The anniversary of the Nakba – meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic – is on 15 May, the day after Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948. It marks the profound impact on the Palestinian people’s mass ...

The Melbourne Gaol is famous for being the place where the bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged in 1880. In the early 1970s I saw a collection of death masks displayed on its walls. They were made after ...

‘Think tanks.’ Why have we got them? What are they for? They’re supposed to be groups that work on research and ideas. Precious few serve any progressive purpose but, most exist to support the work of ...

Marxist literary criticism explains a literary work, a novel, through an analysis of the human-social relationships which reflect the economic base of the story, rather than the social institutions ...

Dr Hannah Middleton served as President of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) 1993-2009, and in 2009, after the death of the long-time General Secretary, Peter Symon, was elected as the Party’s ...

At a Wisconsin rally in 2024, President Donald Trump called illegal immigrants murderers: “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we’ve got a lot of bad genes in our ...

Musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) have flagged growing concern over management’s refusal to stop a six-year-old recording of the ballet Dracula being ...

The Queensland sugar industry annually generates $2 billion, and this industry began with indentured labour. In July 2021 the mayor of Bundaberg, Jack Dempsey, made a historic apology for the town’s ...

The Crisafulli LNP government of Queensland has been heavily criticised for its stand on issues from Native Title Disputes, rejecting Human Rights Act recommendations, to the CFMEU. In regards to ...

The moving picture industry was based originally in New York and then moved to California in 1903, where labour costs were cheaper. By 1913 the first full feature 14-reel “silent movies” were being ...

This is part two of a series on the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was a founding republic of the Soviet Union (founded in 1922). This material is an edited translation from the entry in ...