While it is difficult to predict how the uprising in Iran will develop, writes Mary Merkenich, Iranians deserve our international solidarity in their legitimate struggle for economic, political and social rights and against tyranny.
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Chris Minns’ hastily drawn-up “inquiry” into hate speech in NSW, following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, is set to lead to new laws criminalising certain words in addition to preventing protests. Pip Hinman argues this overreach and communities will not be made safer.
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Socialist Alliance expresses its solidarity with the students, workers, shopkeepers, young people, women and all Iranians resisting a brutal and authoritarian regime.
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Abigail Boyd argues that our response to extremism needs to be considered, evidence-based and effective — the opposite of what NSW Labor is doing.
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Armed factions affiliated with the Damascus government unleashed suicide drones, heavy shelling, convoys of tanks and armoured military vehicles against civilians in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighbourhoods of Aleppo in northern Syria, reports Hawzhin Azeez.
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Ongoing small-scale attacks against the autonomous Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods of Aleppo in Northern Syria have taken on a new and lethal dimension, reports Sarah Glynn.
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Two protestors, who brought attention to Pine Gap’s secretive activities when they the main access route, have also prompted a Crown prosecutor to admit to Israel's genocide. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Eleven groups, nine of them Jewish, urge the governor-general and prime minister to rescind the invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Kerry Smith reports.
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Daylesford New Years Eve Parade Committee called Victorian Police to remove a participant waving a Palestine flag. Kerry Smith reports.
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Halim Rane argues that opposition politicians, Zionist organisations and establishment media are driving the calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting.
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The NSW Labor government has rushed in new laws, ostensibly to combat antisemitism, and the Labor federal government said it would adopt the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's recommendations. Khaled Ghannam argues against the sudden crackdown on freedom of speech and assembly.
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Jepke Goudsmit argues that we need to untangle the conflation between Zionism and Judaism and make clear the distinction between the worldwide community of Jews and the State of Israel.