Green Left

20/01/2024

Health Care Workers for Palestine is one of many groups that has been organising actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people since Israel’s latest genocidal attack on began. This is a vigil they organised in Liverpool, NSW, on January 19.
Video: Paula Sanchez

20/01/2024

An Algerian court has acquitted university lecturer and scientist Kamel Aïssat on all charges related to his opposition to a lead and zinc mine on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast, following an international campaign of solidarity.

An Algerian court has acquitted university lecturer and scientist Kamel Aïssat on all charges related to his opposition to a lead and zinc mine on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast, following an international campaign of solidarity, reports Susan Price.

19/01/2024

Hundreds protested outside Labor MP Ged Kearney’s office to demand she speaks up against Israel's genocide in Gaza and calls for a ceasefire.

Hundreds protested outside Labor MP Ged Kearney’s office to demand she speaks up against Israel's genocide in Gaza and calls for a ceasefire. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

19/01/2024

A 150-strong Vigil for Palestine was organised by Health Workers for Palestine in Bigge Park, Liverpool, NSW on January 19. Photos: Paula Sanchez

19/01/2024

Community picket launched against Israeli ZIM shipping at Webb Dock in Naarm/Melbourne on January 19

Come down and join the picket to help resist Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza

19/01/2024

No pride in genocide
First issue for 2024 out now
Read Green Left 1397 online at https://www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1397

18/01/2024

Despite Israel’s campaign to encourage allies to make supportive statements, Labor has not revealed its position on South Africa’s ICJ case.

Australia has not said much about South Africa’s case against Israel's genocide at the International Court of Justice. Alex Bainbridge writes that while Canberra generally supports the US on Israel, it is also giving itself some wriggle room.

18/01/2024

Former Geelong Trades Hall secretary, Tim Gooden, argues that the Labor government is complicit in Israel's genocide against Gaza and that unions should be doing more to stop it.

Tim Gooden, a former Geelong Trades Hall secretary, said the Labor government is complicit in Israel's genocide against Gaza and that unions should be doing more to stop it.

18/01/2024

Hundreds protested outside Labor MP Ged Kearney’s office on January 18 to demand an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Despite Kearney's historical support for Palestine, she has still refused to sign an open letter — signed by more than 200 current and former MPs — which calls for a permanent ceasefire and an end to Israel's occupation.

18/01/2024

Despite their ballooning wealth, the corporate rich are using their power to demand more tax breaks and protect their industrial-scale tax dodging.

Despite their ballooning wealth, the corporate rich are using their power to demand more tax breaks and protect their industrial-scale tax dodging. Peter Boyle reports.

18/01/2024

The dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last year is both the product of a nasty campaign from the outside as well as a weakness from management.

The dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last year is both the product of a nasty campaign from the outside as well as a weakness from management, argues Binoy Kampmark.

17/01/2024

CFMMEU national secretary Christy Cain says the union movement needed to take a stronger stand on Palestine.

National secretary of the CFMMEU Christy Cain told the Friends of Palestine WA rally thatthe union movement needed to take a stronger stand on Palestine.

17/01/2024

Alarmingly — but not surprisingly — 2023 was the hottest year since 1850, but Labor is dragging its feet and depending on the private sector to handle the climate transition.

Alarmingly — but not surprisingly — 2023 was the hottest year since 1850, but Labor is dragging its feet and depending on the private sector to handle the climate transition. Pip Hinman reports.

17/01/2024

DP World, Australia's largest port terminal operator, is refusing to negotiate with the Maritime Union of Australia's demands for fair pay and conditions for wharf workers.

DP World, Australia's largest port terminal operator, is refusing to negotiate with the Maritime Union of Australia's demands for fair pay and conditions for wharf workers. Kerry Smith reports.

17/01/2024

LGBTIQ activists and allies celebrated a new Rainbow crossing which was finally completed last December, after a six-year campaign.

LGBTIQ activists and allies celebrated a new Rainbow crossing which was finally completed last December, after a six-year campaign. Isaac Nellist reports.

16/01/2024

Argentina will be very important for this process in Latin America, because in Argentina there will be crisis and resistance. This government will not be able to govern as it wants.

In the second part of his interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, Brazilian author and socialist Pedro Fuentes discusses the crisis of imperialist hegemony, the unpredictability of contemporary politics and its impacts on Latin America.

16/01/2024

A deceitful historical narrative argues, at best, that the systematic dispossession and genocide of First Nations peoples is something in the distant past. It isn't and it needs to be stopped.

A deceitful historical narrative argues, at best, that the systematic dispossession and genocide of First Nations peoples is something in the distant past. It isn't and it needs to be stopped, argues Peter Boyle.

