Omar Hassan arrived in Syria on New Year’s Eve 2024 to report on the situation after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad. These pieces were penned while he spent the next weeks travelling the country.
No one should be under any illusion about the enormous effort that will be required to transition away from fossil fuels. Jerome Small travelled through mining and power country to discuss the issues with locals and workers.
In late 2001, the far right led three days of sometimes ultra-violent protests against the Victorian Labor government’s pandemic health mandates. Ben Hillier joined the throng.
Ben Hillier was on the ground during the explosive 2019 protests and university occupations in Hong Kong, and again as a new coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan, China, began to spread through the city in early 2020.
The Gurindji strike is one of the most famous in Australian history. This is an account of life in the strike camp, as remembered by Tanya McConvell, who lived at Daguragu from 1974 to 1977.
Ben Hillier travelled to Indonesia and Sri Lanka in late 2017 to piece together the life of a recently deceased member of the Tamil Tigers who had sought safety in Australia.
The Russian Revolution teaches us that workers can unite, that the oppressed can rise up, that workers can come to see that they need to and can run society. That’s why the events of 1917 are worth celebrating, writes Sandra Bloodworth.
The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building on 24 April 2013 was the bloodiest disaster in the history of the garment industry. Jerome Small visited the scene just outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, to talk to workers and organisers the following year.
