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Labor Tribune aims to contribute to a renewal of socialist thought and practice in the labour movement. It is a resource for news, opinion and debate in the progressive and labour movements.

• It's the system, stupid
  While executive salaries are an obscenity, they are a symptom, not the cause, of the financial crisis, writes Marcus Strom.

• Financial implosion and stagnation
  Monthly Review's John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff shed some light on the current crisis in world financial markets

• On the split in the DSP
  The DSP split reveals a deep malaise in the politics of the Trotskyist tradition, writes Mark Kelly.

• Solidarity forever?
  Three of the four International Socialist groups in Australia have merged. Marcus Strom was there.

• Treaty now! The defence of indigenous Australia and the fight for a democratic republic
  There is a growing crisis of federalism in Australia and the left needs positive political solutions and a republican narrative, writes Marcus Strom.

• Is Marxism relevant to the labour movement?  Listen to Meredith Burgmann, Andrew West, Jack Mundey, and Labor Tribune editor, Marcus Strom, discuss the relevance of Marxist ideas.