Episode 16 - The party line on the Bondi Royal Commission, Venezuela and Iran

A big one this week. The unhinged attacks on the Palestine movement and Anthony Albanese have continued for another week, and so your faithful hosts do their duty to take up the cudgels against the lies once again. Our highlight is a Canberra Times editorial calling for “rabble rousers” to be forcibly brought before a House of un-Israelian Activities Committee. It takes us some time to respond to a bunch of the rubbish being put forward to justify this McCarthyist witch hunt by some of the most racist scum in Australia. But once that’s done, we take a look at Trump’s appalling aggression against Venezuela and what it says about international politics at the moment, before wrapping up with a look at the heroic protest and strike wave sweeping Iran right now with Iranian socialist Bella Beiraghi.

Content

Why we must oppose a royal commission | Red Flag

Calls for royal commission on anti-Semitism grow | The Canberra Times

Socialist Party statement on US imperialist banditry in Venezuela

A timeline of CIA operations in Latin America | Al Jazeera

Iran on fire: rebellion returns to the streets | Red Flag

Energy Workers Join Strikes as Security Forces Retreat in Major Cities | NCRI

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

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