Mary Kostakidis told a public meeting, called to support her defence against the Zionist Federation of Australia, that everyone needs to stand up for the truth. Jim McIlroy reports.
Issue 1435
News
A protest was called to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
A sea of humanity marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adding to the growing pressure on Labor to impose sanctions on Israel, stop the two-way arms trade with Israel and send food aid to Gaza. Pip Hinman and Alex Banbridge report.
Solidarity was shown to former SBS journalist Mary Kostakidis, who the Zionist Federation of Australia is trying to silence from speaking out about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Clint Duncan reports.
Members of the Druze community, in particular those of Syrian and Lebanese background, organised a “Stand with Sweida” rally on the steps of Victorian Parliament. Zane Alcorn reports.
A snap protest opposed Victorian Labor’s bail “reform” laws and called on it to implement an alternative series of reforms, which include the removal of the presumption against bail and for remand to be a last resort. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Green Left is urging you to join the protests over August 1–3 to end Israel’s barbaric starvation genocide of Palestinians.
Pro-Palestine activists demonstrated outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Gadigal Country/Sydney to demand the Freedom Flotilla activists on board the Handala be released. Suelin McCauley reports.
Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 — with the theme “Ecosocialism not Barbarism” — will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America. Fred Fuentes reports.
Nilüfer Koç, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the Kurdistan National Congress, addressed a conference on the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its consequences for the Kurdish people. Peter Boyle reports.
Aboriginal organisations and independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe are calling on the federal government to suspend federal funds for policing and prisons in the Northern Territory until the Country Liberal Party government reduces the incarceration of First Peoples and children. Kerry Smith reports.
Queensland public school teachers have voted overwhelmingly to take protected industrial action for 24 hours to pressure the Liberal-National government to deliver on its promises to address the teacher shortage crisis. James Phillips reports.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that Palestine solidarity protesters will have immunity under the NSW Summary Offences Act in the March for Humanity: Save Gaza protest on the Harbour Bridge. Pip Hinman reports.
The NSW Court of Appeal overturned the 2022 Independent Planning Commission’s approval of MACH Energy Australia’s proposal to expand its Mount Pleasant coal mine in the Hunter Valley. Jim McIlroy reports.
A packed-out public meeting called for AUKUS to be cancelled, because it makes war on China a greater risk while making Australia more complicit in United States-led war crimes. Peter Boyle reports.
The global outcry from the streets against Israel’s starvation genocide in Gaza continues to grow, pushing some Western governments to wring their hands — a sign the Palestine movement is starting to exert some power.
Hundreds of residents rallied in Marrickville to protest the pro-developer planning proposals being floated by the Labor-controlled Inner West Council. Hall Greenland reports.
Thousands of Palestine solidarity activists converged on Parliament House to demand that the Anthony Albanese government sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. Jacob Andrewartha and Rachel Evans report.
Refugees and their supporters rallied at Town Hall, Gadigal Country/Sydney, to demand Labor stop deporting refugees and grant permanent visas to asylum seekers. Rachel Evans reports.
The housing crisis, poverty and the highly unpopular stadium have driven people away from the major parties towards independents and Greens, writes Soloman Doyle.
Menaha Kandasamy, general secretary of the Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union says tea and rubber plantation workers face new challenges in Sri Lanka. Chris Slee reports.
LGBTIQ rights activists rallied outside Queensland Liberal National Party health minister Tim Nicholls’ office to demand he stop attacking gender-affirming healthcare. Elias Boyle reports.
Tamils from across Australia rallied in response to the United Nation High Commissioner Volker Türk’s visit to a recently discovered mass grave site on the outskirts of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. Zebedee Parkes reports.
As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians continues, protesters from across the country converged in Canberra, before the new parliament opened, to demand Labor sanction Israel. Pip Hinman and Isaac Nellist report.
Analysis
An Australian Council of Trade Unions commissioned a national poll of workers, which concluded that management capability puts the brakes on productivity. Kerry Smith reports.
Lidia Thorpe and Alex Bainbridge discuss the Red Lines package against genocide and the campaign against Black deaths in custody in the latest episode of the Green Left Show.
While recognising Palestinian statehood is important, Western governments must not to use it as a bargaining chip. Jacob Andrewartha argues they must immediately impose sanctions on Israel and send humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Activists protested outside Liberal Senator Jonno Duniam’s office for supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They also criticised Labor’s complicity in this crime against humanity. Solomon Doyle reports.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel have issued new reports stating that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Disrupt Burrup Hub activist Petrina Harley faced court for blocking access to Woodside’s industrial plant in Western Australia’s Burrup Hub peninsula last year. Paula Green reports the court rejected her “climate emergency defence”.
Anthony Albanese is right that the Australian state has been sovereign for more than a century and its close military alliances with Britain and the US were not just struck freely, but enthusiastically. Peter Boyle argues that his big deceit is asserting that this is in our common interest.
Labor’s push to further tie Australia to US military ambitions, represented by AUKUS and the recent Talisman Sabre military exercises, puts us on a path to destruction, argues Pip Hinman.
Green Left’s Riley Breen spoke to Hala Shanableh and Amin Abbas from Boycott Caltex Australia about the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.
This year marks 80 years since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing between 150,000 and 246,000 people and devastating two cities. Alexander Brown documents the history of the strong regional anti-war movement in the Illawarra.
Jackie Kriz reports on union members, family, friends and comrades recognising Allan Sargent's dedication and service to the union movement, just before he died.
Janet Parker told a pro-Palestine protest outside Parliament House as Western governments dig in to support Israel, protesters will bring make them accountable.
World
In less than a week, more than 500,000 people have joined in the formation of a new left party after it was announced by former Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. Jonathan Strauss reports.
Education workers in Mexico are leading a renewed struggle to reclaim public retirement systems from global finance, writes Isabel Villalón.
The trial of three activists from Singaporean activist group Letters for Palestine entered its sixth and final day, reports Alex Salmon.
Students and community members in Serbia have been blockading, protesting and building the largest anti-corruption movement Europe has seen in recent history. Sofija Filipovic returned there just in time to participate in one of the latest actions.
Thailand and Cambodia have now agreed on an unconditional ceasefire to end fighting in disputed zones along their 800-kilometre border, reports Susan Price. But what was behind the escalation?
A recording of a panel at the Socialism 2025 conference, which examines Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repression of activists who have publicly opposed his war of aggression against Ukraine.
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 this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, veteran socialist activist Rasti Delizo accounts for the rise of new imperialist powers and outlines the faulty logic behind multipolarity.
In the first part of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, veteran Filipino socialist activist Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevance of Vladimir Lenin’s concept of imperialism.
US President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to vital government agencies responsible for climate research and natural disaster preparation and response mean an independent mass climate movement is more important than ever, writes Barry Shepphard.
A week of brutal sectarian violence in Suwayda, in southern Syria, has left more than 1000 people dead, during which disparate Druze factions united against the Syrian government and Israel further consolidated its grip on the region. Sarah Glynn reports.
Culture
Mat Ward looks back at July’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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.
New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.
Niko Leka reviews Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein’s two-part video series, The Palestine Laboratory, which shows how Israel exports weapons and surveillance technology to the world.
Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante about his new book, Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis.
Prohibited from broadcasting in the United States, the Voice of America always promoted the US as a virtuous brand of democratic good living in the face of tyrants — usually the political left. Binoy Kampmark reports on its silencing.