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Striking is the workers' greatest weapon. Here's a poster to prove it.

Plotting the results of a rigorous longitudinal study, Sam Wallman illustrates how much the rich care for your mental health, expressed as fucks given vs whether or not there is a lockdown.

A safe injecting room in Melbourne saved at least twenty-one lives in its first eighteen months of operations, and prevented 270 serious overdose incidents. No-one Safe injecting rooms save lives: Build them. Defend them.

In 1936, the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany, but the showcase for fascism and Nazi soft power did not go unopposed. six thousand athletes travelled to Barcelona for the ‘People’s Olympiad’, an alternative and explicitly anti-fascist games.

The union campaign at Better Read Than Dead is a litmus test for Australian literature and for retail working conditions across the continent. The publishing industry – of which bookselling is one part – likes to congratulate itself on its social progressivism, but this means nothing without material conditions for workers in the industry that grant those workers job security and dignity of life.

Whose interests are interests are served when we uphold the narrative of an irreversibly conservative Queensland?

Tapping into a deep history, in May 2021 Italian dockworkers refused to load weapons onto a ship headed for Israel. A few days later, Palestinians held a general strike across all industries, the largest since 1948. Only 150 of 65,000 Palestinian construction workers in Israel showed up to work.

A new cartoon by Sam Wallman (after William Waltzman) for the Homes not Prisons campaign

'People think that using power is a limited resource, but using power builds power' (Sara Nelson, President, Association of Flight Attendants, CWA, AFL-CIO)

Safdar Ahmed and Zeinab Mir of The Refugee Art Project are two of the participating artists in the Stories from the Future project. Their works re-frame solidarity and cultural safety in the rebuilding of the arts sector, and we’re pleased to be able to present two of them to Overland’s readers today.

After a long string of strikes, the final stages of the construction of the Sydney Opera House were carried out without any managers. For a month and a half, the workers experienced first-hand what they had long presumed – that they really didn’t need the bosses. They planned and made decisions democratically, won huge advances in pay and conditions, and together constructed one of Australia’s most enduring and beloved icons. The building embodies all of this, to this day.

Two thousand rough sleepers in Victoria who were offered hotel accommodation during the pandemic are now being hastily evicted. The government showed us how easily they can house people when it's considered a priority. They can't unshow us that. We can't unsee it.

Social housing is not the same as public housing.

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