End of Assad’s brutal rule opens new space for Syria’s popular movement

After decades of bloody and brutal dictatorship, the Assad regime in Syria has been toppled in a matter of days.

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‘They didn’t count on how strong we are’: Teanau Tuiono on the movement against the Treaty Principles bill

Paddy Gibson from Solidarity interviews Teanau Tuiono, a Māori and Pasifika Greens MP in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Ceasefire in Lebanon but no sign Israel will end its wars

The ceasefire in Lebanon was scarcely hours old before Israel launched fresh attacks, firing into the southern Lebanese town of Markaba, wounding two people. Israel also shelled the villages of Taybah and Khiam.

Labor’s refugee shame as Liberals claim ‘we are running the Immigration system’

The three anti-refugee laws rushed through Parliament in the dying days of the last parliamentary sitting are even worse than those of the Howard and Dutton era.

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Unions

Ramp up NSW rail workers’ and nurses’ strikes to win on pay

NSW nurses held their third day of strike action in November, as rail workers also ramped up industrial action over pay.

Construction workers’ strike shows the power to beat Crisafulli and administration

CFMEU stops work in Sydney in defiance of administration threats

Climate action

Rich countries refuse to pay for climate action at talks in petrostate

Another greenwashing climate summit was held in petrostate Azerbaijan in November, in the wake of climate denier Donald Trump’s re-election in the US.

Disasters in Spain and Florida a sign of growing climate chaos

New study says offsets scheme a sham

Palestine

Why hasn’t the US restrained Israel?

US President Joe Biden has spent the past 13 months tut-tutting over the death toll as Israel has committed genocide. But the flow of American weapons to the IDF has never stopped.

Rank-and-file teachers step up for Palestine and Lebanon

Israel’s bloody agenda in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s resistance

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Racism and Indigenous rights

Over 100 days fighting for permanent visas

Almost exactly five years ago, then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tried, and failed, to deport the Tamil family from Biloela to Sri Lanka.

Refugee encampments push Labor for visa justice

Refugee protest camps keep fighting to demand Labor deliver permanent visas

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Australia

Trump’s return a warning as Labor fails on genocide and cost of living

Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential elections will boost the right around the world.

ANU faces fight against restructures and hundreds of job cuts

Last minute lurch left not enough to save Queensland Labor

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

Are we facing a new attack on abortion rights?

The “right to choose” remains popular and abortion has been decriminalised in every jurisdiction across Australia.

Vale Mannie De Saxe, gay Jewish socialist

Critical care—nurses’ unions and the AIDS crisis

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International

Trump returns after Democrats back genocide and a rigged system

A racist far right figure with a history of extreme sexism will sit at the top of the world’s most powerful country, after Donald Trump regained the US Presidency.

Sub-imperialist powers fuel Sudan’s civil war

‘Black Thursday for the Kanak people’ as French repression continues in Kanaky

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