Australia occupies a peculiar place in the world system. On the one hand, it has always been a component of a larger empire.

The Labor government is falling over itself to celebrate the brave escape of members of the Iranian women’s soccer team.

A bit over a month ago, I wrote in Red Flag that the hate speech laws tabled by the Queensland LNP government were an “extreme, authoritarian attack on the Palestine movement and civil liberties”.

International Women’s Day has become mainstream in recent years. But historically it was a socialist event. Clara Zetkin, a ...

National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at Sydney University have taken an important step towards reclaiming some of our wages lost to the inflation crisis of the last few years. At a meeting ...

The Australian prime minister’s response is sycophantic even compared with some of the US’s other close allies.

Emma and Chloe discuss the appalling US-Israeli war on Iran. They explain why Trump has started this war, the Australian government's response, and the recent sordid history of US imperialism.

In 1942, the Australian ruling class was reaping the rewards of total war. While young men were sent to the front, the ...

The rapid surge in support for One Nation is proof that Australia is not immune from the global far-right tide.

More than 1,200 dead, schools blown up, entire streets flattened, vital infrastructure destroyed—this is the cost of the US and Israel’s war on Iran. Another 500 lives in Lebanon have been wiped out ...