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Labor Tribune is a voice for the Marxist Left in the Australian labour movement. www.labortribune.net.au

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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With thousands dead in Nepal and the planet shooting past the limits of the Paris Agreement, leaders like Anthony Albanese are fiddling while our homes burn, write Martin Greenfield and Eddie Ford. 👉👉 Read more at Labor Tribune: labortribune.net.au/1-5-degrees-...
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1.5 degrees and rising: capitalism is failing humanity - Labor Tribune
With temperatures shooting past the Paris Agreement, leaders are fiddling while our homes burn, write Martin Greenfield and Eddie Ford.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Former MUA Assistant National Secretary Ian Bray has lifted the lid on the MUA’s internal position calling for ITF boss Steve Cotton to stand down, an MUA member reports. Read more: labortribune.net.au/australian-i...
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Australian ITF coordinator breaks MUA silence on sexual harassment - Labor Tribune
Former MUA Assistant National Secretary Ian Bray has lifted the lid on the MUA’s internal position calling for Steve Cotton to stand down, an MUA member reports.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Labor Tribune is out labortribune.net.au - Climate crisis: 1.5° and rising - ITF Coordinator lifts lid on MUA silence - VicSoc - socialism in one state based on 'the vibe' - Modi finds cockroaches hard to kill - Vic ALP to shred freedom of association - Male entitlement and sexual violence
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“As first reported by Labor Tribune” thewest.com.au/politics/lab...
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Labor MP blasts party's 'fear and loathing' over Gaza
A Labor backbencher has blasted his colleagues for not being more forthright about Palestinian rights and called for tighter monitoring of dual citizens.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Prime Minister very worried about impacts of the war that he supports. No, it’s not The Onion. It’s the tortured utterings of a political line that ties Australia’s fortunes to US militarism. The labour movement needs to reject militarism, imperialism and war. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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PM 'very worried' about Iran war escalation
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is "very worried" about fresh US strikes on Iran and has highlighted the difficulties for global markets responding to US President Donald Trump's repeated peac...
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Unlike other ITF affiliates such as the RMT the MUA has remained silent amid calls for the ITF general-secretary to stand down during investigations into allegations of sexual harassment. labortribune.net.au/mua-silent-a...
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MUA silent amid calls for ITF secretary to stand down - Labor Tribune
Marcus Strom looks into allegations that ITF leader Stephen Cotton perpetuated a sexist culture and engaged in sexual harassment.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
State conference of Victorian Labor voted against Albanese's support for Trump's war on Iran. Hamish McPherson reports on what was a mostly stage-managed affair. labortribune.net.au/victorian-al...
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Victorian ALP votes against the Iran war - Labor Tribune
In a mostly stage-managed conference, delegates still rejected the Albanese government’s support for Trump’s war, reports Hamish McPherson.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Enhanced Games open on 24 May in Las Vegas, the brainchild of Australian capitalist Aron D’Souza. Jack Hynes and Thomas Heenan write in praise of imperfection. labortribune.net.au/who-wants-to...
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'There are superhumans among us' - Labor Tribune
The Enhanced Games reveal the fusion of capital-technology-science in the 21st century, write Jack Hynes and Thomas Heenan.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Latest edition of Labor Tribune has just dropped. #socialism #auspol #laborparty #ALP #Marxism labortribune.net.au
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day comrades and friends. Amid wars, growing inequality and the climate crisis, the cause of labour remains the hope of the world! labortribune.net.au
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The US-Israel war on Iran has exposed the fraudulent nature of ‘green’ capitalism, writes @marcusstrom.bsky.social labortribune.net.au/iran-war-exp...
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Iran war exposes capitalism’s fossil-fuel addiction - Labor Tribune
The US-Israeli assault on Iran has revealed the thin veneer of 'green capitalism', writes Marcus Strom.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Socialist Alternative leaders want to ban caucuses from identifying with the NSW Socialists in public NSW Socialists member Clarrie Lewis argues this is a tipping point in defining the organisation’s democratic culture labortribune.net.au/bureaucracy-...
