Arena – Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

23 Nov 2023

What greater, fearless, audacious commitment to freedom could one man have, but that he would let the willing dismemberment of the poor be drawn into the cash nexus? Surely, if we are now offering the ritual carving up of humans, the Gods of the Market will finally, finally return explosive growth to us?

Critical Attitudes to Israeli Colonialism and the Diversity of Nazi Victims in Popular Culture

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Gavin Lewis

23 Nov 2023

In support of Israeli exceptionalism, the reality of the eugenicist Nazi regime and the diversity of its victims have been re-spun as purely anti-Semitic.

Australian Doctors Cannot Remain Silent on Gaza

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Nilanthy Vigneswaran, Sana Pathan

23 Nov 2023

At what point is it that we are permitted to speak, to advocate in the manner that truly is befitting this profession?

YIMBY or NIMBY? Both are worse…

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Alistair Sisson, Kurt Iveson

23 Nov 2023

While it would be some years before the term ‘NIMBY’ was born, the unionists, residents and progressive professionals behind the Green Bans faced similar criticisms, with developers, politicians and media sympathisers labelling them ‘anti-development’ and ‘anti-progress’.

The Universities and Israel

Arena Quarterly no.15

Mark Furlong

Sep 2023

In counterpoint to so much circulating about a victimised Israel, Riemer’s book is a work of ethical and affective commitment in which the latter, perforce, is animated by the former.

Ahmed Faraz, Poet of Love and Hope

Arena Quarterly no.15

Ali Shehzad Zaidi

Sep 2023

In Pakistan, where the poor have little recourse to justice, poetry accompanies and comforts those living a harsh existence.

Who has the right to self-defence, the occupier or the occupied?

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Ali Kazak

10 Nov 2023

All colonialists and occupiers have called the resistance they have faced ‘terrorism’, from the French, British and Dutch colonialists to the Nazi, fascists and South African apartheid regime.

We are Spartacus

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John Pilger

9 Nov 2023

In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most democracies.

Designated Indigenous Seats in the Senate

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Michael Mansell

9 Nov 2023

Vesting authority in local Aboriginal communities gives the people tools to overcome dysfunction where it occurs, revives community integrity and enables people to plan for a healthy and vibrant Aboriginal society.

Lost in Translation

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Aidan Hookey and Desmond Manderson

9 Nov 2023

After the first paragraph, he paused and took a breath. The interpreter started speaking in Pitjantjatjara. You could see the prime minister wasn’t expecting it. After all, who was he translating for?

From the Archive

Green Pathways to a People’s Future

Arena Quarterly no. 1

Adam Bandt

‘Fire’ may be an appropriate way to think and talk about the climate-change emergency, not just because we are literally dealing with a burning world but also because it does not bring with it the concerns associated with ‘rule by emergency’.

From the Archive

The Tip of the Democracy-Sinking Iceberg

Timothy Erik Ström

There is a curious and seldom-told backstory and parallel story to the high-profile Cambridge Analytica scandal, one that makes the notorious firm seem like the tip of the democracy-sinking iceberg.

Play Half-Earth: Planning Fantasies and Eco-Politics

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Scott Robinson

9 Nov 2023

The game simulates a postrevolutionary future in which a planetary sovereign has emerged, and lo and behold, YOU sit at the head of a planning console that governs the next sixty years via successive five-year plans.

Imperial Fiasco: Half a century of failed US adventures, from Vietnam, to Afghanistan

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Amin Saikal

9 Nov 2023

In each case, the US president of the time advanced an ideological and geopolitical justification for America’s involvement and claimed a kind of victory.

The Government is Criminal!: The Robodebt report is to be commended, but there are deeper social processes in play

John Hinkson

7 Nov 2023

The accusation that a government is criminal is usually a throw-away line, a sign of disaffection over some action that outsiders or opponents regard as immoral. It is not actually a legal claim. In its stronger forms, it may be a wish that the act in question could be addressed legally, but usually it is a statement based in political division.

Indian Rope Trick?: The US thinks India is no more than an anti-China bulwark while Modi remakes Asia

Binoy Kampmark

7 Nov 2023

In all of the foamy self-congratulatory rituals, it was hard to forget that Modi was banned from travelling to the United States in 2005...

The Long Siege of Gaza

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Timothy Erik Ström

26 Oct 2023

The long-term, systematically planned nature of the siege needs re-emphasising as a fundamental aspect of the causation of the massacres that have taken place on either side of Israel’s militarised border.

Palestina Libera: Palestine march, Milan 21 October

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Catherine Lo Bianco

26 Oct 2023

Horrible and seductive eyes stare down on exhausted working people, people who just spent the day screaming at the top of their lungs to stop the genocide.

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