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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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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 · 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 · 12/10/2025
Latest Labor Tribune has dropped labortribune.net.au
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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
About to give the introductory lecture for my favourite course: "The Apocalypse in Science and Culture" @sydney.edu.au We introduced this course (unintentionally) in the middle of the pandemic. It proved to be a great way for students to process their experiences and concerns about the future.
Opening slide for the Apocalypse in Science and Culture course at the University of Sydney. 

The left gives the course name. The right is an album cover from Midnight Oil, showing a photomontage by Japanese artist Tsunehisa Kimura depicting a nuclear strike on Sydney.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Feels like the 'recognise Palestine' debate is a diversion by western countries from taking real action to stop a genocide - sanction Israel (not one/two 'bad' ministers) - total arms embargo - prosecute/arrest IDF volunteers from countries returned home suspected of war crimes
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Ah yes, the old conveniently timed biosecurity review. Nothing to do with bowing, scraping and fawning to Washington. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Australia lifts US beef ban after Trump demands
The government insists the move is the result of a lengthy biosecurity review rather than negotiations with the Trump administration, which demanded access for US cattle.
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Fantastic to see the Electrical Trades Union in QLD & NT calling for the Australian government to withdraw from AUKUS. The ACTU and the labour movement must get behind the campaign against militarism, for decent jobs that are for peace, not war.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Good data story - not for the bollox about what you need for 1% - but for highlighting what people actually live on in this city. Media income for Greater Sydney is $58,200. Let that sink in. Half of the income earners in this city earn LESS than that. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
smh.com.au
What you need to earn to be in the top 1 per cent in your Sydney suburb
In Bellevue Hill, the top earners bring in an average of $7.5 million. Check out your suburb.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Trump raising taxes on the super-rich to pay for Medicaid and other social services is going to melt the brains of the liberal left ‘tax the rich’ brigade. www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/tru...
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Trump proposes US tax hike for ultra-wealthy
US President Donald Trump is proposing a new 39.6% tax bracket for individuals earning at least US$2.5 million per year, or couples making US$5 million, as part of his “big, beautiful bill” to extend ...
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Tax the rich?
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My thoughts on last weekend’s Australian federal election for British communist newspaper, Weekly Worker weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1537/...
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Orange, green and red
Labor’s thumping election victory resulted from more than Trump and the rush for safety. Liberal dog whistles and the promise of nuclear power stations were soundly rejected. Marcus Strom looks at the...
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Enjoy democracy day Straya #democracysausage #DefeatDutton #DontRiskDutton
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I don’t know about you but if RIOT POLICE are being used to manage the selective schools exams then perhaps it a time to review the entire separatist elite nonsense. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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‘Children would be crushed’: Police called as selective schools tests descend into chaos
One test was cancelled and police including members of the riot squad were needed to manage massive crowds at selective school exams across Sydney.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Long Live International Working Class Solidarity and Sociaism. Long Live May Day! Defeat Dutton!
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congratulations to the people of Vietnam - celebrating today 50 years since their country was reunified after being torn apart by Japanese, French, US and Australian imperialism
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Interesting study on AI literacy/confidence. Australia among most pessimistic - but also among least AI literate of 47 countries surveyed by KPMG + Melbourne Uni Nigeria, Egypt, UAE, China and India among the most AI literate - and trusting - populations kpmg.com/au/en/home/i...
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Trust in artificial intelligence: global insights 2025
Global survey results exploring people’s trust in AI, responsible AI, expectations of AI governance, and benefits and risks for business and society.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Post Anzac Day in Hanoi with a veteran of the anti-imperialist war
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Chag Pesach sameach y’all A time to reflect on freedom (freiheit) and forced exile - and take to heart a principle advocated by one of my favourite Jews, Charlie Marx. “A nation that oppresses another cannot itself be free”
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Good to see some sense injected into the ‘Dire Wolves Back From Extinction” hype for a private company by @mjflepage.bsky.social @newscientist.com 20 gene edits to a wolf a new species does not make. No The Dire Wolf Has Not Been Brought Back From Extinction www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A new theory of complexity suggests entities are selected because they are richer in information that enables them to perform some kind of function. Another great article by Philip Ball philipcball.bsky.social‬www.quantamagazine.org/why-everythi...2/
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Don’t be fooled into thinking the wave of repression is only happening in Trump’s USA. British police have raided a Quakers’ place of worship arresting six women. Yep. The Quakers. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congrats @mikeyslezak.bsky.social ABC in Sydney, @biancahall.bsky.social The Age in Melbourne & @kasunubayasiri.bsky.social Griffith Uni in Brisbane. New journo union leaders backed by members, committed to unionism, ethics & press freedom They will become directors of the @walkleys.bsky.social
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our message for a second-term Labor Government to scrap AUKUS is loud and clear as reported here by Isobel Roe from ABC News
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Chag Purim Sameach!
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Here we go again: since the Boer War Australian governments hasn’t missed an opportunity to send the sons and daughters of other people, young men and women, off to die in the senseless wars of Empires on the other side of the world.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Fare thee well summer! Was lovely to get in a beach swim on the last day.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s revolting seeing ‘leaders’ fawn over Trump in the hope he will cut a ‘special deal’. Whether Starmer/Albanese on tariffs. Zelensky on aid or EU on Ukraine, they offer nothing to humanity Only an internationalist working class can offer a progressive hope for humanity.