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Bureaucracy bites in NSW Socialists - Labor Tribune
Socialist Alternative leaders want to ban caucuses from identifying with the party in public. NSW Socialists member Clarrie Lewis reports.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Martin Greenfield says the left should not be surprised that unions have not clearly opposed the US-Israel war. Instead it should work to get its own house in order. labortribune.net.au/unions-limit...
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Unions' limited response to the Iran war - Labor Tribune
Martin Greenfield says the left should not be surprised that unions are not clearly opposing the US-Israel war.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons against Iran weren’t enough for Albanese to withdraw support for Trump’s war, writes Hamish McPherson. labortribune.net.au/whats-lies-b...
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What's lies behind Labor's support for the Iran war - Labor Tribune
Thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons against Iran weren’t enough for Albanese to withdraw support for Trump’s war, writes Hamish McPherson.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The South Australian election shows that Australia is not immune to a far-right-populist surge at the polls - especially with the Iran war threatening a recession. Socialists have to break from liberalism and state-loyalism to counter its rise. labortribune.net.au/south-austra...
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SA election and the rise of One Nation - Labor Tribune
What looks like a landslide win for Labor could spell trouble down the track. Marcus Strom looks at the South Australian election.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
‘After the rupture’ in international affairs - outlined by Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos - and with @albomp.bsky.social still ‘living within the lie’, Hamish McPherson argues we can’t tail after liberals. The working class needs its own foreign policy labortribune.net.au/albanese-sti...
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Albanese still 'living within the lie' - Labor Tribune
After the ‘rupture’ in international affairs described by Candian PM Mark Carney, Hamish McPherson calls for a working-class foreign policy.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
New edition of Labor Tribune published labortribune.net.au - After the ‘rupture’, for a working-class foreign policy - Anti-Zionists won’t be silenced - Iran and the left’s weaknesses - Workers need a plan - NSW Socialists forced into new name - Report from NSW Socialists conference
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Banning organisations like this is futile. They ‘disband’ and find new ways to work The working class and labour movement must organise to close down neonazi groups and make them unfeasible not rely on the state www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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'We don't want them': Neo-Nazi group says it will disband ahead of new laws
In a statement posted to Telegram, the group announced the closure of the National Socialist Network would also spell the end of "co-projects" White Australia, the European Australian Movement and the...
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Latest edition now available labortribune.net.au - Heroes among the antisemitic horror at Bondi - Peace is Union Business - Ukraine at Christmas faces more bloodshed - US decline: cyclical or structural? - Sean Kelly essay reviewed - Letters
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Calling for resistance to Zionist genocide is becoming hate speech. This is why the labour movement, consistent democrats, republicans and Marxists must oppose ‘hate speech’ laws. The state can define anything as hate speech and prosecute. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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NSW treasurer declares ‘intifada’ protest chant is hate speech
The state government will step up monitoring of hate speech to “stamp out the culture of antisemitism” as Palestine advocates defend use of the controversial “intifada” phrase.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A defence insider speaks to Labor Tribune. Military spending is a sacred cow to the capitalist class and the political elite. The latest reshuffling of the deck in Australian arms procurement reveals much that is rotten in the military establishment. labortribune.net.au/defence-proc...
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Defence procurement: reshuffling deckchairs - Labor Tribune
Defence insider tells Labor Tribune the new Defence Delivery Agency will 'do nothing'. Marcus Strom argues it reveals much that's rotten within the military.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Queensland Labor state conference has called on the federal government to investigate and prosecute Australians who have credible allegations of committing war crimes fighting for Israel Defence Forces in Gaza. labortribune.net.au/qld-alp-call...
