About 20 peace activists gathered outside Geelong Magistrates Court to support Jaimie Jeffrey, who was charged with criminal damage and trespass after protesting a weapons manufacturer. Jackie Kriz reports.
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Sam Wainwright argues we urgently need to step up the fight within the union movement to stop AUKUS and the associated drive to militarism. If there is a war we need to fight right now, it is the one to destroy their attempt to claim social license for these death machines.
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For more than 60 years, Bevan Ramsden dedicated himself to the pursuit of an independent, peaceful and sustainable Australia, free from US domination and its war machine.
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Delegates to Labor’s national conference were greeted by two large protests, as well as smaller actions, demanding that AUKUS be scrapped and communities and climate action be funded. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, Australia has been the only one to be indifferent to the need for an inquiry into its merits, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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Numbers were up at the weekly peak-hour Free Palestine protest, after protesters were attacked and one person hospitalised the week before. Tim Gooden reports.
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The Geelong and Victoria Southwest branch of Independent Peaceful Australia Network was attacked as they packed up their “Peak Hour for Peace in Palestine” action. Sarah Hathway reports.
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War is not an unfortunate accident that occasionally interrupts “normal” economic life; it is built into a system that puts private profit and imperialist rivalry above human need, argues Warren Smith.
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Nearly 100 delegates from two dozen unions and peace organisations discussed the need to build the peace movement and how to go about it. Tim Gooden reports.
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Four Corners asked war minister Richard Marles why Labor had walked away from its promise to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. His incoherent answer was that things are different in government. Bevan Ramsden reports.
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The International and Peaceful Network Australia has published an open letter calling on defence minister Richard Marles to stop sending weapons and parts to Israel. Paul Gregoire asked Kellie Tranter about Australian complicity in the Gaza genocide.
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Anti-war groups, parties and MPs are demanding the Australian government stop making excuses for the United States’ and Israel’s illegal bombing of Iran. Pip Hinman reports.