Protesters called on Labor to speak out against the genocide in Sudan, provide more aid and allow in more refugees. Harry Fairless reports.
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Close to 1000 people marched across the Story Bridge in Magan-djin/Brisbane carrying Palestinian flags. Other solidarity actions were held across the country. Alex Bainbridge, Neville Spencer and Niko Leka report.
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The first neo-Nazi rally in New South Wales, authorised by the NSW Police, took place with police approval. Paul Gregoire looks at how this happened and the responses.
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Amira Mohammed, one of the commanders of the Women’s Protection Units in North East Syria (Rojava), spoke to Firat News Agency’s Cûdî Îbrahîm about the role of women in Syria and the protection of all women living in the country.
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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.