Sex workers and their allies gathered on Gadigal land in Belmore Park to protest the Australian Border Force and various Australia-wide police being given permission to raid brothels. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Los Angeles County voted to declare a state of emergency in response to ongoing immigration raids by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Jonathan Cannard paints a picture of the crisis and the organised response by grassroots activists and communities.
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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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When not a single Labor government steps up to address the crises that are being falsely blamed on immigration — unemployment, housing shortages, crime and the cost-of-living rises — it gives space for the far right to spread their hate and division, argues Sue Bull.
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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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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.
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Counter-protests against the racist “March for Australia” rallies were organised across Australia.
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Protesters are gearing up for a three-day arms bazaar, which will host some of the biggest weapons’ corporations that have profited from two years of genocide in Gaza. Pip Hinman reports.
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United States President Donald Trump is making clear to the US people and the world that he is transforming the world’s most powerful military state into a one man, one party-ruled country, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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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.
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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.
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Anthony Albanese’s October 7 statement is further evidence of his government’s complicity, including lies by omission, argues Alex Bainbridge.