By all indications, Balasore will be remembered as one of India's worst rail disasters in years with the scale of trauma and devastation still unfolding, writes CPIML (Liberation).
Privatisation
Workers in the mostly privatised aged-care system face chronic understaffing and substandard pay, while aged care providers cry poor to justify their cost cutting.聽Ben Radford reports.
Demonstrators took to the streets聽across Greece to protest the government's handling of last month's Tempi railway disaster, reports Brett Wilkins.
With elections due in the next 12 months, Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) prime minister Pedro S谩nchez is hoping his pro-worker posture will be enough to secure victory over the right and keep the independence movement at bay, writes Dick Nichols.
The policies of successive NSW聽governments聽to not build new public housing聽and sell off old stock is worsening the聽housing crisis, writes Paul Gregoire.
More聽privatisations of public assets are聽in store for聽New South Wales as聽Premier Dominic Perrottet refuses聽to rule out more sell-offs. Jim McIlroy reports.
The聽controversy over a recent investigation into alleged fraud in the Medicare system points to system failures resulting from chronic聽under-funding. Jim McIlroy reports.
If anything reflected Bernie Neville鈥檚 view on the working class, it was his often-repeated phrase: 鈥淣o surrender!鈥 Dave Riley reflects on the life of a militant unionist.
Our seas聽are being ravaged by exploitation for corporate profit, creating a social, economic and ecological crisis that threatens the very life support system of the Earth,聽writes聽Guy Standing.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce鈥檚 aggressive cost-cutting program at the start of the pandemic has been blamed for聽Qantas鈥檚 poor performance. Jim McIlroy argues Labor鈥檚聽decision to privatise Qantas in the early 1990s is the root cause.
Twenty three Victorian councils have already, or are intending to, privatise their aged-care service since the聽federal government changed its funding model. Kerry Smith reports.
Paul Keating has rejected聽the聽Greens' criticism聽that Labor聽adopted neoliberalism.聽Alex Bainbridge argues that聽Labor's policies on superannuation and Medicare are examples of user-pays systems that privilege the well-off.
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