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Victorian Labor launches attack on right to protest

The Victorian Labor government is using the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue last month as an excuse to crack down on protesters.

Australia spends big to keep China out of region

The Albanese government is spending almost a billion dollars to bolster Australia’s dominant position in the region and lock out Chinese influence.

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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Rail bans suspended for New Year’s Eve, but workers willing to fight

Suspending industrial action only gives the government breathing space and prolongs the inevitable showdown with the Minns government.

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.

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.

Racism and Indigenous rights

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.

Australia

#MeToo at an impasse—Why is the government failing to stop violence against women?

Critics argue the government response to violence against women is failing, writes Lucy Honan, but recognising its roots in capitalism and the family is necessary to addressing it.

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Indonesia: behind the rise of Prabowo from war criminal to president

Prabowo Subianto will take office as President of Indonesia in October. He is a military strongman with a sordid history of killings and human rights abuses. How did he win the election? An Indonesian socialist explains the background to his rise.

Radical history and theory

Rolling the right—building rank-and-file power in the NSW BLF

Tom Orsag looks at how the NSW BLF set the standard for militant construction unionism as a result of years of rank-and-file organising in the union.

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