Tesla mechanics have been on strike since October 2023, after the company refused to sign a collective agreement with the union — behaviour prompted by CEO Elon Musk’s anti-unionism, reports Clive Tillman.
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John Englart died unexpectedly at his Fawkner home with his beloved chihuahuas, Juliet and Jones, close by. Andrea Bunting writes about the life of this leading campaigner for social justice and climate action.
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Isaac Nellist speaks to Democratic Socialist of America member Winnie Marion about Zohran Mamdani's important win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary.
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Rochelle Porteous, an indefatigable campaigner, suddenly died earlier this year. Hall Greenland writes about her activism, noting many of her greatest victories came while she was in a minority on Leichhardt Council.
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Peruvian farmers are getting a raw deal thanks to unfair prices for their produce, water shortages and unregulated corporate profiteering, reports Ben Radford.
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NSW transport minister Jo Haylen has been forced to step down for using her government driver for personal outings. Her record on public and active transport also deserves to be scrutinised, argues Andrew Chuter.
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John Mullen looks behind the no-confidence motion in the French assembly and what this means for the struggle against the far right and for fundamental change.
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Andrew Chuter reviews Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise, which argues that parking has devastated our cities, wasted valuable space, entrenched car dependency, worsened the climate disaster and raised the cost of housing and most other goods.
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About 1 million workers across Peru went on strike to demand that the government act against rising violence and extortion at the hands of organised criminal groups, reports Ben Radford.
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Boeing workers in the United States voted to accept a deal and end their seven-week-long strike, reports Malik Miah.
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While electric cars are often touted as the future of transport and a crucial part of the effort to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions, in reality they are not a meaningful solution, argues Ben Radford.