Baran Sogut speaks to Peter Boyle about the gains and challenges of the Rojava revolution and, in particular, about his visit to Kobane, a city that was liberated from several Islamic fundamentalist militias in 2014–15.
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Peter Greste used a public forum to call for more whistleblower protections in public interest laws. Coral Wynter reports.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, 91̳’s&Բ;Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.
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Abdullah Zeydan, of the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Parti), was elected in a landslide as co-mayor of the Turkish city of Van in 2024, before the Turkish government suspended him and replaced him with a government-appointed trustee. He spoke to Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg on October 29.
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Three activists from Singapore’s Letters for Palestine campaign — Mossammad Sobikun Nahar (Sobi), Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori (Camira) and Annamalai Kokila Parvathi (Koki) — were acquitted on October 21 of violating the nefarious 2009 Public Order Act (POA), reports Alex Salmon.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Protesters called on Labor to condemn the United States’ attacks on Venezuela, Colombia and other Latin American countries. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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As Palestinians continue to suffer under the so-called “peace plan” in Gaza, protesters called for an end to the weapons trade with Israel. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle, Riley Breen and Alex Bainbridge report.
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Greens senator David Shoebridge speaks to 91̳’s Peter Boyle about his trip to the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
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Photos from the Boycott Caltex action by Justice for Palestine in Dutton Park, Magan-djin/Brisbane.
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Uri Weltmann reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers.
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The Union of European Football Associations and International Federation of Football Associations’s failure to sanction Israel’s football teams amounts to complicity in genocide, argues Leo Earle.