Cruelty has caught fire in Australian politics; cowardice has become the currency affecting exchange with Washington and London, arguesStuart Rees.
Iraq War
Supporters of Julian Assange in Sydneyrallied outside the British Consulate. Michael Hatrick and Jim McIlroyreport.
On the 20-year anniversary of the formation of the Socialist Alliance,Peter Boyle reflects on its early days andthe left's ongoingchallenge tolink up with broader forces in astruggle for system change.
From Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard to Coalition PM Scott Morrison, Australian leaders have tried to appear in a chorus of extras, parroting that Assange had broken the law,writesStuart Rees.
Independent Iraqi journalist Abeer Hasan Al Anitold a gathering to mark the invasion of Iraq that thepromises of freedom, democracy and prosperity the Iraqis longed for have never come true. Peter Boyle reports.
Old arguments justifying racism might be considered ridiculous today but new ones, including affectations about “our” democratic values, neatly slip into service to reinforce ingrained racist prejudices, writes Peter Boyle.
The invasion of a Iraqwas a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter andthe invaders’ justification was based on lies. Eighteen yearson the calls for justice continue, writes Bevan Ramsden.
That Julian Assange cannot be extraditedis welcome, but the ruling comes after the charade in which British authorities held him in a top security prison and made his defence as difficult as possible, argues Stuart Rees.
Birmingham, Plymouth, and Newcastle trades and labour councils have recently voted overwhelmingly to join the campaign to halt the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, writes Kerry Smith.
Greta Thunberg delivers her thoughts on next steps for the School Strike 4 Climate movement with precise accuracy. Her call for a "concrete plan” and “not just nice words” reveals how all climate activism should be rooted in mass action, rather than rhetoric.
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who blew the whistle on United States war crimes and spent four years in an army stockade, is back in prison because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, writes Barry Sheppard.
March 19 marks 15 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the US people have no idea of the enormity of the calamity the invasion unleashed.
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