The long-anticipated framework law for the dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party was brought before Turkish parliament. But it raises more questions than answers, argues Sarah Glynn.
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Keiko Fujimori, leader of the far-right Popular Force party, was sworn in as Peru’s president, after narrowly defeating leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez in the run-off election in June, reports Ben Radford.
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India’s youth-led ‘Cockroach’ movement forced the education minister to resign over corruption and exam leaks. Isaac Nellist spoke to Manish Kumar, from the All India Students’ Association, about this powerful movement against Narendra Modi’s right-wing government.
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Tanking in the polls, United States President Donald Trump repeated his charge that the 2020 elections were “stolen” from him, preparing the ground to challenge the results of November's midterm election, writes Barry Sheppard.
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On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist speaks to Manish Kumar, Uttar Pradesh state president of the All India Students’ Association, about the powerful Cockroach Janata Party movement that forced education minister Dhamendra Pradhan to resign.
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An international call for solidarity has been issued by progressive organisations as the people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir face one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history.
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Following an escalation in attacks on Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Angeline Shannan, an independent observer and refugee rights advocate, and Madhavi Madhu, a member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and a longstanding refugee rights activist.
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After the June earthquakes, United States and Israeli troops have arrived in Venezuela, but economic and political interests, not humanitarian recovery, appear to be driving their presence, writes Jessica Dos Santos Jardim.
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Clinical nutritionist Mohammed Hamad lives in Gaza with his family. Activist journalist Jude Alexander has been in regular contact with him throughout Israel’s genocidal war.
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Isaac Nellist spoke with An Cú from the Welsh Underground Network — a Marxist group that campaigns for a Socialist Welsh Republic through community action — about the significance of the May 7 elections for the 96-seat Senedd Cymru (Welsh parliament), the rise of the far right and the developing Welsh nationalist movement.
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Ana Cristina Carvalhaes is a founding activist of Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party. In this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, Carvalhaes explains US President Donald Trump’s aggressive neo-colonialist shift and the imperialist and sub-imperialist role played by some 'middle-sized economies'.
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Ana Cristina Carvalhaes is a founding member of Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party. In this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, Carvalhaes argues for a non-dogmatic theory of imperialism that incorporates ecology.