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.
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Broadcasters are looking to artificial intelligence to replace journalists, which will mean job cuts and adversely impact how news is reported. C S Hughes reports.
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Aiman Farihah, central committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia’s youth wing, argues for a socialist alternative to capitalism’s inherent violence and brutality.
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Socialist Alliance calls on those who support democracy and human rights to oppose the genocidal attacks on the Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution and urges the Australian government to send urgently needed funds.
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United States President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, ostensibly to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, was always problematic, given US complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Alana Lentin argues that by constituting racism as “hate”, it becomes detached from the policies and practices of a state and presented as a matter of attitudes qualified by individuals’ perceptions. The effect is to punish legitimate criticisms of Israel and Zionism.
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Socialist Alliance opposes the Anthony Albanese government’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 because it is an assault on democratic rights.
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NSW Police have fatally shot a person having a mental health episode already this year. As Paul Gregoire argues, it is a key justice issue for the state to fix.
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Chris Minns’ hastily drawn-up “inquiry” into hate speech in NSW, following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, is set to lead to new laws criminalising certain words in addition to preventing protests. Pip Hinman argues this overreach and communities will not be made safer.