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.
-
-
Community and disability workers rallied across the country to demand fair wages. Angela Carr reports.
-
Frances Cheffin, project manager for What Were You Wearing’s national Move For Them day, said the event will be a “massive day of support and celebration, and collective strength”. Mary Merkenich reports.
-
Veteran socialist activist and filmmaker Jill Hickson will be missed, but her legacy of powerful films, many of which were made with John Reynolds, live on. Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman reflect on her enormous contribution to creating a better world.
-
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has welcomed NSW Labor reaching an in-principle agreement for the Northern Beaches Hospital to become public. Jim McIlroy reports.
-
More than 7 million people rallied and marched across the United States in “No Kings Day” protests. Demonstrations took place in 2700 cities and towns in 50 states and in Washington DC, reports Malik Miah.
-
Labor’s new housing policy will allow banks pocket billions in extra interest and saddle a generation with more debt, argues Max Chandler-Mather.
-
The trade union movement called general stoppages for Gaza throughout the Spanish state, writes Dick Nichols.
-
Donald Robertson has written a powerful and revealing account of the life of John Maclean, one of the most important but little-known socialist leaders of Scotland and Britain, writes Jim McIlroy.
-
A group of Zionists are taking Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane to the Federal Court of Australia, claiming that to be “anti-Israel” is “anti-Jewish” and therefore “antisemitic”. Jim McIlroy reports.
-
Susan Price spoke to John Mullen, a revolutionary socialist activist in the Paris region, about the deep political crisis in France, illustrated by the resignation and subsequent reappointment of right-wing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
-
African Americans are facing a broad, racist assault in the United States, aimed at reversing every socio-economic and political gain won by this oppressed segment of the population, writes Malik Miah.