Perth Indymedia

We speak to Curtin NTEU branch vice president and state-secretary candidate, Dr Thor Kerr, about how the covid-19 pandemic, federal budget cuts and neoliberal management is impacting on the university sector, as well as the need for a fightback from students and staff.

We speak to Margaret Pestori,us a Brisbane based activist who is helping to organise a festival of resistance that is hoping to disrupt the 2021 Land Forces convention, a convention of the military industrial complex.

Voices of Palestinian-Australians, and their supporters, from the Palestine solidarity demonstration, Perth, Western Australia, Sunday 23rd May.

Yet again the world reels in horror at another Israeli assault on the people of Gaza, yet again the governments of the world, including the Australian government, give their imprimatur to the slaughter. Dr Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American author, journalist, and editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He spoke to Alex Whisson from his home in Seattle.

The 1946 Pilbara strike of Aboriginal pastoral workers is one of the most significant episodes in both the history of the Australian labour movement, as well as the history of the Aboriginal self-determination movement. On the 75th anniversary, Alex Whisson spoke to Paul Roberts, writer and producer of How the West Was Lost, the 1987 documentary which recorded the history of this great and importa...

Following the tragic death of a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy we speak to the national coordinator of the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project to discuss the continuing crisis of youth suicide.

Chris Breen is a long time activist with the Refugee Action Collective in Melbourne. Organising a protest last April in solidarity with refugees detained at the Mantra Hotel, he found himself subject to arrest for incitement, a rarely used charge with a potentially chilling effect on the right to protest.

As Brazilians continue to suffer under the authoritarian rule of Jair Bolsonara, and one of the worst COVID-19 death tolls anywhere in the world, a glimmer of hope has emerged, with the Supreme Court quashing the conviction on bribery charges of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Alex Whisson spoke to São Paulo-based political commentator and journalist, Brian Mier.

We speak to local Burmese democracy activist Khin Myo Myint about the ongoing anti-coup protests in Burma and the horrific repression facing activists.

Economist and author Michael Roberts spoke to Alex Whisson about the economic impact of COVID-19, and the prospects for a post-pandemic recovery.

Kristin O'Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, talks to Alex Whisson about the Morrison government's phasing out of the coronavirus supplement to the JobSeeker payment, and the need for a substantial increase to the allowance.

In light of Facebook's ban on news media in Australia we speak to author, editor and academic Timothy Erik Strom about the implications of Platform/Surveillance capitalism on our political and social economies. You can read some of Timothy's work via Arena, which he also edits: www.arena.org.au

In June 2019, the eyes of the world turned to Hong Kong, as a mass protest movement erupted in defiance of Beijing. Initially catalysed by the introduction of an extradition bill into the Hong Kong Legislative Council, the movement soon came to embrace a set of much wider demands. Some on the left quickly dismissed it as a creature of Western interests, while others recognised the importance of so...

As protests erupt throughout Myanmar in response to the attempted military coup, we speak to local Burmese community member and activist Khin Myo Myint.

We speak to public housing advocate Jesse Noakes about the eviction of the tent city in Fremantle and the ongoing homelessness crisis in WA.

We speak to Jonny Windus, an organiser at the Fremantle Tent City that was dismantled by the state government over the weekend.

We speak to Jess Beckerling from the Western Australian Forest Alliance about a recent action at Simcoa by Nannas For Native Forests and the ongoing issue of native logging in WA.

We speak to writer and comedian Patrick Marlborough about their Fringe show On Fringe and about the complex relationship between the big polluters such as Woodside and the arts.

The struggle for self-determination and independence in West Papua has ramped up in recent weeks and months. With calls for a general strike by West Papuan activists, solidarity protests in Indonesia and actions here in Australia, all amid the heightened state repression of West Papuans by Indonesian authorities. We speak to Lewis Prai Wellip, a West Papuan activist based in Melbourne.

In the annals of working class history in this country, the Jobs for Women campaign has, quite rightly, gone down as the stuff of legend. Beginning in 1980, and centred around the right of women to work at the Port Kembla steelworks in Wollongong, owned and operated at the time by Australian Iron & Steel, a subsidiary of BHP, the bitter struggle would carry on throughout the entire decade of the 1...

We speak to Petrina Harley from Rainbow Rebellion about the protest roots of pride and the need to continue the struggle for LGBTQi rights.

We speak to Anthony Collins from 350.org Perth about the groups recent report Captured State: The influence of the gas lobby on WA.

We speak to Alan Hayden from the Extinction Rebellion WA Grandparent's Group about the recent Festival for Love and Rage that took place in Perth.

In a two part series we explore the impacts platform capitalism (corporate social media) is having on art collectives and communities in Indonesia. Platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter, while being used by many collectives, activists and others around the world to organise, have serious implications for security, surveillance and control or ownership of content. More broadly the very w...

Doug Henwood is a broadcaster, commentator, a contributing editor at The Nation and author, among other volumes, of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency. He joined Alex Whisson to discuss the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, and what might happen in its aftermath.