Ecuadorians resoundingly rejected far-right President Daniel Noboa’s plans to undermine the country’s sovereignty and change the constitution in favour of his neoliberal project, reports Ben Radford.
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In the 1990s, the Turkish state exercised a rule of terror in the Kurdish south-east. Villages were erased, people were disappeared and many activists were sent to jail for “life”. One of those since released, Selahattin Mete, spoke to Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg.
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Winnie Marion, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in New York City, joins the Green Left Show to discuss the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC.
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Right-wing led protests this weekend across Mexico were a bizarre attempt to copy-paste recent uprisings and protests in Nepal, the Philippines and Indonesia and were conjured up from AI campaigns, bots and influencers, not real social movements, writes Tamara Pearson.
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Amira Mohammed, one of the commanders of the Women’s Protection Units in North East Syria (Rojava), spoke to Firat News Agency’s Cûdî Îbrahîm about the role of women in Syria and the protection of all women living in the country.
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Russian sociologist and anti-war political prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky was released from three days of solitary confinement to the relief of his supporters, reports Susan Price.
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Greens Senator David Shoebridge became the first Australian parliamentarian to visit the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava). He spoke with Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the visit.
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Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City was a kick in the teeth to United States President Donald Trump and a moment of hope for socialists around the world. To unpack the victory and the challenges ahead, Green Left’s Isaac Nellist spoke with Winnie Marion, a socialist activist based in NYC.
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In a historic victory for the left, Catherine Connolly won the presidential election in Ireland, becoming the first left candidate to win a majority of votes in a national election. Green Left’s Isaac Nellist speaks to Paul Murphy, Dublin-based ecosocialist and member of the Irish Parliament, about the significance of the campaign.
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Western Australian-based mining corporation Energy Transition Minerals lost its bid to overrule a 2023 decision by the Greenland government to reject its application to mine uranium and rare earths, reports Peter Boyle.
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In a follow-up interview with Indonesia’s youth activists, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg spoke to Ramzy and Romadon, from Salatiga in Central Java, about what sparked them to become activists and the political developments occurring at a local and regional level.
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Isaac Nellist speaks to Irish ecosocialist activist Paul Murphy about the presidential election campaign of Catherine Connolly, who won the presidency with a historic margin while standing for neutrality, against Israel’s genocide and for a more just and equal society.