Forty years after agents from France’s secret service bombed the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it was moored in Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand, award‑winning journalist David Robie has released a fully updated anniversary edition of his book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, writes Ben Radford.
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Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, told the Hague Group conference that it “has the potential to signal not just a coalition, but a new moral centre in world politics”, reports Ben Radford.
In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Ben Radford sits down with Panamanian union leader José Cambra to talk about the mass opposition to the recent agreement signed between the Panamanian and United States governments to re-establish US military bases and personnel along the Panama Canal.
Green Left’s Ben Radford sat down with José Cambra, an executive committee member of the Panama Teachers’ Association, about the country-wide strike and the government’s heavy-handed response.
Two years after Peruvian revolutionary and ecosocialist Hugo Blanco’s death at 88, his daughter, María Blanco — an activist and organiser with grassroots feminist collective Género Rebelde — sat down with Ben Radford to talk about her father’s life and legacy.
Community members and tourists in Pisac, a small town in Peru’s southern region of Cusco, gathered in the main square to show solidarity with Palestinians, as Gaza’s death toll mounts, reports Ben Radford.
Workers across Colombia went on strike to defend President Gustavo Petro’s proposed labour reforms against right-wing opposition obstruction in Congress, reports Ben Radford.
Transnational companies, finding an ally in United States President Donald Trump and his extractivist agenda, are pushing to mine the seafloor for valuable minerals, despite widespread concerns about the potential ecological and climate impacts, reports Ben Radford.
In the context of the global growth of far-right and fascist groups, grassroots activists in Brazil are organising the 1st International Antifascist Conference in March next year, in Porto Alegre, reports Ben Radford.
Workers in Panama remain on strike, protesting the government’s recently passed pension reforms, submission to United States imperialism and plans to reactivate a destructive mining project in the country, reports Ben Radford.
Indigenous communities across Peru are facing the devastating impacts of ongoing extractivism, while a series of new government laws threaten their right to self-determination, justice and land, reports Ben Radford.
The re-election of far-right President Daniel Noboa has prompted allegations of electoral fraud and calls to publish the full results, reports Ben Radford.
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