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Western Australia Senator Fatima Payman attended the United Workers Union picket line in Dandenong South to show her solidarity with their fight for respect at work. Chloe DS reports.

Nicolas Maduro and Edmundo Gonzales

There are fears in Venezuela that the situation approaching inauguration day could trigger a new round of political violence and state repression, reports Federico Fuentes.

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Andrew Chuter reviews Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise, which argues that parking has devastated our cities, wasted valuable space, entrenched car dependency, worsened the climate disaster and raised the cost of housing and most other goods.

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Following the takeover of most of Aleppo by the Turkish-backed Islamist militia group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, fighting between them, the Assad regime forces and Kurdish-led forces is escalating, reports Peter Boyle.

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Thousands gathered in the streets of London to protest against the criminalisation of the city’s Kurdish community, reports Medya News.

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Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto remains a loyal servant of United States imperialism, as his recent phone call to Donald Trump makes clear, reports Peter Boyle.

KCTU gathering outside National Assembly

Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s right-wing president, attempted to maintain his power through the implementation of martial law, but was defeated within six hours by a people’s uprising, reports Chon Kai Choon.

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As the apocalyptic violence unleashed on Gaza grinds on and domestic opposition grows, Labor has resorted to backing an institutional assault on free speech. Sam Wainwright argues the only way to fight back is to keep speaking out.

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A high-altitude isolated depression that hit Spain, especially the province of Valencia, at the end of October turned into the deadliest climate-related catastrophe in Spain this century, writes Miguel Urban Crespo.

Unionists and community members managed to stop an attempt by Woolworths to crush a warehouse strike in Dandenong South, now in its 13th day. Elizabeth Bantas reports.

Human rights organisations and Kurdish-Iranian refugee activist Behrouz Boochani have condemned Labor’s new racist anti-asylum seeker laws. Chloe DS reports on the community outcry.