The 1926 British general strike is best known as one of history’s most excruciating betrayals. For those seeking to understand the frequently treacherous actions of modern union officials, the story remains an important one to study and remember.
In this piece from the Red Flag vault, first published in 2021, Kim Bullimore explains the violence and ethnic cleansing at the heart of Israel’s founding.
The government’s talk of fairness and tackling inequality is empty noise. Yet in some ways, the budget is ambitious: it is characterised by an ambition to keep Australian capitalism’s winners rich and its losers poor.
One Nation must be fought relentlessly. That has to be the lesson the left and the working-class movement takes from the victory of Hanson’s far-right racist party in the Farrer by-election.
The industrial workers of India, so often written off by academics and paternalistic union bureaucrats alike, are once more proving themselves to be a fighting force.
Three months in, the numbers emerging from the latest war waged by Israel and the US are harrowing. More than 1,600 civilians have been killed in Iran since 28 February, and 3.2 million people are internally displaced.
