War is not an unfortunate accident that occasionally interrupts “normal” economic life; it is built into a system that puts private profit and imperialist rivalry above human need, argues Warren Smith.
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Nearly 100 delegates from two dozen unions and peace organisations discussed the need to build the peace movement and how to go about it. Tim Gooden reports.
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The master-apprentice model has been in decline for at least two centuries because the structure of work has changed. John Quiggin argues for a rethink, beyond nostalgia.
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National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Technology took protected industrial action to pressure management over a new enterprise agreement. Kerry Smith reports.
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Scientists and their union are speaking out against Labor’s funding cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Major anti-government protests took place in the Philippines on September 21 — adding to the youth-led anti-government protests across the region. To get a sense of this movement, Green Left spoke to Sonny Melencio, chairperson of the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM).
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Hundreds of Queensland teachers protested outside parliament, giving the Liberal National Party a fail on a range of issues. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The Australian Education Union is demanding Victorian Labor stop delaying public school funding. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Greater public funding of higher education and an end to the commodification of university education and research would be a basis for enhanced university governance and better staff and student experiences, argues Jonathan Strauss.
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Peter Greste used a public forum to call for more whistleblower protections in public interest laws. Coral Wynter reports.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.