Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss NSW Police’s attempt to block the Rising Tide People’s Blockade of the world’s largest coal port and talk to Green Left journalist Alex Bainbridge about the Queensland election results.
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Many people already have distrust of politicians and the political system, and the furore around PM Anthony Albanese receiving favours from disgraced former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is fuelling it. Peter Boyle reports.
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While the Liberal National Party had been predicted to win the October 26 Queensland election, its victory was not on the scale of Labor’s decimation in 2012, as some had feared. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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When Indonesia’s new president Prabowo Subianto announced his cabinet, a number of former activists and leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PRD) were among its 109 members. Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Rudi Hartono, former editor of the PRD’s publication Berdikari, about this development.
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Green Left's Peter Boyle spoke to Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana from Indonesia's Perserikatan Sosialis (Socialist Union), one of the left groups protesting former Suharto-era general Prabowo Subianto, who was sworn in as Indonesia's new president on October 20.
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Michael Karrer spoke to Atenea Jiménez, a sociologist and founder of the National Network of Commune Activists and the Campesino University of Venezuela Argimiro Gabaldón, about the situation following Venezuela’s July 28 elections.
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A week out from the October 26 Queensland election, the two major parties are doubling down on their racist law and order campaign, despite experts warning of social problems worsening without structural reform. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Federico Fuentes explains what happened in the Venezuelan elections, what it means and where it leaves the solidarity movement.
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Justice for Palestine Magan-djin campaigner and Greens candidate for Moreton Remah Naji speaks to Alex Bainbridge on the Green Left Show.
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Tempest interviewed Marxist activist John Mullen about anti-capitalist organising and the need for unity to overcome divisions within the left in France.
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After France’s recent parliamentary elections, President Emmanuel Macron refused to allow the Nouveau Front Populaire left alliance to form government. Tempest interviewed Marxist activist John Mullen about the challenges facing the left in France following the formation of the new right-wing government.
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Despite its malicious strategy of communal gerrymandering to win the Legislative Assembly elections in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party was rejected by a thumping majority, report Farooq Sulehria and Haris Qadeer.