Sarah Glynn examines two recent blows to democracy in the Kurdish region of the Middle East.
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In the second of our two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Elias Jaua — Chavista, socialist and former vice-president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez — about the response inside the country to the January 3 US military assault, the Nicolás Maduro government, the state of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and popular participation today.
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This year's Sydney Film Festival, running from June 3–14, features films about First Nations resistance, a Palestinian uprising and communities seeking justice, writes Ben Radford.
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In Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era, Clinton Fernandes looks at the implications for Australia as United States President Donald Trump and his government upend the so-called “international rules-based order”. Darren Saffin reviews.
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Working people across the United States marched and rallied on International Workers’ Day to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarian regime and its anti-worker, pro-billionaire policies, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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Notwithstanding all the death and destruction meted out by the United States and Israel against Iran, they have failed to achieve victory and exposed the limits of US imperialism, writes Dave Holmes.
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Bill Nevins reviews punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys recent show in Denver, Colorado, where the band reprised the classic Irish resistance ballad, “Men Behind the Wire", referencing the ICE raids in Minneapolis and the ravages of US President Donald Trump’s onslaught against migrants and people of colour.
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Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard report that more than eight million people marched and rallied in 3300 cities and towns across the United States, in the biggest “No Kings” day of protest to date.
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Two months have passed since the United States tightened its illegal 64-year economic blockade of Cuba, threatening countries supplying oil to the island nation. Green Left’s Ben Radford spoke to the Cuban Ambassador to Australia, Gilma Moreira Lino, about how Cubans are responding and the importance of international solidarity.
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Political economist and author Helen Yaffe spoke to Green Left’s Alex Bainbridge about how the Cuban people are responding to the United States government ramping up its imperialist aggression.
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In this interview with Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelan economist Carlos Mendoza Potellá offers his analysis on the recent reform of the Hydrocarbon Law and the struggle for sovereignty in Venezuela.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke with Venezuelan leftist Luis Fernando Marquez, a National Agrarian Alliance founding organiser and Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy activist, about his views on events since the January 3 United States military incursion.