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Photo: Rojava Solidarity — Sydney/Facebook Australian groups participating in the international campaign for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned for 22 years in Turkey, held a webinar on April 16. Guest speakers were Clare Baker from the Unite Union in Britain, former Icelandic member of parliament Ögmundur Jonasson, Australian historian John Tully and Kurdish-Australian journalist and former trade union organiser Mansour Razaghi. The webinar was introduced and chaired by Sarah Hathway, an organiser with the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association. The webinar ...

The Unite Union has been instrumental in getting the British Trade Union Congress (TUC) to support the Free Ocalan Campaign. The webinar is organised by Australians For Kurdistan, Rojava Solidarity — Sydney, Solidarity With Rojava Network (WA) and Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society. Baker spoke to Green Left a week out from the webinar. Why is it important for the trade union movement to take up the campaign to free Abdullah Öcalan? The trade union movement has a long and proud history of supporting the struggles of workers and oppressed people around the world, we have fought for t...

The Imrali delegation, as has become known, is named after Turkey’s high security island prison where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has been detained in cruel isolation for 22 years. Laura Quagliuolo, editor and author of children’s books and an activist in Rete Jin, an Italian network of women in support of the Kurdish women’s movement, was part of the 2021 Imrali delegation. It has recently published its report. Quagliuolo told Green Left, that once again, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government had ignored their requests for discussions and to visit the imprison...

‘Off to the angels’: Grieving mum’s heartbreaking goodbye A devastated mother has paid tribute to her child after he died following a nightmare incident in the family pool. Health by SAM FLANAGAN Premium Content Subscriber only A devastated mother has paid tribute to her "beautiful boy" after he tragically died following a nightmare incident in the family pool, though she has proudly declared "his heart will beat on." Lucas Baker took in a large amount of water from his family's Saunders Beach home on the morning of New Year's Eve, wi...