Subjects Archives: Protest

We need a mass movement to ensure a just transition and prevent climate breakdown. But such contestations can go very wrong.

The danger signals of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East are now flashing red.

The Singaporean shipping company, ONE, declares that it would be ceasing all shipments to the Occupation’s ports, according to reports by Israeli media.

And a comparison with issues raised in Australia’s recent referendum.

Fifteen thousand people marched through the streets after a young woman’s murder. ‘Femicide is not a crime of passion, it is a crime of power. It is a state murder, because the state does not defend us and does not protect us.’

100,000 people marched in the Canadian capital on November 25 to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the complicity of the Canadian government in Israel’s ongoing violence and colonization of Palestine.

In their first interview since they were arrested for holding a sit-in, some of the students vow to continue their activism until the US university divests from Israel.

“Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”

International actions organized in solidarity with Palestine demanded an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and an end to all aid to Israel.

The Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics: “We stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people. Since October 7th, 2023, over two million people have faced a brutal onslaught by the Israeli military and state. They have been forced to flee with nowhere to go as homes, shelters, evacuation routes, border crossings, hospitals, places of worship and entire neighborhoods have been bombed.”

Greens Party leader Mehreen Faruqi calls out the Labor’s “weasel words” which “are not going to stop war crimes” by “Israel”.

As protests erupt worldwide against Israel’s ferocious bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, which has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 Palestinians, U.S. media ponder how all of this impacts Jewish people.

Far from being a fringe obsession for a tiny minority, the Palestinian solidarity movement spurs on demands for social justice across the globe—including in Britain.

The tentative agreement reportedly includes a general wage increase of 25% over four years and cost-of-living adjustments.

The protesters spoke with one voice—“Ceasefire now!”—directing their message at the Tory government which licenced the sale of weapons from Britain now being used by Israel in the accelerating massacre.

The humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border is growing by the day, without the United States seeking alternatives with the people of the south that would help put a stop to the illegal arrival of migrants.

The world stands up for Palestine in the face of Israeli atrocities and massacres without fear of oppression despite all efforts by many governments to suppress any anti-“Israel” public expression.

When the MAGA right planned to protest a drag event at a local library, North Shore Labor Council members showed up to fight back.

Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating.

It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express their discomfort with society, to express their pain at the breakdown of democracy and all that followed.