A diverse group of union activists, running under the banner of Members Coalition, is contesting the Public Service Association of NSW elections for Central Council delegate and executive positions. Kerry Smith reports.
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Josephine Langbien, a lawyer with the Human Rights Law Centre, told a forum organised by the Refugee Action Collective that Labor’s anti-immigrant laws are the “harshest” in decades. Chris Slee reports.
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The University of Sydney’s threat to suspend Luna, a transgender refugee, for writing pro-Palestine messages on a whiteboard has drawn attention to its repression of campus activism. Pride in Protest reports.
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The Jewish Council of Australia has reiterated its call on politicians to stop exploiting antisemitism, after the Australian Federal Police confirmed that an abandoned caravan found with explosives was part of a “fabricated terrorism plot”. Kerry Smith reports.
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The Blue Mountains Tibetan community and supporters marked Tibetan National Uprising Day on Dharug and Gundungurra country. Renee Lees reports.
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Refugees protested outside Labor MP Andrew Giles’ office in Thomastown and immigration minister Tony Burke’s office in Punchbowl, calling for permanent visas. Chris Slee and Zebedee Parkes report.
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Safer World for All organised a candidates’ forum in Wills, where discussion about Labor’s policies towards Palestine dominated discussion. Allen Jennings reports.
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About 40 people formed a chain at Sydney Town Hall in solidarity with the women in Palestine on the eve of International Women’s Day. Jepke Goudsmit reports.
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Victorian Public Service members are protesting Labor’s plans for job cuts. Brandon M reports on two rallies.
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About 2000 people, mostly women and union members, marked International Women’s Day with a lively rally and march. Mary Merkenich reports.
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The NT Country Liberal Party has contracted the controversial private British-Danish security firm G4S to provide “much-needed relief” in the corrections system. Stephen W Enciso reports.
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The Communications Electrical Plumbing Union has slammed the Tasmanian Liberal government’s proposal to sell off energy assets. Kerry Smith reports.
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Join rallies across the country on March 15 to say ‘Stop killing women’ and demand an end to violence against women, domestic abuse and misogyny.
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions is among many who are condemning the Coalition’s plan to slash 36,000 public service jobs if it wins the federal election. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The United Workers Union has called on the Queensland and NSW Premiers to guarantee the jobs of nearly 9000 workers employed by the Star Group. Suzanne James reports.
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While Adani, now Bravus, has not appealed a court hearing in which most of its key points against Galilee Blockade activist Ben Pennings were struck out, it has been given another month to resubmit. Margaret Gleeson reports.
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Dying With Dignity Victoria is calling for four key equity of access changes for federal Labor to address before the election. Suzanne James reports.
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Protesters took to the streets as Israel violates the ceasefire agreement again. Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle report.
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One hundred and fifty public housing residents in the Waterloo South estate were just given eviction notices from Homes NSW, but many have vowed to fight back. Kerry Smith reports.
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A protest outside Labor MP Andrew Giles’ office was called in response to the growing number of Islamophobic attacks that governments are downplaying. Jordan AK reports.
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We need to keep the issue of settler colonialism here and in Palestine front and centre, argues Michelle Berkon, as Australia and Israel have shared values.
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International classical pianist Jayson Gillham, who was cancelled after speaking out for Palestinian journalists during a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recital, is seeking a public apology and compensation. Paul Gregoire reports.
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What was supposed to be the Western Grassland Reserves, to secure the conservation of some critically endangered ecosystems, is being illegally bulldozed. Ben Courtice argues it makes no sense.
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The claim by capitalist economists that growing the ‘economic pie’ is the only way out of the cost-of-living crisis is a bald-faced lie to make the billionaire class richer. Peter Boyle reports.
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Dutton only has a handful of policies, mostly unpopular, but he is intent on pushing a culture war — this time against women who favour work-from-home arrangements. Jim McIlroy and Pip Hinman report.
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The blowback against Rio Tinto for blasting a sacred rock shelter to pieces in the Pilbara was enormous. Cas Smith reports that WA Labor has passed the buck on mega mining approvals to the federal government.
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Gwenael Velge argues that allowing for antisemitism to be conflated with anti-Zionism undermines foundational principles and the role of universities.
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Suzanne James asks Jenny Rolfe, a community backed Independent candidate for the NSW seat of Riverina, about the housing crisis, social and gender inequality, regional service access, the cost of living crisis and the latest tranche of anti-protest laws.
