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Will FIFA ever stand up to Israeli teams in illegal settlements?

The situation for Palestinian and Arab football (soccer) players in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has, for some time, been dire.

On one side of Israel鈥檚 Apartheid Wall, within the formal borders of Israel, segregated youth teams, racist abuse, and heckling 鈥 including charming chants such as 鈥Death to the Arabs鈥 鈥 are frequent. On the other, in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967,聽聽have become regular features of what is supposed to be the people鈥檚 game.

Given the powerful role that football plays as a point of community cohesion in the West Bank and Gaza, this everyday violence feels like a full-frontal attack on civil society, normalcy and hope.

Scientists cure Tasmanian devil facial tumours

For the first time scientists have cured Tasmanian devils suffering from the deadly devil facial tumour disease by injecting live cancer cells into infected devils to make their immune system recognise the disease and fight it off.

Five devils with the disease were treated using the technique over six years, and three survived.

South Korea: Mass movement scores big win as Park Geun-hye impeached

At 11.22am on March 10, Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Lee Jeingmi announced the court had unanimously decided to dismiss President Park Geun-hye. With that, after a 92-day trial, Park鈥檚 presidency was over.

How Lenin鈥檚 鈥榮ealed train鈥 smuggled clarity into revolutionary Russia

Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale
Allen Lane, 2016, 354 pages

The German 鈥渟ealed train鈥 that gave Vladimir I Lenin safe passage from exile in Switzerland through wartime Germany to Russia in April 1917, in the aftermath of the overthrow of Russia鈥檚 monarchy that had exiled the Russian revolutionary leader, was historically pivotal.

Workers at two of the world鈥檚 biggest copper mines are on indefinite strike

Mining companies have benefitted over the past few years from rising global demand and prices, but workers have seen little to no benefit from the boom.

Now mine workers are flexing their muscle to demand their share of the spoils.

Workers breaking bad laws? It鈥檚 the reign of terror all over again

By now you must have heard. The ACTU has been taken over by a terrorist spouting, in , 鈥渁narchist Marxist clap trap鈥 about destroying the rule of law, and presumably replacing it with a reign of terror in which CFMEU thugs will drag innocent bosses and Liberal politicians to the guillotine.

Transformers.

Energy crisis: It鈥檚 the 鈥榤arket鈥, stupid!

Can the political debate about Australia's 鈥渆nergy crisis鈥 get any more weird?

Protest against job cuts at Victoria University

Friends of Victoria University and National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) organised a protest outside the university鈥檚 Flinders Street campus during a Victoria University (VU) council meeting on March 14.

The protest was in response to plans by VU鈥檚 management to sack 115 academic staff affecting undergraduate courses in the creative industries, marketing, communication, and professional and creative writing. Six post-graduate courses in communication and education will also be affected.

Trump鈥檚 gift to Mexico: A left-wing president?

Much has been made of US President Donald Trump鈥檚 potential impact on Mexico, but one critical story has been largely ignored in the Western media.

Coverage of Mexico in the Trump era has been dominated by speculation over the fate of the stumbling Mexican peso, the possibility of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) collapsing and, of course, the wall.

Meanwhile, a seismic shift is quietly taking place in Mexican politics: the right wing is the weakest it has been in generations, while the left is seeing a historic resurgence.

Bill Shorten wants to deport children

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Labor might be willing to support the deportation of children who commit crimes.

Australia does not currently deport minors.聽

But the Joint Standing Committee on Migration is examining the screening process when people are given Australian visas and聽support services when they arrive in Australia.

They are also looking into聽whether their visa can be revoked if child migrants join gangs.

Shorten said there may be merit in changing the law.

Five new books ecologists and socialists should look out for

A look at three important new books on the growing global environmental crisis and two that mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Koala protection failing in Queensland

An interim report from the Koala Expert Panel, established by the state government after a catastrophic koala population crash in south-east Queensland last year, has offered little hope for the state鈥檚 faunal emblem.