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Binoy Kampmark writes that even the conservative think tank Strategic Analysis Australia is questioning the AUKUS deal. Meanwhile, Australia is being asked by the United States to do more for its “defense”..

Nadia Refaei, co-president of Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network, told the recent national day of protest for Palestine that Labor’s decision to recognise Palestine is an an empty gesture, offering the appearance of progress without changing material conditions.

An all-expenses-paid pro-Israel summit marketed to local government office bearers raises concerns about ethics and politics in their local communities. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide,  hosted by Palestine Justice Movement Sydney. Jim McIlroy reports.

More than 200,000 people took the streets across the country on August 24 to demand Labor sanction Israel and stop the two-way arms trade. Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge report.

Justice for Palestine has moved its planned protest to Queens Park in response to an anti-democratic moves by Queensland police

The Communication Workers Union led a rally of independent contractors outside Service Stream’s office in Naarm/Melbourne, protesting the company’s proposed 20–30% rate cuts for subcontractors. Kalindi Salvo Sampson reports.

Dalia Abu Ramadan asks: Where can we escape, when every corner is pervaded by death?

William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and...

Salvador De León is a member of the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee (CAIT) in Venezuela. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to De León about the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies.

More than 4.5 million militia members across Venezuela are being activated in response to the United States deployment of three Navy guided-missile destroyers and 4000 military personnel to the Caribbean, reports Devin B Martinez.

Unions NSW organised a “Unions for Peace” rally at Town Hall Square, the first such action it has organised since Israel's genocide in Gaza began. Jim McIlroy reports.