Philippine activist Khyl Ramos was a guest speaker at the recent Ecosocialism 2026 conference in Magan-djin/Brisbane, where he sat down with Ben Radford to discuss last year’s Gen Z protests, recent opposition to the United States-led Pax Silica initiative and the need for ecosocialist alternatives.
Lucy Millett argues that it has become clear that federal Labor’s net-zero deadlines mean nothing, despite its promises to act on the climate emergency. She is urging organisations to support the pre-COP31 rally.
Coffs Harbour City Council voted to rescind the council’s 2022 declaration of a climate emergency. Brian Mahony reports.
Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) deputy secretary-general Gandipan Nantha Gopalan, tells Green Left’s Peter Boyle that given Malaysia's unprecedented Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centre investment boom, the government should publicly release the full balance sheet on jobs, economic development and environmental impacts.
The Prime Minister delivered a sort of homily to the United Nations, saying Australia “understands the dangers of global warming and the urgency of climate action”. But his actions belie his words, argues Pip Hinman.
In response to the escalating wildfire crisis in Indonesia since July, which has covered much of Southeast Asia in a protracted and hazardous smoke haze, activists are calling for companies behind the crisis to be named and shamed, reports Peter Boyle.
Ayesha Ahmad, a Pakistani socialist-feminist activist, researcher, educator and labour rights practitioner with the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, was one of the guest speakers at the Ecosocialism 2026 conference in Magan-djin/Brisbane. She spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the impact of the mounting global ecological crisis on politics in Pakistan.
Indonesia is facing another wildfire catastrophe, reports Chris Lang.
The Ecosocialism 2026 conference, in Magan-djin/Brisbane, brought together ecosocialist, anti-colonial, feminist and anti-racist activists for an empowering exchange of ideas and experiences. Peter Boyle reports.
Federal Labor maintained its support for the fossil fuel industry against community demands for genuine climate action, by voting down a motion that would have blocked the so-called Improved Native Forest Management system. The Greens were split on the vote. Alex Bainbridge looks at what is at stake.
See Yong Feng was one of the guest speakers at the Ecosocialism 2026 conference in Magan-djin/Brisbane. He illustrated in his presentation, “Degrowth and Ecosocialism”, how it would be possible for all people — in the Global South and Global North — to have a good life without crossing planetary boundaries.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown said Australia is “culpable” for the devastation in Nepal because it was not acting seriously on the dangers of carbon emissions changing the climate. Alex Bainbridge reports.
