Every time there is a violent incident or alleged terror event, a resistance movement is blamed. Sometimes those incidents are ordinary criminal acts.… Go to Article

“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro

After 14,700 kilometres, we have finally made it to Havana.… Go to Article

“We’ll have thee, as our rare monsters are,
painted on a pole,
and under it here
may you see the tyrant.”… Go to Article

July is International Zine Month (alongside Disability Pride Month), so people celebrated it by attending Mr Icarus’s zine making workshop and they raised funds for Justice for Palestine Magandjin’s Legal Defence Fund.… Go to Article

For the past three years, the Queensland Government has been complicit in the genocide in Gaza and has done everything it could to obstruct justice for the Palestinian people, even going so far as to accuse protest organisers of antisemitism.… Go to Article

Down our street, downhill into an adjoining suburb, people are not so neuter – not it people. They march in processions which shout No!… Go to Article

Five Ways of Regarding Homer

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Are you going to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey?
No, but I’ll re-read the book.
[With thanks to Guy Davenport, Geography the Imagination (New York: Pantheon, 1991), 333-4.]… Go to Article

All they need is dignity / a chance to be free / let them out of jail  / my people / stop pointing guns at my people.… Go to Article

“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro

International affairs are not the World Cup where there are rules and despite claims to the contrary the favoured team did not win.… Go to Article

Recently, Australia abstained in the United Nations General Assembly on the annual resolution entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”… Go to Article

We should go under the rain. We should wash our eyes, and we should see the world in a different way.… Go to Article

The AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Project is the most expensive government project ever undertaken by an Australian government, an enormously costly project that will seriously impact the Australian economy for decades.  … Go to Article

“Enclosure came and trampled on the grave
Of labour’s rights and left the poor a slave.” – John Clare

The land at Kurilpa Commons in West End was transformed by the Growing Forward community group during Covid in 2020.… Go to Article

… I will do such things –What they are, yet I know not; but they shall be

The terrors of the Earth

-William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 2, scene 4.… Go to Article

The film allows a one-time glimpse of video materials from the four children’s interrogations. Through the interrogations, the personal story of the children and their friendship is revealed, as well as the story of the refugee camp from which they come and the story of the Palestinian people struggling for independence.… Go to Article

“Albanese’s story has now become an international symbol of social redemption, tenacity and political passion. As a son who grew up in a rented flat…” – Corrieri Bari.… Go to Article

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau in Walden.

Prime Minister Albanese’s visit to Fiji was officially announced on 3 July 2026. His trip included signing a defence pact with Fiji.… Go to Article

From Australia to Cuba with Love: Day 19. End AUKUS! No U.S. bases in Australia! Free Palestine! Let Cuba Live!

A feisty contingent of activists joined in a protest at the annual lunch by the American Chamber of Commerce at which the Queensland Premier was the invited guest speaker.… Go to Article

Palestine is a thankless cause, one in which if you truly serve, you get nothing back but opprobrium, abuse and ostracism.… Go to Article

Kurilpa Commons was a garden, a frog pond, a memorial tree dedicated to loved ones, a lovely spot on the edge of Maiwar and should have been preserved.… Go to Article

Criminal charges for saying six words should be a newspaper headline — not a court case. The words, in support of Palestinian resistance, have been outlawed by the Queensland government: “From the river t███████████████████ [Redacted under Queensland Government directive (2026).]… Go to Article

Brisbane Magistrate’s Court 26 June 2026

A man who pled insanity on his previous appearance in court when charged with holding a sign with six words on it was the subject of further controversy yesterday .… Go to Article

“Small modular reactors are unlikely to make nuclear power a cheap or widely available source of electricity in the near future.… Go to Article

Yesterday Lachlan Hurse (Australia Cuba Friendship Society) and I rode from the river to the sea to End the blockade of Cuba!… Go to Article

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. – Marx

Fall of the republicans

Reagan was a dumb but great actor.… Go to Article