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Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Learo Earle go through the latest activist news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage at greenleft.org.au.
Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.
Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito
Green Left articles featured in this episode:
Australia
Stage 3 tax cuts: New figures on Labor's hand-out to billionaires
Extinction Rebellion organises three days of climate action
Traditional Owners demand Empire Energy stop plans to frack Beetaloo Basin
Human chain protests NAB loans to fossil fuel industry
XR Drum Rebellion’s ‘Prisoner Parade’ challenges NSW anti-protest laws
South Australians oppose Labor’s new anti-protest bill
WA firefighters take a stand for a pay rise, against exploitation
Protest calls on Labor to fight climate change, not prepare for war
Refugee children say they are living ‘in a bigger cage’
Federation University staff takes enterprise agreement protest to the CBD
Socialist set to take Geelong council position, after councillor resigns
International
United States: Republicans intensify anti-trans campaign
Leaked documents reveal extent of US espionage
Chile: Far right will control the drafting of new constitution
Ecuador: US gov’t, corporate media back Lasso’s manoeuvre
Spain: Sánchez counters rout in local polls with general election call
Turkey: Erdoğan’s unfair election win poses grave danger for democracy and Kurds
Gas decisions loom for Timor-Leste after election
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Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist is joined by refugee rights activist Chloe, as they go through the latest activist 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
‘Do your job’ protesters tell Tanya Plibersek, as she approves new coal mine
Protest calls for a new approach to fish farming
The fight to save logging of koala habitat in Pine Creek State Forest
Beetaloo Traditional Owners speak out on Tamboran fracking pollution
Gurindji grandmother: Don Dale violates international obligations towards children, First Nations
Sisters Inside says alternatives exist to Palaszczuk’s youth ‘crime’ crackdown
Al Nakba 75 years on remembered and protested across Australia
Video: 'They stole my land, my dreams, my childhood,' Nakba Day march told
Activists call on Minns to save public housing in Glebe
NSW health workers, teachers push Labor to cancel pay cap
Transport union slams Qantas appeal against unlawful sackings of baggage handlers
Geelong residents react angrily to proposed library, service cuts
Why Labor needs to scrap ‘mutual’ obligations and raise the rate
Thousands protest new AFL stadium, call for funds for housing and health
Sydney rallies against AUKUS, after Quad meeting rescheduled
AUKUS criticised as being a step towards war on China
Labor rushes through a bill to exempt AUKUS nuclear submarines from environmental protections
Stella Assange headlines rally to free Julian Assange
International
Video interview: Pavin Chachavalpongpun on the 2023 Thailand general election result
Turkish presidential election goes to second round
Pakistan: Imran Khan arrested, what next?
Welcoming ceasefire, Sudanese left calls for involvement of civil society and regional institutions
Sudan: Appeal calls for ‘urgent humanitarian assistance and protection of civilians’
Racism and class struggle in France today
Te Pāti Māori: 'Your nuclear submarines are not welcome here'
‘No to expansion of US military forces on Philippines soil’
South Korea pivots to conflict
South Korea: Workers resist government’s ‘war on unions’
The US government is illegal, not migrants
United States: Biden continues cruel border policy
May Day in Havana: International solidarity to resist the US blockade
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Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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
Labor’s budget ignores the needs of millions
Labor’s budget is an attack on NDIS, Medicare
Young people left out by Labor’s budget
Labor must raise the JobSeeker rate for all
‘The welfare system is stealing people’s present and future’
Rent report says less than 1% are affordable for minimum-wage workers
‘Port Kembla is no place for a nuclear base’
Earth Care Café for peace not war
Knitting Nannas challenge anti-protest laws
NT Labor gives fracking the go-ahead
Ngarluma Elder restates her disappointment with work beginning at Perdaman fertiliser plant
Inaugural Love, Art & Revolution Film Festival a success
Forum discusses medical misogyny, seeks support for change
Community rallies against Geelong council job cuts
Nurses and midwives discuss making workplaces sustainable
Victorian NTEU members stop work for better pay, working conditions
Union members locked out, strike at James Cook University
Sydney Uni NTEU votes to end historic strike campaign, but fight continues
‘501s’ protest inhumane detention at MITA
‘501s’ demand Labor keep its promise to end indefinite detention
International
Austria: What’s behind the historic Communist surge in Salzburg?
