New South Wales Labor is planning to scrap workers’ rights to access compensation for psychological injuries. Isaac Nellist reports.
Workers & unions
As capitalism’s inherent barbarism is being exposed via the West’s enabling of genocide in Gaza, organisers of the Ecosocialism 2025 conference are confident its program will attract significant interest. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Protests have been held across Aotearoa New Zealand against the right-wing coalition government, after it forced through a bill amending the country’s Equal Pay Act. Zara Lomas reports.
Community members gathered outside Labor MP for Solomon Luke Gosling’s office to mark the 1948 Nakba and condemn Labor’s complicity in the Palestinian genocide. Stephen W Enciso reports.
The Chaser's election quip, "Labor secures bigger majority, excited to do nothing with it", was spot on. Sue Bolton argues that the left has to focus on building the extra-parliamentary movements if it wants real change.
Michael Hiscox, Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union ACT branch secretary, has been sacked by the appointed administrator Mark Irving and the branch placed into administration. Zane Alcorn reports.
Western Australian ambulance workers entered their third week of protected industrial action against St John Ambulance, the principal provider of ambulance transport. Ned Reilly reports.
Workers in Panama remain on strike, protesting the government’s recently passed pension reforms, submission to United States imperialism and plans to reactivate a destructive mining project in the country, reports Ben Radford.
In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Canadian 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.
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people marched and rallied in more than 1000 cities across the country on International Workers’ Day, reports Malik Miah.
Ukrainian workers make up the bulk of frontline soldiers defending the country against Russia’s war of aggression, but that hasn’t stopped Volodymyr Zelensky’s government from attacking trade union rights, reports Federico Fuentes.
First Nations people, unionists and environmental activists took their protest about Santos’ coal seam gas plans in the Pilliga Forest to NSW parliament, ahead of a decision by the Native Title Tribunal. Jim McIlroy reports.
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