The First Wave, a new film by environment group Rising Tide, was launched by an enthusiastic crowd. Jim McIlroy reports.
Issue 1403
News
Refugees have been protesting outside the office of Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neil in Oakleigh to demand permanent visas. Chris Slee reports.
Thousands of people joined protests on the weekend of April 7, marking six full months of Israel's intensified genocide against the people of Gaza.
Colombian Guillermo Andres Mosquera Miranda has spent his life working to help others. Now he is seeking political asylum in Australia after becoming a target for assassins. Fred Fuentes reports.
First Nations leader Megan Krakouer and Indian communist Clifton D’Rozario have been confirmed to speak at the Ecosocialism 2024: Climate Action Not War being held in Boorloo/Perth over June 28–30. Fred Fuentes reports.
A new report has found that renters are living in substandard homes that are failing to protect them from intense summer heat. Isaac Nellist reports.
NSW counter terrorism officers bailed up an artist after he posted a criticism on X about the lenient treatment given to a Zionist who planted a bomb on a Palestine activists’ utility. Rachel Evans reports.
Community action in the Blue Mountains has pressured the local council to pass two pro-Palestine motions. Jenna Condie and Stephen Langford report.
The Jewish Council of Australia said attempts to remove pro-Palestinian voices should be “deeply concerning to all who value a plural and open society”. Kerry Smith reports.
NSW Police took eight weeks to locate a Zionist who planted a bomb on a Palestine supporter’s utility. David Wise was eventually arrested and has been held on remand since early March. Rachel Evans reports.
Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.
Thirty-seven social and environmental organisations, together with the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties, are calling on NSW Labor to repeal the undemocratic protest laws. Aneesa Bhamjee reports.
Protesters demanded Labor close the notorious Unit 18 of Western Australia’s Banksia Hill Detention Centre the day before the inquest into Cleveland Dodd’s death. Alex Salmon reports.
Stop AUKUS WA organised a peaceful protest outside the West Australian Defence Forum. Riley Breen and Blair Vidak report.
Jewish Council of Australia says Israel is ‘rogue state’, demands end to military, political support
The Jewish Council of Australia has again called on governments to cut all military ties and to apply sanctions to Israel, as it did after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Pip Hinman reports.
A coalition of grassroots housing groups launched a national petition campaign which aims to involve unions in defending and extending public housing. Kerry Smith reports.
Supporters of Julian Assange continue to highlight his imprisonment and possible extradition to the United States at weekly protests in the CBD. Stephen Langford reports.
Thousands rallied in Gadigal/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne on Easter Sunday, in the 25th week of continuous protest actions. Alex Bainbridge, Rachel Evans, Chloe DS, Niko Leka and Fred Fuentes report.
Analysis
Binoy Kampmark writes that caution should be exercised in response to the US President's remarks on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case. Nothing should be considered in earnest until signatures are inked and dried.
“Banning Green Left from a platform which the people-powered, activist media outlet has used for years to disseminate critical information, build movements and expose injustice and inequity, and take a staunchly anti-capitalist stance is a disgrace,” said New South Wales Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong.
This episode features Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance national co-convenor, responding to United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell’s revealing claim that AUKUS submarines would be used to fight a US conflict in China.
Stuart Munckton and Federico Fuentes sat down with Max Chandler-Mather, Greens MP for Griffith, to discuss the Brisbane Greens’ political vision and how parliament fits into their strategy for social change.
Official statements about AUKUS rarely mention the target. But a United States defense official has confirmed that the nuclear-powered submarines would be used in “cross-strait circumstances”. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Young people are taking action to fight for their future instead of doom scrolling on social media, argues Alex Goodsir.
Anthony James, a once longtime Labor supporter, writes that since Labor has shown no support for Palestine since Israel's genocidal war on Palestine, he has cut ties.
A formal complaint has been lodged with the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security about possible Australian complicity in what the International Court of Justice regards as “plausible claims of genocide in Gaza”. Pip Hinman reports.
Labor's draconian bill, which would allow the immigration minister to send asylum seekers back to countries where they could be killed, is one of the worst decisions it has made since being elected, argues Sue Bull.
Israel is losing the war of public relations, argues Binoy Kampmark, and even more so after it claimed responsibility for killing humanitarian workers in Gaza.
NSW Labor’s plans to address the housing crisis don't include proven measures, such as more public housing, rent controls and removing property investor tax concessions. Andrew Chuter reports.
Zia Ahmad, editor in chief of the Australasian Muslim Times, spoke to Vivienne Porzsolt about a unique progressive publishing project that encourages respect for different points-of-view.
World
As a ground assault on Rafah still looms, United States President Joe Biden’s “get tough” stance towards Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu is not convincing populations in the US and the Middle East, report Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.
Sarah Glynn looks behind Turkey's March 31 municipal elections, which saw President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP pushed into second place and the pro-Kurdish Peoples Equality and Democracy Party make gains.
Jeff Shantz shines a light on the Canadian 'lone soldiers' fighting in Gaza and the pro-Israeli groups recruiting for and supporting the IDF.
The international Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) sets sail in April to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, reports Kerry Smith.
Make Rojava Green Again reports on the conditions, hardships and potential for ecological changes in a region that is undergoing a social revolution and constantly facing military attacks on civil infrastructure and agricultural sites.
Malik Miah looks behind the recent spate of aircraft safety incidents in the United States and argues that aircraft workers and unions need to play a leading role in maintaining safety.
Writing from a Russian prison, sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky penned this open letter in support of a broad solidarity campaign with left-wing Russian political prisoners.
In the first of a two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright about Australian imperialism, its military alliance with the United States and prospects for working-class solidarity across borders.
Dipankar Bhattacharya, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation told a Palestine solidarity meeting in India’s capital New Delhi on February 23 that the ideological ties between Hindutva and Zionism means opposing Israel's genocidal war is linked to fighting Narendra Modi's fascist agenda in India.
Renowned Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky sent the following message from prison to his daughter, Ksenia, on March 26. In it, he discusses the fallout of the horrific terrorist attack carried out at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22. Translated by Renfrey Clarke.
Opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector from the Patriots of Senegal party (PASTEF), was sworn into office as Senegal’s new president on April 2 after his historic election on March 24. Susan Price looks at the factors behind his victory.
Renowned Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky was jailed on February 13 for five years on trumped-up charges of "justifying terrorism". In reality, his only crime has been to speak out against Russia's war in Ukraine. Renfrey Clarke has translated Kagarlitsky's first public letter sent from prison to his daughter, Ksenia.
Less than a month after Lee Jong-sup was appointed South Korea's (RoK's) ambassador to Australia, he was forced to resigned on March 29, amidst protests in South Korea and Australia. Seona Cho, an activist with Melbourne Candlelight Action, explains the background to this scandal and its links to the growing ties between US, Australian and South Korean arms manufacturers.
Green Left speaks to Nachshon Amir about his experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces and his journey from growing up Zionist to becoming a supporter of Palestinian rights.
Culture
The Art of Banksy: Without Limits is a wild ride into the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist artistic world of Banksy — the British creator who put progressive politics into street art internationally. Jim McIlroy reviews.
Coral Wynter reviews Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken, which looks at the industrialised chemicals and processed components that make up the ultra-processed food we buy in supermarkets.
Alex Salmon reviews Janey Stone and Donny Gluckstein’s new book, The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance and firebrands, which uncovers the hidden history of Jewish radicalism and solidarity between Jewish and non-Jewish communities.