Editorial
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: stop participating in it.” – Noam Chomsky, 2002 We are only year into the Abbott regime, and already we have seen dramatic changes to…
Read More“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: stop participating in it.” – Noam Chomsky, 2002 We are only year into the Abbott regime, and already we have seen dramatic changes to…
Read MoreBefore dawn on Thursday the 19th of September, more than 800 agents of the Australian state descended on more than twenty properties in Sydney’s west. This unprecedented show of force yielded a mere fifteen arrests,…
By Rebecca Winter. Content warning: sexual violence, rape apologism. Recently, I’ve been getting into discussions about whether calling out perpetrators of sexual violence and their supporters is a useful tactic. Some people have suggested that…
Dave Kerin is a co-founder of the Earthworker Cooperative in Morwell, Victoria, which is building a network of democratically owned and managed cooperatives throughout Australia to manufacture clean energy technology. Sam spoke with him at…
By Kieran. The way in which the dead are remembered is a political act – the commemoration of war is never neutral. Australia has commenced an orgy of official remembrance; the ANZAC commemoration industry is…
By Kieran The First World War is the war the Australian ruling class wants us to remember. They are spending hundreds of millions over the next two years making sure we never forget. It’s the…
Australia is a country with an undeniable history of racism. It is a history of outstanding colonial cruelty. The Australian state is built on genocide and colonialism, and this legacy seeps through into all aspects…