Despite receiving majority support for Merri-bek Socialist Alliance Councillor Sue Bolton’s motion to keep the Palestinian flag flying, council determined the motion was lost. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Jacob Andrewartha
The results of the byelections in the Victorian electorates of Werribee and Prahran suggest disillusion with the major parties is growing. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Sue Bolton said her 12-year experience as a Merri-bek councillor means that she has what it takes to wage a fight with the community for outcomes that they want. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
While the Socialist Alliance welcomes the ceasefire agreement, whether it will hold up until its final phase will depend on the global pro-Palestine movement maintaining its pressure on governments to force Israel to comply, argues Jacob Andrewartha.
A vigil mourning the murders of several sex workers demanded full decriminalisation so that sex workers have control over their workplace conditions. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Construction workers protested outside the Fair Work Commission to demand that Esther Van Arend, a former Construction, Forestry Maritime and Employees Union health and safety organiser who had been unfairly sacked by the CFMEU administrator, be reinstated. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Hundreds joined a Human Rights Day vigil to support Uncle Robbie Thorpe's case against former Benjamin Netanyahu advisor Mark Regev, which was withdrawn by the Department of Public Prosecutions. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
While socialist and Green candidates received higher votes in the Victorian local government elections, Labor’s bid to reduce small party representation with single-member wards worked. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Cyn Huang and Daniil Sapunkov, members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, unpacked the United States elections with Green Left’s Isaac Nellist and Jacob Andrewartha.
Hundreds of people packed the Coburg Town Hall to discuss how to resist public money being used to prop up weapons corporations at the expense of essential services. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
It is not enough to “punish Labor” in coming elections. The real challenge is to build a political alternative that will act for the majority, not slavishly serve the billionaire class, argue Sue Bull, Jacob Andrewartha and Sam Wainwright.
The 50th week of continuous protests against Israel’s genocide came days after their terrorist attacks on the people of Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
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