After a series of protests over cuts to fuel subsidies brought the country to a halt, Bolivia’s powerful social movements embark on a new chapter and face new forms of repression. Gabriel García Rodríguez reports.
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Since the United States military assault on Venezuela, there have been rapid changes in the country, most importantly the reform of Venezuela’s oil law. In the second of our two-part interview, Federico Fuentes speaks to author and sociologist Malfred Gerig about the reform, the likelihood of resistance and solidarity with the Venezuelan people.
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In the first of our two-part interview, Federico Fuentes spoke to Malfred Gerig, a sociologist and author from the Central University of Venezuela, to discuss how the US government’s military assault on Venezuela was able to occur, US aims in Venezuela and the region and the role of Venezuela’s right-wing opposition.
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Sarah Glynn reports on the situation on the ground in Syria and Turkey, following the ceasefire and integration agreement signed by the Syrian Transitional Government and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and Syrian Democratic Forces.
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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.