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Pro-Palestine groups and individuals have responded to Labor’s announcement about recognising Palestine as a state with demands that it take concrete measures to stop Israel’s genocide. Alex Bainbridge reports.

As we witness the genocide in Gaza, and a world descending deeper into fascism and war, creative protest and coalition-building helps build a strong and sustainable peace movement, writes Alexander Brown.

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Two days after meeting with Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan, the Syrian government announced it was pulling out of a planned meeting with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Sarah Glynn reports.

Labor will set a new 2035 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to take to the United Nations climate summit in November. Peter Boyle argues that as the world’s third-largest fossil fuel exporter, it needs to be much higher than what is being touted. 

Join the march in your city on August 24 to demand sanctions on Israel, an end to the two-way arms trade and to Israel’s starvation genocide in Gaza. 

Massive Queensland teachers strike for better conditions in schools

More than 50,000 Queensland teachers went on strike to demand better pay and more classroom resources. Alex Bainbridge reports.

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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a powerful account of Israel’s systematic targeting of medical staff as part of its genocidal war against Palestinian people in Gaza, writes Jim McIlroy.

A scathing August report from the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found that nearly 1000 JobSeeker recipients have had their payments unlawfully cancelled over a two-year period, in what welfare advocates have dubbed “Robodebt 2.0”. Josh Adams reports.

鶹ӳ’sIsaac Nellist spoke to Amanda Shweeta Louis from the Socialist Party of Malaysia about the commercialisation of Malaysia’s education system, solidarity with Palestine and why young Malaysians are looking to socialism. 

Anas al-Sharif

Binoy Kampmark reports on the targeting of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues, who were assassinated in a drone attacks by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza City.

Nearly two years into the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the leadership of some unions are only just beginning to show solidarity. While welcome, these gestures fall far short of what is needed now. Clint Duncan reports.

‘Uncovering Chemmani — Uncovering Genocide’. Tamils protest in Canberra

The recent discovery of a mass grave in Sri Lanka has ignited a wave of protests by Tamils demanding an investigation, accompanied by calls for the government to fulfil its pledge to improve the treatment of Tamils. Chris Slee reports.