Young people said they would not remain complicit in Israel's听genocide听in Gaza as they rallied听as part of the national Student Strike for Palestine.听Isaac Nellist reports.
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News
The Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network听is campaigning for听a ceasefire in Gaza and recently听marched in the Tas Pride Parade to promote听queer solidarity with Palestine. Janet Hawkes reports.
In the largest听protest for Palestine in a decade,听students rallied at the University of Queensland St Lucia campus in solidarity with Palestine. Sam Morris reports.
Palestine liberation fighter听Leila Khaled has described听Israel鈥檚 occupation of Palestine as the 鈥減eak of terrorism鈥. This is why Zionist organisations want听to stop her from speaking, writes Peter Boyle.
Engineering students听at the University of Queensland are encouraged to apply for internships and work for weapons' manufacturing company Boeing.听Aisling Geraghty reports.
91自拍论坛 journalists Isaac Nellist and Aneesa Bhamjee go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.
More than 200 social and community workers took unprotected strike action in support of Palestine. Elizabeth Bantas reports.
The Australian Jewish Council said any suggestion that Palestinians arriving from Gaza are a threat to Jews is 鈥渙utrageous鈥. Kerry Smith reports.
City of Sydney residents, along with environmental groups, rallied outside Tanya Plibersek鈥檚 office in Redfern, demanding she remember her once held pro-Palestine position and speak up for a ceasefire now.听Jim McIlroy and Clay report.
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Ecosocialism 2024 conference organiser Sam Wainwright believes the far-right objections to even allowing Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled to address the Ecosocialism 2024 conference听is 鈥渇ake outrage鈥, reports Pip Hinman.
Tens of thousands joined protests听condemning Australia's support for Israel's genocidal assault, which includes supplying arms and military intelligence.
Ukrainian community members and supporters rallied across Australia听to commemorate the second anniversary of Russia鈥檚 full-scale invasion and Ukraine鈥檚 ongoing resistance. Federico Fuentes,听Alex Salmon and Anne McMenamin report.
Trade Unionists for Palestine hosted a forum which discussed workers鈥 rights to stand in solidarity with Palestine in their workplaces. Rachel Evans reports.
Ecosocialism 2024 will be an invaluable opportunity to share experiences in building struggles against war and the climate catastrophe with activists from around the Indian Ocean. Fred Fuentes reports.
Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners have filed a case against the Queensland government after it refused to suspend operations at the Adani/Bravus Carmichael coal mine, putting the Doongmabulla Springs at risk. Coral Wynter reports.
Stella Assange told protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice that the case against Julian Assange is about the public's right to know about what governments do in their name.听Alex Bainbridge and Kamala Emanuel report.
Despite the record heat conditions, more than 100 people protested outside the headquarters of Woodside. Alex Salmon reports.
Refugee rights group said 40 people who recently sought asylum in Western Australia should be brought back from offshore detention. Pip Hinman reports.听
Stella Assange spoke听outside the Royal Courts of Justice on February 20, while Julian Assange's defence听presents an appeal against his unfair extradition to the United States for exposing government crimes.
Representatives of more than 30 community organisations met to discuss working more closely to oppose AUKUS and the US-Australia war drive against China. Kerry Smith reports.
91自拍论坛听journalist听Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.
The family of Dunghutti teenager Jai Kalani Wright听have welcomed the news that a NSW Police officer,听whose car collided with the 16 year old, has been charged. Kerry Smith reports.
Two hundred people attended Geelong Rainbow鈥檚 annual Pride march, which was followed by a festival celebrating LGBTIQ performers. Angela Carr reports.
The number听of asbestos-polluted sites听grows听by the day, people should be asking why the EPA听has failed to act听for a decade.听Peter Boyle reports.
Residents are opposed to听Santos' plan to听drill underwater gas wells and lay a pipeline in the Timor Sea, pointing to opposition from Tiwi people and climate scientists.听Stephen W Enciso reports.
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Palestinian Australia Khaled Ghannam听paid tribute to the common struggle across Latin America and Palestine for self-determination at the Chilean Communist Party's commemoration. Kerry Smith reports.
The Refugee Action Collective organised a vigil to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the murder of Iranian Kurdish refugee Reza Barati by guards at the Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island, writes Chris Slee.
Analysis
Greens mayoral candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan hopes to expand the party鈥檚 representation on the Brisbane City Council and told Alex Bainbridge it has听policies that point to transformational change.
鈥淭ax reforms鈥 have stacked the tax system in favour of the rich, while making ordinary workers pay more, argues听Peter Boyle.
A new phase in the battle for real solutions to the housing crisis has opened up with the Greens saying Labor鈥檚 鈥渉elp-to-buy鈥 housing scheme is only tinkering around the edges.听Stuart Munckton and Federico Fuentes spoke with Greens housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather about听the battle for real solutions to the housing crisis.