Video: Green Left Party campaigns for real democratic change
Palestinian trade unions call for worldwide action to end Israeli apartheid
Khader Adnan dies in Israeli prison
Ballarat Trades Hall marks Nakba, calls for justice
Sudan: ‘Our people will ultimately triumph over tyrants’
Sudan: International community must act now
Iranian regime's desperate tactics to derail the people’s revolution
United States: Documents reveal sexual exploitation and abuse in Korean War
Cuba: US targets cruise lines in massive compensation case
Chile announces plan to nationalise lithium industry
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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Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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
Rising Tide activists stop coal train
A rising tide of climate activists stop coal train
Climate activists sit down in CBD
Unions, health organisations call for total ban on silica products
Allied health professionals demand a place at executive level
WA nurses and midwives still face huge fines, deregistration
Activists mobilise to defend Big Bird homeless shelter
Protesters say: ‘Housing is a right, not a business’
Barak Beacon Estate residents speak up against demolition
Students protest universities’ support for AUKUS
Protesters tell UQ Senate to cut ties with weapons manufacturer Boeing
Big crowd remembers Appin massacre
Video: Green Left Party campaign in Turkish general election launched in Sydney
Video: Rally calls on Australia to stand up against isolation of Kurdish leader
Protesters condemn Burma regime’s air attacks on villagers
Video: Protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers
Jews against the Occupation calls on Randwick City Council to reverse its decision to fly Israeli flag
Protesters urge Randwick Council not to fly Israeli flag
Indian labour lawyer Clifton D’Rozario to speak at Ecosocialism 2023
International
Sudanese left calls for restoring the revolution
Revolt in France: Macron humiliated, but no victory for workers yet
French fascism and the revolt against Macron
United States: ‘The Tennessee Three’ for democracy, against gun violence
United States: Fight to stop ‘Cop City’ continues
Irish-Australian activist arrested in Dublin while campaigning for Julian Assange
Very high participation rate in Cuba’s parliamentary elections
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Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Green Left's Alex Bainbridge speaks to outgoing Greens Gabba Ward councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan about politics, social change and the role of elected representatives.
Watch online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-jonathan-sriranganathan-greens-capitalism-and-social-change
0:00 Intro; 0:36 Jonno's reflections; 4:45 Elected positions and social change; 9:36 Accountability of elected reps; 15:41 Anti-capitalism; 18:16 Lack of democracy under capitalism; 23:50 The power of big capital; 26:25 Civil disobedience; 28:54 Role of police; 33:08 Radical and moderate views in the Greens; 39:13 Climate "safeguard mechanism"; 45:36 The Voice; 47:34 Left media and final comments
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Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Greens housing spokesperson and member for Griffith Max Chandler-Mather speaks to the Green Left Show about the shortfalls of Labor’s housing policy and the policies the Greens are pushing.
Labor needs Greens support to pass its bill and Chandler-Mather talks about the Greens' bottom line.
He also addresses common arguments against a rent freeze.
View online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/max-chandler-mather-80-want-us-stand-firm-housing
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Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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.
