Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe told Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS that the major parties are in a “race to the bottom” on policy for First Nations peoples and that Labor has “delivered nothing”.
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While road transport is necessary, even urgent in some places, the climate emergency also demands alternatives to road and air transport for people and goods in a continent as vast as Australia, argues Pip Hinman.
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Philippine labour and climate activists Luke Espiritu and Aleijn Reintegrado are guests on the Green Left Show.
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The Left Berlin’s Phil Butland spoke to Paris activist John Mullen about what French president Emmanuel Macron hopes to achieve with the appointment of new right-wing prime minister François Bayrou.
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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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There are fears in Venezuela that the situation approaching inauguration day could trigger a new round of political violence and state repression, reports Federico Fuentes.
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Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto remains a loyal servant of United States imperialism, as his recent phone call to Donald Trump makes clear, reports Peter Boyle.
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United States Senator Bernie Sanders’ bills to stop US weapons transfers to Israel were defeated, with just under 20% of Democrats voting to support the resolutions, writes Dan La Botz.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes sat down with Malfred Gerig, a sociologist from the Central University of Venezuela, to discuss what he calls Maduro’s “neoliberalism with patrimonialist characteristics”. This is the final in a three-part interview.
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Uruguayans chose to return the centre-left Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition to government, by electing its candidate Yamandú Orsi in the run-off presidential election, reports Pablo Meriguet.
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While socialist and Green candidates received higher votes in the Victorian local government elections, Labor’s bid to reduce small party representation with single-member wards worked. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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While incoming United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration is still a month-and-a-half away, he is preparing the ground for his second term, reports Barry Sheppard.