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Protester in front of Lebanese flag

Despite his rhetorical claims that his military objective is to neutralise Hamas, in reality Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his closest allies want to redesign the map of the Middle East, with a new “Greater Israel” becoming a supremacist and colonial reference point for the global far right, argues Israel Dutra.

Gustavo Petro

Thousands of Colombians mobilised across the country on September 19 in defence of the government’s pension reforms and to reject the attempts by right-wing forces to oust President Gustavo Petro, reports Ben Radford.

Kamala Harris Donald Trump Jill Stein

With only weeks to go until the United States presidential election, and with the threat of a second Donald Trump presidency, pro-Palestine activist and former Democratic Party organiser Sravya explains why she is undecided about whether to vote for Kamala Harris.

crowd at an election rally and inset photo of AKD

Sri Lanka’s presidential elections represent a historic change in representative politics and mark a new beginning, with many challenges for progressive forces, reports Janaka Biyanwila.

Boris Kagarlitsky

Academics and activists from Russia and around the world will address an online conference on October 8 in support of jailed Marxist sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, reports Federico Fuentes.

The latest police killings of six First Nations people in just 11 days are a poignant and heinous reminder of the colonial nature of policing in Canada, writes Jeff Shantz.

Boeing workers on picket line

Workers at Boeing’s commercial division in the United States overwhelmingly voted on September 12 to reject a tentative collective agreement and take strike action, reports Malik Miah.

border wall

Whatever the outcome of November's United States election, the situation looks grim for migrants at the border and those already in the US without documentation, writes Barry Sheppard.

A group of Pakistani workers and inset photo of Ammar Ali Jan

Progressive International’s Tanya Singh spoke to Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (People’s Rights Party, HKP) co-founder Ammar Ali Jan about the challenges of building a new workers’ party in Pakistan — and the HKP’s recent victories for Lahore’s most vulnerable workers.

Mass protest in Balochistan and inset picture of Farooq Tariq

Brazilian socialist Israel Dutra spoke to Pakistani socialist Farooq Tariq, president of the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP, People’s Rights Party), on the political situation in the region and the struggle against the far right.

bombed building in Gaza and inset photo of children

Green Left’s Alex Salmon spoke to Tamer Shaaban, a 20-year-old engineering student trapped in Gaza, about how his family’s life was torn apart when Israel launched its genocidal war in October last year.

Line of police

The federal agency responsible for overseeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has found that officers from the secretive Critical Response Unit violated the rights of anti-logging activists in the Fairy Creek watershed, in British Columbia. Jeff Shantz reports.