World

Marine Le Pen jail bars Euros

At the end of a two-month trial, far‑right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros in public funds over an 11‑year period. However, stopping fascism requires mass counter mobilisation, writes John Mullen.

Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on Israeli institutions and their representatives, an effort that is impossible to divorce from his ongoing trial for corruption, writes Binoy Kampmark.

Trump's face and oil wells in background

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has led to a decline in "greenwashing" strategies and a renewed focus on climate denial, along with a brazen intransigence in the face of an escalating climate catastrophe, argues John Clarke.

Adam Hanieh against background of US dollar bills

Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes sat down with Hanieh to discuss the state of global imperialism today and the significance of Donald Trump’s presidency.

damage from earthquake

Myanmar's military junta is seeking an opportunity in the recent earthquake to rehabilitate its image overseas, while consolidating power at home, argues Tharaphi Than.

Tishreen dam

For months now, the picturesque banks of the Euphrates River have become a war zone, as Turkish jets bomb the hills surrounding the Tishreen dam. Protecting this vital water source are hundreds of protesters in need of international support, reports Make Rojava Green Again.

Trump and tariff list

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by United States President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion, writes Binoy Kampmark.

man sitting on the grass

Columbia University postgraduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil dictated this letter from his cell in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana, on March 18.

statue of liberty crumbling and two framed faces

The attacks on immigrants, international students and permanent residents in the United States are a grim reminder of the long history of deportations and border control as a strategy to punish political radicals, writes Malik Miah.

Ferat Kocak speaking

Green Left’s Mary Merkenich recently spoke with Daniel Kipka-Anton from German left party Die Linke.

two men sitting at a table in a cafe

Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine. This is the first part of his account.

workers using vacuums to suck oil out of waterways in Ecuador

Communities in Esmeraldas province in northern Ecuador have denounced the government’s failure to act following one of the country’s biggest oil spills in recent history, reports Ben Radford.