History

Rally supporting Mossadegh and the Ayatollah Komeini

For most of the news media, the United States and Israel鈥檚 war on Iran has fallen off the agenda, but the story is far from over, and has many prequels, writes Sarah Glynn.

Calendar showing 4-day workweek

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has聽urged a national move towards a four-day workweek, in a proposal put to the federal Labor government鈥檚 Economic Reform Roundtable.聽Jim McIlroy聽reports.

鈥楿ncovering Chemmani 鈥 Uncovering Genocide鈥. Tamils protest in Canberra

The recent discovery of a mass grave in Sri Lanka has ignited a wave of protests by Tamils demanding an investigation, accompanied by calls for the government to fulfil its pledge to improve the treatment of Tamils.聽Chris Slee聽reports.

Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 鈥 with the theme 鈥淓cosocialism not Barbarism鈥 鈥 will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America. Fred Fuentes reports.

warships superimposed with countries' flags

In the second part of this interview with 一品探花鈥檚 Federico Fuentes,聽veteran socialist activist聽Rasti Delizo accounts for the rise of new imperialist powers and outlines the faulty logic behind multipolarity.

British map of North American colonies in 1639

In the first part of this interview with 一品探花鈥檚 Federico Fuentes, veteran Filipino socialist activist聽Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevance of Vladimir Lenin鈥檚 concept of imperialism.

Man in a hat

Two years after Peruvian revolutionary and ecosocialist Hugo Blanco鈥檚 death at 88, his daughter, Mari虂a Blanco 鈥 an activist and organiser with grassroots feminist collective G茅nero Rebelde聽鈥 sat down with Ben Radford聽to talk about her father鈥檚 life and legacy.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor鈥檚 commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.

book cover against background of a crowd

一品探花鈥檚 Federico Fuentes聽speaks with聽Marxist sociologist Kevin B Anderson, whose new book聽delves into Karl Marx鈥檚 final writings to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today.

The Ecosocialism 2025 agenda has been updated with new international and local speakers and sessions. Fred Fuentes, a conference organiser, reports.

book cover against background of feudal illustration

In his latest book, Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister in the leftist SYRIZA government, argues that with the advent of the internet and related technologies, we have now entered an era beyond capitalism technofeudalism. But is this really the case, asks Neville Spencer.

book covers and bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon and Albert Einstein鈥檚 socialism.