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Green Left is Australia's leading ecosocialist and anti-capitalist publication and seeks to be a voice for activists involved in First Nations, environment, social and workers campaigns and struggles. If you like our work become a supporter and share your stories.

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Tuesday Jul 18, 2023

Mike Treen: Capitalism in Crisis | Ecosocialism 2023

Tuesday Jul 18, 2023

#Ecosocialism2023 session with Mike Treen: https://ecosocialism.org.au/sessions/capitalism-crisis

Today we are facing a renewed global recession that threatens a return of a great depression. This is because the weak recovery after 2008 still required an enormous explosion of debt. The inflationary money printing followed this to cope with the COVID-19 crisis that will require interest rates we haven’t seen in decades to bring under control. That, in turn, will provoke a cascade of debt and broader financial crises across the globe.

Marx had identified the essence of the periodic crises of capitalism as crises of overproduction very early on, even in the Communist Manifesto in 1848. This crisis can only happen because production periodically exceeds monetarily effective demand, which is ultimately determined by the existing size and growth rate of the global hoard of the money commodity — gold.

Overproduction as the underlying cause of crisis, which is based on Marx’s concept of money as the universal equivalent, has been — especially since the end of what remained of the international gold standard in 1971 — all but forgotten, including by most of those claiming to be Marxist.

Mike Treen will use the latest crisis to illustrate how it confirms Marx's crisis theory.

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Sunday Jul 16, 2023

Jenin refugee camp attack, riots in France & Robodebt royal commission | Green Left News Podcast

Sunday Jul 16, 2023

Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist and refugee rights activist Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats. Cover image Zebedee Parkes.

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Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Big turn out for NAIDOC march

Protest calls on Plibersek to halt defence housing project at Binybara

Protesters say ‘no’ to Middle Arm gas project

NSW legal groups call for new religious discrimination amendments to be rejected

NSW Teachers Federation deepens opposition to AUKUS, militarism

NSW gov’t told not to demolish Explorer Street public housing

ICAC finds Berejiklian acted corruptly – and that’s it

Robodebt victims need justice, not platitudes

Jenin atrocity sparks call for Australia to ban all military exports to Israel

Protesters say no to Tamil refugee deportation

Federal Court judge rules hotel detention inhumane but legal

Talisman Sabre war games focus on interoperability

Korean community protests Fukushima waste plan

International

Israel seeks revenge with Jenin invasion

Rioting across France after police murder teenager

United States: Supreme Court upholds LGBTQ discrimination, denies student debt relief

United States: Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi law against Black voting rights

United States: Supreme Court outlaws affirmative action

Canada: Striking dock workers need working-class solidarity against ruling-class collusion

Kurds protest death threat to imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan

Australian company demands $3.3bn from Greenland for uranium mining ban

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Friday Jul 07, 2023

Fukushima nuclear waste dumping, rebellion in Russia & cashless welfare | Green Left News Podcast

Friday Jul 07, 2023

Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Leo Earle go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Join refugee rallies across the country.

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Labor breaks election promise with new income management card

Family of man shot by NSW Police in 2019 calls for justice, reforms

Trans rights are human rights, protesters say

World Whistleblower Day protest calls for Assange’s release

No to AUKUS nuclear submarine meeting draws hundreds

Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council

Postal workers fight for an activist union

Bill to legalise personal pot introduced in NSW, Vic, WA

Public housing residents call action to save Barak Beacon Estate

International

Japan’s plan to dump radioactive Fukushima waste meets protests across the Pacific

A Russian leftist deciphers Prigozhin’s failed armed rebellion

United States: India's Modi receives a royal welcome

Turkish armed drones assassinate women political leaders in Rojava

Senegal: Violent clashes as protesters stare down president

Venezuela shows Australia the way on housing

Sudan: Local organising central to responding to war and humanitarian crisis

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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Wednesday Jun 28, 2023

‘Wall of gay’, blockading ports & tragic shipwreck | Green Left News Podcast

Wednesday Jun 28, 2023

Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist is joined by refugee rights activist Chloe as they go through the latest news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

‘Wall of gay’ formed to defend drag story time

Disability activists blockade Sydney Road, call for accessible tram stops

CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service

Voice to Parliament referendum confirmed to be held in next six months

Blockade Australia takes action in three ports

Environment coalition protests NT Labor’s plans for more gas

Lead concerns prompt NSW central west to demand toxic gold and silver mines are closed

Rally hears from public housing tenants fighting to stay in their homes

International

Shipwreck in Greece: Why were half those onboard Pakistanis?

