91自拍论坛 journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.听
Issue 1395
News
The 23rd World Congress on Health and Safety at Work conference heard about campaigns ranging from dealing with problems associated with climate change to psycho-social injuries at work. Jim McIlroy reports.
The public gallery at Bayside Council was packed with supporters of a Gaza ceasefire motion, motivated by Greens councillor Greta Werner and seconded by independent Michael Nagi.听Suelin McCauley reports.
Merri-bek councillor Sue Bolton believes听councils can and should play a role in defending and extending public housing. Jordan AK reports.
Community First, a progressive ticket, has been formed to challenge a conservative group that dominates the Cairns Regional Council, reports Alex Bainbridge.
Rising Tide's People's Blockade of the Newcastle coal port drew thousands to a creative and powerful civil disobedience action. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt 迟别濒濒蝉听91自拍论坛's Isaac Nellist听why he thinks joining the #PeoplesBlockade of the world鈥檚 biggest coal port is so important.
91自拍论坛's Isaac Nellist听spoke to students at the Gadi/Sydney School Strike for Palestine听about why it is important to protest against Gaza genocide.听
Around 70 residents crammed into a room at the Flemington Estate to discuss the Victorian government鈥檚 plans to demolish all 44 high-rise public housing flats. Sue Bolton reports.
91自拍论坛's Leo Earle and Isaac Nellist听spoke to attendees at听the blockade of the world鈥檚 largest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle.
Justin Tutty appeared before the Darwin Local Court on November 28, charged with trespass for locking on to Tamboran鈥檚 Resources megafracker in May.听Stephen W Enciso reports.
Journalists are pushing back at management censoring coverage of Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza. Pip Hinman reports.
Residents across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains continue to express their solidarity with Palestine, despite the temporary truce in Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza.听Zebedee Parkes 补苍诲听Fred Fuentes report.
A new bill, which has been developed in conjunction with communities,听provides a听pathway for councils to de-amalgamate. Pip Hinman reports.
A community-led blockade is underway at Pine Gap, a joint US and Australian defence intelligence facility near Alice Springs, to protest the US and Australia's role in supporting genocide in Gaza. Kerry Smith reports.
Police have dropped charges against eight refugee supporters who participated in a car cavalcade on April 10, 2020. Chris Slee reports.
Rising Tide and 91自拍论坛 co-hosted a forum on how to sustainably move away from coal听when it鈥檚 been communities'听livelihood听for generations. Jim McIlroy reports.
Rallies and vigils for Palestine continued across the country as protesters say a听pause in Israel's听bombing campaign is not a ceasefire and federal Labor came under greater pressure to join the global ceasefire call.听
As climate defenders are now considered 鈥渆xtremists鈥 by the state, a 91自拍论坛 and Socialist Alliance forum discussed how to protect our protest rights. Jim McIlroy reports.
As many as 3000 students and teachers abandoned school 鈥 against the Victorian government鈥檚 directive 鈥 to publicly criticise Israel鈥檚 actions in occupied Palestine.听Tamer Fletcher Kayhan 补苍诲听Sturt Boltin report.
Members of the听United Services Union听in NSW are calling on their executive to support the calls听for a ceasefire in Palestine, as the Australian Council of Trade Unions and many others have. Graham Matthews reports.
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Northern Territory communities marched along the Nightcliff Foreshore calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.听Stephen W Enciso reports.
Supporters of a free Palestine, including children and elderly people, who blockaded an Israeli ship at听Port Botany听were attacked by NSW Police. Zebedee Parkes reports.
A packed public gallery at Sydney's Inner West Council meeting went from aghast to angry after a mild Greens motion calling for a ceasefire in Palestine was rejected by Labor鈥檚 casting vote. Pip Hinman reports.
Twelve year old Jayda Shadid made a passionate call on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to push for a ceasefire on November 19, reports Alex Bainbridge.
Forest activists have听blocked the main access road leading to the Forestry Corporation of NSW headquarters, urging Chris Minns to protect endangered species. Kerry Smith reports.
Leo Earle spoke to participants at the sixth huge weekly Palestine rally on November 19 in Gadi/Sydney about why it鈥檚 important to keep protesting for Palestine.
Tens of thousands of people joined the sixth straight week of solidarity rallies for Palestine.听Alex Bainbridge reports.
For the second time, hundreds marched on Labor MP Peter Khalil鈥檚 electorate office in Wills听to demand he support a ceasefire. Chloe DS reports.
About 200 people rallied outside the ABC鈥檚 offices to protest its biased coverage of Israel鈥檚 genocidal war on Gaza.听Isaac Nellist reports.
Analysis
Labor鈥檚 reaction to the High Court听ruling听that indefinite detention is unlawful underscores its听continuing racist scapegoating of refugees, argues Jonathan Strauss.
Why has Australia acted in lock step with the United States in supporting Israel鈥檚 latest genocidal war on Gaza? Peter Boyle argues听it's about more than oil;听imperial听interests听include听the protection of wider political domination.
