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Nepal’s Gen Z uprising a much-needed ‘revolutionary re-awakening’

Peter Boyle — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:15:00 +1000

As the Gen Z protest movement shook Nepal to its roots, Nepalese journalist and writer Manarishi Dhital — a veteran of the 1996–2006 People’s War against the monarchy — spoke to �鶹��ý’s Peter Boyle about why the movement is “re-awakening Nepal’s revolutionary spirit”.

The importance of �鶹��ý

Peter Boyle — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:15:00 +1000

The importance of �鶹��ý as one of the most longstanding people-powered alternative media projects was underlined by the many statements of support it received during its “Powering Rebellion” livestream broadcast. Peter Boyle reports.

Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa’s regime is failing to unite the country, says Rojava revolutionary leader

Peter Boyle — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:45:00 +1000

Rojava revolutionary leading figure Salih Muslim told �鶹��ý’s Peter Boyle that Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syrian Transitional Government, under pressure from Turkey, was retreating from a previously agreed process to unify the country.

Inner West residents call on mayor to withdraw from sham antisemitism summit

Peter Boyle — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:00:00 +1000

A resident-driven petition calling on Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne to not attend a Zionist-supported summit, which purports to be against antisemitism, has attracted close to 800 signatures within a few days of being online. Peter Boyle reports.

Korean community joins nationwide march for Palestine

Peter Boyle — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:30:00 +1000

A contingent from the Korean community joined the nationwide march for Palestine, reports Peter Boyle.

Stand with the besieged Druze community in Syria, vigil urges

Peter Boyle — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +1000

About 300 people attended a vigil organised by the Sydney Druze community in solidarity with the people of Sweida/Suwayda, Syria, at Martin Place on Gadigal Country/Sydney. Peter Boyle reports.

‘60 Minutes’ runs propaganda for greedy Australian mining company, Trump’s Greenland takeover

Peter Boyle — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:15:00 +1000

Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, described a 60 Minutes Australia program as a “propaganda broadcast” for Australian mining company ETM, reports Peter Boyle.

We need real emission cuts, not more dodgy climate targets

Peter Boyle — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +1000

Labor will set a new 2035 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to take to the United Nations climate summit in November. Peter Boyle argues that as the world’s third-largest fossil fuel exporter, it needs to be much higher than what is being touted.

Nilüfer Koç addresses Kurdish ‘history of resistance’ since Treaty of Lausanne

Peter Boyle — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:15:00 +1000

Nilüfer Koç, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the Kurdistan National Congress, addressed a conference on the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its consequences for the Kurdish people. Peter Boyle reports.

Large public meeting in PM’s electorate says ‘cancel AUKUS’

Peter Boyle — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +1000

A packed-out public meeting called for AUKUS to be cancelled, because it makes war on China a greater risk while making Australia more complicit in United States-led war crimes. Peter Boyle reports.

The deceit in Labor’s posturing on ‘national interest’

Peter Boyle — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +1000

Anthony Albanese is right that the Australian state has been sovereign for more than a century and its close military alliances with Britain and the US were not just struck freely, but enthusiastically. Peter Boyle argues that his big deceit is asserting that this is in our common interest.

Labor must abandon AUKUS now

Peter Boyle — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:45:00 +1000

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.

Protesters condemn Israel’s continued genocide, starvation

Pip Hinman — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +1000

Protests across the country condemned Israel’s continued starvation campaign in Gaza and Australia’s complicity in the genocide. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle and Jordan AK report.

Why we are still protesting First Nations deaths in custody

Peter Boyle — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:45:00 +1000

Nearly 600 First Nations people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was tabled. We need a lot more truth-telling and real action, argues Peter Boyle.

No to Trump’s war drive!

Peter Boyle — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +1000

Even before Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to agree to raise military spending, Oxfam said that less than 3% of the richest seven countries’ annual military spending, about US$1.5 trillion, could totally eradicate world hunger. Peter Boyle reports.

Protests oppose war on Iran, Gaza genocide

Pip Hinman — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:45:00 +1000

Protests across Australia demanded the Labor come out strongly against the Israel-United States attacks on Iran, and reiterated the need for sanctions on Israel for its war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle report.

Indonesia: Military’s expanded role in civilian affairs faces resistance

Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +1000

Peter Boyle speaks to Indonesian socialist Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana about the disturbing return to the former Suharto dictatorship era’s notorious “dual function” policy for the military.

Labor calls productivity summit to appease big business

Peter Boyle — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:15:00 +1000

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a roundtable of big business, unions and civil society to “support and shape our government’s growth and productivity agenda”. History sheds light on what we expect from such a plan, writes Peter Boyle.

First official Rojava administration delegation to Damascus sparks hope for progress towards a united Syria

Peter Boyle — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:45:00 +1000

A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.

Unionists protest NSW Labor’s cuts to workers’ compensation

Jim McIlroy — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:45:00 +1000

Several hundred unionists rallied outside the NSW Treasury to demand NSW Labor drop its proposed cuts to workers’ compensation laws. Jim McIlroy and Peter Boyle report.

�鶹��ý Show #56: A socialist take on the federal election result

Isaac Nellist — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:30:00 +1000

Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW Senate, joins the �鶹��ý Show to discuss the result of the May 3 federal election, in which Labor won a landslide victory after a disastrous result for Peter Dutton and the Coalition.

Racism, imperialism and the ANZAC myth

Peter Boyle — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:45:00 +1000

Peter Boyle argues that Labor and Coalition governments have exploited the ANZAC sacrifice myth to justify and promote Australian participation of, and complicity in, subsequent imperial wars.

A socialist response to the Trump trade war

Peter Boyle — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:30:00 +1000

United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered”. Peter Boyle argues that this is an inversion of reality.

Labor’s election budget fails on cost-of-living, housing and climate

Peter Boyle — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:30:00 +1100

Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills. Peter Boyle reports.

Socialist Alliance: Cut military spending to address housing, cost-of-living and climate crises

Peter Boyle — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:30:00 +1100

Socialist Alliance is calling for a 50% cut in military expenditure and to use the $28 billion to address the urgent housing, cost-of-living and climate crises, argues Peter Boyle.

Interim constitution, massacres set back plans for a unified Syria

Salih Muslim — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +1100

Salih Muslim, a prominent Rojava revolutionary leader and foreign affairs spokesperson of the Presidential Council of the Democratic Union Party, speaks to �鶹��ý’s Peter Boyle about the serious setbacks to building a new Syria.

Rojava joins historic partnership to build a new Syria

Peter Boyle — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:45:00 +1100

Peter Boyle reports on the historic agreement struck between the revolutionary forces in northeastern Syria, known as Rojava and Syria's transitional government.

Growing the pie for whose gain?

Peter Boyle — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:30:00 +1100

The claim by capitalist economists that growing the ‘economic pie’ is the only way out of the cost-of-living crisis is a bald-faced lie to make the billionaire class richer. Peter Boyle reports.

Nilüfer Koç: PKK freedom fighters must be offered a legal framework to participate in the democratic process

Nilüfer Koç — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:45:00 +1100

Nilüfer Koç is the spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress, a coalition of political parties and civil society organisations from Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. She spoke to �鶹��ý about the challenges ahead following the historic call by imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

Palestine solidarity movement marches as Israel violates ceasefire again

Pip Hinman — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:45:00 +1100

Protesters took to the streets as Israel violates the ceasefire agreement again. Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle report.