Ten days of demonstrations and riots in Kanaky (called New Caledonia by French colonists) have scored a tremendous victory against the Macron government and its attempt to entrench French domination over the colony it has ruled since the mid-nineteenth century.
Iran’s rhetorical support for Palestinian liberation is one of the ways that its brutal dictatorship tries to win popular legitimacy at home and abroad. But its thin pretence of being an axis of resistance is window dressing for a counter-revolutionary domestic and international agenda.
The Albanese government’s third budget provides the lion’s share of benefits to the well-off, the military and favoured sectors of the capitalist class and fails to address the major social problems facing the Australian working class—falling real wages and housing stress.
