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tree with shrouded bodies hanging from branches

Channelling her own outrage at Israel’s depravity in Gaza, poet and playwright Jepke Goudsmit adapted Billie Holiday’s famous protest song for our time.

warship with flags of Aus USA NZ and China in the crosshairs

After 500 years of almost incessant violence across the globe, Western countries are now rushing to increase military spending — Aotearoa New Zealand being the latest, writes Eugene Doyle.

Bin Salman and Netanyahu

In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks with political economist and author Adam Hanieh about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the growing influence of the Gulf states and Iran in the Middle East.

protests against the Vietnam War and for Palestine

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.

Protesters with flags and signs

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.

Donald Trump graph pointing downwards

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.

Sign reads 'Resist Fascism'

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.

Trump's face and oil wells in background

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 against background of US dollar bills

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.

Trump and tariff list

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by United States President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion, writes Binoy Kampmark.

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. 

man sitting on the grass

Columbia University postgraduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil dictated this letter from his cell in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana.