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Novelist, filmmaker and academic Tracy Sorensen, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, passed away on May 5. Neville Spencer writes about her life, which included a strong focus on social justice. 

Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist. 

The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman. 

Amid the biggest housing crisis in Australia’s history and public housing being sold off, the most vulnerable public housing tenants say they are now even more isolated. Suzanne James reports.

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it under house arrest in Brazil after recently being sentenced to 14 years prison for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died, reports Tamara Pearson.

The Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) ship carrying human rights volunteers and humanitarian aid to Gaza came under direct attack by armed drones in international waters on May 2, reports Kerry Smith.

The Jewish state’s strategic objectives, which involve the elimination of Hamas, have been shown to be unattainable. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Thousands of trade unionists went on strike and marched to New South Wales Parliament on May Day, International Workers’ Day to remind Labor of its need to provide safe working conditions and better pay. Isaac Nellist reports.

In the first part of our interview, Canadian socialist activist and author Sam Gindin discusses the impacts of United States president Donald Trump’s tariff war on global capitalism with Green Left's Federico Fuentes.

Sarah Hathway, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corio, told a pro-Palestine rally that we cannot and will not address the existential threat of runaway climate change when we’re investing in genocide and war.  

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Indignation and resistance to United States President Donald Trump’s bullying, deportations and economic reprisals are spreading across Latin America, writes Steve Ellner.