In March, Indonesia鈥檚 House of Representatives (DPR) amended Law Number 34/2004 on the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) giving the military a greater role in civilian affairs. Peter Boyle聽speaks to Indonesian socialist聽Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana聽about this disturbing return to the former Suharto dictatorship era鈥檚 notorious 鈥渄ual function鈥 policy for the military.
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Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright explains why the Socialist Alliance is campaigning at this election to cut military spending in half on the latest 91自拍论坛 Show.
As international solidarity with Palestinian people predicated on human rights continues to develop, it is intersecting with growing outrage over the environmental cost of war, writes Jordan AK.
Twenty-one-year-old white supremacist and soldier Killian Ryan was arrested and discharged from the army for lying on a form, but his threats to kill Black people were seemingly overlooked, reports Malik Miah.
Renfrey Clarke presents an analysis of the balance of forces in Russia's war on Ukraine and argues that urgent international negotiations are needed to secure the survival of an independent Ukrainian state.
The institutional integration of sports with the military has reproduced authoritarian sports cultures, writes聽Janaka Biyanwila.聽Popular protests demanding regime change are also about demilitarising the state.
Military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from international climate treaties, dating back to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, reports Barry Sheppard.
The federal government has introduced a new bill which, if passed, would help normalise the use of defence forces in a civilian context, write Bevan Ramsden and Pip Hinman.
The climate movement needs to adopt the call for peace as聽there will be no future, sustainable or otherwise, unless we resist authorities鈥 willingness to go to war, argues Nick Deane.
Activists rallied in solidarity with the people of Kashmir in Sydney on August 9 and 11. The protest was organised by the Pakistan Association of Australia.
Large swathes of Pakistan are in the stranglehold of a caricatured feudalism, writes Farooq Tariq.
In recent difficult economic times, with youth unemployment at record rates, there is still one major state institution which is always recruiting 鈥 the military.
As they have in the past, the armed forces are trying as hard as possible to present an attractive job prospect to the youth market. The offer of a career, job stability, qualifications and training can often seem too good to pass up.
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