Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.
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A Center for Economic and Policy Research report identified the intensification of United States sanctions against Cuba as the primary cause of a 148% increase in the island’s infant mortality rate. Marx del Rosario reports.
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This year’s Ecosocialism conference will, for the first time, be held in Magan-djin/Brisbane, once again drawing ecosocialists and activists from across the world, reports Fred Fuentes.
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Jonathan Strauss and Clive Tillman attended the First International Anti-Fascist Conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which brought together 4000 activists from more than 40 countries.
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Santiago Mayor speaks to Venezuelan sociologist Reinaldo Iturriza about the political significance of Venezuela’s communes and where they stand today.
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Despite the serious environmental and health consequences of low green space, in cities like Puebla, Mexico, city and state governments prioritise corporate-led projects that reduce green space further. Tamara Pearson reports.
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Local communities are resisting the far-right Argentinian government’s attempts to modify glacier protection laws to allow mega-mining. Olivia Ferrari reports.
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Political economy professor Helen Yaffe spoke to Green Left’s Alex Bainbridge about international solidarity efforts with Cuba and how the country represents an alternative to United States neoliberalism.
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Santiago Mayor interviews Reinaldo Iturriza, a Venezuelan sociologist, writer and political activist, about the state of Chavismo following the United States’s attacks on Venezuela.
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Human rights groups have denounced the United States and Ecuadorian governments’ joint military operations in Ecuador, which are being conducted under the guise of combating “organised crime”, Ben Radford reports.
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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.