Pat Walsh, one of Australia’s great human rights defenders and promoters, was also a true internationalist. Patrick Earle pays tribute to his life’s work in support of the Timorese people’s right to self-determination.
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The rising number of Aboriginal deaths in custody — a form of state-sponsored violence — is a scathing indictment of law enforcement and the judicial system, writes Mark Gillespie.
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Abigail Boyd argues that our response to extremism needs to be considered, evidence-based and effective — the opposite of what NSW Labor is doing.
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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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Swift condemnation has followed the United States government’s military attacks on Venezuela, reports Ben Radford.
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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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High school student Maab Suliman, from Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, writes that solidarity gives the Sudanese people hope during a time of darkness.
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We have to push back against NSW Labor’s unprecedented attack on our right to protest genocide and invasions, and what we choose to wear on our T-shirts, argues Rachel Evans.
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Eleven groups, nine of them Jewish, have written to the Governor-General and Prime Minister, urging them to rescind the invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Kerry Smith reports.
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Pavan Kulkarni draws on analysis from the Sudanese Communist Party and other sources to examine the background to Sudan's December Revolution and its two and half year counterrevolutionary civil war, which has killed more than 150,000 people, displaced more than 9.3 million and thrown parts of the country into severe famine.