While mass rallies and marches are often the go-to approach for activists, there has always been scope for creative activity to play a part in shaping how wider society thinks about an issue, writes Cas Smith.
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Here Where We Live is Our Country is a long-awaited contribution to the sparse field of knowledge about the Jewish Labor Bund, a group that played a key role in late 19th and early 20th century Marxist history. Cas Smith reviews.
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An event and exhibition aiming to draw concrete lessons from the struggle against Indonesia’s New Order military regime, highlighting the contributions of left and pro-democracy movements, will take place in Jakarta this month. Peter Boyle speaks to Esty Pratiwi Lubarman, one of the event’s organisers.
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Green Left’s Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud spoke with activist journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin during her visit to Australia from the United States to promote her film, Earth’s Greatest Enemy.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on denial, green colonialism, wildfires, energy, the far right, global crises and our ties to nature.
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Mat Ward looks back at July’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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The 74th Melbourne International Film Festival will feature more than 300 films, shorts, immersive experiences and special events. Film buffs Jake Maison and Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud have put together their selection of festival films that are sure to be of interest to Green Left readers.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus introduces six new books on revolution, climate denial, invasive species, planetary history, ecocivilisation and the war makers.
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Progressive singer/songwriter Steel City Sue joined Green Left Radio to talk about her upcoming tour.
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In Buried in Practice, author John C Wilson has preserved a record of truth for the Indigenous peoples of West Papua, writes John Seed.
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Mat Ward looks back at June's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Green Left’s Bill Nevins spoke with Zayd Ayers Dohrn about the explosive themes in his new book, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground.