Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.
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In United States-occupied Puerto Rico, the movement for Palestinian liberation has been growing, reports Peoples Dispatch.
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Teachers and unionists protested showed their support for high school teacher Jason Wong, who is facing disciplinary action for supporting Palestine. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Nobody who supports justice could consider cutting funds to the main organisation trying to support Gazans fleeing from one end of the Gaza Strip to the other. Labor has to be pressured to reverse its untenable position, argues Alex Bainbridge.
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While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far denied Israel’s plans to occupy Gaza, ministers in own cabinet have joined thousands of colonial settlers in calls to “return” to the Gaza Strip, reports Tanupriya Singh.
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Neal Meyer is a national leader of Bread & Roses, a caucus of Marxist activists in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He spoke with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the impact that Israel’s war on Gaza is having on US politics.
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Israel has always appropriated and exceptionalised Jewish suffering, but anti-Zionist Jews reclaim their suffering under Nazi persecution from Israel’s propaganda machine, Michelle Berkon told a Palestine rally.
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Several of Israel’s allies have suspended funding to the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) following allegations that 12 of its employees were involved in the October 7 attacks led by Hamas, reports Maureen Clare Murphy.
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Thousands marched again against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in some cities for the 16th week in a row, and after Labor suspended aid to the Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
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Strong First Nations-Palestinian solidarity was a prominent feature of the 2024 Invasion Day march on Gadigal Country on January 26. Peter Boyle reports.
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A tragic inversion of the concept of justice is being exploited in the “conflict” in Gaza, argues Tony Smith.
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Tim Gooden, retired secretary of the Geelong Trades Hall Council, believes the ACTU and unions can and should exert more public pressure on Labor to take a stand for Palestine. Alex Bainbridge interviewed him.