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Issue 1427
News
Climate protesters protested Whitehaven Coal outside NSW parliament, the same day the Land and Environment Court was to sentence the corporation. Jim McIlroy reports.
Members Coalition, the challenger in the NSW Public Service Association elections, won 12 of the 39 central councillor positions and one of the three vice president positions on the executive. Kerry Smith reports.
Palestine supporters protested outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Palestinian Children’s Day. Chloe DS reports.
Community members, aged care workers and politicians attended a snap protest against the City of Greater Geelong Council’s intention to close its aged care service. Angela Carr reports.
Israel’s impunity in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza triggered more pro-Palestine protests across Australia. Pip Hinman, Isaac Nellist and Jordan AK report.
Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Ruth Langford was among several people arrested for trying to defend ancient forests in the West Kunanyi Range. Kerry Smith reports.
NSW doctors, campaigning for a new award for more than a year, have been forced to take industrial action after Labor refused to pay the same as other states. Pip Hinman reports.
A ceasefire rally was organised by the Islamic community in Garramilla/Darwin in the wake of Israel’s renewed bombing in Palestine. Stephen W Enciso reports.
Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon, after United States President Donald Trump gave it the okay to unleash “all hell”, has re-ignited pro-Palestine protests across Australia.
The honeymoon, if there was one, is over for Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro. Suzanne James reports on the growing pushback against her riding roughshod over democracy.
Laurie Zio, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party Member for Fannie Bay, has been caught out misleading parliament about support for mandatory sentencing. Stephen W Enciso reports.
A spirited protest outside Queensland Premier David Crisafulli's Broadwater electorate office demanded the reinstatement of gender-affirming and lifesaving care for trans kids. Susan Price reports.
Analysis
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.
While the federal Coalition has gone silent about its plan to build seven nuclear power plants, the Liberals Against Nuclear is pushing to ditch it before the election. Jim Green reports.
Peter Dutton’s new policy to force gas companies to increase supply to the domestic market merely appears to stand up to the gas corporations. Alex Bainbridge argues it does the opposite.
Karyn Brown, Waterloo public housing tenant and activist, said New South Wales Labor’s plan to push ahead with the demolition of the Waterloo estate is “ridiculous”. Isaac Nellist reports.
Human Rights Watch has criticised the Western Australia government for the dramatic and alarming rise in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families. Paul Gregoire reports.
Imagine a world where women were property, traded like livestock, silenced by veils and worked to death by the age of 30. Mary Merkenich looks at the context in which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution launched history’s most radical experiment for women’s emancipation.
Isaac Nellist spoke to Karyn Brown, a Waterloo public housing tenant and campaigner who has been leading the campaign to defend and extend public housing.
The Islamophobia Register found a disturbing doubling of in-person and online incidents of Islamophobia over 2023–24, compared with the previous year. Janet Parker spoke to report author Naser Alziyadat.
Both major parties have remained in full support of the AUKUS military pact, which locks Australia into the United States’ war plans. Pip Hinman reports.
Jews Against the Occupation ’48 is calling on Labor to heed the latest United Nations report and not participate in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
World
Fifty years ago, the world celebrated the historic victory of the National Liberation Front over the United States-backed puppet regime in South Vietnam, writes Jim McIlroy.
Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to Jordan and the occupied West Bank in Palestine. This is part two of his account.
Israel’s pattern of institutional response to alleged war crimes is well rehearsed, writes Binoy Kampmark.
After seven weeks of a ceasefire, Israel suddenly resumed its genocidal bombing campaign. In surprise air attacks in the middle of the night, it killed at least 400 Palestinians, writes Kevin B Anderson.
In this interview with Federico Fuentes, Marxist economist Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by United States President Donald Trump and how they fit into Trump’s broader project to reassert US global hegemony.
Won Youngsu revisits the historic mobilisations that led to South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally ratifying former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, 111 days after parliament voted to remove him for his attempted self-coup.
The Brussels Solidarity with Ukraine conference drew together about 200 activists from a score of countries, in support of the Ukrainian people’s national and social rights, reports Dick Nichols.
An estimated 5.1 million people mobilised across the United States against President Donald Trump’s far-right, anti-worker, anti-people agenda, reports Malik Miah.
The addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic to a US government Signal chat about bombing Houthis in Yemen helps inform the public about what the powerful are up to, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Rojava Information Center spoke to Aleppo journalist Hamude, who said the deal “is like a test-run of decentralisation. If it works well, maybe it can be implemented in other regions.”
At the end of a two-month trial, far‑right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling millions of euros in public funds over an 11‑year period. However, stopping fascism requires mass counter mobilisation, writes John Mullen.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on Israeli institutions and their representatives, an effort that is impossible to divorce from his ongoing trial for corruption, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has led to a decline in “greenwashing” strategies and a renewed focus on climate denial, along with a brazen intransigence in the face of an escalating climate catastrophe, argues John Clarke.
Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes sat down with Hanieh to discuss the state of global imperialism today and the significance of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Myanmar’s military junta is using the recent earthquake to rehabilitate its image overseas, while consolidating power at home, argues Tharaphi Than.
For months now, the picturesque banks of the Euphrates River have become a war zone, as Turkish jets bomb the hills surrounding the Tishreen dam. Protecting this vital water source are hundreds of protesters in need of international support, reports Make Rojava Green Again.
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by United States President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Columbia University postgraduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil dictated this letter from his cell in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana.
The attacks on immigrants, international students and permanent residents in the United States are a grim reminder of the long history of deportations and border control as a strategy to punish political radicals, writes Malik Miah.
Green Left’s Mary Merkenich recently spoke with Daniel Kipka-Anton from German left party Die Linke.
Culture
Yorta Yorta, Yirendali and Kalkadoon woman Miss Kaninna performed an electric set to a sold-out crowd at The Vanguard in Newtown, reports Isaac Nellist.
After launching at the Venice Open Space last year, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania is in Gadigal Country/Sydney at Artspace in Woolloomooloo. Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter review.
Mat Ward looks back at March’s political news and the best new music that related to it.