Peter Boyle argues that Labor and Coalition governments have exploited the ANZAC sacrifice myth to justify and promote Australian participation of, and complicity in, subsequent imperial wars.

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United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered”. Peter Boyle argues this is an inversion of reality.

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United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered”. Peter Boyle argues this is an inversion of reality.

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Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills. Peter Boyle reports.

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Socialist Alliance is calling for a 50% cut in military expenditure and use the $28 billion to address the urgent housing, cost-of-living and climate crises, argues Peter Boyle.

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Peter Boyle reports on the historic agreement struck between the revolutionary forces in northeastern Syria, known as Rojava and Syria’s transitional government.

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The claim by capitalist economists that growing the ‘economic pie’ is the only way out of the cost-of-living crisis is a bald-faced lie to make the billionaire class richer. Peter Boyle reports. 

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Shamikh Badra told Peter Boyle that Palestinians will resist Donald Trump’s plans to make Gaza a beach resort , just as they have resisted Israel’s occupation armies for decades.

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The interest rate cut will bring some relief for borrowers, but it will not significantly ease the cost-of-living crisis. Peter Boyle argues for four measures that will.

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Ten years on from the heroic and world-significant battle for Kobanî in northern Syria, the international community must act to stop the ongoing attacks against Rojava, writes Peter Boyle.

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The United States has used sanctions since 2022 to try and stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and the technology to manufacture them. However, this seems to have backfired, reports Peter Boyle.

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While not all US billionaires supported United States President Donald Trump, more are swinging to his side, just as governments that serve capitalist interests — including Australia’s Labor government — are now cosying up. Peter Boyle reports.

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It is no exaggeration to say that whether Dutton wins or loses, his racist campaign is already harming people, argues Peter Boyle.

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Members of the Kurdish community and their allies held an emergency rally at Sydney Town Hall on December 7 to defend the gains of the Rojava revolution, reports Peter Boyle.

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Following the November 27 takeover of most of Aleppo by the Turkish-backed Islamist militia group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies, fighting between Islamist militias, Assad regime forces and Kurdish-led forces is escalating, reports Peter Boyle.

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Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto remains a loyal servant of United States imperialism, as his recent phone call to Donald Trump makes clear, reports Peter Boyle.

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Peter Boyle reviews Sarah Glynn and John Clarke’s new book, Climate Change is a Class Issue, which explains the link between capitalism and the climate crisis and provides a short and down-to-earth primer on ecosocialism.

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The major parties have moved to entrench a system of unfairly distributed electoral funding and corporate donations to pay for their manipulative misinformation campaigns. Peter Boyle reports.

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Donald Trump’s victory has sent a wave of depression around the world, especially after the right-wing advances in Europe and the anti-immigrant race riots in England. Peter Boyle argues the challenge for progressive movements has never been greater. 

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Despite threats from the CFMEU administrator and the Master Builders Association, thousands of building workers marched on NSW Parliament in defence of the CFMEU and against Labor’s new anti-union law. Peter Boyle reports.

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In an all-too-familiar action, Turkey’s interior ministry removed three democratically elected co-mayors from three Kurdish-majority cities — Mardin (Mêrdîn), Batman (Elîh) and Halfeti (Xelfêtî) — and replaced them with state-appointed trustees, reports Peter Boyle.

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There already was a distrust of politicians and the political system, but the furore around PM Anthony Albanese receiving favours from disgraced former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is fuelling it. Peter Boyle reports.

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The fate of the survivors of the United States atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was hidden for years, but in 1956 local survivor associations, along with victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific, formed Nihon Hidankyo. The organisation received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, reports Peter Boyle.

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Over the last 10 years, housing supply has increased faster than the population, but house prices have still risen 75%. Peter Boyle looks at why Labor does not want the public to understand its tax concessions for the rich.

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The Australian-Kurdish community is very concerned for Çiğdem (Lenna) Aslan’s safety and well-being after she was arrested as she was about to board a plane back home from Istanbul to Australia. Peter Boyle reports.

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Australia’s abstention on a United Nations General Assembly resolution against Israel’s occupation of Palestine shows how much it is failing the Palestinian people and international law, Sam Wainwright told Peter Boyle. 

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The latest statistics show that almost all the gains made from reaching an average of 40% renewable energy in electricity generation have been cancelled out by rising greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from transport. Peter Boyle reports.

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A new global campaign has been launched to demand the freedom for former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ and other activists imprisoned by the Turkish state, reports Peter Boyle.

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Epeli Lesuma from the Pacific Network on Globalisation told Peter Boyle that there is great concern in the Pacific about Australia’s AUKUS deal with the British and the United States to acquire nuclear-powered submarines as it contravenes the Treaty of Raratonga.

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Peter Boyle speaks to Singaporean grassroots activist Adi R, about the launch of the People’s Manifesto project, which aims to centre the issues facing ordinary people in the lead up to the country’s election, expected this year.

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