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The Jewish Council of Australia and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Australia are among many condemning efforts to weaponise the tragic stabbings at Westfield shopping Centre in Bondi. Kerry Smith reports.

The First Wave, a new film by environment group Rising Tide, was launched by an enthusiastic crowd. Jim McIlroy reports.

Binoy Kampmark writes that caution should be exercised in response to the US President's remarks on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case. Nothing should be considered in earnest until signatures are inked and dried.

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First Nations leader Megan Krakouer and Indian communist Clifton D’Rozario have been confirmed to speak at the Ecosocialism 2024: Climate Action Not War being held in Boorloo/Perth over June 28–30. Fred Fuentes reports.

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Sarah Glynn looks behind Turkey's March 31 municipal elections, which saw President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP pushed into second place and the pro-Kurdish Peoples Equality and Democracy Party make gains.

NSW counter terrorism officers bailed up an artist after he posted a criticism on X about the lenient treatment given to a Zionist who planted a bomb on a Palestine activists’ utility. Rachel Evans reports.

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Make Rojava Green Again reports on the conditions, hardships and potential for ecological changes in a region that is undergoing a social revolution and constantly facing military attacks on civil infrastructure and agricultural sites.

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Writing from a Russian prison, sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky penned this open letter in support of a broad solidarity campaign with left-wing Russian political prisoners.

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A formal complaint has been lodged with the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security about possible Australian complicity in what the International Court of Justice regards as “plausible claims of genocide in Gaza”. Pip Hinman reports.

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Dipankar Bhattacharya, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation told a Palestine solidarity meeting in India’s capital New Delhi on February 23 that the ideological ties between Hindutva and Zionism means opposing Israel's genocidal war is linked to fighting Narendra Modi's fascist agenda in India.

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Renowned Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky sent the following message from prison to his daughter, Ksenia, on March 26. In it, he discusses the fallout of the horrific terrorist attack carried out at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22. Translated by Renfrey Clarke.

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Opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector from the Patriots of Senegal party (PASTEF), was sworn into office as Senegal’s new president on April 2 after his historic election on March 24. Susan Price looks at the factors behind his victory.