After injecting $1.9 billion into the Whyalla Steelworks, Labor wants it run by private interests. Renfrey Clarke argues if taxpayers are to bear the cost, they are entitled to demand that the assets stay in public ownership.
Technology
Hundred heads of state and gurus of the digital industries, such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are gathering in Paris to promote the benefits of Artificial Intelligence, prompting Éric Sadin to organise a counter summit. He explains why.
The United States has used sanctions since 2022 to stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and the technology to manufacture them. However, this seems to have backfired, reports Peter Boyle.
Why is a former Miss America touring Australia to promote nuclear energy? Mariota Spens reports.
While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new social media ban for young people may appeal to worried parents, Luka Koerber writes it doesn’t address the real problems with social media platforms.
Since its enterprise agreement expired six months ago, the Rail Tram and Bus Union has been pushing for new, fair contract with the NSW Labor government and private operators. Pip Hinman reports.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five new books on capitalism and the climate crisis, restoring forests, waters in revolt and a dangerous billionaire.
Vandana Shiva and her feminist colleague Maria Mies issued the Leipzig Appeal in 1996 to say, “No to GMOs and No to Patents on Seed”. The call echoes in Shiva’s new book, writes Niko Leka.
The Peruvian government will send a delegation to the International Mining and Resources Conference to be held in Sydney over October 29‒31, to promote foreign investment in the country’s mining sector, reports Ben Radford.
Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss recent developments in the climate movement and talk to Green Left journalist and socialist activist Peter Boyle about imagining a green future.
Labor now wants to keep the national broadband network, NBN Co, in public ownership, tabling a bill in parliament to that effect. Jim McIlroy reports.
Dmitry Pozhidaev reviews Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value, by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts, which aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Karl Marx’s value theory.
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