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Pine Gap protests over Gaza elicit surprising concession
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (686+ words) The secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States. It is nothing of the sort. Australian officials…...
Malaysia's Socialism 2025 Conference: Solidarity and socialism in the Asia-Pacific
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (1112+ words) The Socialism 2025 Conference, held in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, on November 1516, brought together about 200 socialists and activists from across the Asia-Pacific. The Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Malaysian Socialist Party, PSM) has hosted the event annually since 2005, and it has become one…...
Jewish groups urge PM to rescind Herzog invitation
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (210+ words) Eleven groups, nine of them Jewish, have written to the Governor-General and Prime Minister, urging them to rescind the invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. They have cited Herzog's own comments urging collective punishment of the people of Gaza and…...
The war in Sudan is 'between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class"
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1760+ words) Pavan Kulkarni draws on analysis from the Sudanese Communist Party'and other sources to examine the background to Sudan's'December Revolution and its two and half year counterrevolutionary civil war, which has killed more than 150,000 people, displaced more than 9.3 million and thrown…...
Indonesia’s new criminal laws have a ‘recolonisation’ not a 'decolonisation' agenda
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (352+ words) Indonesia has introduced a new criminal code to replace laws inherited from the Dutch colonial era. Green Left's Peter Boyle spoke to Rudi Hartono, managing editor of the Indonesian progressive publication Merdika.id about the impact of these new laws....
Opposition to US attack on Venezuela grows with calls on Labor to condemn it
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (675+ words) Opposition to United States President Donald Trump's illegal invasion and bombing of Venezuela, its kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his partner, and its declaration that it would be running the country on January 3, is growing across the world, but…...
Emergency Actions: Hands Off Venezuela Stop The Bombings – Melbourne
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (102+ words) 5:00pm Sunday 04 January Flinders Street Station Flinders St Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia On Saturday 3 January 2026 the United States began bombing Caracas. The US has openly stated its goal is to control Venezuela's and Latin America's resources, lands and assets. Join us in…...
Who is demanding a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting — and why?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (437+ words) The most insistent calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting are emerging from a convergence of actors: opposition politicians, peak Zionist organisations, and sections of the media already invested in a narrative that closely links antisemitism to criticism…...
Remain steadfast for Palestine
1+ week, 3+ day ago (815+ words) The most famous Palestinian Jew in history, whose birthday is celebrated on December 25, imprinted the values of compassion, peace and justice into the ethos of a new religion some 2000 years ago. Indigenous to the region, then under the control of…...
Israeli President's invitation must be withdrawn
1+ week, 4+ day ago (346+ words) Labor's invitation to President of Israel Isaac Herzog, as head of a state responsible for genocidal acts is immoral, cowardly, illegal and wrong." How can the Prime Minister fail to understand that he risks all his endeavours for social cohesion…...