Peter Boyle speaks to Indonesian socialist Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana about the disturbing return to the former Suharto dictatorship era’s notorious “dual function” policy for the military.
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Israel’s pre-emptive, illegal strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was not just an attempt to arrest an alleged existential threat from yielding fruit, it is a murderous exercise of institutional decapitation, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Victor Osprey speaks to left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan about the state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the far right’s influence and the challenges Ukraine’s left faces in building solidarity with their struggles.
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Mass pro-Palestinian demonstrations, called by the five major trade union confederations, were held across France, following a week of solidarity actions in response to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, reports John Mullen.
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Thomas Malone, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Bread and Roses Caucus and organiser with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told the Green Left Show about his experiences of the LA protests against Donald Trump's deportations of immigrants.
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Mass protests have broken out in response to United States mass arrests of migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard report.
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The Shehbaz Sharif government’s disastrous neoliberal policies have led to a sharp decline in Pakistan’s agricultural production, Farooq Tariq reports.
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Youth from more than 80 countries converged in Windhoek at the University of Namibia for the 21st General Assembly of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) on May 20–23, reports Shamikh Badra.
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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement won an important victory when Trinity College Dublin cut institutional ties with Israeli universities. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Jude Alexander spoke via text message with Dr Mohammed Hamad, who is now living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children. He and his family have been repeatedly displaced due to the war and are barely surviving due to the blocking of distribution of food and humanitarian aid.
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A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is under increasing pressure from trade unions and civil society to break ties with Israel, reports Federico Fuentes.