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Ayatollah and Jina Amini

Iran under the mullahs has seen several waves of mass protest, each put down with extreme violence, writes Sarah Glynn.

Young children in a tent in the Global South

Foreign aid is commonly regarded as an altruistic contribution by countries in the Global North to countries in the Global South, with the aim of reducing poverty. However, while there are some exceptions, foreign aid today reinforces global inequalities by building on the economic and political structures created during the colonial era, argues Allen Jennings.

book covers and bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning and techno-fossils.

Rally supporting Mossadegh and the Ayatollah Komeini

For most of the news media, the United States and Israel’s war on Iran has fallen off the agenda, but the story is far from over, and has many prequels, writes Sarah Glynn.

Calendar showing 4-day workweek

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has urged a national move towards a four-day workweek, in a proposal put to the federal Labor government’s Economic Reform Roundtable. Jim McIlroy reports.

‘Uncovering Chemmani — Uncovering Genocide’. Tamils protest in Canberra

The recent discovery of a mass grave in Sri Lanka has ignited a wave of protests by Tamils demanding an investigation, accompanied by calls for the government to fulfil its pledge to improve the treatment of Tamils. Chris Slee reports.

Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 — with the theme “Ecosocialism not Barbarism” — will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America. Fred Fuentes reports.

warships superimposed with countries' flags

In the second part of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, veteran socialist activist Rasti Delizo accounts for the rise of new imperialist powers and outlines the faulty logic behind multipolarity.

British map of North American colonies in 1639

In the first part of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, veteran Filipino socialist activist Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevance of Vladimir Lenin’s concept of imperialism.

Man in a hat

Two years after Peruvian revolutionary and ecosocialist Hugo Blanco’s death at 88, his daughter, María Blanco — an activist and organiser with grassroots feminist collective Género Rebelde — sat down with Ben Radford to talk about her father’s life and legacy.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.

book cover against background of a crowd

Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks with Marxist sociologist Kevin B Anderson, whose new book delves into Karl Marx’s final writings to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today.