Australia
Uni Melb union betrays Palestine
Luca Tavan

In a monumental betrayal, Melbourne University’s Students’ Council last month voted to rescind a motion supporting the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

An unlikely ally of Palestine
Marty Hirst

Nachshon Amir looks like a military man. It’s decades since he served in the Israeli military, but with his shaved head, fit physique and rugged demeanour, it might also seem that he has just been demobbed.

Equal pay: the solution is hiding in plain sight
We have to fight for equal pay
Liz Ross

The facts are undeniable. Women in 5,000 companies—covering almost five million workers—earn 21.7 percent less than their male colleagues’ median total remuneration. In some companies, the gap is as high as 31.8 percent. This is according to figures released by the Workplace Gender Equity Agency (WGEA) in the lead-up to International Women’s Day this year.

Market forces got you down? Try more market forces
Market forces failing? Try more...
April Holcombe

Big companies are pulling the rip-off of the century. Coles and Woollies, Qantas and Virgin, AGL and Origin Energy, and the Big Four banks are passing on inflated prices and interest rates to consumers, cutting workers’ real purchasing power and boosting company profits to record highs. 

Labor’s crap workplace law changes
Jerome Small

Internationally, some major unions have responded to the cost-of-living crisis by taking serious industrial action. Though results have been mixed, the UK has seen the most significant wave of strikes since the 1980s. In the US, some workers have won significant breakthroughs—including wage rises of 80 percent or more for some university staff, and for low-paid United Auto Workers members after their nationwide “stand up” strike campaign last year. 

Students protest for Palestine
Maria Dabbas

Thousands of high school and university students across Australia ditched class on 29 February to protest in solidarity with Palestinians who continue to face severe privation, displacement and murder as part of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. 

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