Myanmar's spring revolution and the Rohingya genocide

Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity

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Tuesday Jun 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence and Capitalism

Tuesday Jun 27, 2023

Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha an activist with All India Students' Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour about the real meaning of the emergence of AI development under capitalism.

Is it an apocalyptic existential threat as presented by many CEOs & tech 'leaders' or is it an accentuation of existing threats posed to the weakest sections of the working class?

Aishik Saha, will be speaking at a session on "'Artificial intelligence', capitalism and liberation" at the upcoming Ecosocialism 2023: A World Beyond Capitalism conference on July 1-2 in Naarm/Melbourne.

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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Tuesday Jun 20, 2023

‘Same job, same pay’, fighting council cuts & rich countries owe climate reparations | Green Left News Podcast

Tuesday Jun 20, 2023

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Unions step up push for ‘same job, same pay’ rule

Community pushes back against Geelong City Council’s proposed cuts

Public housing residents suspend occupation, call on minister to save their homes

Protestors call on Vic Labor to save Barak Beacon housing estate

Industrial farming has killed billions of birds

International

Rich countries owe US$192 trillion in climate reparations to global South

Challenges for climate activists in Singapore

United States: The rich win, environment and people lose in ‘debt ceiling’ deal

‘We will not give in to blackmail’: Colombians defend government and progressive reforms

Swaziland: Campaign launched for release of political prisoners

India: Modi govt’s criminal neglect of railway safety

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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Sunday Jun 18, 2023

Michael West on the PricewaterhouseCoopers scandal

Sunday Jun 18, 2023

The Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee has uncovered explosive evidence about the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) secrets-for-sale scandal.

View online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-price-waterhouse-coopers-scandal

What went wrong at PwC and why is it such a big deal for Australian democracy?

Suzanne James talks to investigative journalist Michael West about the PwC scandal and the unsustainability of the Big 4 government consultancy model.

The scandal, triggered by a Senate Inquiry led by SA Greens Senator Barbara Pocock, has immense ramifications for Australia with a compromised corporate consultancy - the Government’s own auditor - now deeply embedded in Government core business. Clients include the ATO, the AFP and Defence to name a few.

The interview explores the global reach of KMPG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC, their lack of regulation and disclosure requirements, and why they are the very antithesis of democracy itself.

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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Tuesday Jun 13, 2023

World Environment Day, public housing occupation & Canada’s climate win | Green Left News Podcast

Tuesday Jun 13, 2023

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

World Environment Day protests demand urgent action on climate, scrap anti-protest laws

Queensland Labor delegates vote against AUKUS

Ben Roberts-Smith: The breaking of a plaster saint

Housing activists occupy Glebe public housing slated for demolition

Rally calls for an end to public housing sell-offs

Housing crisis is another chronic market failure

As we struggle to get by, billionaires are getting richer

Councils must show solidarity, stop enabling drag panic

CPSU members reject federal public service pay offer

'From Australia to Cuba with love' campaign launched

Sudan solidarity rally: 'We will rise stronger and more beautiful than ever'

Podcast: Resisting Modi's India

International

Canada: Bay du Nord offshore oil project shelved

Brazil: Can Lula’s plan bring peace to Ukraine?

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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Thursday Jun 08, 2023

Resistance to Modi’s India

Thursday Jun 08, 2023

Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Clifton D'Rozario, a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation about the rise of the Modi government in India and popular resistance to his autocratic project that aspires to turn India into a Hindu-supremacist fascist state.

Clifton D'Rozario is a featured speaker at the upcoming Ecosocialism 2023: A World Beyond Capitalism conference on July 1-2 in Naarm/Melbourne.

See details for the conference here: https://ecosocialism.org.au/

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

If you like our work, become a supporter:
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Wednesday Jun 07, 2023

Housing justice needs system change

Wednesday Jun 07, 2023

Green Left's Alex Bainbridge spoke to Peter Boyle from the Socialist Alliance about the causes of and solutions to the current housing crisis and why housing needs to be organised to meet people's needs instead of being a source of investment profits.

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

If you like our work, become a supporter:
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Podcast also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.