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If Maduro was already engaged in open negotiations with the US since the Ukraine war, effectively turning Venezuela once again into a reliable oil supplier, why then the unprecedented military deployment against Venezuela? www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Oppose US imperialism’s offensive against Venezuela
The United States administration’s double standards towards Venezuela have seen it move between buying oil from Venezuela to claiming the country’s state leaders are part of a criminal drug cartel to ...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If Maduro was already engaged in open negotiations with the US since the Ukraine war, effectively turning Venezuela once again into a reliable oil supplier, why then the unprecedented military deployment against Venezuela? www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Surya McEwen and Madeleine Habib participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver urgently needed aid. They spoke to the Green Left Show about the flotilla and building the Palestine solidarity movement. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
Green Left Show #79: Global Sumud Flotilla activists: ‘Keep building the Palestine movement’
Surya McEwen and Madeleine Habib, both participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, spoke to the Green Left Show about the impact of the flotilla and how to keep building the Palestine solidarity moveme...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Surya McEwen and Madeleine Habib participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver urgently needed aid. They spoke to the Green Left Show about the flotilla and building the Palestine solidarity movement. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
White nationalist United States president Donald Trump is again blaming immigrants from “Third World” countries for the decline of “Western civilisation”. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
Why is Trump targeting Somali migrants with ICE raids?
Why is United States president Donald Trump launching targetted Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations against Somali immigrants, asks Malik Miah.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
White nationalist United States president Donald Trump is again blaming immigrants from “Third World” countries for the decline of “Western civilisation”. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
The Jewish Council of Australia described the event as an opportunity to “come together and show that we stand united, not divided” with an open invitation to the Palestinian, Muslim and First Nations communities. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Naarm community unites for Chanukah vigil
More than 300 people joined a Chanukah vigil called by the Jewish Council of Australia in Naarm/Melbourne to commemorate the lives lost in the Bondi massacre. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Jewish Council of Australia described the event as an opportunity to “come together and show that we stand united, not divided” with an open invitation to the Palestinian, Muslim and First Nations communities. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents a bumper crop of books for reds and greens to check out over the holiday break. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/cu...
Ecosocialist Bookshelf — November 2025
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents a bumper crop of books for reds and greens to check out over the holiday break.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents a bumper crop of books for reds and greens to check out over the holiday break. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/cu...
Sydney's Inner West Council claims its "Fairer Futures" plan will help address the housing crisis by building tens of thousands of homes. But campaigners are warning that affordable homes will be demolished to make way for expensive, luxury apartments. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Green Left Show #78: Housing for people not for profit
Erina Delinicolas and Duncan Roden joined the Green Left Show to discussthe Inner West Council's flawed, pro-developer housing plan and suggested alternatives that put people before profit.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Sydney's Inner West Council claims its "Fairer Futures" plan will help address the housing crisis by building tens of thousands of homes. But campaigners are warning that affordable homes will be demolished to make way for expensive, luxury apartments. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Workers at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books have announced they will go on a five-day strike in the lead up to Christmas as part of their campaign for better wages and conditions. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Bookshop workers announce five-day Christmas strike, employers step up intimidation
Workers at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books have announced they will go on a five-day strike in the lead up to Christmas as part of their campaign for better wages and conditions. Isaac Nellist report...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Workers at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books have announced they will go on a five-day strike in the lead up to Christmas as part of their campaign for better wages and conditions. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
The mainstream media coverage of the Bondi killings, including platforming far-right senator Pauline Hanson, has whipped up a frenzy of Islamophobia and anti-migrant racism. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Gov’t, Zionists exploit Bondi killings to attack democratic rights, silence criticism of Israel
The New South Wales and Federal governments and pro-Zionist groups are seeking to crack down on protests and criticism of Israel in the wake of the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi beach, reports Be...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The mainstream media coverage of the Bondi killings, including platforming far-right senator Pauline Hanson, has whipped up a frenzy of Islamophobia and anti-migrant racism. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The military build-up in the Caribbean under the pretext of combating drug trafficking and “narcoterrorists”, since August, is the latest attempt of the imperialist US to conduct a regime change operation in Venezuela. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
Stop the US military aggression in the Caribbean! Hands off Venezuela!
