Kath Larkin
Kath Larkin
ACTU memes
Kath Larkin

The Australian Council of Trade Unions under the leadership of Secretary Sally McManus has been marked by ever increasing class collaboration in the union movement, particularly during the pandemic.

The left should criticise Daniel Andrews
Kath Larkin

The Murdoch press and the Liberals are hypocrites–but that doesn't mean Victorian Labor are the good guys. They've privatised, outsourced, and cut their way into a disaster.

Labor's leaders don't deserve true believers
Labor's leaders don't deserve true believers
Kath Larkin

Count the problems that working class people face in Australia. More than 100,000 homeless. More than 3.2 million living below the poverty line. Eighty-four percent of JobSeeker recipients skipping meals to save money, with nearly half skipping at least five meals a week, according to the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). The average income of the top 1 percent, at $11,862 a week, more than 26 times that of the bottom 5 percent, at $436 a week, again according to ACOSS. This was all before the pandemic and recession hit.

Hanson won't save us
Hanson won't save us
Kath Larkin

Pauline Hanson is a dangerous, racist bigot. She is no friend of workers or our unions. Her party’s vote to defeat the federal government’s vicious anti-union “ensuring integrity” bill is a cynical attempt to shore up some working class votes. That Australia’s unions have relied on this bigot and her allies to save us from an existential threat speaks volumes about just how bankrupt the strategy guiding our movement is – and how urgently we need a change of direction.

Our movement has too few fighters like Marty
Kath Larkin

On 19 May the Rail, Tram and Bus Union lost a stalwart and comrade, Marty McGrath.

Hundreds at Socialist Alternative’s union conference
Kath Larkin

More than 250 people attended Socialist Alternative’s Union Activism and History Conference, held at the Victorian Trades Hall on Saturday, 15 October.

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