Imperialism & war

The United States and Israel’s latest fake Middle East “peace plan ” has been widely condemned for its overall bid to keep Israel’s genocide plan in place.

A 60-day pause in Israel’s bombing campaign would allow the Israeli Defense Forces to set up their directed aim to have more permanent control of the Gaza Strip, while continuing to use starvation as a weapon of war.

Seated man against a backdrop of photos of Israeli detention centres

In her second interview, Australian citizen journalist Jude Alexander spoke via text message with nutritionist Dr Mohammed Hamad, about his arrest and 47-day detention by Israeli authorities in January, 2024. Dr Hamad is living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children.

Boris Kagarlitsky

Anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky delivered this recorded message to the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, United States.

protesters with watermelon banner

Just over a month ago, Australian Caroline Smith flew out of Perth for Egypt’s capital, Cairo, to join a global contingent of people seeking to challenge the siege on Gaza and demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are living under conditions of genocide. This is her story.

Abdullah Ocalan delivering his message from Imrali Prison

Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.

Free Palestine Melbourne’s successful strategy day drew activist, community, faith, union and council groups representing 25 different groups. Michael Bull reports.

Francesca Albanese’s report for the United Nations Human Rights Council makes for stark and dark reading, writes Binoy Kampmark.

'Death, death to the IDF' on a placard in Naarm/Melbourne, July 6

On the 91st week of consecutive protests, activists stand up to the media and government slurs by mobilising in their thousands. Pip Hinman and Jordan AK report.

The only beneficiaries of Australia’s reversion to colonial subservience to an increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite — and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.

The powers-that-be are seeking to silence the anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, anti-war industry justice movement, but the movement is fighting back. Jepke Goudsmit reports. 

Despite Trump’s most extreme ramblings and declarations that he doesn’t care about international law, Labor is still going along with it, Sam Wainwright told the Green Left Show.

The movement in solidarity with Palestine in Western Australia is continuing to grow and diversify despite repression and censorship, reports Sam Wainwright.