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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.
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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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Albanese’s election win ‘wide but shallow’: Labor president’s frank admission “Our victory this year was wide but shallow and a small drop in our vote … could see the loss of a large number of seats,” Wayne Swan has warned.

Here is the article where Swan warns of Labor's weakness

But the problem is manifold:
- ALP members expected to serve the MPs and not other way around
- the MPs serve capital, but on the backs of the working class

We need to upend these equations

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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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...

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.

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