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Aboriginal rights

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising

The rate of Aboriginal children removed from their families has increased each year since Kevin Rudd said sorry to the Stolen Generations, and more and more Aboriginal children are being placed with non-Indigenous carers, a new report into Indigenous disadvantage has revealed.

Asylum seekers

Protest, self harm escalates on Manus Island

Manus Island detention centre is engulfed in the largest protests in a year, as more asylum seekers join the hunger strike.

Corporate media

John Pilger: War by media a triumph of propaganda

Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice?

Terror

After Paris attacks: Less freedom, more war?

More than 3.5 million people took to the streets of France on January 11 to support free speech and honour the victims of terrorist attacks on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo and other targets that left 17 people dead, as well as three suspects.

This week's Socialist Alliance 'Our Common Cause' column

Climate change comes to the Torres Strait

Joseph Elu, chair of the Torres Strait Regional Authority, told Radio National’s PM on January 5 that the islands that have been home to Indigenous people for thousands of years are “being inundated”, right now because of climate change.

Australian News

Aboriginal activists plan national convergence for freedom

Aboriginal people and their supporters are converging in Canberra from all over Australia for the Invasion Day weekend.

Socialist youth launch hunger strike for Manus Island refugees

Further Australian News

International News

Greece: If SYRIZA win, expect elite attacks

With Greece facing a snap general election on January 25, 2015, there is the genuine prospect of a radical left government coming to power in a European Union country.

Letter from the US: Police killings spark new, growing movement

The struggles against police murders of African Americans have spread nationally since the events in Ferguson, Missouri last August, when the police murder of an unarmed Black teenager sparked angry protests.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

Like a zombie that just won’t die: fee deregulation returns

Fee deregulation will be resurrected this year. This gives education activists that general zombie-slayer feeling any sane human gets from fighting a piece of legislation you thought you had killed already.

Welcome to Morrison’s Hobbesian nightmare

In the search for a rationale to justify his assault on pensioners, the poor and the welfare dependent, Scott Morrison has reached back to the 17th century work of the English political theorist and philosopher Thomas Hobbes.

Further Comment and Analysis

Cultural Dissent

Dave Zirin: Remembering Mike Marqusee

Left-wing London-based US journalist and author Mike Marqusee passed away on January 13 from cancer, aged 61. Radical sports writer and socialist Dave Zirin pays tribute.

Outcry over planned Irish Famine comedy

Outrage and disbelief met a report in the December 30 Irish Times that British TV station Channel 4 was commissioning a comedy set to the backdrop of the Irish Famine.

Further Cultural Dissent

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Help GLW cover historic elections in Greece

While GLW was on its break over the New Year period, the news came that a snap election is to be held in Greece on January 25. GLW has been regularly reporting on the situation in Greece in recent years — the imposition of vicious austerity measures by the European Union and the Greek government and the rising popularity of the left-wing coalition SYRIZA. As the election approaches, polls put SYRIZA in the lead. It is likely to win, though may have to enter a coalition in order to form government.

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