Former Palestinian ambassador and representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Australia, Ali Kazak, died on May 17 in Thailand, while on his way to Palestine.
Advocacy groups and prominent pro-Palestine figures have paid tribute to Kazak, who was born in Haifa in 1947 and survived the massacres and brutal dispossession that followed the declaration of the Israeli state, growing up in Syria as a Palestinian refugee.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on the German peasants’ war, air, Amazonian struggles, climate history, class rule and Karl Marx’s later views on oppression and revolution.
Polly Cutmore, a Traditional Gomeroi Owner, has rejected the Native Title Tribunal’s findings that the NSW government can lease the Pilliga Forest for its 850 coal seam gas mining project. Kerry Smith reports.
New South Wales Labor is planning to scrap workers’ right to access compensation for psychological injuries. Isaac Nellist reports.
The election results show that young people are looking for alternatives to the two major parties and the capitalist system, argues Isaac Nellist.
Hundreds of people gathered at Sydney Town Hall to mark 16 years since Mullivaikkal became a graveyard for over 165,000 Tamil civilians — the peak of the Tamil genocide. Kerry Smith reports.
After waiting 27 years for a Restoring Territory Rights Bill to return their right to re-legislate voluntary assisted dying, Northern Territorians are furious the Country-Liberal Party has moved to delay action. Suzanne James reports.
As capitalism’s inherent barbarism is being exposed via the West’s enabling of genocide in Gaza, organisers of the Ecosocialism 2025 conference are confident its program will attract significant interest. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Tickets to the Activism for Palestine conference are selling fast, with organisers saying it will be an important forum to assess the pro-Palestine solidarity campaign and plan united actions. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Pro-Palestine activists protested at the office of Labor MP for Richmond, Justine Elliot, in Tweed Heads South, to mark the 77th commemoration of the Nakba. Susan Price reports.
Green Left’s Isaac Nellist spoke to Ammar Ali Jan, Pakistan socialist and general secretary of the Haqooq-e-Khalq (Peoples’ Rights) Party, about the tensions between India and Pakistan, which broke out into war when India launched missile strikes on May 7.
More than two months since Israel refused to enter stage two of an agreed ceasefire with Hamas, the streets continue to demand Israel be stopped from continuing its genocide in Gaza. Pip Hinman reports.