Anthony Albanese frames Isaac Herzog’s visit as a gesture of solidarity, following the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi, but a growing number argue it is a grave moral failure. Olivia Jurincic reports.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that no dictatorship forms overnight. It happens through laws that restrict public assembly, criminalise dissent, expand police powers and reframe political opposition as a threat to public order.
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Socialist Alliance calls on those who support democracy and human rights to oppose the genocidal attacks on the Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution and urges the Australian government to send urgently needed funds.
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Chris Minns’ hastily drawn-up “inquiry” into hate speech in NSW, following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, is set to lead to new laws criminalising certain words in addition to preventing protests. Pip Hinman argues this overreach and communities will not be made safer.
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Armed factions affiliated with the Damascus government unleashed suicide drones, heavy shelling, convoys of tanks and armoured military vehicles against civilians in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighbourhoods of Aleppo in northern Syria, reports Hawzhin Azeez.
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Ongoing small-scale attacks against the autonomous Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods of Aleppo in Northern Syria have taken on a new and lethal dimension, reports Sarah Glynn.
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Two protestors, who brought attention to Pine Gap’s secretive activities when they the main access route, have also prompted a Crown prosecutor to admit to Israel's genocide. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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The Socialism 2025 Conference, held in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, brought together socialists and activists from across the Asia-Pacific, reports Markela Panegyres.
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Socialist Alliance strongly condemns the United States military invasion of Venezuela and demands that the Australian Labor government reject the US’ flouting of international law and break the AUKUS war alliance.
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Jepke Goudsmit argues that we need to untangle the conflation between Zionism and Judaism and make clear the distinction between the worldwide community of Jews and the State of Israel.
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Change comes when enough see that a better world is possible and work towards it. Therefore, Jepke Goudsmit argues, we cannot give up. Palestinians have a word for it — “sumud”.
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Isaac Herzog cannot be welcomed in Australia as the government he represents has breached international law, including crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing, argue Margaret Reynolds and Stuart Rees.