During Berlin’s Internationalist Queer Pride on Saturday, 26 July, more than 15,000 people marched through the streets of the German capital under the slogan “None of us are free until all of us are free”. Dozens of us were beaten and arrested and the march was forcefully dispersed.
The government's announcement that Australia will vote to “recognise” Palestinian statehood next month is a cynical response to mounting public pressure.
Close to two years of savage Israeli war on Gaza have created a humanitarian catastrophe. But while Israel and the US are responsible for the butchery, another force also shares the blame: the Arab leaders who have stood by and let Israel run amok.
More countries recognising a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is positive in terms of its symbolic impact. However, the meanings and implications of this recognition greatly vary with time.
Donald Trump ruined everyone’s Fourth of July holiday by signing what he so fatuously called the “One Big Beautiful Bill”. It may be the single most damaging piece of legislation signed into law since: who knows?
In the upside-down world of 2025, the daily mass murder and starvation of children is fine and normal, but speaking against it is extremism, violence and hate speech.
Red Flag’s Ryan Stanton spoke to Joe Burns—a labour lawyer, union activist and bargaining negotiator since the 1990s—about where the US union movement has gone wrong and what needs to change.
