Protestors say war parts manufacturer Nupress could do “plenty of positive things” for medical technology, green energy and infrastructure rather than help Israel commit genocide in Gaza. Niko Leka reports.
News
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Hundreds of people, including rank-and-file Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union members, attended a public meeting to discuss defending the union from Labor’s anti-union laws. Jordan AK reports.
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Anti-Zionist organisations condemned the attack on a Melbourne synagogue saying it is “an attack on us all”. Kerry Smith reports.
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Western Australia Senator Fatima Payman attended the United Workers Union picket line in Dandenong South to show her solidarity with their fight for respect at work. Chloe DS reports.
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Unionists and community members managed to stop an attempt by Woolworths to crush a warehouse strike in Dandenong South, now in its 13th day. Elizabeth Bantas reports.
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Israel’s siege of Northern Gaza and its violation of the recently signed ceasefire deal in Lebanon were the people’s focus at the 60th consecutive week of protests for Palestine.
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Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the 2024 People’s Blockade of the world’s biggest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle.
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While socialist and Green candidates received higher votes in the Victorian local government elections, Labor’s bid to reduce small party representation with single-member wards worked. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe told a rally that First Nations and climate movements need to unite to win just demands for land and climate. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The Australia West Papua Association and supporters raised the Morning Star flag at Leichhardt Town Hall to show solidarity with West Papuan’s struggle for self-determination. Isaac Nellist reports.
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The dangerous impacts of Labor’s forcible administration of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union are being revealed, with some bosses flouting occupational health and safety laws more recklessly. Sue Bull reports.
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Communities are demanding the NT Country Liberal Party bin its Territory Coordinator proposal, which gives unprecedented powers to unelected bureaucrats and ignores First Nations voices and solutions. Stephen W Enciso reports.
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National rallies across Australia demanded that Australia cut ties with Israel, as per the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.
Analysis
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Paul Gregoire writes that if the attorney general really cared about protecting whistleblowers, he would exercise his power and release Richard Boyle today.
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Prehistoric findings counter the view that humans are naturally greedy, self-centred creatures, as cohabitation and cooperation were part of the evolutionary picture for thousands of years. Rupen Savoulian reports.
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As the apocalyptic violence unleashed on Gaza grinds on and domestic opposition grows, Labor has resorted to backing an institutional assault on free speech. Sam Wainwright argues the only way to fight back is to keep speaking out.
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Human rights organisations and Kurdish-Iranian refugee activist Behrouz Boochani have condemned Labor’s new racist anti-asylum seeker laws. Chloe DS reports on the community outcry.
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Senators Lidia Thorpe, Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi are using their positions to fight back against the systemic racism that Senator Pauline Hanson represents, argues Pip Hinman.
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Stefan Skibicki was a working-class intellectual, with a dry wit and a love of heavy metal music. Pip Hinman and Susan Price reflect on the huge contribution he made to popularising ecosocialism.
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“We have been hoping and waiting in vain,” Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 states in an open letter to the Prime Minister. “Nothing in the past twelve months has propelled you into meaningful action.” See below to sign on.
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While the success or failure of ICC warrants rely on whether countries observe international human rights conventions, the warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant have boosted the global pro-Palestine movement. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Japan was invited for the first time to discuss joining AUKUS with Australia and the United States at a meeting of defence ministers in Darwin. Paul Gregoire reports.
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While UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged COP29 delegates to act urgently on mitigating rising temperatures, the fossil fuel industry heard the sound of money changing hands. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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NSW Labor blames overworked workers, but the Australian Medical Association says the NSW Health budget is “failing to meet patient demand”. Suzanne James reports on cuts being planned for Cootamundra.
World
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Sarah Glynn reviews the week’s extraordinary events in Syria and examines the evolution and nature of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, whose forces have charged through the hollowed-out shell of Bashar al Assad’s regime and potentially beyond the control of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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The fall of Aleppo and the withdrawal of the Syrian army and Russian troops without a fight cleared the way for Turkish-backed militias, writes Zeki Bedran.
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As airstrikes ravage Gaza, destroying homes and killing civilians, the Muslim world’s silence is distressing. While politicians voice rhetorical anger, actual action is lacking, leaving Palestinians to face a relentless military onslaught alone, writes Syed Salman Mehdi.
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John Mullen looks behind the no-confidence motion in the French assembly and what this means for the struggle against the far right and for fundamental change.
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Federico Fuentes speaks to Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine leader Yuriy Samoilov about how unions are dealing with the twin challenges of foreign occupation and domestic attacks on workers’ rights.
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Speculation of more privatisations by the Nicolás Maduro government is growing amid fears incoming United States president Donald Trump may tighten sanctions on Venezuela, reports Federico Fuentes.
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There are fears in Venezuela that the situation approaching inauguration day could trigger a new round of political violence and state repression, reports Federico Fuentes.
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Following the takeover of most of Aleppo by the Turkish-backed Islamist militia group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, fighting between them, the Assad regime forces and Kurdish-led forces is escalating, reports Peter Boyle.
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Thousands gathered in the streets of London to protest against the criminalisation of the city’s Kurdish community, reports Medya News.
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Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto remains a loyal servant of United States imperialism, as his recent phone call to Donald Trump makes clear, reports Peter Boyle.
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Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s right-wing president, attempted to maintain his power through the implementation of martial law, but was defeated within six hours by a people’s uprising, reports Chon Kai Choon.
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A high-altitude isolated depression that hit Spain, especially the province of Valencia, at the end of October turned into the deadliest climate-related catastrophe in Spain this century, writes Miguel Urban Crespo.
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United States Senator Bernie Sanders’ bills to stop US weapons transfers to Israel were defeated, with just under 20% of Democrats voting to support the resolutions, writes Dan La Botz.
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һƷ̽’s Federico Fuentes sat down with Malfred Gerig, a sociologist from the Central University of Venezuela, to discuss what he calls Maduro’s “neoliberalism with patrimonialist characteristics”. This is the final in a three-part interview.
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Thousands protested across Peru against rising violence against women, police culpability and government inaction, reports Ben Radford. The marches were organised as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is marked on November 25.
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Thousands took to the streets in Montreal in combined protests in solidarity with Palestine and against a NATO gathering being held in the city, reports Jeff Shantz.
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In the second of a three-part interview, һƷ̽’s Federico Fuentes sat down with sociologist Malfred Gerig to discuss Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s economic policy response to what he terms the country’s “Long Depression”.
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Uruguayans chose to return the centre-left Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition to government, by electing its candidate Yamandú Orsi in the run-off presidential election, reports Pablo Meriguet.
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Despite COP29 overrunning by 33 hours to finalise negotiations, the United Nations Conference of Parties on climate change ended without any agreements to meaningfully confront the climate crisis, reports Ben Radford.
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While incoming United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration is still a month-and-a-half away, he is preparing the ground for his second term, reports Barry Sheppard.
Culture
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Coral Wynter reviews The Eyes of the Earth, a magical realist novel that follows the life of a Honduran refugee eking out an existence in Mexico City.
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Andrew Chuter reviews Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise, which argues that parking has devastated our cities, wasted valuable space, entrenched car dependency, worsened the climate disaster and raised the cost of housing and most other goods.
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While good reporting helps us to be aware of, and understand current events, social change is a long-term endeavour that requires imagination, vision and deconstruction of the status quo. This forum explores the vital role of storytelling.
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Mat Ward looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Peter Boyle reviews Sarah Glynn and John Clarke’s new book, Climate Change is a Class Issue, which explains the link between capitalism and the climate crisis and provides a short and down-to-earth primer on ecosocialism.