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Greens put stamp of approval on Labor’s greenwashing climate plan

Cormac Mills Ritchard

By agreeing to pass the safeguard mechanism reforms, Labor’s signature climate policy, the Greens have helped greenwash the continued expansion of fossil fuels.

The world economy in five charts

Trans rights are under attack

What is the point of the Greens?

Get us out of the US alliance

It takes a lot to stop a war

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

From crisis to catastrophe: COVID-19 engulfs China

Robert Narai

Video footage from late December shows elderly patients infected with COVID-19 on stretchers receiving oxygen stored in large blue bottles.

Australia

Greens put stamp of approval on Labor’s greenwashing climate plan

Cormac Mills Ritchard

By agreeing to pass the safeguard mechanism reforms, Labor’s signature climate policy, the Greens have helped greenwash the continued expansion of fossil fuels.

Debate, comment and reviews

Thinking about ecology with Marx – A review of Kohei Saito’s 'Marx in the Anthropocene'

Dougal McNeill

The destruction of the natural environment in the Stalinist regimes through the twentieth-century made it understandable that, for many, Red and Green seemed incompatible. Fast forward thirty years to our own era and the common sense has changed.

Gender and sexuality

Trans rights are under attack

Elliot Downes

There is a dangerous escalation of transphobia happening right now. The political right in the United States and the United Kingdom are rolling back civil rights for trans people specifically and LGBT people more broadly.

History

It takes a lot to stop a war

Jerome Small

To wage a war for empire, the political, industrial, economic and social forces in society must be combined and organised to unleash murder and destruction on a colossal scale. To stop such an obscenity is no easy thing.

Introduction to socialism

Seven reasons to come to Marxism 2023

Lily Campbell

Sick of capitalism? Yeah, us too. That’s why we’re organising the Marxism Conference, the biggest anti-capitalist gathering in Australia.

Marxist theory

Thinking about ecology with Marx – A review of Kohei Saito’s 'Marx in the Anthropocene'

Dougal McNeill

Oppression and liberation

Trans rights are under attack

Elliot Downes

Racism

Perth activists protest refugee deportations

Alevine Magila

Perth activists converged on the Yongah Hill detention centre on 6 March to protest against the imminent deportation of more than twenty Tamil refugees to Sri Lanka.

Revolts and uprisings

‘Women, Life, Freedom’ revolt continues

Bella Beiraghi

“Basij guards, you are our Daesh!”, chanted parents outside an Education Ministry building in western Tehran on 4 March, likening Iran’s security forces to the Islamic State.