major parties in search of real political change, Isaac Nellist reports.
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Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.
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Maung Maung Than discusses the state of the people's resistance to the military coup regime in Burma/Myanmar and actions being prepared for Burma Revolution Day .
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The People’s Democratic Party will likely be forced to use a different party name in the May 14 snap poll, due to a politically motivated trial against it, reports Susan Price.
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Climate activist Violet Coco has been released after a successful appeal of her 15-month jail sentence for blocking one lane of traffic for about 30 minutes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last April. Ben Radford reports.
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Environment, union and left groups are pushing back against anti-protest laws that target environmentalists. Mary Merkenich reports.
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The campaign to free Julian Assange is about our most precious human right: to be free, writes John Pilger.