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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Critics of a proposed stadium say the projected debt of $1.8 billion would take funding away from essential state infrastructure. Solomon Doyle reports.
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In Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers, Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre make a valuable contribution to Marxist economics, first, in demonstrating the empirical credibility of the labour theory of value and, second, in showing how it can explain the economics of imperialism and environmental degradation, writes Neville Spencer.
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Lock the Gate Alliance, along with 130 community groups, is calling on MPs to reject Labor’s changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, describing it as a “betrayal”. Kerry Smith reports.
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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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Greater public funding of higher education and an end to the commodification of university education and research would be a basis for enhanced university governance and better staff and student experiences, argues Jonathan Strauss.
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While millions of people are falling into poverty due to skyrocketing rents and house prices, Labor should stop spending billions of our money on AUKUS, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Direct action organiser and activist Lilli Barto delivered this poem to a protest, organised by the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.
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Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government, reports Ben Radford.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.