Lutruwita Socialist Alliance and Grassroots Action Network Tasmania organised a direct-action protest against the Iran war outside the Anglesea Barracks during an Australian Defence Force open day. Solomon Doyle reports.
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Zara Araz joined 400 women from around Latin America and the world at an international women’s conference in Bogotá, Colombia, to exchange experiences, ideas and solidarity in the struggles against colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy.
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Steve O’Brien, a lifelong peace activist, trade unionist and socialist, is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the by-election for Newcastle lord mayor. Maureen Frances reports.
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As United States President Donald Trump’s regime intensified its illegal blockade of Cuba, ExxonMobil launched a case in the US Supreme Court to demand US$1 billion in compensation for assets seized by the Cuban people following the 1959 revolution, reports Kerry Smith.
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Tamara Pearson reports that Mexicans have mobilised around the country to donate tonnes of food, medicine and supplies, such as batteries and hygiene products, to Cuba.
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Cooking with charcoal, waiting for water; women and the elderly bear the brunt of Donald Trump’s measures against Cuba. Lisandra Fariñas reports from Cuba’s capital, Havana.
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After Israel cut off fuel and electricity supplies in Gaza, fuel has become largely inaccessible, forcing thousands of Palestinians to confront an urgent and ongoing energy shortage, writes Islam Elhabil.
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Jaime López García, president of the National Union of Coal Industry Workers, speaks to Green Left’s Ben Radford about how workers are responding to Colombia’s declining coal industry and bringing forward demands for a just transition for coal workers and their communities.
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Colombian coal workers against genocide: An interview with Sintracarbón President Jaime López García
Jaime López García, president of the National Union of Coal Industry Workers in Colombia, speaks to Green Left’s Ben Radford about coal workers’ solidarity with Palestinians and the role of workers in upholding human rights.
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The international legal system was torn to shreds when the United States military intervened in Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, National Assembly deputy Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, writes Luís Bonilla-Molina.
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With its violent military intervention into Venezuela, the United States has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism, writes Tamara Pearson.
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The United States administration’s double standards towards Venezuela have seen it move between buying oil from Venezuela to claiming the country’s state leaders are part of a criminal drug cartel to justify a military deployment and eventual attack, writes Luís Bonilla-Molina.