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UAW picket

The United Auto Workers (UAW) have made big gains in their industrial campaign against the big car manufacturers in the United States, which will ripple through the US labour movement, reports Malik Miah.

YPJ drives ISIS out of Kobani

Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) Women’s Assemblies Speaker Halide Türkoğlu said in Turkey on November 1, World Kobanê Day: 'No power, no tank, no weapon is strong enough' to tear down Rojava's revolution.

The annual Reclaim the Night rally was followed the next day by a conference discussing feminist campaigns organised by the Geelong Women Unionists Network. Jacqueline Kriz reports.

Residents across the inner west showed their support for changes to the New South Wales Local Government Act, which would respect residents views on council demergers. Pip Hinman reports.

Journalists and others have accused the ABC of downplaying the death of Gaza-based freelance journalist Roshdi Sarraj, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike. Elizabeth Bantas reports.

Jewish activists occupied defence minister Richard Marles' office to protest Labor’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Sue Bull reports.

Ali Kazak, a former Palestinian ambassador in Australia, has written a stinging open letter to the ABC managing director, criticising its pro-Israel bias in covering the war on Gaza. Kerry Smith reports.

Karl Marx Hof in Vienna

While the Australian government looks for market solutions to the housing crisis, Austria's capital, Vienna, maintains a vast system of public and cooperative housing, which today accounts for more than 50% of the city’s housing stock, writes John Tully.

at yeong-hwan bang shrine in Seoul

The death of Bang Yeong-hwan, a South Korean taxi driver and trade unionist, has drawn international attention to the harsh and super-exploitative working conditions suffered in a country with an image as a high-tech, relatively developed and wealthy nation, reports Peter Boyle.

Disrupt Burrup Hub activists protest the ABC

The ABC should not help criminalise activists by handing over footage to the police, argues Isaac Nellist.

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Marxist sociologist William I Robinson speaks with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about transnational class exploitation and the global police state. This is the first in a two-part series.

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Marxist economist and author Claudio Katz speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the realities of imperialism today, in the first of a two-part interview.