Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
There is much to loathe about the AUKUS security agreement between Canberra, Washington and London.
The August 2024 AUSMIN talks in Annapolis, Maryland, held between United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their Australian counterparts, (…)
, by CORLETT Eva, TAHANA Jamie
Experts say policy changes that include scrapping Māori-led programs will harm communities and put New Zealand’s ‘great reputation’ at risk
Leading Māori figures from across New Zealand have sounded the alarm over the government’s changes to policies that affect Māori, after analysis by the (…)
, by ROBIE David
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just like Tongan anthropologist and writer Epeli Hao’ofa was to cultural advocates.
Tragically, he was assassinated in 1989 by an opponent within the independence movement (…)
, by DELAPORTE Lucie, TREPIED Benoît
French President Emmanuel Macron left Paris for New Caledonia on Tuesday, in a bid to defuse the unrest in France’s Pacific Ocean territory that has claimed the lives of at least six people over the past week. The eruption of rioting last week followed a move by Paris to allow recent settlers on (…)
, by FOUTEAU Carine
A sixth person was on Saturday reported to have been killed in the ongoing unrest in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, amid increasing calls for Emmanuel Macron and his government to place on hold the legislation that sparked the violence. This will give newly arrived settlers, (…)
, by HÀ René, HIOE Brian
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with René Hà, one of the founders of the Stamped zine, a space for migrant creatives navigating Australia’s immigration system.
Brian Hioe:Could you first introduce yourself for those who don’t know you?
René Hà:My name is René Hà. I am a Vietnamese national (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, WAINWRIGHT Sam
Sam Wainwright is a Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and active in the Stop AUKUS WA coalition, which is campaigning in Western Australia against the Australia-Britain-United States military pact. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist (…)
, by HINMAN Pip
Amid the escalating violence in Gaza, the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) has again called on state and federal governments to cut all military ties and to apply sanctions to Israel, as it did after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sarah Schwartz, human rights lawyer and JCA Executive, said on (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
The heralded arrival of the Internet, an information medium never before seen on such scale, caused enthusiasm.
Humankind would go on to fawn over a technology which would, as Langdon Winner writes, “bring universal wealth, enhanced freedom, revitalized politics, satisfying community, and (…)
, by JAYASURIYA Kanishka
The Gaza crisis has underscored the deep fractures of domestic politics in Western Europe, the US and Australia. It is as much a domestic political crisis as a conflict in the Middle East.
What is the nature of this crisis? Well, it is not one but multiple crises that are condensed around the (…)
, by Australian Council of Trade Unions
The ACTU welcomes the announcement that the Albanese Labor Government will pay superannuation on the Government payment from 1 July 2025. This change will rectify a historic inequity that costs women thousands of dollars in retirement savings contributing to the stark gendered retirement gap. (…)
, by HAMILTON Scott
Chris Trotter’s long journey from the social democratic left to the far right is complete. In a January column, Trotter urged Prime Minister Luxon to call an emergency meeting of state security forces and plan for a race war with the Kīngitanga, whom Trotter likens to the Nazi army in 1938. What (…)
, by CHANDLER-MATHER Max, FUENTES Federico, MUNCKTON Stuart
A new phase in the battle for real solutions to Australia’s housing crisis has opened up around Labor’s “help-to-buy” housing scheme, which it says will help first-home buyers.
Last year, the Greens waged a months-long campaign against Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) bill. The (…)
, by DENHAM Jim
John Pilger, who died on 30 December 2023, was once a brave and principled journalist who spoke truth to power.
Many of us of a Certain Age can remember being moved and inspired in the 1970s by his exposures of war crimes, racism, injustice and human rights abuses. He was a war correspondent (…)
, by TILLMAN Clive
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Fair Pay Agreements Act was repealed by the newly-elected conservative National Party government on December 20.
The bill to repeal the FPA — which was introduced to appease business interests — was rushed through parliament without consultation, implementing the new (…)
, by PANEGYRES Markela
More than two months since Israel began its genocidal war on the Palestinian people, Australian mainstream media continues its unwavering support for Israel.
Although its bias towards Israel is unsurprising, given its role in upholding the interests of the capitalist class, it is nevertheless (…)
, by PRICE Susan
West Papuans and their supporters say they have been “let down” by Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) leaders over a decision not to admit the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) as a full member at its August 23–25 summit in Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila.
Australia West Papua (…)
, by DAVEY Melissa
Active community testing required on an intermittent basis to see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett says
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, by DAVEY Melissa
Department of Health says improvements are due to vaccine coverage, hybrid immunity and ready access to treatment
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, by SHEPPARD Barry
People around the world have seen the horror of the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Its historic city, Lahaina — formerly the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom — burning to the ground, people trying to escape into the ocean, or by car, cars burning and more.
The death toll had reached (…)
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