When commenting on China, some in the West only see a country constantly at the cusp of crisis, ranging from predictions of a “China hard landing” or “China collapse,” to “COVID is China’s Chernobyl ...

The Queensland sugar industry annually generates $2 billion, and this industry began with indentured labour. In July 2021 the mayor of Bundaberg, Jack Dempsey, made a historic apology for the town’s ...

The moving picture industry was based originally in New York and then moved to California in 1903, where labour costs were cheaper. By 1913 the first full feature 14-reel “silent movies” were being ...

Unions are getting active. Across Australia a number of unions are currently involved in industrial action, including strikes ...

Four points from the Global Report on Food crises. 1. The number of people who are hungry is greater now than last year. 2. The amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last ...

There are three processes in which funding is provided and claims can be made. One is direct government National Disability ...

The federal Labor government might have abolished the union-bashing Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) but its dirty work has been taken up by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). The ...

Editor’s note: The following are contributions from the Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) to the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ ...

The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, by Vincent Bevins In the 1960s the CIA set up a world-wide network to eradicate Communism from ...

Joe Biden’s last days in the White House saw him issue pardons to many Americans serving prison sentences. He commuted death sentences and freed hundreds of inmates serving sentences for relatively ...

Pope Francis has died. He is mourned and remembered as a great man who loved the ill and destitute, washing and kissing the feet of women and Muslims. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires ...

Justin McPhee’s Spinning the Secrets of State was inspired by the intelligence debacle following the dubious intelligence used by the Howard government to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. McPhee, ...