This year marks 80 years since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing between 150,000 and 246,000 people and devastating two cities. Alexander Brown documents the history of the strong regional anti-war movement in the Illawarra.
Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante about his new book, Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis.
Prohibited from broadcasting in the United States, the Voice of America always promoted the US as a virtuous brand of democratic good living in the face of tyrants — usually the political left. Binoy Kampmark reports on its silencing.
Tamils from across Australia rallied in response to the United Nation High Commissioner Volker Türk’s visit to a recently-discovered mass grave site on the outskirts of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. Zebedee Parkes reports.
A week of brutal sectarian violence in Suwayda, in southern Syria, has left more than 1000 people dead, during which disparate Druze factions united against the Syrian government and Israel further consolidated its grip on the region. Sarah Glynn reports.
Jackie Kriz writes that members of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, and family, friends and comrades of Allan Sargent recognised his dedication and service to the union movement in June just before he died.
As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians continues, protesters from across the country converged in Canberra, before the new parliament opened to demand Labor sanction Israel. Pip Hinman and Isaac Nellist report.
Janet Parker told a protest outside Parliament House that as Australian and other Western governments dig in to support Israel, their most precious, militarised, colonial outpost in the Middle East, pro-Palestine protesters say: “We will bring you down”.
United States President Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods, in protest against what he described as a “Witch Hunt” against former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, on July 9, reports Federico Fuentes.
The Candy Royalle and Hind Hut was formally opened on July 13 by award-winning muralist Ms Saffaa, in conjunction with the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, reports Rachel Evans.
British-based Palestine Action's direct action tactics are explored in Rainbow Collective's latest documentary film, To Kill a War Machine. Dom Williams saw the film ahead of its withdrawal.
July 6 marked 27 years since the Biak Massacre in 1998, when Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, reports Kerry Smith.