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Any party or MP facing off Donald Trump’s attacks on trans, nonbinary people and women will have a fight on their hands, argues Rachel Evans.
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While young people are generally more progressive, the far right is pushing misogyny to draw young men into their movement. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Zionist social media influencers and Labor members Ofir Birenbaum and Sophie Calland are gearing up for the federal election. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.
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Mainstream media outlets may pretend not to be mouthpieces for the powerful, but in the end they are loyal to their billionaire owners and the class interests they represent, writes Tamara Pearson.
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The new Universities Australia definition of antisemitism is an ugly attempt to silence the pro-Palestine movement on campuses and academics, university workers and students who critique Israel and Zionism. Markela Panegyres and Jonathan Strauss report.
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Anti-Zionist Jews Judith Treanor, Suzie Gold and Michelle Berkon, standing several metres from a synagogue entrance holding innocuous signs, were threatened with arrest for the alleged crime of “causing fear and alarm”.
World
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һƷ̽’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash about the fallout in Ukraine from the meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as Trump’s proposed peace and rare earth mineral deals for Ukraine.
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Among the myriad challenges facing Rohingya refugees is the denial of education — a profound injustice with far-reaching consequences, writes Noor Sadeque.
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Zara Lomas looks behind the diplomatic row that broke out in February between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands.
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Activists in Aotearoa New Zealand marked International Women’s Day and the start of Ramadan with solidarity rallies across the country, calling for justice and peace for Palestinian women and the territories occupied illegally by Israel, reports APR.
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Peter Boyle reports on the historic agreement struck between the revolutionary forces in northeastern Syria, known as Rojava and Syria's transitional government.
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The mass layoffs by Donald Trump's administration effectively gut the Department of Education, cutting staff by nearly one third, reports Natalia Marques.
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More than 50,000 Cubans took to the streets in the southern city of Guantánamo to reject United States President Donald Trump’s plan to use the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as a detention centre for deported migrants, reports Ben Radford.
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Many thousands took to the streets across Latin America as part of International Women’s Day, amid a concerning rise in gender-based violence and government attacks on women’s rights, reports Ben Radford.
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Chants of “No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!” echoed through downtown Manhattan, as people protested the kidnapping and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, reports Saurav Sarkar.
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Russian socialists and anti-war activists have condemned the so-called “peace deal” for Ukraine being negotiated between Russia and the United States, warning it will only bring new wars. Federico Fuentes reports.
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The Trump-Putin pact has plunged the European capitalist class’ post-war project into deep crisis — that of building an ultra-liberal European Union as US imperialism’s privileged ally and NATO’s European pillar, argues Daniel Tanuro.
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Europe must not become a clone of the United States, argues Belgian socialist Peter Mertens. Instead, it must dare to chart a new course.
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Die Linke (The Left), Germany’s democratic socialist party, staged a huge upset in the capital, Berlin, winning 21.8% of the city’s vote in the February 23 elections. Marcel Cartier looks behind the party’s revival and the challenge in winning working-class support away from the far right.
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United States President Donald Trump has implemented a whirlwind of attacks and changes that are shifting politics internationally. һƷ̽'s Isaac Nellist spoke to US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan about the devastating impacts of Trump’s second presidency and the challenges in building resistance to it.
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The Hague Group — representing Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia and South Africa — formed to hold Israel accountable under international law for its illegal occupation of Palestine and ongoing genocide against Palestinians, reports Ben Radford.
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Supporters of imprisoned Russian sociologist, author and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky released the following message, recorded from his prison cell, reports Susan Price.
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Mary Merkenich looks at the good, bad and ugly aspects of the German federal election results.
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Isaac Nellist asks US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan, members of the Democratic Socialists of America Bread and Roses caucus, about Trump’s attacks on immigrants, workers and human rights.
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Nilüfer Koç is the spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress, a coalition of political parties and civil society organisations from Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. She spoke to һƷ̽ about the challenges ahead following the historic call by imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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The shopping centre collapse in Trujillo highlights the extent of government inaction and corporate greed that has allowed shopping centres to operate without meeting minimum safety standards, reports Ben Radford.
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Salih Muslim spoke to һƷ̽’s Peter Boyle about the significance for Rojava of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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Convictions against three Indigenous land defenders for blocking a gas pipeline in British Columbia remain, despite a Supreme Court judge finding that police violated their rights and made racist remarks during their arrest. Jeff Shantz reports.