SYDNEY — When immigration police arrested the Murugappan family, including two infant daughters, in a pre-dawn raid March 5, 2018, in Biloela, working people in the small central Queensland country town started a fight for their right to stay. Supporters…
SYDNEY — “We won!” read placards outside international food monopoly General Mills factory in Rooty Hill, Western Sydney, June 24 after 89 workers, members of the United Workers Union, won their strike. They had maintained a 24-hour picket for three…
SYDNEY — Defending Canberra’s policy of stepping up deportations of “criminals,” Minister of Home Affairs Peter Dutton called it “taking the trash out” to “keep Australia safe.” His comments coincided with a Channel 9 TV report titled, “Con Air:…
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is refusing to retreat from confrontations with the Chinese government over trade, investment and Beijing’s influence in Australia. The Australian rulers are caught between their major trading partner, China, and their main military…
SYDNEY — Some 350 warehouse workers at Coles distribution center in Smeaton Grange in southwest Sydney have been picketing since the bosses locked them out Nov. 19. Coles announced they decided to extend the three-month lockout indefinitely Feb. 9 after…
SYDNEY — Over 100 nurses and midwives walked off the job at Blacktown Hospital in western Sydney Nov. 19 to protest longstanding understaffing. Staff shortages at the public hospital have been an issue there for years as management aims to…
SYDNEY — More than 350 workers at the Coles distribution center at Smeaton Grange in southwest Sydney are picketing daily, fighting a company lockout. Coles is one of the main supermarket chains in Australia, taking in almost 1 billion Australian…
SYDNEY — Tens of thousands protested across Australia June 5-6, including more than 20,000 here, in solidarity with U.S. demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd as well as against Aboriginal deaths in police custody. The cops in New…
BALMORAL VILLAGE, Australia — Supporters of the Militant arrived here, 60 miles southwest of Sydney, to discuss the impact of large-scale fires in December and to offer solidarity. We found a hub of activity at the local Rural Fire Service…
The following statement was released by the Communist League in Australia Jan. 8. The massive bushfires that have swept south and eastern Australia have had a devastating impact on the lives of many working people. But the social crisis developing…
