In the first part of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, veteran Filipino socialist activist Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevance of Vladimir Lenin’s concept of imperialism.
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US President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to vital government agencies responsible for climate research and natural disaster preparation and response mean an independent mass climate movement is more important than ever, writes Barry Shepphard.
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A week of brutal sectarian violence in Suwayda, in southern Syria, has left more than 1000 people dead, during which disparate Druze factions united against the Syrian government and Israel further consolidated its grip on the region. Sarah Glynn reports.
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United States President Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods, in protest against what he described as a “Witch Hunt” against former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, reports Federico Fuentes.
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July 6 marked 27 years since the Biak massacre in 1998, when Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, reports Kerry Smith.
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Phil Hearse investigates the links between the genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the struggle for control over critical minerals.
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In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Ben Radford sits down with Panamanian union leader José Cambra to talk about the mass opposition to the recent agreement signed between the Panamanian and United States governments to re-establish US military bases and personnel along the Panama Canal.
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Green Left’s Ben Radford sat down with José Cambra, an executive committee member of the Panama Teachers’ Association, about the country-wide strike and the government’s heavy-handed response.
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United States President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” represents one of the biggest transfers of wealth from workers and the poor to the billionaire class in US history, reports Malik Miah.
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Two years after Peruvian revolutionary and ecosocialist Hugo Blanco’s death at 88, his daughter, María Blanco — an activist and organiser with grassroots feminist collective Género Rebelde — sat down with Ben Radford to talk about her father’s life and legacy.
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The Socialist Party of Malaysia is protesting the invitation issued to United States President Donald Trump to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-US summit in Malaysia, reports Susan Price.
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In her second interview, Australian citizen journalist Jude Alexander spoke via text message with nutritionist Dr Mohammed Hamad, about his arrest and 47-day detention by Israeli authorities. Dr Hamad is living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children.