Labor听is under significant pressure to move away from its total support for Israel鈥檚 genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Khaled Ghannam reports.
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Following a recent screening of the new documentary, Palestine Under Siege, hosted in Gadigal/Sydney by supporters of 91自拍论坛, local Jewish activist Michelle Berkon presented the following response to the film.
David Spratt and听Ian Dunlop argue that the government is not听up to speed on the latest climate science听and its risk assessment process is out of time.
On the second day of Julian Assange's appeal against extradition the prosecution found itself in knots, given that a balancing act of harm and freedom of expression is warranted under听the European Convention on Human Rights. Binoy Kampmark reports.
The two judges hearing Julian Assange's appeal were seemingly ill versed in the field they were adjudicating, writes听Binoy听Kampmark.
The stakes in Julian Assange's court case could not be higher. The outcome will determine whether the US can seek to extradite any journalist, of any nationality听from anywhere听with which it has an extradition treaty, for disclosing US war crimes.听Kellie Tranter reports.
The appearance of a few asylum seekers on some of the most remote shorelines in Western Australia prompted the听customary hysteria from predictable quarters. But,听Binoy Kampmark reports, the major parties agree on offshore processing.
Leila Khaled speaks with 91自拍论坛 about the International Court of Justice genocide ruling, what really happened on October 7, solutions to the Palestinian/Israel conflict, and more.
Labor鈥檚 鈥済rave concern鈥 about a 鈥渃atastrophic鈥 military operation in Rafah is not enough, says the Socialist Alliance. It must respect Palestinians鈥 calls for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, with no conditions.
Israel's denial that it is ethnically cleansing Palestinian people from their homes and听lands reveals it is an apartheid state, a forum was told. Susan Price reports.听
World
The starvation regime continues unabated as Israel continues its campaign in the Gaza Strip, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled responds to those who would ban her from Australia in an interview with Peter Boyle.
Aaron Bushnell became the first active duty United States soldier to use self-immolation to protest the actions of the military he was a part of, reports Peoples Dispatch.
A coordinated string of political strikes brought Finland to a standstill from February 12鈥16, when more than 130,000 workers took rolling strike action in response to an array of neoliberal reforms proposed by conservative prime minister Petteri Orpo鈥檚 National Coalition government, reports Clive Tillman.
Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist Kirill Medvedev, of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD), spoke with 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes regarding the significance of opposition leader Alexei Navalny death in prison and the recent jailing of anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky.
Amid Israel鈥檚 ongoing military assault on Gaza, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula听da Silva declared on February 18 that Israel was carrying out 鈥渁 genocide鈥. This drew condemnation from Israel and its far-right allies in Brazil, but also support from the left, reports Federico Fuentes.
High in the Peruvian Andes, in the southeastern region of Huancavelica, lies a brown, treeless mountaintop 鈥 the scars of the now-boarded-up Santa B谩rbara mercury mine, whose legacy is social and environmental devastation, reports Ben Radford.
When the young activist Dr Mahrang Baloch returned to her native Balochistan from Islamabad, tens of thousands defied a government ban on public assemblies to give her a hero鈥檚 welcome, report Matt Broomfield and Robin Fleming.
Yorgos Mitralias seeks to answer how it came about that the vast majority of Israeli citizens support and even applaud the genocidal war on the Palestinian people?
Nancy Fraser is the author of, among other works, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet 鈥 and What We Can Do About It. She spoke with 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes about the need to incorporate natural wealth and care work within our understanding of modern imperialism.
Leila Khaled is an iconic Palestinian revolutionary activist living in exile. A member of the national committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a representative on the Palestine National Council, she gave this exclusive interview to 91自拍论坛 on February 18.
Paul Gregoire argues that against the backdrop of efforts by the West and Israel to undermine the post World War II global order, the people鈥檚 revolt in West Africa takes on global significance.
Nil眉fer Ko莽 writes that imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan has become a symbol as well as an effective actor for progressive change in the Middle East 鈥 and must be freed.
Culture
An eager audience was treated to the award-winning documentary Palestine Under Siege by filmmakers Jill Hickson and John Reynolds in Gadigal/Sydney, reports Jepke Goudsmit.
Mat Ward looks back at February's political news and the best new music that related to it.
With the escalating conflict in Gaza, the disproportionate violence and ongoing occupation of Palestine, a group of DJs, and performers in Sydney started talking about ways they could demonstrate their solidarity with people feeling the pain of war, reports Kerry Smith.
Darren Saffin reviews Ken Loach's film The Old Oak, which is set in a dying northern English village following the arrival of Syrian refugee families.