This joint statement against the United States’ military escalation in the Caribbean and aggression against Venezuela was initiated by the Socialist Party of Malaysia and the Party of the Labouring Ma...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The military build-up in the Caribbean under the pretext of combating drug trafficking and “narcoterrorists”, since August, is the latest attempt of the imperialist US to conduct a regime change operation in Venezuela. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
More than 50 people gathered outside Old Government House in Burramattagal/Parramatta to hear from Wiradjuri activist Paul Towney, who is campaigning for Wiradjuri land rights and sovereignty. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Fighting for Wiradjuri land rights
More than 50 people gathered outside Old Government House in Burramattagal/Parramatta to hear from Wiradjuri activist Paul Towney, who is campaigning for Wiradjuri land rights and sovereignty.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
More than 50 people gathered outside Old Government House in Burramattagal/Parramatta to hear from Wiradjuri activist Paul Towney, who is campaigning for Wiradjuri land rights and sovereignty. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Socialist Alliance senate candidate Sam Wainwright talks to the Green Left Show about the campaign to challenge the big mining companies and to “take back the wealth”. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Green Left Show #77: Take back the wealth
Socialist Alliance senate candidate Sam Wainwright talks to the Green Left Show about the campaign to challenge the big mining companies and to “take back the wealth”.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Socialist Alliance senate candidate Sam Wainwright talks to the Green Left Show about the campaign to challenge the big mining companies and to “take back the wealth”. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The major parties, Labor and the Coalition, prioritise profits over human needs. They continue putting their faith in a private market that keeps failing to deliver adequate housing. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The fight for quality housing is political
Duncan Roden argues that the campaign for secure, low-cost and quality housing is not just about negotiating some technical details, it’s a political fight about the need for genuine democracy.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The major parties, Labor and the Coalition, prioritise profits over human needs. They continue putting their faith in a private market that keeps failing to deliver adequate housing. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
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A number of weapons companies, operating in SA, are manufacturing parts used to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza:
Malinauskas’ gov has a major hand in investing in, & attracting investment to these CO’s, it is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians in #Gaza & the West Bank.
#Auspol #Genocide
Malinauskas’ gov has a major hand in investing in, & attracting investment to these CO’s, it is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians in #Gaza & the West Bank.
#Auspol #Genocide
A number of weapons companies, operating in SA, are manufacturing parts used to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/ne...
SA Labor must end investment and weapons exports with Israel
Palestine activists say South Australian Labor’s self-promotion as a “defence state” makes it complicit in the Gaza genocide. Markela Panegyres reports.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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As society becomes more reliant on digital technology, the demand for storage and network bases to deal with transferring vast amounts of data is growing. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
AI data centre boom drives huge energy and water consumption
As society becomes more reliant on digital technology, governments must ensure that the huge amount of energy and water that data centres need does not come at the expense of water resources and a saf...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Progressive, democratic, nationalist, popular and socialist forces across the continent and the world must denounce the Trump government’s attempts to violate sovereignty. A military attack on Venezuela is an attack on the sovereignty of all Latin America. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Oppose US imperialism’s offensive against Venezuela
The United States administration’s double standards towards Venezuela have seen it move between buying oil from Venezuela to claiming the country’s state leaders are part of a criminal drug cartel to ...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Progressive, democratic, nationalist, popular and socialist forces across the continent and the world must denounce the Trump government’s attempts to violate sovereignty. A military attack on Venezuela is an attack on the sovereignty of all Latin America. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
As society becomes more reliant on digital technology, the demand for storage and network bases to deal with transferring vast amounts of data is growing. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
AI data centre boom drives huge energy and water consumption
As society becomes more reliant on digital technology, governments must ensure that the huge amount of energy and water that data centres need does not come at the expense of water resources and a saf...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
As society becomes more reliant on digital technology, the demand for storage and network bases to deal with transferring vast amounts of data is growing. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
Parts of Southeast Asia have been hit by typhoons and experienced severe floods over the past weeks, causing a still-mounting death toll and displacing millions. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Southeast Asia floods underline COP30 failure
Parts of Southeast Asia have been hit by typhoons and experienced severe floods over the past weeks, causing a still-mounting death toll and displacing millions. Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Sure...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Parts of Southeast Asia have been hit by typhoons and experienced severe floods over the past weeks, causing a still-mounting death toll and displacing millions. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
When Surya McEwen realised that people were “going to be sailing directly into the holocaust”, he felt it was his “historic duty” to get involved. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Global Sumud Flotilla activist: ‘Keep strengthening the Palestine solidarity movement’
Surya McEwen was one of hundreds imprisoned by Israel in October after participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. He told the Green Left Show’s Isaac Nellist that when he realised that people...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
When Surya McEwen realised that people were “going to be sailing directly into the holocaust”, he felt it was his “historic duty” to get involved. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Striking Italian dockworkers have been leading a powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
Italian dockworkers lead global actions to end genocide
A powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel, was led by striking Italian dockworkers, report Majid S and Rachel Evans.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Striking Italian dockworkers have been leading a powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/wo...
