What a shameful account by one of my ancestors Edward M Curr about a visit to Moira by police from Melbourne to abduct a proud Yorta Yorta man, Warri, from his country!… Go to Article

Words can never ever explain the raw tragedy
It’s not a war, they’re just murdering more rapidly – Lowkey

This is what the film  To Kill a War Machine left out.… Go to Article

“Uh-huh we’re not talking about wages
We’re sitting right here ’til we get our land“
– Vincent Lingiari

Gay Street is a story about violence that underpins a deceptive insistence for a home on other people’s land.… Go to Article

Not a bad summary by Perry Anderson of where we are at, first published in LRB on 3 April 2025. Things have moved on since then, particularly the global movement against the genocide in Gaza.… Go to Article

Some will mutter / this is not your genocide / to write about

Since the genocide Israel is flooding social media with fake AI generated nationalistic photographs.… Go to Article

‘We’ve seen hospitals being bombed. We’ve seen schools being bombed’: The harrowing reality of life in Gaza | 7NEWS

A remote spy base and a ‘criminal’ blockade raise questions about Australia’s complicity in Gaza war

On 9 October, two activists from Mparntwe for Falastin locked themselves to a concrete-filled barrel, blocking Hatt Road for nine hours and preventing Pine Gap workers from accessing the base.… Go to Article

” … my words were elsewhere, walking along the border to Palestine and crumbling there, “falling as if they were leaves”.… Go to Article

We post this excerpt from Chris Hedges speech in Adelaide at the Edward Said Memorial lecture after he was banned by the Australian Press Club.… Go to Article

And all the arts of life they chang’d into the arts of death
… intricate wheels invented… to bind to labours
Of day & night the myriads of Eternity, that they might file
And polish brass & iron hour after hour, laborious workmanship,
Kept ignorant of the use that they might spend the days of wisdom
In sorrowful drudgery to obtain a scanty pittance of bread,
In ignorance to view a small portion & think that All…
William Blake, Jerusalem, 1804-1820

Just before dawn on 21 October 2025, a far right group led by Ben Shand put up Australian flags outside Heat Treatment Australia (HTA), an engineering firm at Coopers Plains, an industrial area on Brisbane’s southside.… Go to Article

Last week Peace is Union Business Qld passed the following solidarity statement for the 25 October Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), Democracy at Work mobilisation.… Go to Article

For the past 2 years, the Palestinian Authority has been blaming Hamas for the genocide in Gaza when those murderous acts have been perpetrated by Israel with the full support of the israeli people.… Go to Article

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16oshrjkpG/… Go to Article

Heat Treatment Australia (HTA) is a crucial cog in the global war machine. HTA heat F35 jet parts that are essential to the genocide and occupation of Gaza.… Go to Article

It is 50 years since the dismissal.

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Netanyahu is dressed up as Moses, because, as he says “Moses delivered the people of Israel from the Egyptians and I’ll deliver them from the Palestinians“.… Go to Article

Nor did they stop shooting people, nor did they allow aid in, nor did they stoping starving people, nor did they cease the occupation … our leaders have refined their denials of complicity.… Go to Article

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO3v8dwCbmW/?igsh=OGxrZGJ6NzBwbGN6… Go to Article

After Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation, Israeli military bombed and then advanced into the Gaza Strip creating starvation, destruction and genocide. This crisis prompted the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Hamas leadership to try to reach a new agreement on unity government with the goal of reaching a common plan of action for the eventual reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.… Go to Article

We post this story from il Manifesto, the Communist newspaper from Rome. We do so because the flotillas have managed to focus more attention on the starvation of the people in Gaza by Israel.… Go to Article

We reprint this article from Pearls and Irritations by Eugene Doyle. We do not think anyone really knows what’s happened on the seventh of October 2023, but we do know that it was followed by a murderous onslaught killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying 95% of all homes in Gaza, and leaving toxic rubble for generations to come to clear up.… Go to Article

Every child in Gaza is me.
Every mother and father is me.
Every house is my heart.
Every tree is my leg.… Go to Article

Please, have the decency to remove the word press from your club. – Chris Hedges.

I sympathise with Chris Hedges’ strong indictment of the American genocide in Palestine.… Go to Article

Israel is a crime scene.

Israel is holding 10,000 Palestinian prisoners hostage. On October the third, the IDF added another 400 from the SUMUD FLOTILLA.… Go to Article

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The authorities may not allow 50,000 people to march for Palestine across the Story Bridge, but they could do nothing to stop twenty or so hard and bike riders this Thursday morning .… Go to Article

The right is on the rise. Even democratic and progressive organisations like unions are not immune. I heard this story about the Queensland council of unions inviting a speaker from the AFL CIO in the United States and we’re not uncomfortable when it became clear to the audience that she was from the CIA.… Go to Article