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Protesters gathered as part of an international day of action against the surge in military spending to demand Labor cut its military budget and cancel the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines. Jim McIlroy reports.

Year 11 student Jeremy told a climate rally outside Tanya Plibersek's office that “climate change is threatening our future”. Jim McIlroy reports.

Maggie K, from the Tzedek Collective, addressed a solidarity rally at the University of Sydney encampment for Palestine on May 3.

Aid organisations, including Amnesty International, Oxfam Australia, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network and Trade Unionists for Palestine, supported the global call to end arms deals with Israel. Jim McIlroy reports.

More than 5000 unionists, largely construction workers, marched through the CBD on May 1 to mark May Day, the international day of workers’ struggle. Jim McIlroy reports.

University of Sydney students are camping out on campus in solidarity with the student encampments for Palestine taking place in the US, video by Isaac Nellist.

Stop the War on Palestine Group organised a well-attended protest outside Quickstep Holdings, which manufactures parts for F-35 joint strike fighters. Khaled Ghannam reports.

Greens Senator David Shoebridge and anti-war activists spoke out against the global rise in military spending. Jim McIlroy reports.

Palestinian refugees

Khaled Ghannam writes that desperate Palestinians are selling their assets, at a quarter of their value, to merchants who exploit their need for funds to leave Gaza, while Western governments refuse to shoulder responsibility for their displacement.

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The Art of Banksy: Without Limits is a wild ride into the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist artistic world of Banksy — the British creator who put progressive politics into street art internationally. Jim McIlroy reviews.

The First Wave, a new film by environment group Rising Tide, was launched by an enthusiastic crowd. Jim McIlroy reports.

book cover, loaf of processed bread

Coral Wynter reviews Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken, which looks at the industrialised chemicals and processed components that make up the ultra-processed food we buy in supermarkets.