Victoria’s Labor state government is considering a suite of draconian new anti-protest laws, according to a discussion document being circulated by the Department of Justice and Community Safety.
As mass deportation raids began last Friday in Los Angeles, members of the socialist group Tempest participated in rapid response and other protest efforts to defend immigrants. They compiled and recorded their experiences throughout the weekend.
Palestinian activist and recent graduate of New York’s Columbia University Mahmoud Khalil has spoken for the first time about his detention at the hands of the US government.
US immigration agents have arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent figure in last year’s Columbia University’s Gaza solidarity encampment.
The new US administration aims to increase business profitability and prestige, reverse previous social, cultural and political advances, and bolster US global supremacy.
Red Flag talked to Viraj Dissanayake—a former delegate at the Melbourne Liquor Distribution Centre, one of the Woolworths warehouses where workers are taking historic indefinite strike action—about his reflections on warehouse work, organising and a victorious 2015 strike at the same shed.
Like most workers, employees at Woolworths distribution warehouses watched their real wages decline while their bosses took home fat pay cheques over the last few years. But rather than shrug and accept falling living standards, they’re doing something about it.
