In Australia’s mostly corporate-owned media landscape, Green Left has been speaking truth to power for 35 years. Ben Radford explains GL’s commitment to building grassroots movements, reporting on events distorted by the mainstream media and showing international solidarity.
A new Australian Council of Social Services report criticised generous tax breaks for driving up home prices and supercharging inequality. Ben Radford argues that without significant grassroots pressure, the political establishment will not budge from its investor-friendly housing system.
Ben Radford reviews Oscar Olivera’s new book on the 1999–2000 Water Wars in Bolivia, which is remembered as an emblematic grassroots struggle that successfully defeated neoliberal attempts to privatise control of Cochabamba’s water.
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.
Swift condemnation has followed the United States government’s military attacks on Venezuela, reports Ben Radford.
The New South Wales and Federal governments and pro-Zionist groups are seeking to crack down on protests and criticism of Israel in the wake of the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi beach, reports Ben Radford.
The New South Wales Labor government is failing to protect the state’s rapidly declining koala population, which is under threat from logging, climate impacts and disease. Ben Radford reports.
The prime minister’s claimed concern for those impacted by the climate emergency rings hollow while he backs the fossil fuel industry, argues Ben Radford.
Green Left journalist and Socialist Alliance member Ben Radford outlined why we need ecosocialism and decolonisation at the Rising Tide People’s Blockade.
COP30 lacked any concrete commitments to climate action, promoted false solutions and denied indigenous voices, writes Ben Radford. Meanwhile, the grassroots Peoples’ Summit laid the blame for the climate crisis squarely at capitalism’s feet and called for indigenous-led solutions and the non-proliferation of fossil fuels.
Ecuadorians resoundingly rejected far-right President Daniel Noboa’s plans to undermine the country’s sovereignty and change the constitution in favour of his neoliberal project, reports Ben Radford.