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Seriously. It’s time to sink AUKUS. The writing is on the wall Australians need to find peace & security with Asia, not against it as a foreign outpost of fading Anglosphere empires a world away David Crowe SMH: “Trump Has Sent A Wrecking Ball Through Old Alliances” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Trump has sent a wrecking ball through old alliances. The implications for Australia are severe
In a world where Donald Trump doesn’t appear to know what AUKUS is, Australia can no longer rely on decades of friendship and shared values.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
These stories are funny. “OH NO - Chinese ships in Australian waters” (narrator’s voice: in fact they were not in Australian waters but international waters) And ‘Chinese planes were rude to our planes that we were flying really close to China - which we are allowed to!’
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Why didn’t Australia sign this defence of the International Criminal Court along with majority of ICC member states, including UK, Germany, France? @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
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ICC: Dozens of member states back top criminal court after Trump sanctions
A majority of member states, including the UK, Germany and France, said the court was "vital" for international justice.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Looks like we are going to soar past 2 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures, at least. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Shipping rules that came into effect in 2020 removed the masking feature of aerosols in the atmosphere (which had a slight cooling effect). Possibly why temps have spiked? Paper is by former NASA scientist and early global warming campaigner James Hansen. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?
Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the ...
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Something I wrote on AUKUS: it's main aim is to ensure unchallenged US global hegemony, in line with Zbrigniew Brezinski's maxim in his 1997 'The Great Chessboard'. weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1523/...
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Maintaining global hegemony
China is America’s only serious rival, prompting the ‘Pivot to Asia’ and the growing threat of a hot war. Marcus Strom examines the role of Aukus, particularly in relation to the politics of Australia
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Today we remember 80 years since Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz We will never forget that Jewish resistance continued. We will never forget the millions slaughtered And even as the US calls for ‘cleaning out’ of Gaza, we commit to oppose all genocides #HolocaustMemorialDay
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Arguing that Musk was in fact doing a 'respectful Roman salute' is like saying a synagogue was defaced with 'Hindu symbols'. And, of course, the Ancient Romans never saluted like that - it's a 19th century invention adopted by Mussolini and Hitler.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Comprehensive shellacking of the AUKUS debacle by @marcusstrom.bsky.social Please read. "AUKUS is not about an independent defence policy for the Australian people, it is about locking Australia into US war plans with China..." johnmenadue.com/our-case-aga...
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Our case against AUKUS is more relevant than ever - Pearls and Irritations
Trump claims to expand US territory by military means to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal and to coerce Canada into the United States.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Will be funny watching the twists and squirms from the BRICs ‘leftists’ who thought TikTok was being banned because it told the truth now that Trump is championing it.
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
AUKUS subs are $US17,000,000,000 over budget and *years* behind schedule. Delays are threatening to undermine the AUKUS agreement. Don’t take our word for it. Read it here. nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/vi...
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Virginia-Class Submarine: $17,000,000,000 Over Budget and Years Behind
The U.S. Navy’s plan to counter China’s military buildup by 2027 faces significant hurdles, particularly with the Virginia-class submarine program. Delays have pushed completion timelines by 2-3 years...
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What sort of cloud is this?
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thread 🧵 With lieutenant general Keith Kellogg to be Trump’s envoy on Russia and Ukraine this paper will now steer US policy to end the war, which Trump sees as an unnecessary proxy war with Russia. Worth a read. americafirstpolicy.com/issues/ameri...
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America First, Russia, & Ukraine
Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine was an avoidable crisis that, due to the Biden Administration’s incompetent policies and rejection of the America First approach to national security, has entangle...
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
David McBride addresses Walkleys from prison. Jailed for whistleblowing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. He said the whistleblower protection laws, freedom of information laws and fair work laws all do the opposite their names suggest. Free David McBride!
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Fracker for Energy Grifter for 'efficiency' (DOGE) Meathead for Defence Anti-vaxxer for Health. This is Trump's equivalent of appointing his horse to the Senate.
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
On Sunday, the Tasmanian Left faction meeting carried a resolution "Trump's return means we must urgently break from AUKUS". The motion calls on federal MPs and Senators to raise concerns in caucus and press for Australia's immediate withdrawal from AUKUS
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Congratulations to Armidale branch ALP, voting unanimously this week to call on our federal MPs and Senators to oppose AUKUS and for the Australian government to drop the nuclear submarine pact.
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Labor Against War @labagainstwar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
ALP branches have started passing resolutions opposed to AUKUS - including in @albomp.bsky.social's own electorate. www.smh.com.au/cbd/albanese...
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Albanese questioned on Trump, AUKUS by local Labor branch
Labor voters in the prime minister’s progressive electorate of Grayndler aren’t thrilled by the incoming US president.
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Australia's Labor Defence Minister Richard has said Israel is acting within the rules of war. International law expert Professor Ben Saul from the University of Sydney says Marles is 'poorly briefed' www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
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Marcus Strom @marcusstrom.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
A Marxist perspective on the Voice referendum weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1462/...
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