Issue 1410

News

Refugees have set up a protest camp outside the electorate office of Clare O'Neil to demand permanent visas. Chris Slee reports.

Social media giant Meta has censored the聽School Strike 4 Climate聽group after it announced plans for a聽school strike for West Papua on August 30. Alex Bainbridge reports.

four people sitting on a couch

Students and supporters of the University of Newcastle Palestine solidarity encampment are resisting management's attempts to shut it down. Niko Leka reports.

65000 years strong banner

Thousands joined the march for land rights and justice for First Nations people as part of the annual聽NAIDOC rally in Naarm/Melbourne. Chloe DS 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听

Australia is complicit in genocide

Protesters marked 40 weeks of consecutive protests demanding Labor end its support for Israel鈥檚 genocidal assault as the Lancet concludes that close to 200,000 Gazans have been killed.

As climate protesters protested outside Woodside HQ, two others had blockaded the only access road to聽Burrup Hub Project in Pilbara region in the early morning. Alex Salmon reports.

91自拍论坛 News podcast Ep 44, July 12, 2024

Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss Fatima Payman's decision to resign from Labor over its support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, the recent elections in Britain and France and speak to artist, academic and National Tertiary Education Union member Markela Panegyres about the University of Sydney's draconian Campus Access Policy.聽

Anti-nuclear activists protested outside a fundraiser at the Double Bay bowls club, hosted by Nationals MPs Keith Pitt and David Gillespie, advocates of the Coalition鈥檚 nuclear power plan. Kerry Smith reports.

Students at the University of Melbourne say they are being punished because they forced the academic institution to disclose its ties to Israeli genocide. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

Teachers have joined the union covering school cleaners in NSW to campaign for the Labor government to bring school cleaning back in-house. Pip Hinman reports.

About 100 people joined a rally outside the United States聽Consulate to protest the country鈥檚 role in generating war and devastation across the globe. Kerry Smith reports.

A rally outside NSW Labor headquarters expressed support for Western Australian Senator Fatima Payman. Peter Boyle Reports.

It was a full house at the Harold Park Hotel to celebrate the release and homecoming of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Stephen Langford reports.

public sector workers wont be silenced

Despite enormous pressure and threats of losing their jobs, public servants continue to organise to demand Labor takes a stand against Israel鈥檚 genocide in Palestine. Pip Hinman reports.

Megan Krakouer at Ecosocialism 2024

Megan Krakouer, Menang woman of the Noongar Nation, said the rate of incarceration of First Nations people is 鈥渙ut of control鈥 and suicides are rising at an alarming rate. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听

Sanction Israel now!, Naarm/Melbourne, July 7

The 39th week of continuous protests against Australian complicity in Israel's genocide against the people of Gaza came days after WA senator Fatima Payman announced her resignation from Labor. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Analysis

Socialist Alliance issued the following statement in solidarity with the聽Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union on July 18.

yougov poll

In the middle of a cost-of-living and housing crisis, it makes sense that a majority of young people think Australia should be more socialist, argues Isaac Nellist.

Labor鈥檚 renewable energy 鈥渟uperpower鈥 plan may sound good, but there are serious dangers in tying an energy transition to the profit interests of corporate capitalism.聽Peter Boyle reports.

As Gillian Segal has聽a track record of insisting that legitimate criticism of Israel is antisemitic, it is more likely that she will be an envoy for promoting racism and division, argues Janet Parker.

91自拍论坛鈥檚 Alex Bainbridge聽spoke to Independent Senator and DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara聽Lidia Thorpe聽about Labor鈥檚 promises and record on addressing First Nations鈥 injustices.

David Mejia-Canales from the Human Rights Law Centre speaks to Alex Bainbridge about its new report Protest in Peril: Our Shrinking Democracy.

Ecosocialist activist and organiser Jess Spear argues that we need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of our struggles, in order to move beyond capitalism and secure a future for humanity and the Earth.

There is compelling evidence that we need to shift away from a market-based economic system to a needs-based economy with people and nature at its centre, argues Susan Price.

