The Next Generation is making another attempt to build a huge incinerator in Western Sydney. Kerry Smith reports.
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City building sim with a class-struggle bent
Viv Miley reviews Kapital: Sparks of Revolution, a city building, resource management, simulation video game with a class antagonism basis.
Dear times and costly cricket: Australia’s Sri Lankan tour
The Sri Lankan government is hoping the Australian cricket tour will distract from the economic and political crisis engulfing the country, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Denmark: Red-Green Alliance’s work on Copenhagen City Council
Last November, the radical left Red-Green Alliance (RGA) shook up Danish politics, coming first in the elections for Copenhagen City Council. Line Barfod headed its ticket and is now in charge of urban renewal and development, climate, housing and traffic. She spoke...
UN, Chinese human rights abuses and US interference
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet's visit to China last month was seized on by the United States to ramp up its anti-Chinese rhetoric, writes William Briggs.
Dendrobium coal mine extension plan protested
Activists oppose the NSW government's move to declare a coal mine expansion in the Sydney water catchment to be “state significant infrastructure”. Jim McIlroy reports on the campaign against the Dendrobium coal mine expansion.
Honduras’s repeals colonialist ZEDEs
Honduran President Xiomara Castro signed a decree on April 25 that repealed the law creating the country's nefarious Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs), reports Ben Radford.
Secret memo reveals 2002 meeting between Bush and Blair in lead up to Iraq War
Earlier this year, a secret memo was published by Stop the War UK, detailing the April 2002 meeting between Tony Blair and George W Bush, concerning the question of military intervention to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, reports Kerry Smith.
Dunghutti activist Paul Silva calls on Albanese to ‘step up’ on Black deaths in custody
Paul Silva talks to Paul Gregoire about prospects for real change for First Nations peoples under the new Labor government.
Britain: Protests planned to oppose Blair’s knighthood
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive a knighthood on June 13, but more than 1.2 million petitioners say he should be sent to The Hague as a war criminal, not honoured at Windsor Castle.
A heroic Jewish forger in WWII Berlin
Barry Healy reviews a new film based on the World War II experiences of Cioma Schönhaus, who was recruited into a circle of artists using their skills to create fake documents for Jews on the run.
Protesters say ‘no’ to Hindutva hate
Hundreds joined a demonstration outside the Thornbury Theatre to say “no” to Hindutva hatred and to oppose fascist Tejasvi Surya from speaking at a conference. Chloe DS reports.