At least 350 people attended the annual Appin Massacre Memorial Day event, which blended mourning with a celebration of survival. Stephen Langford reports.
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Known as the last colony of Africa, Western Sahara is the largest country on the United Nations’ decolonisation list waiting for a referendum of self-determination. Australia-Western Sahara solidarity activist Ron Guy spoke with Ambassador Malainin Lakhal, deputy permanent representative of the Sahrawi Republic to Ethiopia and the African Union.
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Peter Boyle speaks to Rudi Hartono, managing editor of the Indonesian progressive publication Merdika.id about the impact of the country's new criminal laws, which maintain provisions introduced under Dutch colonial rule.
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Green Left journalist and Socialist Alliance member Ben Radford outlined why we need ecosocialism and decolonisation at the Rising Tide People’s Blockade.
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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 New Progressive Party, Puerto Rico’s right-wing pro-statehood faction, has entrenched itself as a major political force, creating a system that increasingly resembles a one-party state, argues Javier A Hernández.
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Gubernatorial elections were held on November 5 in the United States colony of Puerto Rico, with pro-independence candidate Juan Dalmau only narrowly defeated by pro-Trump candidate Jenniffer González-Colón, reports Barry Sheppard.
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Justice for Palestine Magan-djin campaigner and Greens candidate for Moreton Remah Naji speaks to Alex Bainbridge on the Green Left Show.
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The leaders of the three main countries in Africa’s Sahel region — just south of the Sahara Desert — met in Niamey, Niger, to deepen their Alliance of Sahel States (AES), on July 6 and 7, writes Vijay Prashad.
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Polisario Front’s Australian representative Kamal Fadel has urged Fortescue not to undermine United Nations decolonisation efforts by making a deal with the occupation government in Western Sahara. Ron Guy reports.
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David Robie joins the Green Left Show to discuss the current revolt in Kanaky/New Caledonia.
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Colin Falconer provides invaluable background to the uprising in Kanaky/New Caledonia, over France's latest attempt to derail independence.