Issue 1190

News

Reports say Santos ignores CSG impact on Pilliga wildlife
Fighting for a world without sexism: ending gendered violence
Union raid leak by Michaelia Cash’s office referred to Commonwealth Prosecuter
More than 16% of homeless people have full-time jobs
NSW government to fund greyhound prize
Photos: End Rape on Campus

Students at universities around Australia are holding protests to demand campuses free from sexual violence on August 1.

Analysis

People oppose corporate CEO pay surge
Qantas, don’t deport refugees to danger
Coalition loses 'super Saturday' byelections, pushes on with tax cuts

Before the “super Saturday” byelections on July 28, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was saying the outcome would be a “test of leadership”.

Then he lost all five contests and changed his tune.
Victoria: ‘African gangs’ and the push to lock kids up

A crime wave is sweeping Melbourne caused by “out-of control African gangs”’ if we are to believe Channel 7, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Coalition MPs and even Victorian police minister Lisa Neville, who claimed: “This core group of African youth are causing huge fear.”
Winning justice for David Dungay
Women take on BHP and win — a feminist herstory that needs telling
Justice for the kanakas: Australia’s ‘invisible’ Melanesians
Nine–Fairfax merger another reason why Green Left is essential

World

Three stabbed at Chilean pro-choice rally supporting abortion bill
Venezuelan socialists debate solutions to country's economic crisis
Venezuela: Campesinos demand gov't rectify agrarian policy
Argentina’s abortion bill debate heats up
India: Indigenous women reject anti-‘mixed marriage’ bill
How women are increasingly leading Turkey’s socialist movement
Ali Wazeer: A socialist elected to Pakistan's parliament dominated by capitalists and feudal elites
Behind Pakistan’s most rigged elections ever
Right-wing rampage in Brexit Britain

Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May is in dire trouble and likely to be voted out of office by her own MPs when parliament returns in September, writes English socialist Phil Hearse.
Israel attacks new Freedom Flotilla seeking to aid Gaza
Vigil for 'death of democracy' in Australia as foreign minister Bishop visits Timor-Leste
Policies of Turkey's Erdoğan’s, at home and abroad, are a desperate bid to buy time
Palestinians still defying apartheid
Democrats attack Trump – from the right

Culture

Behrouz Boochani offers a devastating insight into Manus hell

No Friend but the Mountains, written by Kurdish journalist and human right activist Behrouz Boochani who has been jailed on Manus Island since 2013, stands out among the genre of prison literature.