Perth Indymedia

Indonesian student activist Nailendra spoke to Alex Whisson from Yogyakarta about the ongoing anti-government protests.

Liz Humphrys is a political economist at the University of Technology Sydney and the author of How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project. She spoke to Alex Whisson.

Tommy-John Herbert is a wharfie and rank-and-file unionist who recently spoke at the School Strike for Climate in Sydney. He spoke to Alex Whisson.

We speak to activist and comedian Tom Tanuki about the direct action, anti-fascist and anti-racist phenomena known as Yelling At Racist Dogs.

We speak to the chief director of the Aboriginal Legal Service, Dennis Egginton, about the tragic death of Joyce Clarke.

Maritime Union of Australia State Secretary Christy Cain joins Alex Whisson to discuss recent divisions within the Labor Party and the Western Australian labour movement.

Adrian Lowe is both a proud communist and a Balga ward candidate for the upcoming City of Stirling elections. He joined Alex Whisson to discuss his campaign.

Year 11 North Albany Senior High School student and climate activist Kaelin Abrahams joined Sara Morrison and Alex Whisson to discuss the local plans for the 20th September school strike for climate action.

Author, commentator and activist John Rees spoke to Alex Whisson about the latest twists and turns in the saga that is Britain's attempt to leave the European Union.

Brian Mier is an author, journalist and co-editor of the news site Brasil Wire. He recently returned from Rondonia, one of the Amazonian states in Brazil most affected by the devastating fires that have shocked the world.

West Papuan activist Wiwince Pigome joined Alex Whisson to discuss the recent escalation of pro-independence protests in the Indonesian province, and the repression meted out by the Widodo government.

Mark Goudkamp is an activist with the Refugee Action Coalition in Sydney, and a founding member of Teachers for Refugees. He spoke to Alex Whisson.

We speak to Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council concerning the attempted deportation of a Tamil family from rural Queensland.

We speak to Professor Damien Kingsbury regarding the declassification of US Intelligence documents connected to the 1999 East Timorese Independence.

We speak to Jennifer Kaeshagen, the director of First Nations Homelessness Project and Vachel Spirason, the Community Legal Education Coordinator for Tenancy WA about issues facing people in public housing in WA.

We speak to Jane Hammond from Lock The Gate Alliance regarding the WA Labor government's lifting of the ban on fracking.

We speak to democracy activist Jojo about the ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong.

Kevin Ovenden, author of Syriza: Inside the Labryinth, speaks to Alex Whisson about the results and political lessons from the recent Greek parliamentary elections.

Campaign coordinator for the Australian Council of Social Services' Raise the Rate campaign, Pas Forgione, spoke to Alex Whisson about the need to increase the Newstart Allowance, which hasn't been increased in real terms since 1994.

In February 2018, in an extremely important development that might yet prove to be a historical turning point, teachers in the so-called red state of West Virginia, a Republican Party-supporting state which helped sweep Donald Trump to the White House, decided to go on strike. Remarkably, this would be the beginning of a teachers' strike wave that would engulf not only other red states like Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky, but eventually spread to Oakland and Los Angeles in California. Eric Blanc is a former teacher and writer whose Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics, published earlier this year by Verso Books, is the single best account of the still ongoing strike wave.