Three hundred Myuna Colliery miners and supporters rallied at Eraring Power Station to demand their jobs and a just transition, as the coal-fired power station is wound down. Steve O’Brien reports.
News
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Isaac Nellist, from Socialist Alliance NSW, said Premier Chris Minns’ efforts to criminalise protests will not stop people from exercising their conscience, including protesting a war criminal from Israel. Kerry Smith reports.
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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.
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Thousands rallied across the country calling for a real ceasefire, sanctions against Israel and the Australian government to rescind its invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
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Legal experts addressed a well-attended discussion on the new state and federal anti-free speech laws and how to push back. Richard Boult reports.
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Kurdish communities around the country have responded to the genocidal war against Rojava with multiple protests in several cities. Peter Boyle reports.
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Join nationwide protests against war criminal Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who is due to arrive on February 9.
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Nurses, hospital staff and supporters held a lunchtime rally outside Newcastle’s Mater Hospital, to demand better patient and staff safety. Steve O’Brien reports.
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First Nations leaders and human rights groups are demanding that a bomb designed, the Western Australia Police say, to “explode on impact”, be investigated in the same way that hate crimes against other groups are. Kerry Smith reports.
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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left, giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.
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Merri-bek City Council held its annual Day of Mourning Ceremony at Coburg Town Hall on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples. Darren Saffin reports.
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This year's Invasion Day protests, including many young people, were very large. The turnout represents a huge defeat for the racist, pro-genocide offensive by state and federal governments, and the far right.
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Numbers were up at the weekly peak-hour Free Palestine protest, after protesters were attacked and one person hospitalised the week before. Tim Gooden reports.
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Ahead of the Day of Mourning, January 26, three First Nations Noongar elders are demanding federal and state governments implement all the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Kerry Smith reports.
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Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê is launching an urgent humanitarian campaign in response to the escalating attacks on Rojava.
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The Invasion Day rally will march from Hyde Park to the Yabun Festival and Blak Caucus is calling for a big show of support. Rachel Evans reports.
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Workers and unionists gathered at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, to protest Carnival Cruise’s exploitation of its migrant workforce. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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To mark 10 years since his uncle, Dunghutti man David Dungay jnr, was murdered at Long Bay jail, Paul Silva organised a protest at Hyde Park, which also challenged the NSW’s new draconian anti-protest laws. Rachel Evans reports.
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The Geelong and Victoria Southwest branch of Independent Peaceful Australia Network was attacked as they packed up their “Peak Hour for Peace in Palestine” action. Sarah Hathway reports.
Analysis
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Dal Ouba argues that the new hate speech laws have created different classes of citizenship — which is not in anyone’s best interests.
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Opposition to Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit is growing by the day. Australia has obligations to investigate credible allegations of serious international crimes by Herzog. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Seven Jewish organisations sent this letter to home affairs minister Tony Burke appealing to him to rescind the visas for Israeli President Isaac Herzog and former Major General Doron Almog.
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The Socialist Alliance strongly condemns the United States government’s latest threats against Cuba and stands in solidarity with the Cuban people resisting US imperialism.
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Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has lambasted the government and media for their silence on the attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Boorloo. Cas Smith reports.
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Oxfam’s latest global inequality report shows how growing global inequality is a direct threat to our democratic rights, writes Jacob Andrewartha.
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Josh Adams argues that in a time of growing transphobia, all progressives need to stand up to those spouting hatred and prejudice, including the Mardi Gras Board.
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Janet Parker from Jews for Palestine WA told the Boorloo Palestine rally that the state’s renewed effort to shut down solidarity needs to be challenged.
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Australian capitalism is a greenhouse ogre, enriching itself by poisoning the atmosphere. As Renfrey Clarke points out, the hyper-warmed atmosphere is blowing back over Australia regardless.
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Socialist Alliance opposes Labor’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Jonathan Strauss argues that those who want the right to oppose genocide, or to defend democratic rights more generally, should reject these laws.
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Three activists partially won a case in the Federal Court against Victoria Police’s extraordinary powers over designated areas in the CBD. Chloe DS reports.