The genocide in Palestine has generated a vast and energetic international solidarity movement, which is challenging political parties and other social movements to step up. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
Israel and NSW Police polarise Sydney Mardi Gras
Ken Davis argues that in the lead-up to the 49th Mardi Gras parade, the fight is about the spirit, soul and identity of the parade, and the independence of a key community and social justice movement ...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The genocide in Palestine has generated a vast and energetic international solidarity movement, which is challenging political parties and other social movements to step up. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
The Bureau of Meteorology has ominously predicted “unusually high” summer temperatures for most of Australia, heralding a higher risk of extreme bushfires, storms and heatwaves. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
We are in a climate emergency
The prime minister’s claimed concern for those impacted by the climate emergency rings hollow while he backs the fossil fuel industry, argues Ben Radford.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Bureau of Meteorology has ominously predicted “unusually high” summer temperatures for most of Australia, heralding a higher risk of extreme bushfires, storms and heatwaves. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
Psychologically injured workers, who are close to catatonic, will have their support payments cut after two-and-half-years, in new laws proposed by NSW Labor, which the Liberal-National Coalition now agrees with. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Unions NSW, Greens criticise Labor’s workers compensation changes
Psychologically injured workers will have their support payments cut after two-and-half-years, in new laws proposed by NSW Labor and agreed to by the Liberal-National Coalition. Jim McIlroy reports.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Psychologically injured workers, who are close to catatonic, will have their support payments cut after two-and-half-years, in new laws proposed by NSW Labor, which the Liberal-National Coalition now agrees with. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Socialist Alliance expresses its full solidarity with the victims and survivors of the horrific December 14 massacre at Bondi Beach on Gadigal Country. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Socialist Alliance condemns killings at Hanukkah event in Bondi
Socialist Alliance expresses its full solidarity with the victims and survivors of the horrific massacre at Bondi Beach on Gadigal Country.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Socialist Alliance expresses its full solidarity with the victims and survivors of the horrific December 14 massacre at Bondi Beach on Gadigal Country. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
There has been an outpouring of solidarity and condemnation by community organisations and political parties about the killing of 15 people in Bondi at a Chanukah by the Sea event on December 14. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Communities condemn killings at Hanukkah event in Bondi
There has been an outpouring of solidarity and condemnation by community organisations and political parties about the killing of 15 people in Bondi at a Chanukah by the Sea event. Kerry Smith reports...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
There has been an outpouring of solidarity and condemnation by community organisations and political parties about the killing of 15 people in Bondi at a Chanukah by the Sea event on December 14. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The acting State Library Victoria management is rushing through changes to library operations that will degrade and diminish core library services. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Hundreds protest cuts to State Library of Victoria
The Community and Public Sector (Victoria) called a protest, which drew 200 people, to oppose cuts to the State Library of Victoria. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The acting State Library Victoria management is rushing through changes to library operations that will degrade and diminish core library services. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...