The Melbourne Gaol is famous for being the place where the bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged in 1880. In the early 1970s I saw a collection of death masks displayed on its walls. They were made after ...

The Queensland sugar industry annually generates $2 billion, and this industry began with indentured labour. In July 2021 the mayor of Bundaberg, Jack Dempsey, made a historic apology for the town’s ...

At a Wisconsin rally in 2024, President Donald Trump called illegal immigrants murderers: “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we’ve got a lot of bad genes in our ...

Marxist literary criticism explains a literary work, a novel, through an analysis of the human-social relationships which reflect the economic base of the story, rather than the social institutions ...

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, received from Chelsea Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, hundreds of thousands of classified or sensitive military and diplomatic documents, some of ...

The MUA is mourning the loss of Jimmy Donavan, a former WWF and MUA Sydney Branch official, lifelong member of the Communist Party, and a resolute member of the working class until his last day. As a ...

This book, also published as ‘Against Fascism and War,’ is a series of speeches from August 1935 delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International on the class nature of fascism ...

The moving picture industry was based originally in New York and then moved to California in 1903, where labour costs were cheaper. By 1913 the first full feature 14-reel “silent movies” were being ...

In some sections of the international communist movement today, China is characterised as imperialist, capitalist, or “social imperialist.” Despite being around since the turn of the last century, the ...

There are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentation of interested men, may call ...

CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), is Australia’s leading science and research agency. It has announced it will cut 350 science research roles across Australia.

Buettner and Craig, two New York Times investigative journalists, reveal how the 45th and 47th US president, Donald Trump, was given over US$400 million, lost it and gained the illusion that he was a ...