Over the last two years, Australia has become home to one of the most enduring movements for Palestine anywhere in the world. We have refused to be silenced. We have stood with the Palestinian people in their darkest hour. And we will continue to do so until Palestine is free.
If someone took $20,000 from you, you’d probably want it back. And if you and every single one of your workmates had that kind of money taken out of your pay packets it’s pretty likely you’d expect your union to try to organise to win it back.
Far-right and outright fascist politics are on the rise across the West. Australia isn’t immune. The recent spate of far-right protests here is a wake-up call.
Politicians and newspaper editors are trying to convince us that the March for Australia rallies on 31 August were not far-right mobilisations by racist dogs, but decent folk motivated by legitimate concerns, who just happened to be duped by Nazis.
The argument that migrants are responsible for the housing crisis in Australia has no basis in fact and is propaganda in the service of the economic elites.