There was no better example of a politicised public service than Mike Pezzullo, its former Home Affairs Secretary, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Our contribution to peace with justice in Palestine is to听build an anti-apartheid campaign that is every bit as loud, creative and persistent as the one that existed in the 1980s, says Janet Parker from the newly-formed Jews for听a Free Palestine.
Look behind the newly converted whale-loving type听and there is likely to be听an avid fossil-fuel lobbyist, or someone advocating the merits of nuclear energy, as Binoy Kampmark听reports.
The mainstream media together with NSW Labor are听on a mission to demonise pro-Palestine protesters.听Khaled Ghannam听gives an eyewitness report of the protest against ZIM shipping in Port Botany.
Suzanne James speaks with Greens Senator David Shoebridge about war crimes, whistleblowers and weed.
The Progressive Alliance for Palestine is calling on organisations to sign on to show their听support of the right of听Palestinian people to resist the ongoing dispossession, occupation and oppression by the settler colonial state of Israel.
As reforms to save听rivers are being debated in the Senate, First Nations elders are calling for their water rights to be enshrined in law. Tracey Carpenter reports.
Whistleblower David McBride is going to be sentenced in the new year after he was denied the opportunity to appeal and prosecutors argued against further delays. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Since the High Court ruled that indefinite detention is illegal, Labor rushed to introduce听new laws specifically听for 83 newly released detainees which continue to demonise them. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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World
Writer and activist Sarah Glynn argues that the uncritical support being given to Israel in its genocidal war on the Palestinians is itself antisemitic and stokes further antisemitism.
The Global Ecosocialist Network released the following statement on the eve of the COP28 climate meeting in Dubai.
For Geert Wilders, the leader of Dutch far-right Freedom Party (PVV), years of patience paid off while the incumbent right-wing party gambled and lost in the country's recent elections, writes Alex De Jong.
Revelations on November 27 that COP28 host nation UAE planned to leverage its official position to pursue new oil and gas deals were a timely reminder that there are entire nations that essentially operate as oil companies, with precisely the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell, writes Bill McKibben.
Police have escalated their surveillance, intimidation and criminalisation of Palestine solidarity activists in Canada, raiding activists鈥 homes and treating expressions of solidarity with Palestinians as 鈥渉ate crimes鈥, reports Jeff Shantz.
Marxist economist and author Claudio Katz speaks to 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes about the changing dynamics within global imperialism.
Marxist sociologist and author William I Robinson speaks to 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes about how contradictions between a globally integrated economy and a nation-state-based system help explain, among other things, rising US-China tensions.
Choo Chon Kai, from the Socialist Party of Malaysia, talks to 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes about rising United States-China tensions and the struggle for peace in Southeast Asia.
The defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, and the horrors of the Holocaust, put an end to antisemitic regimes in Europe. But it did not end collaboration between Zionism and antisemitism, argues Barry Sheppard.
A civil suit in the United States and law suits in the International Criminal Court are seeking to hold the US and Israel accountable for genocide in Gaza, reports Malik Miah.
No matter how many more people Israel slaughters or how much it steals or bombs, there is no denying its defeat. Israel cannot continue to live by its sword, writes Susan Abulhawa.
Israel is killing media workers in order to prevent the world from seeing the unspeakable atrocities it is carrying out in Gaza, reports Amanda Yee.
91自拍论坛 journalist Ben Radford speaks to Isaac Nellist about his first-hand experience in Cuba and the impacts of the United States-imposed blockade.听
Israeli officials appear to have acknowledged for the first time that Israeli forces killed some of their own civilians on and after October 7, reports Ali Abunimah.
While British PM Rishi Sunak and Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer are united in supporting Israel鈥檚 decimation of Gaza, resistance to the genocidal war is strong and having an impact, reports Derek Wall.
After two days of debate, the Spanish congress invested the second-term government led by prime minister Pedro S谩nchez on November 16, following a deal between the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and Together for Catalonia (Junts), reports Dick Nichols.
Palestine solidarity actions have increased in frequency and intensity across Canada, with tactics moving to more disruptive and direct actions. High school students have added to the variety of tactics with coordinated walkouts, reports Jeff Shantz.
Indian trade unions have condemned the government鈥檚 plan to send a scab workforce to Israel to replace Palestinian workers, saying it would make India 鈥渃omplicit鈥 in Israel鈥檚 genocidal war on Gaza, reports Isaac Nellist.
French solidarity activist Patrick Le Tr茅hondat spoke with members of Ukraine鈥檚 ReSew sewing cooperative.
Culture
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books on climate, food, waste, Venezuela鈥檚 communes and basic income.
Mat Ward looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Walkley Award-winning Australian-Jewish journalist Antony Loewenstein鈥檚 book, The Palestine Laboratory, is a brilliant piece of investigative work, bringing together mountains of research and interviews, which lays bare the relationship between Israel鈥檚 brutal oppression of Palestinians and its booming arms industry, writes Ben Radford.
The Waterloo Forever Variety Show brought together the creative energies of public housing tenants, their supporters and community, report Plum Cherry听and Rachel Evans.