More than 100 people attended a film screening of Gaza Surf Club in Ocean Grove. Tim Gooden reports.
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Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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The election of Democratic Socialist of America member Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world, because it was a popular rejection of Trumpism, argues Peter Boyle.
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Abdullah Zeydan, of the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, was elected in a landslide as co-mayor of the Turkish city of Van last year, before the Turkish government suspended him and replaced him with a government-appointed trustee. He spoke to Green Left’s Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg.
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Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans during a military operation in the Intan Jaya Regency. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the European Union have just finalised an economic agreement that gives a green light to the exploitation of West Papua’s natural resources, reports Susan Price.
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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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Uri Weltmann reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers.
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Celebrate Palestine South West drew around 200 people to the national day of action protest in early October in Wooditjup/Margaret River. Hannes Nitzsche reports.
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Sydney's Maroubra Beach hosted a poignant and beautiful memorial for the children of Gaza, murdered since October 2023 by the genocidal state of Israel. Judith Treanor reports.
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Federal Court Justice Stephen McDonald ruled that the Zionist Federation of Australia could proceed with its lawsuit against journalist Mary Kostakidis. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Jude Alexander spoke via text message with Mohammed Al-Ghandour, who is living in a tent in southern Gaza with his family, after being displaced many times during the genocide. They are now contemplating the impossibility of returning to their home.
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Senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman, who introduced the “Genocide Red Lines Package” in the last parliament, are working on a new version aimed at ensuring Australia meets its obligations under international law to prevent genocide. Alex Bainbridge reports.