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Susan Price

Iran’s 1988 political prisoner massacre remembered
Unions fired up to take action
Openings for the left in Australia today
It’s time to close the camps and bring them here
New national refugee action network formed
End the system that fosters misogyny
Government, bosses add insult to injury over minimum wage
ACTU secretary Sally McManus: ‘Bad laws should be broken’
Resist Turnbull’s war on workers
Un-Fair Work Commission cuts penalty rates, delivers pay cut to 700,000 low-paid workers
Global inequality: Capitalism is to blame

The Occupy movement, which started as a protest against Wall Street, but ballooned across the US and internationally in 2011, adopted the slogan “We are the 99%” to symbolise the struggle for a better world against the greed of “the 1%”. Some people at the time thought it was an exaggeration to talk about the 1% versus the 99%, but according to Oxfam, since 2015, that richest 1% has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet combined.
Vigils for Manus Island refugee Faysal Ishak Ahmed

In the wake of another death on Manus Island, vigils are being held around the country and more than 200 refugees on Manus Island have signed a letter calling for a Royal Commission to fully investigate IHMS (the Manus detention medical provider contracted to the Australian government) and its political control by Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection.