Hundreds marched through Sydney as part of a National Day of Action on June 18 to demand justice for Kumanjayi Walker, justice for the many deaths of First Nations people in custody, an end to the discriminatory Intervention powers and reassertion of community control.
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Hong Kong citizen’s long struggle to maintain their city’s identity
Indelible City, writes Alex Salmon, looks at the struggles of the people of Hong Kong to maintain their city’s identity while caught between British colonialism and Stalinist China.
‘Meltdown’: The story of how Three Mile Island almost became the US’ Chernobyl
Meltdown: Three Mile Island shows just how close the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant came to being a calamity on the scale of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, writes Alex Salmon.
Anti-eviction victory for now
Activists successfully defeated the scheduled eviction of a disability pensioner, writes Alex Bainbridge.
Greens councillor charged by Council over Queen Street Mall protest
Brisbane City Council has charged Greens councillor Jonathan Sri in connection with a protest in the Queen Street Mall in September 2020, writes Alex Bainbridge.
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Picket calls for massive investment in public housing
Public housing residents and supporters joined a Defend Public Housing picket to call for an urgent build of more public housing. Isaac Nellist reports.
Nationalise the energy sector
The suspension of the national electricity market points to the need to learn from the past. The whole idea of having an energy market for a commodity that everyone needs is a scam, argues Pip Hinman.
Fridays4Forests protest comes to NSW Parliament
The first of a “Fridays4Forest” protest outside NSW Parliament House was organised to highlight the plight of koalas and native forests. Kerry Smith reports.
The catastrophe of Ukrainian capitalism
The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How privatisation dispossessed and impoverished the Ukrainian people By Renfrey Clarke 176pp, $25 Resistance Books, 2022
Peace and disarmament are at the heart of non-alignment
As our world spirals toward the catastrophe of nuclear war, there has never been a greater need for a new global balancing and a rejection of great power war, exploitation and aggression, writes Kate Hudson.
Antipoverty Centre: ‘Minimum wage decision won’t even buy an iceberg lettuce’
Following the Fair Work Commission’s decision to raise the minimum wage, welfare groups are calling on the Labor government to immediately lift welfare payments above the poverty line. Isaac Nellist reports.