Mainstream commentary on net zero emissions ignores the science and buys into the Coalition’s political conundrum about how it comes back from the brink. Alex Bainbridge argues that Labor needs to do more.
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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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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.
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The election of Democratic Socialist of America member Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world, because it was a popular rejection of Trumpism, argues Peter Boyle.
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Eleven days before he was sacked, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam asked “whether any duly elected reformist government will be allowed to govern in the future?” Bevan Ramsden looks at the context of the dismissal.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Local councils attitude to the greater presence of nuclear-powered submarines on their doorstep, and to AUKUS more generally, influenced the Western Australian local government elections. Sam Wainwright reports.
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Just days before a far-right rally in London, Green Left’s Susan Price spoke to Derek Wall, a former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, about developments on the left, specifically the recent Greens leadership election and the “Your Party” initiative by former Labour Party figures Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.
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Despite the left holding the largest bloc of seats in France’s national assembly, President Emmanuel Macron has again undemocratically appointed one of his allies as prime minister, sparking an explosive grassroots reaction, reports John Mullen.
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A disintegrated left establishment, worsening economic crisis and resurgent right wing marked the first round of Bolivia’s elections, which spelt the end of the Movement Towards Socialism’s 20 years in power, reports Ben Radford.
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Rojava revolutionary leading figure Salih Muslim told Green Left’s Peter Boyle that Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syrian Transitional Government, under pressure from Turkey, was retreating from a previously agreed process to unify the country.