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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Melbourne comrades gathered in Brunswick to protest the planned AUKUS commitment and the Albanese government’s plans to turn Australia into a parking lot for nuclear powered submarines at a starting ...

Friedrich Engels in his The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) refers to “the vampire property-holding class.” Twenty years later, Karl Marx uses the vampire image three times in Capital ...

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 ...

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 ...

The history of Australian horror movies is a fascinating journey, mirroring the nation’s cultural evolution, from colonial anxieties to a unique brand of modern ...

Dr Hannah Middleton served as President of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) 1993-2009, and in 2009, after the death of the long-time General Secretary, Peter Symon, was elected as the Party’s ...