Just 24 hours after mass protests and strikes were held across Minnesota, on January 23, against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attacks, United States Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti. Malik Miah reports.
Zack Polanski was elected the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September last year. Former Greens leader Derek Wall looks at the impact Polanski is having on the party's political message and popularity.
Sarah Glynn writes that as activists across the world were arguing that another world was possible, far away, in the middle of a warzone, the people of Rojava were resisting Islamic State and building a different society that prioritised community over economic interests. That society is in mortal danger today.
Federico Fuentes, editor of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, joined the Green Left Show to discuss the current situation in Venezuela and how we can build the solidarity movement here in Australia.
The Rojava Revolution, organised around the principles of pluralism and democracy, women’s liberation and ecology, is under existential threat, writes Elise Boyle Espinosa.
The Nicolás Maduro government created such a disaster for workers’ living conditions that large segments of the population see his departure as the only chance for change, writes Luís Bonilla-Molina.
The Iranian uprising is facing brutal repression from the regime, while contending with foreign imperialist machinations, writes Kevin B Anderson.
BREAKING NEWS: The Rojava Revolution is under a massive attack from the army of the Western-backed Syrian regime of President Ahmed al-Shaara, allied jihadist militias, mercenary groups funded by the Turkish state and the Turkish armed forces, reports Sarah Glynn.
Jaime López García, president of the National Union of Coal Industry Workers, speaks to Green Left’s Ben Radford about how workers are responding to Colombia’s declining coal industry and bringing forward demands for a just transition for coal workers and their communities.
Jaime López García, president of the National Union of Coal Industry Workers in Colombia, speaks to Green Left’s Ben Radford about coal workers’ solidarity with Palestinians and the role of workers in upholding human rights.
Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv constitutes “a direct and deliberate threat not only to Ukraine but also to European countries”, says the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, which has launched an international solidarity appeal. Kerry Smith reports.
While it is difficult to predict how the uprising in Iran will develop, writes Mary Merkenich, Iranians deserve our international solidarity in their legitimate struggle for economic, political and social rights and against tyranny.
