Even before Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to agree to raise military spending, Oxfam said that less than 3% of these countries’ annual military spending, around US$1.5 trillion, could totally eradicate world hunger. Peter Boyle reports.
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Protests across Australia demanded the Labor come out strongly against the Israel-United States attacks on Iran, and reiterated the need for sanctions on Israel for its war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle report.
Peter Boyle speaks to Indonesian socialist Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana about the disturbing return to the former Suharto dictatorship era’s notorious “dual function” policy for the military.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a roundtable of big business, unions and civil society to “support and shape our government’s growth and productivity agenda”. History sheds light on what we expect from such a plan, writes Peter Boyle.
A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.
Several hundred unionists rallied outside the NSW Treasury to demand NSW Labor drop its proposed cuts to workers’ compensation laws. Jim McIlroy and Peter Boyle report.
Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW Senate, joins the Green Left Show to discuss the result of the May 3 federal election, in which Labor won a landslide victory after a disastrous result for Peter Dutton and the Coalition.
Peter Boyle argues that Labor and Coalition governments have exploited the ANZAC sacrifice myth to justify and promote Australian participation of, and complicity in, subsequent imperial wars.
United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered”. Peter Boyle argues that this is an inversion of reality.
Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills. Peter Boyle reports.
Socialist Alliance is calling for a 50% cut in military expenditure and to use the $28 billion to address the urgent housing, cost-of-living and climate crises, argues Peter Boyle.
Salih Muslim, a prominent Rojava revolutionary leader and foreign affairs spokesperson of the Presidential Council of the Democratic Union Party, speaks to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the serious setbacks to building a new Syria.
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