16/01/2024

Today, Palestine is the struggle that opens up the most possibilities for international solidarity and struggle against the global right and the establishment because the entire world establishment supports Israel.

Pedro Fuentes, a leader of the Socialist Left Movement (MES), a tendency within Brazil’s Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about imperialism’s new phase, ecological crisis and international solidarity.

16/01/2024

CFMMEU national secretary Christy Cain addressed the Friends of Palestine WA rally in Boorloo/Perth on January 14.

He condemned Israel's genocide in Gaza and called on the union movement and Sally McManus of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to take a stronger stand.

National secretary of the CFMMEU Chris Cain told the Friends of Palestine WA rally thatthe union movement needed to take a stronger stand on Palestine.

15/01/2024

LGBTQ activists and allies celebrated the opening of the rainbow crossing in Djilang/Geelong after six years of campaigning.

They chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “What do we want? Trans rights!” as they crossed Yarra St in the Djilang city centre.

Geelong Socialist Alliance councillor Sarah Hathway told Green Left that having public and visible sign of support for LGBTQ rights was a positive step.

Geelong Rainbow are holding a Pride March and festival on February 17, check their socials or the Green Left calendar at greenleft.org.au/events for more info.

15/01/2024

'Uprising: the October Rebellion in Ecuador' is essential reading for better navigating the complex new terrain facing not just the Ecuadorian left but its counterparts in the region.

Federico Fuentes reviews Uprising: The October Rebellion in Ecuador, an exceptional look at the October 2019 anti-neoliberal insurrection from the perspective of one of its central leaders.

15/01/2024

Refugee rights supporters gathered outside the Scots Presbyterian Church in Walyalup/Fremantle on January 12 for a silent vigil.

It was the 180th week activists, including Grandmothers for Refugees, had taken such action.

Protesters are demanding refugees are given permanent visas and to bring those still offshore to Australia. The vigils take place every Friday from 5-6pm.

Meanwhile, the Asylum Seekers Action Group Albany organise their weekly vigil outside the Kinjarling/Albany Town Hall every Saturday from 11.30am to 12.30pm.

Photos: Alex Salmon

15/01/2024

More than 2000 people rallied for Palestine in Boorloo/Perth on January 14.

Friends of Palestine WA demanded an end to Israel’s invasion of Gaza in which more than 22,000 people, mainly women and children, have been killed. They demanded a ceasefire.

The rally called on the Australian government to support South Africa’s case against Israel in the International Court of Justice.

No Western government has backed South Africa’s case in the ICJ; meanwhile they continue to give Israel political and military support.

Photos: Alex Salmon

15/01/2024

Three Indigenous land defenders were found guilty of criminal contempt in a Canadian court on January 12 for their opposition to the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

Three Indigenous land defenders were found guilty of criminal contempt in a Canadian court on January 12 for their opposition to the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory, reports Jeff Shantz.

13/01/2024

The Socialist Alliance national conference is meeting now and has heard from Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton, MUA deputy branch secretary Dave Ball, and Muayad Ali from Free Palestine Melbourne on "Palestine Imperialism and War".

These photos are from a solidarity action with the people of Gaza held immediately after that session.

12/01/2024

Israel’s current war — with its bombs leveling cites, destroying hospitals and homes, killing more than 20,000, with more than 6000 missing, presumed dead under the rubble, and with those numbers growing every day — is genocide.

When the overwhelming majority of world governments call for a cease fire, it indicates Israel and its key ally the United States are under intense pressure from below, argue Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

11/01/2024

The two primary movements of late 2023 — climate and Palestine solidarity— must win some far more profound victories in the coming months, as a step towards reconstructing our forces against both imperialism and also now sub-imperialism.

In part 2 of his interview with Green Left's Federico Fuentes, South African politial economist, author and activist Patrick Bond discusses some of the limitations in Vladimir Lenin’s views on imperialism and the need to incorporate the concept of "unequal ecological exchange" into any analysis of...

11/01/2024

'Knocking the top off' contains more than 60 essays recounting the people, moments and struggles in Australia’s history with alcohol, told from the vantage point of indentured convicts, immigrants, unionists, Indigenous people, women, socialists and qu**rs.

Alex Salmon reviews Knocking the top off: A people’s history of alcohol in Australia, edited by Alex Ettling and Iain McIntyre.

10/01/2024

Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and the media in our time.

Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and the media in our time, writes David Robie.

10/01/2024

The Save the Powerhouse group is concerned that NSW Labor is going back on its promise to end the secrecy surrounding this much loved and internationally admired arts and sciences museum.

The Save the Powerhouse group is concerned that NSW Labor is going back on its promise to end the secrecy surrounding this much loved and internationally admired arts and sciences museum. Kerry Smith reports.