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Eighty people attended the launch of Ben Hillier鈥檚 new book Losing Santhia, which was organised by the Tamil Refugee Council on July 27. Santhia was a Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka who had been a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and who died in Indonesia in 2017.
In a 40-minute interview with the Guardian, federal 鈥渙pposition鈥 leader Anthony Albanese's arguments for Labor鈥檚 serial capitulation to the Coalition government were weak, inconsistent and based on a fool鈥檚 reading of political reality.
Kurdish community members and supporters gathered on July 27 to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria.
Just days out from first-year Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) students beginning exams, University of Technology Sydney鈥檚 (UTS) Dean of Science Professor Dianne Jolley sent out an email saying the course was to be discontinued.
July 19 marked the seventh anniversary of northern Syria鈥檚 Rojava Revolution. On that day in 2012 the nascent People鈥檚 Protection Units (YPG) took control of the Kurdish-majority city of Koban锚. The outnumbered forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad surrendered and were allowed to depart (without their weapons). Other Kurdish cities and towns in the north were soon liberated as well.
About 100 waterside workers and supporters rallied outside the offices of global container terminal operator DP World (DPW), in Martin Place on July 30. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is currently in a dispute with DPW, which has threatened to sack 200 workers and replace them with casuals.
The United States and Britain are ensuring that tensions remain high in the Straits of Hormuz as they continue beating the drums of war against Iran.
Though Boris Johnson was swept to power with apparent ease in the leadership election, deep divisions in parliament and the British public at large mean that delivering his three promises 鈥渄eliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn鈥 will be a great challenge, writes John Lawrence.
While researching Japanese working-class resistance to World War II, Kaye Broadbent discovered in a Japanese university archive Masao Sugiura鈥檚 1964 memoir, detailing the formation and activities of the Shuppanako Kurabu (Print and Publishing Worker鈥檚 Club). Based upon Sugiura鈥檚 1981 second edition, the English translation of Against the Storm provides an inspiring account of how Sugiura and his comrades were able to organise and sustain links between workers, despite increasing wartime repression by the Japanese military regime.
Welcome attention was drawn to the issue of poverty with the 2014 publication of Thomas Piketty鈥檚 Capital in the Twenty-first Century, which became an international bestseller.
The Political Economy of Inequality by Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, gives a more rounded overview of the issue in a more manageable volume than Piketty鈥檚 hefty magnum opus.
Legendary Scottish-Australian folk singer Eric Bogle, best known for his anti-war classics 鈥淎nd the Band Played Waltzing Matilda鈥 and 鈥淭he Green Fields of France鈥, will headline the Sydney Folk Festival this month.
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