Right-wing led protests this weekend across Mexico were a bizarre attempt to copy-paste recent uprisings and protests in Nepal, the Philippines and Indonesia and were conjured up from AI campaigns, bots and influencers, not real social movements, writes Tamara Pearson.
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The first neo-Nazi rally in New South Wales, authorised by the NSW Police, took place with police approval. Paul Gregoire looks at how this happened and the responses.
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A new report shows a significant growth in support for transgender people across Australia. However, the lived experiences of trans people paint a darker picture. Josh Adams reports.
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government, reports Ben Radford.
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The 45th anniversary of the founding of El Salvador’s Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was marked at Fairfield Park. Coral Wynter reports.
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Thousands of young people marched in the streets across Peru to protest government corruption and economic insecurity, just five days after former President Dina Boluarte was impeached, reports Ben Radford.
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Counter-protests against the racist “March for Australia” rallies were organised across Australia.
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United States President Donald Trump is making clear to the US people and the world that he is transforming the world’s most powerful military state into a one man, one party-ruled country, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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The unleashing of Robodebt by Scott Morrison’s Coalition government is one of the biggest scandals in Australian political history, writes Suzanne James.
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Susan Price spoke to John Mullen, a revolutionary socialist activist in the Paris region, about the deep political crisis in France, illustrated by the resignation and subsequent reappointment of right-wing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
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African Americans are facing a broad, racist assault in the United States, aimed at reversing every socio-economic and political gain won by this oppressed segment of the population, writes Malik Miah.
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When it comes to bringing Turkey to account for its attack on democracy and human rights abuses against Kurds, the Council of Europe has been kicking the ball into the long grass, yet advocates continue to lobby its politicians and bureaucrats and organise demonstrations outside its gates, writes Sarah Glynn.