Native forests are crucial for climate change mitigation and water security, but pro-business government policies are allowing their destruction at an alarming rate. Ben Radford reports.
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In this episode of On The Streets, we discuss International Women’s Day protests, rallies opposing the war on Iran and the crackdown on freedom of speech in Queensland.
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Sweeping anti-worker attacks backed by Argentine far-right President Javier Milei are an assault on workers’ rights, trade unions and democracy, eliminating the gains from decades of struggle, reports Ben Radford.
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The Brazilian government has been forced to revoke Decree 12600, which would have opened up vast stretches of the Madeira, Tocantins and Tapajós rivers to privatisation, reports Ben Radford, following more than a month of protests by local indigenous communities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Colombian coal workers against genocide: An interview with Sintracarbón President Jaime López García
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.
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Swift condemnation has followed the United States government’s military attacks on Venezuela, reports Ben Radford.
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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.
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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.