Newcastle community members and activists are fighting back against a council decision to close a community food pantry. Steve O'Brien reports.
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News
UnionsNSW saythe state government's decision toabandonitspublic sector wage cap is an admission of wrongdoing. Jim McIlroy reports.
Chris Petersen and Chloe DS report that 14 refugees have been on hunger strikefor more than a week in protest attheir imprisonment.
Jacob Andrewartha reports on two communities fighting local councils to save their outdoor public swimming pools.
More than 150 workers, students and residents picketed entrances to Parramatta’s historic Willow Grove on June 22, reports Susan Price.
After three weeks on strike, General Mills workers haveendorsed a dealthat includes awage riseand inwhich alltheir conditions are maintained, reports Jim McIlroy.
A former Department of Immigration deputy secretary told a rally for the Murugappan familythat good immigration policy can and should be compassionate. Paul Oboohov reports.
Activists joined a global week of action urging the United States to lift its blockade on Cuba, reports Rachel Evans.
Students and staff opposing Mark Vaile’s appointment as chancellor of the University of Newcastle are celebrating his decision to withdraw.Kathy Fairfax reports.
Khaled Ghannam reports on the latest rally in Sydney forPalestine, which continues to be attacked by Israel.
Fourteen years after the racist Northern Territory Intervention began,NT Aboriginal elder Yingiya Mark Guyula saysthe fight against it needsto continue.
Analysis
If the Murugappan refugee family is released from Perth community detention, they are likely to join 18,000 others on insecure temporary visas. Chloe DS reports on the cruel visa system.
Unions and community organisations need to step up the push for real change, including a meaningful wage rise for low-paid workers, argues Alex Bainbridge.
While university managements practice wage theft andcut jobs and courses, casual and precarious university workers pay the price. Markela Panegyres reports on the crisis facing higher education.
Australia's ties to Israeli weapons corporations make it complicit in the atrocities being committed against Palestinians, arguesSue Bolton.
Adam Portellifrom the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance takes issue witha 鶹ýarticle on the MEAA supporting media accreditation at protests.
The Murugappan family has become a symbol for all refugees who have been treated as less than human because of Australian border and immigration policies, arguesRenuga Inpakuma.
Sue Bolton reports on how amotionin solidarity with Palestine moved at Moreland City Council was defeated by the casting vote of Labor Mayor Annalivia Carli-Hannan.
World
Marcel Cartier talks withleaders from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan.
Despite rain, about 750,000 protesters took to the streets of Brazilto demand “vaccine in the arm, food on the plate and get out Bolsonaro”, writeBrasil de Fato.
People's Dispatch report thatthousands of Uruguayan workers observed a 24-hour national strike against the right-wing government of President Luis Lacalle Pou.
Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets in Lima and other cities to defend the presidential electoral victory of socialist candidate Pedro Castillo. People's Dispatch reports.
About 13,000 Kurdish refugees from south-eastern Turkey live inside the UNHCR-recognised Makhmur refugee camp, which is being attacked by Turkish forces, reports Peter Boyle.
In the face of a deep economic and political crisis, Venezuela’s government has turnedrighton policywhilerepressingthe left. Antonio González Plessmannspeaks to Green Left about the situation.
By releasing the Catalans leaders, the Spanish government is hoping to rebuild bridges with those alienated by their imprisonment, even as it insists on the impossibility of having a indepedence referendum, writes Dick Nichols.
A form of “people’s war” is emerging in Haiti, according toKim Ives, where people are sick and tired of poverty and being used by elites.
The attack on Critical Race Theory is the latest right-wing onslaught against "cultural Marxism" and its supposed hidden intention to destroy Western civilisation, writes Jonathan Lockhart.
To cut greenhouse gas emissions we need to rapidly shift to safe, renewable energy. Nuclear power is not the answer, writes Simon Butler.
The United States and Russiahave agreed to discuss the control of nuclear weapons, reports Barry Sheppard, but the expansion of NATO and US imperialist interests may block any meaningful outcome.
Haidar Eid, Jeff Halper, Noura Mansour andArie Huybregts discusswhy Israel is an apartheid state.
Culture
A new adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is analogous to the contemporary Australian context, writes Janaka Biyanwila.
Jane Hammond spoke with 鶹ý about her new film, that exposes the devastation of Western Australia’s old-growth forests.