Forest firefighters marched from Trades Hall to the Victorian Parliament to demand fair pay ahead of a critical bushfire season, with a depleted emergency response fleet. Ron Guy reports.
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Hundreds rallied against the Queensland government’s reimposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The 45th anniversary of the founding of El Salvador’s Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was marked at Fairfield Park. Coral Wynter reports.
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Protesters called on Labor to condemn the United States’ attacks on Venezuela, Colombia and other Latin American countries. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Hundreds marched through the streets of Marrickville to oppose the Inner West Council’s pro-developer plan and the demolition of 50–52 Warren Road. Isaac Nellist reports.
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As Palestinians continue to suffer under the so-called “peace plan” in Gaza, protesters called for an end to the weapons trade with Israel. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle, Riley Breen and Alex Bainbridge report.
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Photos from the Boycott Caltex action by Justice for Palestine in Dutton Park, Magan-djin/Brisbane.
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Community and disability workers rallied across the country to demand fair wages. Angela Carr reports.
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The Capitol Theatre was packed with people wanting to prevent Victorian Labor from demolishing 44 public housing towers. Darren Saffin reports.
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Frances Cheffin, project manager for What Were You Wearing’s national Move For Them day, said the event will be a “massive day of support and celebration, and collective strength”. Mary Merkenich reports.
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Celebrate Palestine South West drew around 200 people to the national day of action protest in early October in Wooditjup/Margaret River. Hannes Nitzsche reports.
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Local councils attitude to the greater presence of nuclear-powered submarines on their doorstep, and to AUKUS more generally, influenced the Western Australian local government elections. Sam Wainwright reports.
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This replacement of affordable housing by luxury apartments is starting, as the Inner West Council tells residents to leave. Jamil Stone and Rachel Evans report.
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Legal experts are calling on NSW Police to drop the charges against 129 climate activists after the Newcastle local court found four protesters not guilty. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has welcomed NSW Labor reaching an in-principle agreement for the Northern Beaches Hospital to become public. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The LGBTIQ community and their supporters rallied outside Queensland’s Supreme Court, hoping to overturn the Liberal National Party’s ban on trans youth receiving gender-affirming care. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Anti-war protesters took direct action on October 21 in several cities to protest the continuing supply of weapons parts to Israel. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Sydney's Maroubra Beach hosted a poignant and beautiful memorial for the children of Gaza, murdered since October 2023 by the genocidal state of Israel. Judith Treanor reports.
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Counter-protests against the racist “March for Australia” rallies were organised across Australia.
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Zack Schofield, an organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio to discuss this year’s People’s Blockade.
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Sex workers and their allies gathered on Gadigal land in Belmore Park to protest the Australian Border Force and various Australia-wide police being given permission to raid brothels. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Peter Greste used a public forum to call for more whistleblower protections in public interest laws. Coral Wynter reports.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Despite all the evidence that we have entered an era of catastrophic climate change, federal Labor is pushing to bring pro-business amendments to Australia’s main environment law. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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When not a single Labor government steps up to address the crises that are being falsely blamed on immigration — unemployment, housing shortages, crime and the cost-of-living rises — it gives space for the far right to spread their hate and division, argues Sue Bull.
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More and more people are falling into poverty, but ending it is easier than we think, argues Isaac Nellist.
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In an attempt to seize a share of a market dominated by China, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has placed Australia’s rare earths and critical minerals at the disposal of United States strategic and war interests. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Marxist activist, author and academic Paul Le Blanc is a guest on the latest Green Left Show discussing politics under the Donald Trump regime.
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Listen to the recording of a speech by Mary Merkenich on the relevance of Marxism.
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Greens senator David Shoebridge speaks to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about his trip to the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
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Adam Bremner, from the No Sunbury Waste Incinerator campaign, was interviewed on Green Left Radio.
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Labor is hailing its social media ban for under 16 year olds as the answer to anxiety among young people, but it’s not that simple, argues Darren Saffin.
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Veteran socialist activist and filmmaker Jill Hickson will be missed, but her legacy of powerful films, many of which were made with John Reynolds, live on. Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman reflect on her enormous contribution to creating a better world.
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Labor’s new housing policy will allow banks pocket billions in extra interest and saddle a generation with more debt, argues Max Chandler-Mather.
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Federal Court Justice Stephen McDonald ruled that the Zionist Federation of Australia could proceed with its lawsuit against journalist Mary Kostakidis. Paul Gregoire reports.
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government, reports Ben Radford.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.
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Abdullah Zeydan, of the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, was elected in a landslide as co-mayor of the Turkish city of Van last year, before the Turkish government suspended him and replaced him with a government-appointed trustee. He spoke to Green Left’s Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg.
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Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans during a military operation in the Intan Jaya Regency. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the European Union have just finalised an economic agreement that gives a green light to the exploitation of West Papua’s natural resources, reports Susan Price.
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Three activists from Singapore’s Letters for Palestine campaign — Mossammad Sobikun Nahar (Sobi), Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori (Camira) and Annamalai Kokila Parvathi (Koki) — were acquitted on October 21 of violating the nefarious 2009 Public Order Act (POA), reports Alex Salmon.
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The International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion is the first to be handed down after the ceasefire centred on the straining 20-point peace plan of United States President Donald Trump, reports Binoy Kampmark.
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Uri Weltmann reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers.
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More than 7 million people rallied and marched across the United States in “No Kings Day” protests. Demonstrations took place in 2700 cities and towns in 50 states and in Washington DC, reports Malik Miah.
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Jude Alexander spoke via text message with Mohammed Al-Ghandour, who is living in a tent in southern Gaza with his family, after being displaced many times during the genocide. They are now contemplating the impossibility of returning to their home.
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Thousands of young people marched in the streets across Peru to protest government corruption and economic insecurity, just five days after former President Dina Boluarte was impeached, reports Ben Radford.
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The trade union movement called general stoppages for Gaza throughout the Spanish state, writes Dick Nichols.
Culture
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Mat Ward looks back at October's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the intersections of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.
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The Union of European Football Associations and International Federation of Football Associations’s failure to sanction Israel’s football teams amounts to complicity in genocide, argues Leo Earle.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents four new books examining the poisoning of the biosphere.
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As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide
In recent months, a wave of artists throughout the entertainment industry has begun speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, reports William Johnson.
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Fahim Hashimy, an Afghan filmmaker and founder of the Ghan International Film Festival Australia, spoke to Markela Panegyres about the resilience of Afghan filmmakers.