Worker power is essential to building our economy from the COVID-19 crisis better than before and developing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. On Labor Day, President Joe Biden announced, “When unions win, workers across the board win.” Although Biden outlined the achievements of the US labor movement over history, he…
Firstly, let me say this is not a conventional book review. It is more so an ongoing critical reflection on what the anti-Zionist Left (i.e. those who reject Israel’s continuing existence as a Jewish state even within the Green Line borders, and instead advocate so-called universalistic solutions which in the current political culture of the…
A Federal Court decision handed down on August 31 confirmed that University of Sydney staff have a legal right to be protected from disciplinary action when exercising intellectual freedom. The decision resulted from an appeal brought by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Dr Tim Anderson, a former Political Economy academic, against the University of Sydney. Anderson was sacked…
Victoria will become the first state or territory in Australia to make the public display of Nazi symbols illegal – in a landmark reform to help stamp out hateful behaviour and boost human rights protections. The Andrews Labor Government will also extend the state’s anti-vilification protections beyond race and religion to cover areas such as…
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomed today’s landmark Federal Court judgment that ruled University of Sydney staff have a legal right to be protected from disciplinary action when exercising intellectual or academic freedom, under the terms of the NTEU collective workplace agreement. The appeal decision found that the University of Sydney collective agreement contains a legally…
A controversial University of Sydney lecturer who was sacked after superimposing a swastika on an Israeli flag has won a key victory in his battle to be reinstated, with the federal court declaring academics at the institution are entitled to convey even offensive views in their area of expertise. The decision reverses a previous court…
After a long night of deliberations, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced to the Knesset on Aug. 2, “Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has a budget!” The cabinet ministers, who voted unanimously for it, burst into a round of applause. The intense pressure facing the new government was gone: The coalition had survived its first major test.…
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has slammed a Labor motion backed by former NSW premier Bob Carr calling for a boycott of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, saying it is counterproductive and is not supported by anyone in his party room. Mr Albanese also pledged an “ongoing opposition” to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)…
Anthony Albanese has shown he is no Jeremy Corbyn. For those who have been paying attention, he has never showed any signs of behaving like the former leader of the British Labour Party. Albanese has a long history of standing up against the more extreme elements of his party’s Left, including campaigning against the former…
There is something profoundly disturbing and morally challenging in the way many view the Israel-Palestine conflict. The chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, once buried because of its unadulterated implication that Israel should be eliminated, is currently in vogue, doing the rounds of social media. In a recent Facebook post…