Socialist Alliance recommends a Yes vote for the referendum on the Voice. But we also recognise that substantial measures to benefit Indigenous people require a strengthening of the grassroots movements for change. This will be true whatever the outcome on October 14, writes Sam Wainwright.
Sam Wainwright
Sam Wainwright told Alex Bainbridgewhile the official Yes and official No campaigns for the Voice to Parliament referendum are based on conservative agendas, the demoralisation that would flow from a No victoryoutweighs the limitationsof the Voice.
It's probablyno surprise that the Intergenerational Report 2023 passed without much comment. It forecasts the need for greater income revenue, and that will fall to a younger generation. ²Էɰ reports.
We can’t possibly mobilise the human and material resources needed to confront the climate crisis — the real threat to our security — whilegearing up for a new Cold War, let alone a hot war, argues Sam Wainwright.
Long-term activist Menang woman Megan Krakouer first opposed the Voice, but has now decided to support it. She spoke toSam Wainwright about why.
Socialist Alliance adds itvoiceto the growing international chorus demanding the immediate release of Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky and the dropping of the trumped-up charge of “justifying terrorism”.
The Greens leadership is wrong to focus on getting more MPs and that its someone else’s job to do the “streetheat” it knows is needed, arguesSam Wainwright.The changes we urgently need willonly comefrom sustained extra-parliamentary mobilisations.
ճDefence Strategic Reviewdoesn’t contain any surprises, argues Sam Wainwright. It abandons any pretence that military expenditure has anything to do with defence, conceding that it’s all about helping the United States project its military power into Asia.
Clifton D’Rozario, a labour lawyer and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation leader, will address Ecosocialism 2023 in Naarm/Melbourne. Sam Wainwright reports.
For many young people,the fact that modern Australia emerged from a colonial-settler society founded on the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples is a self-evident fact. Sarah Hathway and Sam Wainwrightcomment on a significantpoliticalshiftunderway.
Ecosocialism 2022 session on Ukraine, imperialism and the left featuring Denys Pilash and Sam Wainwright.
Protesters outside Deep Yellow’s annual general meeting saidthe company must end its plans to mine uranium at Mulga Rockon the land of the Upurli Upurli people. Sam Wainwright reports.
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