Love, Art and Revolution Film Festival
Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito
Green Left articles featured in this episode:
Australia
Albanese condemns refugees detained offshore to no future
Video: Sydney 2023 Palm Sunday march
Labor, Coalition sink war power reform bill
Protesters take aim at war industry, nuclear subs
Protesters demand ‘Earthcare, not warfare’
Merri-bek council rejects proposed development blocking neighbour’s sunlight
CFMEU demands Labor scrap anti-union laws
Video: Sydney Trans Visibility Day march
Ethan Lyons: ‘Attacks on our queer and trans family is an attack on First Nations protocol’
Climate protesters demand National Australia Bank stops greenwashing
Activists tell National Australia Bank to end support for Whitehaven Coal
Knitting Nannas tell Santos to stop its Pilliga fracking plan
There are solutions to the rental crisis
International
Britain: Corbyn’s ban ‘a disgraceful attack on democracy’
The first signs of an ecological class struggle in Germany
Canada: Police raid Wet'suwet'en camp and arrest Indigenous land defenders
Israeli police invade Al Aqsa Mosque
New hope that the long Saudi assault on Yemen will end
India: Long march by farmers succeeds
India: Tens of thousands of farmers, workers converge on New Delhi
India: People will have easier access to tuberculosis treatment after patent extension rejected
West Papuan rally in Bali targeted by nationalists
West Papuan student charged with treason
Corporations finance Myanmar coup regime
Ecuador: Rising death toll from landslides highlights mining risks
Peru announces withdrawal of ambassador from Colombia
Latin American and Caribbean governments agree to join forces against inflation
Argentina and Brazil rejoin UNASUR
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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Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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.
Love, Art and Revolution Film Festival
Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito
Green Left articles featured in this episode:
Australia
Iraq invasion marked with calls for peace, truth
20 years on — Iraq war costs still rising
First SAS soldier charged for war crimes in Afghanistan
Christian thugs attack trans rights protesters at One Nation rally
No support for bigots, Socialist Alliance says
Geelong community marches for Pride, defends trans rights
SA Labor blasted about its lack of public, affordable housing
Bank summit told not to fund coal, gas
Sydney University staff votes to continue strike action
NSW Labor wins ‘battle of civility’ in lacklustre campaign
International
John Mullen: ‘To defend pensions in France, we need a general strike’
United States: Thousands rally for peace
Britain to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium shells
Greeks take to the streets in nationwide general strike
Swaziland’s anti-monarchy activists face repression
Questions grow about Tunisian government response to migrant drownings
Lebanon: Protesters demand solutions to economic crisis
While silent on apartheid, Israelis protest Netanyahu
India: Community health workers protest in Bihar
Uruguay: Workers strike against proposed pension reform
Mexican guards let 41 migrants and refugees die in fire
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 Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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.
Green Left articles featured in this episode:
Australia
Labor’s climate ‘safeguard’ mechanism must be rejected
Farmers protest mine threat in Lue
Ballengarra tree-sit stops logging
Student activist arrested at midnight
Macquarie’s statue must tell the truth, activist says
Climate activist cleared of 'traffic' charges
Qld, WA finally move to reform gender recognition laws
Protesters tell Richard Marles to scrap AUKUS
Socialist Alliance calls for rent freeze
Mascot Towers residents demand real action
Happier and healthier: Why we need a four-day work week
International
Catalonia: Barcelona cuts ties with Israel
Palestine activists campaign for ‘Sydney statement’
Ecuador: Progressive forces sweep local elections
Colombia: Tens of thousands march in support of health reforms
Mexican groups call for global protests against corporate water plundering
Civil society calls on African Union to foster fossil-free future
Anti-war Russians, Ukrainians mark Putin’s ‘year of terror’
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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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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.
Green Left articles featured in this episode:
Australia
Opposition grows to billions for AUKUS nuclear submarines
Barngarla people tell Labor ‘no’ to nuclear waste dump
Tanya Plibersek told to save Murujuga rock art
Video: Sydney student climate strike takes to streets
Climate strikers confront Woodside
Climate activist Violet Coco’s jail sentence overturned
Fines given to Fireproof Australia activists
Belmarsh Tribunal hears strong evidence for Julian Assange’s freedom
End violence against women, say unionists on International Women’s Day
Smash the patriarchy, marchers sing on International Women’s Day
Sex workers protest for decriminalisation
Why we need to protest transphobic hate speech
NTEU strikes over Uni of Sydney work agreement
International
Britain: Wave of strike action continues
France: Macron plays ‘double or nothing’ on pension attacks
United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio
Canada: Mi’kmaq and environmentalists challenge Bay du Nord offshore oil megaproject
Canada: Investigation into RCMP extractive capital protection force announced
Jammu and Kashmir: Eviction drive sparks anger and protests
South Africa moves to downgrade ties with Israel
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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