More than 2000 people rallied in Boorloo/Perth to protest mining in Jarrah native forests by Alcoa and South32, reports Alex Salmon.
Issue 1431
News
Housing activists gathered outside Homes Victoria to protest Victorian Labor’s plan to demolish 44 public housing towers. Darren Saffin reports.
Climate protesters gathered outside the electorate office of Gabriel Ng, the newly elected Labor MP for Menzies, to protest Labor’s support for Woodside’s gas extension in Western Australia. Mary Merkenich reports.
NSW Coalition and Labor governments, which have allowed healthcare to become a profit-seeking industry, must rethink the public-private partnership model, argues Jim McIlroy.
The successful Activism for Palestine conference to discuss building solidarity was an impressive effort by Justice for Palestine Magan-djin. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Tensions ran high outside Boorloo District Court, where three Disrupt Burrup Hub campaigners were to be sentenced for attempting to disrupt a Woodside annual general meeting with a stink bomb. Kerry Smith reports.
While new research shows that social housing wait lists are rapidly growing, Victorian and New South Wales Labor are pushing ahead with demolitions despite community resistance. Rachel Evans reports.
Calls are growing for an independent investigation into the death of 24-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man Kumanjayi White, who died while being restrained by police, reports Isaac Nellist.
Protesters rallied outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s office in Naarm/Melbourne in response to Labor’s decision to approve Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension. Jordan AK reports.
As Israel continues its genocide on starving Palestinians in Gaza, thousands of people took to the streets demanding the newly elected Labor government stop sitting on its hands and sanction Israel. Pip Hinman reports.
Climate activists protested outside the Department of Climate Change Energy the Environment and Water against Labor's decision to allow Woodside to expand its LNG plant. Paul Oboohov reports.
Pro-Palestinian activists protested 600 days of the ongoing genocide in Gaza at Martin Place, during the Vivid festival. Photos by Zebedee Parkes.
A Voice for Members, a rank-and-file ticket contesting the Community and Public Sector Union elections, organised a protest against Labor’s proposed job cuts. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Climate protesters chanted “Yancoal, No way! End mining coal today!” outside the company’s annual general meeting at Darling Harbour in Gadigal Country/Sydney. Jim McIlroy reports.
Workers at the Allied Pinnacle Altona, who produce baked goods for supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths, took their third consecutive weekly strike action. Adam Bremner reports.
Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe has called on Labor to urgently implement the recommendations of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report, as the systemic removal and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continues. Kerry Smith reports.
Several hundred unionists rallied outside the NSW Treasury to demand NSW Labor drop its proposed cuts to workers’ compensation laws. Jim McIlroy and Peter Boyle report.
Students and supporters across the country rallied to oppose the racist, anti-worker and anti-LGBTIQ agenda of the Donald Trump administration in the United States. Chloe DS reports.
Analysis
Very little is known about the circumstances of young Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi White’s, death in custody because the police and state have closed ranks. Paul Gregoire reports on the push-back against this criminal pattern.
I lost my Facebook account because I dared to do something apparently unthinkable: I spoke up as a Jewish person who cares about children in Gaza, writes Michael Cohen.
One of assistant treasurer Daniel Mulino's constituents, Paul Tyndale-Biscoe, sent the following letter to his MP urging Labor not to agree to Woodside's gas expansion.
Pro-Palestine protesters continue to demand that Labor stop playing games and sanction Israel. Janet Parker, from Jews For Palestine WA, gave this speech to a protest outside the United States Consulate.
Jews Against the Occupation ’48 was invited to be questioned by the Antisemitism in New South Wales inquiry. Judith Treanor describes how it went.
Labor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.
Even as Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots offensive in Gaza unmasks global capitalism as the ruthless, racist and colonialist project that it is, Anthony Albanese still refuses to impose sanctions on the genocidal regime, write Sue Bolton and Jacob Andrewartha.
As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched his Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza — the final military campaign to create Donald Trump’s “freedom zone” — some Western elites suddenly became anxious, writes Peter Henning.
Millions of people are outraged by Israel’s slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank, an anger that is now compounded by despair that Israel has been given a blank cheque to ignore international law, argues Stuart Rees.
Long-range forecasters, analysing AI models and satellite data, had warned of the latest developing catastrophic weather event weeks ahead, but governments did little. Just as well communities pull together, writes Peter Perkins.
Jews Against the Occupation ’48 is calling on Labor to impose full sanctions on Israel and apply all available diplomatic pressure on Israel to instantly and unconditionally lift the blockade and comply with international law.
John O’Brien, a founding member of Geelong Socialist Alliance, passed away at the age of 89, after a short illness, writes Jacqui Kriz.
World
Jude Alexander spoke via text message with Dr Mohammed Hamad, who is now living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children. He and his family have been repeatedly displaced due to the war and are barely surviving due to the blocking of distribution of food and humanitarian aid.
A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is under increasing pressure from trade unions and civil society to break ties with Israel, reports Federico Fuentes.
Workers across Colombia went on strike to defend President Gustavo Petro’s proposed labour reforms against right-wing opposition obstruction in Congress, reports Ben Radford.
Green Left’s Victor Osprey speaks to left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan about Ukraine’s long and complex relationship with Russia, and how this history can help us better understand the nature of the current war. This is part one of a two-part interview.
Israel’s decision to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid via the shoddy US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company, Safe Reach Solutions, has been shown up to be nasty, inadequate and selective, writes Binoy Kampmark.
The Heritage Foundation developed a blueprint to destroy the burgeoning pro-Palestine and anti-war movement, by claiming “all critics of Israel” are agents of Hamas. Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah report.
Jim McIlroy pays tribute to José (Pepe) Mujica, the leftist guerrilla fighter and later president of Uruguay, who died of cancer at the age of 89.
In the second part of our interview, Isaac Nellist speaks with Pakistani socialist Ammar Ali Jan about the current ceasefire deal between Pakistan and India, self-determination for Kashmir and steps towards peace in the region.
Transnational companies, finding an ally in United States President Donald Trump and his extractivist agenda, are pushing to mine the seafloor for valuable minerals, despite widespread concerns about the potential ecological and climate impacts, reports Ben Radford.
Culture
Community Radio 3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming up, with a fundraising target of $275,000 by the end of June to keep the station operating, reports Stephanie.
Mat Ward looks back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine and wrote an account of his visit for Green Left. This is the 5th and final part.