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A soldier’s sacrifice for Palestine
Ryan Chapman

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine.”

Should Trump be disqualified?
Ben Hillier

The preservation of democracy requires its curtailing. That is the logic of those attempting to strike Donald Trump from the ballot in the Republican presidential primaries and general election this year. Panicking that they may be unable to build a political coalition to defeat the far-right buffoon in November, a section of American liberals and old-establishment conservatives have leaned on the power of state institutions to compensate for their own unpopularity.

Australia, Israel and US imperialism: explaining the bloody embrace
Australia, Israel, US imperialism
Jerome Small

As Israel launches a murderous offensive designed to make Gaza unlivable through bombing, starvation, thirst and a ground invasion, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong declares her solidarity. “We stand with Israel, and we always will”, she tells the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce. 

Why journalists must speak out about Gaza
Journalists should stand with Gaza

The following piece was written by Aja Arnold, Rae Garringer, Rebecca Chowdhury, Tina Vasquez, Irene Vazquez, Victoria Bouloubasis, Charmaine Lang, Nour Saudi, and Lewis Raven Wallace. It was first published at a number of critical and left-wing websites in the United States. We believe it is also relevant to the Australian media.

What is Bidenomics?
Eleanor Morley

Joel Geier has been a socialist activist in the United States since the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and Berkeley free speech campaign in the 1960s. He has written extensively on American politics, the Democratic Party, economics and imperialism. Joel spoke to Eleanor Morley while in Australia last month about the Biden administration’s attempt to strengthen American empire.

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