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Left-wing political parties and organisations are using LA-based NationBuilder website platforms, but concerns have been raised that the company has a right-wing agenda in the US.

The labour movement is preparing to unleash a serious campaign against the vagaries of insecure work. ACTU president Ged Kearney talks to Crikey about tactics in an election year.

The local labour movement is becoming increasingly bullish about how its members’ superannuation money is invested. What happens if more unions start putting their money where their mouths are?

Welcome to the no man’s land that is the Craig Thomson saga, a story that has already taken up way too much space in the nation’s political consciousness,

So-called “faceless” union man Paul Howes has bold visions for the future of the ALP, but sadly you won’t find them in his new book, writes Greg Jericho at Grog’s Gamut.

Rather than lamenting the lies told by many in the mainstream media, progressive groups need to follow the ACTU’s lead and start investing in the tools of public policy debate. Bernard Keane weighs in.

There’s a game of push me-pull me being played in Canberra this week, with the ACTU trying to pull the ALP back to the Left, while Liberal MPs attempt to drag the party back to the right, says Rob Burgess.

ACTU president Sharan Burrow has just been announced as secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. How did a female teacher rise up so high in the blokey world of union politics? Ben Schneiders.

A new media campaign by ACTU called “Don’t Go Back To WorkChoices” is an unfair and untruthful attack on Tony Abbott. The Libsneed to offer a suitable IR alternative since Rudd’s policies are collapsing, writes Malcolm Colless.

On Thursday last week, the NSW Left voted against one of its defining tenets, namely the support of rank-and-file preselections, writes Prue Believer.

If the Government raise compulsory super contributions from 9% to 12%, it will simply subsidise higher income earners’ retirement by foregoing taxes at a ridiculously high level and overtaxing those on lower incomes.

Jetstar has come under fire for running flights into Burma, with critics claiming the airport fees and money the airline brings into the country are helping fund Burma’s repressive military junta.

Anna Bligh worries about new Bandidos clubhouses and further Fairfax subscription woes. Plus, who is rumoured to play Steve Irwin in the new telemovie titled Crikey?

Ruddfest 09 delivered “good outcomes” for unions, with entitlements for workers of collapsed companies. But workplaces will not become more “union friendly”.

What trade-off has the ACTU received for biting its tongue about the building industry? So far, just some half hearted words of encouragement about ‘buying Australian’.

Julia Gillard’s speech at the ACTU Congress yesterday a display of raw executive power, writes Bernard Keane.

Labour looks like its told the unions what for, but will that translate into votes? And finally, some good economic news.

Crikey readers chat swine flu, digital radio and the ACTU.

The ACTU’s “growth and campaign” revitalisation plan, the bare bones of which were leaked by dissident unions to the AFR on Monday, could end in tears,.

The revelations over the ABCC do little to explain the broader labour movement’s continuing counter-productive closeness to its lackeys in the ALP.

Trade unions in their current form are a cultural and industrial anachronism, writes Andrew Crook.