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'Investigate credible allegations of IDF war crimes': QLD Labor - Labor Tribune
Queensland Labor has called for prosecutions against Australians in the IDF where credible allegations of war crimes in Gaza exist.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New Labor Tribune edition now available - Democracy on backburner for ALP National Platform - QLD Labor calls for IDF war crimes investigations - Can Socialist Alliance + Vic Socialists unite? - Sectarianism: not in front of the children - Defence procurement - Anti-militarism in Australia
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
While neonazis are a concern, they are not the main threat to democracy. We must fight against draconian laws that seek to limit political organisation. Being a cosplay anti-nazi chasing cosplay nazis is no way to fight encroaching draconian laws. labortribune.net.au/dont-fall-fo...
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Don't fall for the panic over neonazis - Labor Tribune
The labour movement must oppose anti-democratic laws that will always be used against the left, argues Marcus Strom
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
What’s behind the “Mamdani moment”? The global left is rightly celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s victory but will he be seduced by the Democrat Party machine? A report from Joseph P of @MarxistUnityDSA faction of the Democratic Socialists of America. labortribune.net.au/what-lies-be...
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Behind the 'Mamdani moment': a report from New York City - Labor Tribune
The global left is rightly celebrating Zohran Mamdani's victory but will he be seduced by the Democrat Party machine? Joseph P. reports from NYC.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
COP30: Incrementalism won’t work to abate climate change. We need an emergency plan to transform economy and ecology. Once again capitalism shows it is not up to the task. We need system change, not climate change. labortribune.net.au/cop30-capita...
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COP30: capitalism's climate dead end - Labor Tribune
The road to Belem was paved with good intentions, but capitalism can't solve the climate crisis, argues Marcus Strom.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Latest edition of Labor Tribune has dropped! - Layers of failure behind CFMEU crisis - COP30: capitalism's climate dead-end - the Mamdani moment and its limits: report from NYC - don't fall for the panic over neonazis - universal basic income - should the left fight for it? - letters
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Every few years one of the big media houses runs a special on ‘our broken federation’ - but the liberal elite is too timid to call for a republic that abolishes the states, the senate and all the bureaucracy connected with it We have no such timidity www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Overgoverned, overtaxed and overcomplicated: How Australia was set up to fail
Our three levels of government will collect a record $1 trillion in taxes this year, but the federation is failing.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This is why consistent democrats and republicans should oppose a head of state, who are ‘elected monarchs’. No reserve powers against a sovereign parliament or assembly of the people should be tolerated No Kings. No Presidents. For a sovereign people www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump letter urges Israel's president to pardon PM Netanyahu
President Herzog's office says he holds Trump "in the highest regard", but that anyone seeking a pardon has to submit a formal request.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
On the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal, Hamish McPherson reviews Phil Griffiths' 'Solidarity' pamphlet 'Strike Fraser Out!'. We need a movement for a truly republican constitution. labortribune.net.au/after-50-yea...
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After 50 years, maintain your republican rage - Labor Tribune
On the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal, Hamish McPherson reviews Solidarity pamphlet 'Strike Fraser Out!'
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Plenty of fine words about Gough and the Dismissal 50 years ago today. But without a new republican constitution that removes the reserve Crown powers - whether vested in a Governor-General or President - frankly, it’s all hot air labortribune.net.au/albo-will-sa...
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Albo will save the Governor-General - Labor Tribune
As the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal approaches, David Lockwood urges you to maintain your republican rage and enthusiasm.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Latest Labor Tribune has dropped - Fight Marles naked militarism - @Vic_Socialists registration at an impasse - MUA leadership change - Environment Protection bill - Gen Z protests: can they win? - Dismissal 50 years: maintain your rage - Letters labortribune.net.au
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The boosters of AUKUS argue it will deliver jobs. But at nearly $2m a job, it’s one of the worst job creation programs ever. Professor Al Rainnie from Adelaide University/UniSA writes for Labor Tribune, busting the myth that AUKUS is good for jobs. labortribune.net.au/the-empty-cl...
