As Australian politicians took their seats in Canberra, thousands of mothers in Palestine searched desperately for sustenance for babies they had spent months carrying and nurturing. The politicians united to denounce a Greens senator for objecting to the genocide.
From 14 July last year, refugees ran a continuous protest encampment for 100 days outside the Home Affairs Department in Melbourne, demanding permanent visas. Red Flag spoke to Aran Mylvaganam, one of the key organisers of the camp, about how it all went.
The same scene is playing out in more than 70 university campuses across Argentina: students fill gymnasiums, outdoor spaces, lecture theatres and streets.
Whatever criticisms leftists can make of it, Hezbollah is not a terrorist organisation. It is a mass Shia political party which holds thirteen seats in the Lebanese parliament, and was founded to resist the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina. Carlos Barros, a student activist at the University of Buenos Aires, spoke to Red Flag about how things look on the ground.
Bassem Tamimi, a prominent leader of the Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank, is free again. But it won't be the last time Israel targets his family.
