Delegates to Labor’s national conference were greeted by two large protests, as well as smaller actions, demanding that AUKUS be scrapped and communities and climate action be funded. Markela Panegyres reports.
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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.
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Brazilian socialists Sabrina Fernandes and Mariana Riscali are confirmed to speak at Ecosocialism 2026, which is bringing together activists to discuss pathways for overcoming capitalism. Fred Fuentes reports.
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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.
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Tamils and supporters rallied outside the State Library of Victoria to demand justice for the people who were murdered by the Sri Lankan army and buried in mass graves at the town of Chemmani in northern Sri Lanka. Chris Slee reports.
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Deepak Joshi joined Green Left Radio to talk about protests against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
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Labor foreign minister Penny Wong is outraged that China is testing its intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it is is “destabilising” for the region. However, as Pip Hinman writes, the RIMPAC26 military exercises — on now, based off Hawai’i — provoke war.
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Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, on July 6, 1988. Although the Australian government knew about the massacre, it failed to condemn the Indonesian military for the atrocity — a practice successive Australian governments have continued, reports Susan Price.
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In Buried in Practice, author John C Wilson has preserved a record of truth for the Indigenous peoples of West Papua, writes John Seed.
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Narendar from the Indian community joins Green Left Radio to discuss the upcoming protest against the Indian prime minister.
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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.
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Two prominent Baloch human rights defenders were sentenced to life imprisonment, on June 22, under Pakistan's notorious anti-terrorism laws, reports Peter Boyle.