The controversy created by Senator Fatima Payman鈥檚 exit from federal Labor points to the crisis of the two-party parliamentary system. Sue Bull reports.

Sarah Schwartz of the Jewish Council of Australia said聽the appointment聽of an antisemitism envoy is needlessly provocative. Binoy Kampmark reports.

What happened at PwC is the entirely predictable result of the聽Australian Public Service聽being sacrificed for the politically expedient, but false, economy of聽outsourcing to the private for-profit sector, writes聽Suzanne James.

World

protest at place de la republique in Paris July 18

Paris-based anticapitalist activist and 91自拍论坛 contributor John Mullen spoke to German publication Marx21 on July 12 about the July 7 French election result and the immediate challenges for the left.

protesters

India's new criminal laws give the state more power to curtail rights and freedoms, reports Isaac Nellist.

flags of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong with Xi Jinping

Au Loong-Yu is a long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist who now lives in exile. In the first part of this interview with 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes, he discusses China鈥檚 rise and tensions with the United States.

US aircaft carrier

Hawaiian activists are calling on nations who condemn the genocide in Gaza to withdraw from Rim of the Pacific war games, illegally hosted on Hawaiian land.

police spray protesters with tear gas

Amid economic turmoil, environmental crisis, escalating inequality, widespread despair and disillusionment, the far right is presenting itself as a 鈥渞adical鈥 and 鈥渁nti-system鈥 alternative, argues Brazilian socialist Mariana Riscali.

Boy holding onto a van

Mali, then Burkina Faso, and finally Niger have experienced coups d鈥櫭﹖at and subsequently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). What should we make of this new reality for West Africa? Paul Martial provides his analysis.

Empire State Building

Sam Gindin is the co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire (with Leo Panitch). 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes spoke to Gindin about the rise of the United States empire and its role in creating a truly global capitalism.

Chinese city

Sam Gindin is the co-author of (with Leo Panitch). 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes spoke to Gindin about the nature of the current tensions between states within global capitalism and whether China and Russia could replace the United States empire.

sign painted on a van and woman's face

Israel鈥檚 state-owned water company Mekorot has played a key role in the theft of Palestinian water. "Fuera Mekorot" (Get Out Mekorot) campaign organiser Gisela Cardozo spoke to 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Ben Radford about Mekorot's nefarious activities in Argentina and the campaign against it.

Man speaking to a summit

The leaders of the three main countries in Africa鈥檚 Sahel region 鈥 just south of the Sahara Desert 鈥 met in Niamey, Niger, to deepen their Alliance of Sahel States (AES), on July 6 and 7, writes Vijay Prashad.

Jeremy Corbyn addressing campaign volunteers

Keir Starmer鈥檚 Labour Party won a landslide in Britain鈥檚 July 4 general election. The previously all-powerful Conservatives were reduced to rubble. Derek Wall looks behind the results.

With biting irony, the British government had demonstrated to Rwanda that it could replace the supposedly vile market of people smuggling in Europe with a lucrative market effectively monetising asylum seekers and refugees in exchange of pledges of development, writes Binoy Kampmark.

three women walking

Following the arrest of three pro-Palestine solidarity activists in Singapore, the South East Asian Left Network initiated a joint statement calling for the charges to be dropped.

Map of nuclear warheads by country

As Israel ramps up its threats on Iran, Syria and Lebanon, the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has never been so urgent, writes Pip Hinman.

crowd in the Place de la Republic on July 7

Millions of people are feeling tremendous relief at the French election results, writes John Mullen. But vigilance and mobilisation are required to prevent a victory being turned into a defeat for working people.

Culture

Luke Mustafa Woods painting

Wiradjuri artist Luke Mustafa Woods, who is based in Djilang/Geelong, speaks to Tim Gooden about his art in solidarity with Palestine.

book covers

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan鈥檚 water wars, and the corrupt food industry.

book cover with map in background

Alex Salmon reviews James Boyce's 2020 work, which traces the Indigenous people of the wetland areas of eastern England known as the Fens, who fought to preserve their lands, culture and community in the face of attempts to displace them by enclosure.