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Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen talk to Federico Fuentes about the Venezuelan presidential election results and to Socialist Alliance Merri-bek councillor Sue Bolton about community campaigning ahead of the Victorian local government elections.

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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.

The latest statistics show that almost all the gains made from reaching an average of 40% renewable energy in electricity generation have been cancelled out by rising greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from transport. Peter Boyle reports.

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Students at Macquarie University are opposing its plan to cut hundreds of jobs and ‘streamline’ arts courses, reports Isaac Nellist

Tens of thousands of construction unionists marched in Magan-djin/Brisbane on September 17 and in Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal Country/Sydney the next day, to demand their elected officials be reinstated and Labor’s new anti-union law be withdrawn.

Health workers who have returned from Gaza told a 150-strong public meeting and fundraiser in Boorloo/Perth about the critical shortages and dangers for patients and medical workers. They also said Labor must be held to account. Janet Parker reports.

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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.

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Protesters marked the 49th week of resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and demanded Labor end its complicity. Isaac Nellist reports. 

Australian governments are allowing Western Australia to become a vital part of the United States war-fighting base and, therefore, an inevitable target for retaliatory strikes in a US war on China. Bevan Ramsden reports.

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Alberto Fujimori’s 10 years in power were characterised by rampant corruption and horrific acts of violence against Peruvians, writes Ben Radford.

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How might we develop a socialist approach to technologies, in the face of the threat of rapid, potentially uncontrollable, climate change? Simon Pirani offers his contribution.