Ever since Western Australian-based company Lynas Rare Earths set up its rare earth refinery near the Malaysian city of Kuantan, it has faced strong community opposition based on well-founded concerns about the plant’s radioactive waste. Peter Boyle reports.
Peter Boyle speaks to Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana from Perserikatan Sosialis (Socialist Union, PS), a left group in Indonesia, about the latest round of youth-led protests that kicked off in June in Jakarta.
Pauline Hanson’s podcast interview with far-right British figure Tommy Robinson has cleared up any ambiguity about the meaning of One Nation’s call for a “monocultural” Australia, argues Peter Boyle.
Isaac Nellist spoke to longtime socialist and anti-racist activist Peter Boyle on the Green Left Show about the rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and how to stop its racist, anti-worker agenda.
Environmental activists have applauded a decision by the Greenlandic government to reject an extension to a controversial exploration license held by Western Australia-based mining company Energy Transition Minerals, reports Peter Boyle.
As 'Gen Z' youth revolts rock many countries in Asia, Peter Boyle spoke to Arveent Kathirtchelvan, a youth activist in the Socialist Party of Malaysia, about how right-wing politicians are channeling rising mass dissatisfaction into racist scapegoating of minorities.
Two prominent Baloch human rights defenders were sentenced to life imprisonment, on June 22, under Pakistan's notorious anti-terrorism laws, reports Peter Boyle.
Hatam Yekta, a 36-year-old Kurdish refugee from Iran, is on the brink of death in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Kurdish human rights defender Dr Hawzhin Azeez spoke to Peter Boyle.
Billionaire rule has been grossly unjust and patently unsustainable for a long time, but now it is revealing a new level of political toxicity, argues Peter Boyle.
Wiradjuri and Yuin Redfern resident Angeline Penrith told a protest that Redfern is well into its gentrification, and everyone can see what has happened — under the guise of “progress”. Peter Boyle reports.
One Nation’s right-wing populism is built around a big lie, writes Peter Boyle, because it defends the very capitalist system that has created the widespread pain and insecurity it seeks to channel into racist scapegoating.
Person to person, a panoramic video exhibit in the 2026 Sydney Biennale by artists Merilyn Fairskye and Michiel Dolk, shares the rich history of Woolloomooloo told through first-hand stories of local residents, writes Peter Boyle.