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The empty claim that AUKUS is good for jobs - Labor Tribune
Professor Al Rainnie from the University of South Australia argues we should fight for jobs that are socially meaningful, not dependent on militarism and the war machine
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Look who is really benefiting from the US-Australia rare-earths deal that locks our minerals into the US’s ongoing trade war with China. We should nationalise the resources sector and have a sovereign wealth fund for social need, not Rinehart greed. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Latest edition of Labor Tribune has dropped. - Rare earths deal: Trump locks Albo in - AUKUS and jobs - Gaza ‘peace’ - Europe, debt and war - Kautsky on Marx - Homosexuality decriminalised in SA: 50 years - Letters from readers
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Indonesia is hugely important for the working class in Australia. It might be taken for granted in imperialist calculation - but our class needs serious engagement with the Indonesian people to win socialism at home and in Asia. Abe David gives his analysis labortribune.net.au/indonesia-po...
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Indonesia: popular expectations meet capitalist reality - Labor Tribune
Abe David argues that understanding Indonesia’s contradictions is not optional. For Marxists in Australia, it is essential.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PM @albomp.bsky.social will save the Governor-General. But as the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal approaches, David Lockwood urges you to maintain your republican rage and enthusiasm. labortribune.net.au/albo-will-sa...
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Albo will save the Governor-General - Labor Tribune
As the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal approaches, David Lockwood urges you to maintain your republican rage and enthusiasm.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The Gaza 'peace plan' is a continuation of colonisation, writes Hamish McPherson in the latest Labor Tribune. It's vital Labor Friends of Palestine keeps the pressure up to sanction Israel and stop the arms trade. labortribune.net.au/gaza-plan-a-...
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Gaza plan a continuation of colonisation - Labor Tribune
Hamish McPherson says the end to daily slaughter is a relief but we must keep the pressure on the government to sanction Israel.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It isn’t enough just to counter demonstrate the far-right. The left needs its own strategy to become the radical mass alternative to the establishment. Hamish McPherson takes a look at recent ‘March for Australia’ events and how the left has responded. labortribune.net.au/march-for-au...
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'March for Australia' a rotten rightwing bloc - Labor Tribune
The left must be the radical alternative to the establishment, writes Hamish McPherson.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The UN cannot liberate Palestine. Invoking the 'Uniting for Peace Resolution' - a tool of imperialism - is either a fantasy or would trigger a world war. Either way it is a dead end for the Palestine solidarity movement. labortribune.net.au/un-cannot-li...
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UN cannot liberate Palestine - Labor Tribune
Calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force to deliver aid to Gaza and end the conflict in Palestine is a practical and political dead end. Bob Sparks explains.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The @australianlabor.bsky.social president Wayne Swan warns that @albomp.bsky.social election win 'wide but shallow'. Labor Tribune editor @marcusstrom.bsky.social made the same point - but for radically different reasons - after the May vote. labortribune.net.au/alps-may-fed...
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ALP's May federal election win: big margin, shallow base - Labor Tribune
The ALP victory in May hides a shallow support for Albanese's program of do little and say less.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It is clear that an Israel-Palestine two-state solution is dead. But is a ‘single democratic state’ a useful proposal to take the movement forward? David Lockwood takes a look labortribune.net.au/stateless-in...
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Stateless in Gaza - Labor Tribune
It is clear that a two-state solution is dead. But is a ‘single democratic state’ a useful proposal for Palestine and Israel? Deputy editor David Lockwood takes a look.
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Labor Tribune @labortribune.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
To be effective and transform politics in Australia, the campaign for Palestine solidarity and against the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank must take a democratic and mass character. labortribune.net.au/build-a-mass...
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Build a mass democratic movement for Palestine - Labor Tribune
In the wake of the historic Sydney Harbour Bridge ‘March for Humanity’, the Palestine solidarity movement can build a mass movement with a working-class character that lays a basis for a political cha...
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