Tom Orsag tells the story of how union power and solidarity broke WA's repressive anti-protest laws.
The post How West Australian unions defeated Court’s protest ban first appeared on Solidarity Online.
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So we have an ongoing genocide in Gaza. The death toll, as estimated by scientists, is probably north of half a million. (The official toll is laughable and obviously wrong, growth slowing over time.) Trump was able to use oil piracy and a kidnapping to bend Venezuela to his will. Now he’s cut off oil […]
We have a very odd spectacle right now: Anthropic’s CEO has said the US government cannot use Anthropic products if they will not guarantee that they won’t be used for autonomous military robots (firing without human intervention) or mass surveillance. The Pentagon has responded by threatening to eminent domain Claude, and make their own version. […]
This was the situation when they fired: Right hand holding his phone. Left hand on the ground. Zero threat to anyone. His gun, holstered, which he never went for, had been removed by an agent. This is an execution. The Agent has not been positively identified (though there’s a possible ID floating around), and was […]
Despite claims of targeting “criminals,” ICE raids in California are sweeping up undocumented workers with no convictions, street vendors, day laborers, and families trying to survive.
The post Trump’s ICE Raids Target Working-Class Immigrants, Not Criminals appeared first on MintPress News.
In Los Angeles, police cornered and opened fire on protesters, then arrested journalists covering it. This is what a panicked empire looks like.
The post Free Speech Ends Here: What I Saw During the LAPD Crackdown appeared first on MintPress News.
Accelerated after October 7, a growing network of laws across the Western world threatens free expression by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism — a trend years in the making.
The post From the United States to Europe, Criticizing Israel Is Becoming a Crime appeared first on MintPress News.
Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me "direct threats to people who oppose them," is now threatening me with prison - over Mehdi Hasan's uncorrected error
The post Matt Taibbi: House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Peter Mertens of the Workers’ Party of Belgium spoke to Stella Assange ahead of the four year anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of Julian Assange
The post Julian Assange, WikiLeaks & War Crimes | Peter Mertens Meets Stella Assange appeared first on scheerpost.com.
‘Opposition leader’ benefited from Tory legislation enacted specifically to benefit him ‘Labour’ ‘leader’ Keir Starmer has rightly been attacked for his closeness to the Establishment and the British security state, which has seen him mount no meaningful opposition to the Tories while colluding on repressive legislation such as the ‘spycops’ law to give undercover police […]