Peaceful protests against the worsening human rights situation in occupied West Papua were attacked by security forces, reports Susan Price.
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Human rights advocate Suhad Bishara, from Adalah — The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, unpacks Israel’s new death penalty law and how it targets Palestinians.
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Israel’s attacks humanitarian aid workers while continuing its blockade of Gaza, seven months into the so-called “ceasefire”, reports Tareq S Hajjaj.
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Women are at the forefront of struggles in Balochistan, a province in Pakistan that has long struggled for self-determination. Peter Boyle speaks to Sammi Deen Baloch, a young Baloch woman activist, about challenging state repression and patriarchy.
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Justice for Palestine Magan-djin organised a weekend of action to protest draconian new laws which target the Palestine solidarity movement. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Bill Nevins reviews punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys recent show in Denver, Colorado, where the band reprised the classic Irish resistance ballad, “Men Behind the Wire", referencing the ICE raids in Minneapolis and the ravages of US President Donald Trump’s onslaught against migrants and people of colour.
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Machinist Rob Volker, who has joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to sail to Gaza, told Ivana Daskalovic that he feels privileged to be able to join it as “human rights are everyone’s rights”.
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Indonesian security forces have killed at least six people, including two children, in Dogiyai regency, West Papua, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of a police officer. Ben Radford reports.
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The Redfern Legal Centre believes that NSW Police are undermining the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s investigation into their conduct at the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit. Kerry Smith reports.
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Zack Schofield, Ethan Floyd and Jayden Kitchener-Waters said they were proud to join this international mission to break the illegal blockade to bring urgent aid to Gaza. Isaac Nellist reports.
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After just four weeks of the illegal war on Iran and Lebanon, working people are struggling to afford the higher petrol/diesel and other essential consumer goods, making this war already very unpopular. Mary Merkenich argues we have to find the ways to organise to force Labor to oppose it.
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Two months have passed since the United States tightened its illegal 64-year economic blockade of Cuba, threatening countries supplying oil to the island nation. Green Left’s Ben Radford spoke to the Cuban Ambassador to Australia, Gilma Moreira Lino, about how Cubans are responding and the importance of international solidarity.