Oxfam’s latest global inequality report shows how growing global inequality is a direct threat to our democratic rights, writes Jacob Andrewartha.
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Josh Adams argues that in a time of growing transphobia, all progressives need to stand up to those spouting hatred and prejudice, including the Mardi Gras Board.
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Janet Parker from Jews for Palestine WA told the Boorloo Palestine rally that the state’s renewed effort to shut down solidarity needs to be challenged.
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Australian capitalism is a greenhouse ogre, enriching itself by poisoning the atmosphere. As Renfrey Clarke points out, the hyper-warmed atmosphere is blowing back over Australia regardless.
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Socialist Alliance opposes Labor’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Jonathan Strauss argues that those who want the right to oppose genocide, or to defend democratic rights more generally, should reject these laws.
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Three activists partially won a case in the Federal Court against Victoria Police’s extraordinary powers over designated areas in the CBD. Chloe DS reports.
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Former Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in good company as one of various politicians of the right (and far right) hue invited by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Noongar Elder Uncle Hedley Hayward told the Invasion Day protest that it is a Day of Mourning, also because of ongoing settler-colonialism.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese frames Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit as a gesture of solidarity, following the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi, but a growing number argue it is a grave moral failure. Olivia Jurincic reports.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that no dictatorship forms overnight. It happens through laws that restrict public assembly, criminalise dissent, expand police powers and reframe political opposition as a threat to public order.
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Peter Boyle joins Green Left Radio to discuss the grave threats against the Rojava Revolution.
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Richard Marles remains wildly enthusiastic about AUKUS, declaring it to be “full steam ahead” after meeting US war ministers Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington in December. Pip Hinman reports.