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The 75th Anniversary of Nakba: Understanding the Palestine Question and Impact of 1948
By Rupen Savoulian Words are important, especially when it comes to modern history, because we should be clear about what we mean when we speak…
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25 Years Since the Fall of Suharto: Reflections and Perspectives
It is twenty-five years since mass “Reformasi” (reform) protests brought down the “New Order” Indonesian military dictatorship, marked by the resignation of General Suharto on…
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U.S. Transforms Wartime Fascist Accomplices into Noble Martyrs
By Rupen Savoulian The old adage ‘you are known by the friends you keep’ has never been more relevant than with the American-adopted cause célèbre…
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Where to for the Labour Party in Indonesia: Elite Electoralism or Advancing the Class Struggle?
By Dipo Negoro This is an edited and abridged version of an article first published on May 9, 2023, in Arah Juang – the newspaper of the…
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Republicans Intensify Anti-Transgender Campaign
By Barry Sheppard The Republican Party, which became a far-right white nationalist, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ party under the Trump administration, has now decided to launch a…
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CFMMEU Leader Calls For National Cost of Living Fightback
By Barry Healy On May 9, Christy Cain, national secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) called for a nationally coordinated…
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Zoom Meeting: The Struggle for Democracy in Sudan
Zoom Meeting May 16, 5:30pm AEST / Melbourne time Join Red Ant and Communist Party of Sudan member Osama Siddig to discuss recent events in…
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Hollywood, New York Writers go on Strike
By Malik Miah Hollywood film and TV writers went on strike on May 1 demanding a living wage and job security. Picket signs were set…
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Movement Against AUKUS Growing in New South Wales
By Nick D. The South Coast Labour Council convened the annual May Day rally in Port Kembla for the first time, to protest use of…
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Ukraine’s Big Mistake
Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The…
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South Korea Created a Brutal Sex Trade for American Soldiers
By Barry Sheppard The above was a front page headline for a story that appeared in the May 3 New York Times. The “comfort women”,…
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Cuban Internationalism in Oceania: South-South Cooperation in the Pacific
By Sasha Gillies-Lekakis The sight of Cuban doctors walking the same streets as Australian tourists in the South Pacific has been a phenomenon since the…