Santiago Mayor interviews Reinaldo Iturriza, a Venezuelan sociologist, writer and political activist, about the state of Chavismo following the United States’s attacks on Venezuela.
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Jim McIlroy reviews Search for Security: AUKUS and the new militarism, which provides a comprehensive account, from a variety of perspectives, of the vital debate over the AUKUS disaster looming for Australia and the Asian region.
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The Israeli Knesset passed a law that expands the use of the death penalty for offences it deems to be of a terrorist nature. Binoy Kampmark reports it is the start of a series of measures signalling Israel’s intention to further limit Palestinian resistance.
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Human rights groups have denounced the United States and Ecuadorian governments’ joint military operations in Ecuador, which are being conducted under the guise of combating “organised crime”, Ben Radford reports.
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The Redfern Legal Centre believes that NSW Police are undermining the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s investigation into their conduct at the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit. Kerry Smith reports.
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Zack Schofield, Ethan Floyd and Jayden Kitchener-Waters said they were proud to join this international mission to break the illegal blockade to bring urgent aid to Gaza. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Activist Stephen Langford was charged with trying to add a direct quote from Governor Lachlan Macquarie to the statue of Macquarie in Hyde Park, in which he outlines his determination to massacre First Nations people. Jesse James reports.
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Seven Jewish groups sent the following letter to the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong demanding that Australia cut ties with Israel following the Knesset’s new death penalty law.
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The war in Iran has unleashed a surge in humanitarian need, a global economic shock and a systemic risk to global food production, particularly in import-dependent regions across Africa and South Asia. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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After just four weeks of the illegal war on Iran and Lebanon, working people are struggling to afford the higher petrol/diesel and other essential consumer goods, making this war already very unpopular. Mary Merkenich argues we have to find the ways to organise to force Labor to oppose it.
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Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left us without adequate fuel, food and transportation security, argues Bevan Ramsden.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss anti-war and refugee rights protests on Palm Sunday, Palestine Land Day and Trans Day of Visibility protests.