The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society and the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network called a snap rally to demand that Australia pressure the United States to stop threatening and blockading Cuba, Venezuela and Latin America. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The attempt to silence United States rapper Macklemore has galvanised Palestinian and non-Palestinian artists and their supporters for a free Palestine and unmasked the capitalists behind the campaign to silence artists, writes Markela Panegyres.
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An anti-war action at Newtown Station called on the federal government to remove pro-Palestine groups from the terrorism list. Rachel Evans reports.
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Activist Teachers Network NSW organised a snap rally outside the Department of Education for a teacher who was suspended without pay for posting about Palestine on his own social media page. Beau Lyons reports.
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Chris Slee reviews Vannessa Hearman’s new book, The Good Sea: The Journey of the ‘Tasi Diak’ and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia, which tracks Australia’s treatment of refugees and the development of the solidarity movement with Timor-Leste.
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Governments and global institutions around the world — including some of Israel’s closest allies — have released statements in opposition to the Israeli government’s issuing of a tender for the colonial E1 project, located in the eastern outskirts of occupied Jerusalem city, reports The Electronic Intifada’s Zena Al Tahhan.
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Speakers at the Palestine Action Group-called protest demanded that the Anthony Albanese government sanction Israel and end the two-way arms trade. Brian Mahony reports.
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Twelve countries, largely friendly to the Israeli government, have decided to take a stand on the illegally occupied West Bank and will introduce sanctions or restrictions on trade with settlers. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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In his six-part oral history series with Pintjin (PJ) Thum, Dr Poh Soo Kai — a former student activist and political prisoner detained for nearly 17 years without trial — reveals how Singapore’s history is an ongoing site of ideological contestation, writes Ilyas Muzaffar.
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The dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria is a chance to reflect on the significance of the multiethnic, democratic confederalist project in Rojava and the future of Kurdish rights in Syria, writes Sarah Glynn.
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Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong’s hand-wringing over the death of Zomi Frankcom is gobsmacking in its selective outrage about Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Pip Hinman and Sam Wainwright argue it is calculated to take the focus away from its steady alliance with the apartheid state.
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Justice Desmond Fagan’s decision in State of New South Wales v Farhat wrecks the architecture designed by Jillian Segal, adopted by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and enforced across Australia, writes Andrew Brown.