This year's Sydney Film Festival, running from June 3–14, features films about First Nations resistance, a Palestinian uprising and communities seeking justice, writes Ben Radford.
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The Tamil community and supporters gathered at the State Library in Naarm/Melbourne to commemorate the 17th Mullivaikkal Day, observed annually on May 18, reports Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud.
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Protests across Australia marked 78 years since Israeli forces unleashed its genocide, ethnically cleansing Palestinian villages in 1948. Kerry Smith reports.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.
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While the United States-Israeli war against Iran and Lebanon has distracted world attention, Israel has intensified its genocidal attack against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, reports Barry Sheppard.
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This year’s Ecosocialism conference will, for the first time, be held in Magan-djin/Brisbane, once again drawing ecosocialists and activists from across the world, reports Fred Fuentes.
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A coalition of women’s organisations in North and East Syria (Rojava) have launched a mass campaign, “We are all YPJ — Self-defence is our natural right”, demanding that the Rojava revolution’s Women’s Protection Units be included in Syria’s integrated armed forces, reports Peter Boyle.
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Graduating students in Kobakma town, in Indonesian occupied West Papua’s Central Mamberamo Regency, were attacked by security forces, on May 5, for carrying their national flag in a celebratory parade, reports Susan Price.
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Six Australians participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla are among those kidnapped by Israeli naval forces on international waters, reports Caroline Smith.
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Médecins Sans Frontières has released a report documenting how Israel is deliberately depriving Palestinians in Gaza of water and sanitation, reports Kerry Smith.
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I was one of 22 people arrested in Magan-djin/Brisbane. Whether it was necessary for so many police to arrest one 73-year-old Jew, I’ll let you decide. Stephen Heydt reports.
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Peaceful protests against the worsening human rights situation in occupied West Papua were attacked by security forces, reports Susan Price.