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Former Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in good company as one of various politicians of the right (and far right) hue invited by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Noongar Elder Uncle Hedley Hayward told the Invasion Day protest that it is a Day of Mourning, also because of ongoing settler-colonialism.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese frames Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit as a gesture of solidarity, following the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi, but a growing number argue it is a grave moral failure. Olivia Jurincic reports.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that no dictatorship forms overnight. It happens through laws that restrict public assembly, criminalise dissent, expand police powers and reframe political opposition as a threat to public order.
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Peter Boyle joins Green Left Radio to discuss the grave threats against the Rojava Revolution.
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Richard Marles remains wildly enthusiastic about AUKUS, declaring it to be “full steam ahead” after meeting US war ministers Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington in December. Pip Hinman reports.
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Broadcasters are looking to artificial intelligence to replace journalists, which will mean job cuts and adversely impact how news is reported. C S Hughes reports.
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Aiman Farihah, central committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia’s youth wing, argues for a socialist alternative to capitalism’s inherent violence and brutality.
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Socialist Alliance calls on those who support democracy and human rights to oppose the genocidal attacks on the Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution and urges the Australian government to send urgently needed funds.
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United States President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, ostensibly to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, was always problematic, given US complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Alana Lentin argues that by constituting racism as “hate”, it becomes detached from the policies and practices of a state and presented as a matter of attitudes qualified by individuals’ perceptions. The effect is to punish legitimate criticisms of Israel and Zionism.
World
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The Green Left Show’s Isaac Nellist speaks to Federico Fuentes, socialist journalist and editor of LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, about the United States’ January 3 attack on Venezuela and the importance of solidarity.
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An agreement was made under pressure between Rojava’s Syrian Democratic Forces and the United States-backed Syrian Transitional Government (STG) for a permanent ceasefire and integration of Rojava into the STG. Peter Boyle reports.
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Sarah Glynn outlines the sequence of events that have reduced the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria to the main centres of Kurdish habitation and forced Kurds into an uncertain process of integration with the Syrian Transitional Government.
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Just 24 hours after mass protests and strikes across Minnesota against Immigration and Customs Enforcement attacks, Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti. Malik Miah reports.
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Zack Polanski was elected the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales last year. Former Greens leader Derek Wall looks at the impact Polanski is having on the party’s political message and popularity.
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Sarah Glynn writes that as activists across the world were arguing that another world was possible, far away, in the middle of a warzone, the people of Rojava were resisting Islamic State and building a different society that prioritised community over economic interests. That society is in mortal danger today.
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Federico Fuentes, editor of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, joined the Green Left Show to discuss the current situation in Venezuela and how we can build the solidarity movement here in Australia.
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The Rojava Revolution, organised around the principles of pluralism and democracy, women’s liberation and ecology, is under existential threat, writes Elise Boyle Espinosa.
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The Nicolás Maduro government created such a disaster for workers’ living conditions that large segments of the population see his departure as the only chance for change, writes Luís Bonilla-Molina.
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The Iranian uprising is facing brutal repression from the regime, while contending with foreign imperialist machinations, writes Kevin B Anderson.
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BREAKING NEWS: The Rojava Revolution is under a massive attack from the army of the Western-backed Syrian regime of President Ahmed al-Shaara, allied jihadist militias, mercenary groups funded by the Turkish state and the Turkish armed forces, reports Sarah Glynn.
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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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Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv constitutes “a direct and deliberate threat not only to Ukraine but also to European countries”, says the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, which has launched an international solidarity appeal. Kerry Smith reports.
Culture
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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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Green Left has launched a new weekly podcast, On the Streets, to provide listeners with protest news and information, including upcoming rallies and short reports on recent actions. Kerry Smith reports.
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At a time when political views are often pieced together by social media content, cultural meeting points are valuable spaces that must be protected from censorship, writes Mariota S.
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Mat Ward looks back at January’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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The relationship between national oppression and white supremacy is a key to how the billionaire class dominates the working class in the United States, writes Malik Miah.