Salih Muslim spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the significance for Rojava of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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A protest outside Labor MP Andrew Giles’ office was called in response to the growing number of Islamophobic attacks that governments are downplaying. Jordan AK reports.
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Anti-Zionist Jews Judith Treanor, Suzie Gold and Michelle Berkon, standing several metres from a synagogue entrance holding innocuous signs, were threatened with arrest for the alleged crime of “causing fear and alarm”.
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More than 100 people helped launch long-term Merri-bek councillor Sue Bolton’s campaign for the seat of Wills. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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More than 100 high school students, of all ages, parents and community members demanded Sheik Wesam Charkawi be allowed back to Granville High, where he has been a student support officer for 13 years. Kerry Smith reports.
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Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Ebru Günay after she visited Australia with a Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party delegation from Turkey.
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Jepke Goudsmit hopes that the full page of signatories in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age opposing Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza will lead towards a further weakening and the eventual dismantling of the Zionist project.
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Celebrate Palestine South West activists marched down the main street of Wooditchup with their flags and banners to show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for the 52nd week in a row. Ned Reilly looks at how the movement has grown.
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Donald Trump’s neofascist administration is seeking direct agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the expense of the Ukrainian people, argues Gilbert Achcar.
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The City of Sydney became the first New South Wales council to pass a boycott and divest motion when nine other councillors, with the exception of the one Liberal, supported the move. Olivia lurincich and Rachel Evans report.
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Shamikh Badra told Peter Boyle that Palestinians will resist Donald Trump’s plans to make Gaza a beach resort, just as they have resisted Israel’s occupation armies for decades.
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More than 230 civil society organisations in countries involved in the F-35 fighter jet program are demanding their governments immediately halt all direct and indirect arms transfers to Israel, reports Kerry Smith.