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After decades of bloody and brutal dictatorship, the Assad regime in Syria has been toppled in a matter of days.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Long reads
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
The US working class—a history of radicalism and resistance
Far from any natural conservatism, ordinary people in the US have a history of bitter and explosive struggles against exploitation and racism, writes Jacob Starling.