The Guardian • right to protest
Issue #2183
Protesting? Read this
When powerful organisations or groups harm Australians, states don’t do nothing. They rush through laws to clamp down on protests that might challenge those organisations....
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Issue #2155
UK Palestine Action Ban: 100 already arrested
Protests against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action are expected to continue across the UK following the arrest of over 100 people under counter-terror powers...
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Issue #2039
The right to protest should be law
Human rights and freedom are very popular terms at the moment, and it’s not hard to guess who is accused of violating them in Australian...
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Issue #2142
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: President Emmanual Macron has stated that a historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France...
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Issue #2103
GLOBAL BRIEFS
China: The unmanned Chang’e-6 probe successfully landed on the dark side of the Moon for the world’s first mission to collect samples from that region....
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Issue #2054
The right to protest
As capitalism and its extractivist resource corporations continue exploiting the last portions of carbon from this earth and putting it into the atmosphere to keep...
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Issue #2158
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested nearly 500 people protesting in support of the Palestine Action group, which was prescribed a terrorist organisation by the...
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Issue #1970
Charities under threat from coalition’s legislation
Undisputedly, the pandemic has caused economic disruption, much to the chagrin of the Morrison government.
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Issue #2183
Queensland: beautiful one day, illegal to say things the next
Everyone has heard the news that Queensland has not only banned two pro-Palestine chants, but has arrested protesters for saying the forbidden phrases. Two people...
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Issue #2181
Fun, vibes and police violence
Over the last year, we have seen increasing state violence and violation of the right to protest in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and other places. We...
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Issue #2179
NSW defends Israel with anti-protest push
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has extended the protest ban that’s in place across Gadigal land in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and...
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Issue #2004
Boot the Coalition out!
The Coalition government has comprehensive plans to destroy militant trade unions and give employers arbitrary powers and unfettered rights over workers in the workplace. The...
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Issue #2187
PEACE NOTES
There’s something Australians hear a lot of when they get news from the rest of the world. It should make us feel better but it...
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Issue #2158
Class and freedom
One time someone sent me – as a correspondent for the Guardian – a series of questions to do with Communist attitudes to individual freedom....
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Issue #2093
‘Keato’ speaks out after arrest
Following his arrest for protesting against the ZIM shipping line at Port Botany, the Guardian contacted Paul Keating, also known as ‘Keato.’ Here is what...
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Issue #2115
City of Sydney CPA branch takes on Sydney University
The City of Sydney branch of the CPA has taken on Sydney University over their changed rules for demonstrating after the experience of the student...
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Issue #2208
NSW Premier Chris Minns referred to police watchdog
New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson has referred NSW premier Chris Minns to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), as she considers the NSW...
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Issue #2188
Draconian anti-protest law dumped
The Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) has welcomed the decision of the New South Wales Court of Appeal to strike down a NSW government law, passed...
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Issue #2175
Bondi: from tragedy to political strategy
After the tragic massacre at Bondi Beach last December, the reactionary Labor Federal and State governments have begun to twist the killings from tragedy to...
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Issue #2176
DINGO
The following appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 January: “Australians for Humanity – Demand that the invitation to the President of Israel to...
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Issue #2103
ANU expels pro-Palestine student, continues links with arms manufacturers
The ANU has expelled Beatrice Tucker for comments made on ABC radio, banning the student from entering campus or continuing their studies. This comes a...
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Issue #2180
DINGO
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) looks forward to welcoming 3,200 new graduate nurses and midwives into the state’s public health system this year,...
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Issue #2093
CPA Statement
The Communist Party of Australia has followed the events that took place at Sydney’s Port Botany on Sunday 24 March in which 19 protestors were...
Read moreNSW to reintroduce anti-protest move-on power
The NSW government is using the decision by police to authorise a neo-Nazi protest as an excuse to reintroduce unconstitutional laws empowering police to issue...
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Issue #2093
EDITORIAL
“Extra proud to be a communist today.” This was the reaction of one Communist Party of Australia member to the news that Paul Keating, known...
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Issue #2189
No apology for oppressive Minns law
New South Wales premier Chris Minns’ blanket ban on street protests was struck down by the NSW Supreme Court on 16 April 2026. That ban...
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Issue #2185
CPA Cumberland Branch continues ‘NO RATES FOR GENOCIDE’ campaign after assault
The Cumberland Branch of the Communist Party of Australia has been campaigning in the suburbs of the Cumberland Council area around “NO RATES FOR GENOCIDE,”...
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Issue #2122
Protest crack-down latest
Disturbing news from a recent Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), meeting in South Australia recently. There are rumours that South Australia is...
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Issue #2185
EDITORIAL
Local action can be dangerous. Just ask the Communist Party of Australia’s Cumberland Branch. They’ve been trying to make a local council get on board...
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Issue #2136
Unite for rights and against war
There is growing opposition around Australia to the authoritarian police-state attempts to silence voices of protest in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel’s...
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