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Bronwyn Vost, who is active in the Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends, told Pip Hinman why she decided to try and stop Forestry NSW from logging forest on Biripi Country, risking arrest and a large fine.

book cover and seedling

Vandana Shiva and her feminist colleague Maria Mies issued the Leipzig Appeal in 1996 to say, 鈥淣o to GMOs and No to Patents on Seed鈥. The call echoes in Shiva鈥檚 new book, writes Niko Leka.

petrol station

United States courts have mandated the auction of聽CITGO Petroleum, US-based Venezuelan state-owned oil refining company, reports Coral Wynter.

atomic cloud and inset photo of Lee Jong Kuen

The fate of the survivors of the United States atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was hidden for years, but in 1956 local survivor associations, along with victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific, formed Nihon Hidankyo. The organisation received this year's Nobel Peace Prize, reports Peter Boyle.

Australia, Britain and Canada are responsible for 60% of Commonwealth emissions, while representing just 6% of Commonwealth countries鈥 populations. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听

Greens MP Michael Berkman with campaigners on polling day

While the聽Liberal National Party had been predicted to win聽the October 26 Queensland election,聽its victory was not on the scale of Labor鈥檚 decimation in 2012, as some had feared. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Gomeroi Traditional Owners, unionists and representatives from Lock the Gate Alliance met with NSW MPs to urge them to end Santos鈥 Narrabri coal seam gas project in the Pilliga Forest. Kerry Smith reports.

protester with a sign

Poet, performer and pro-Palestine activist Jepke Goudsmit rages against empire.

NSW Police initiated a Supreme Court challenge to the Rising Tide People鈥檚 Blockade of the world鈥檚 largest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle in November. Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听

Protest albums from October 2024

Mat Ward looks back at October's political news and the best new music that related to it.

The Global Ecosocialist Network and Marxmail.world鈥檚 鈥淩oadmap to Ecosocialism鈥 forum heard from four speakers about the strategies and tactics needed to move beyond capitalism. Susan Price reports on the presentations.

protesters with banner

Thousands of workers went on strike across Peru, followed by nationwide protests, to demand that Congress repeal laws that favour organised crime and criminalise the right to protest, and call on the government to take action against worsening extortion and violence, reports Ben Radford.