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25.01.2022 Against expert opinion and widespread community opposition, the Independent Planning Commission has approved Santos' Narrabri gas project in north-western of New South Wales

25.01.2022 Human rights activists gathered to denounce the ongoing massacres and killings of social leaders in Colombia.

25.01.2022 Independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie discusses the urgent need for the federal government to intervene for Julian Assange and the important principles at stake in his trial.

24.01.2022 Five new books and an essential magazine for ecosocialists.

24.01.2022 John Pat’s death in custody was remembered 37 years after the 16-year-old died of head injuries in a police cell in Roebourne

23.01.2022 Protesters gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House to denounce human rights violations in Bolivia and demand that the nation's upcoming October 18 elections be held under free and fair conditions

22.01.2022 In interviews with African Americans who did not vote, many said their lives have not, and will not likely change under Donald Trump or Joe Biden

21.01.2022 About 200 peopled rallied in Brisbane to protest the Labor government's recent decision to raise police funding by more than $624 million. Protesters instead called for the police to be defunded and abolished. "Police don't make you safe," one speaker said.... Led by First Nations people, protesters marched to Queensland Police headquarters and then to Queen St Mall, in a highly passionate and moving demonstration . https://www.greenleft.org.au//photos-brisbane-rally-defund #DefundThePolice #BlackLivesMatter #StopBlackDeathsInCustody #EndRacism #AusPol #Meanjin #Brisbane #GreenLeft #GreenLeftOnline If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenleft Green Left online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLeftOnline/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenlefttv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenleftonline/ Podbean: https://greenleftonline.podbean.com/ Music in this video: Super Power Cool Dude by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io//4444-super-power-cool-du License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

21.01.2022 There’s a new comic book superhero in South Africa and she is fighting climate change, capitalism and COVID-19

21.01.2022 Maintenance workers at Perth's Fiona Stanley Hospital went on 24-hour strike outside the hospital's works depot on November 13. Workers have been locked in a protracted dispute with British multinational Serco, who is contracted to carry out maintenance work at the hospital. The maintenance workers, who are represented by the Mining and Energy and Construction divisions of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, the Electrical Trades and the Plumbing ...and Pipes Employees Union, are being paid less and have fewer rights, conditions and job security than maintenance crews at other public and private hospitals around Western Australia. During the picket, strikers and their supporters marched around the Fiona Stanley Hospital, with chants such as "Serco has got to go". Pictures by Alex Salmon

21.01.2022 The Gomeroi Nation has put the federal and New South Wales governments on notice for not respecting their rights and are saying no to a gas invasion of their country.

20.01.2022 Indonesia's new omnibus law facilitates further capital expansion in the manufacturing and natural resources sectors while weakening the position of indigenous communities, farmers and fishers

20.01.2022 A protest to mark Transgender Remembrance Day and oppose a transphobic bill by One Nation MLC Mark Latham was organised by Community Action for Rainbow Rights.

20.01.2022 The Victorian Labor government’s Big Housing Build program has a welcome focus on affordable housing. But, housing advocates are concerned that new public housing is not included in the plan.

18.01.2022 The corporate vultures are circling the ailing National Broadband Network after the federal government said it will spend money on it

18.01.2022 The systematic running-down of public housing by governments over a few decades is not news. However, in Western Australia the situation has become particularly desperate.

18.01.2022 A growing wave of student-initiated democracy protests sweeping Thailand since February is shaking the military coup-installed regime

18.01.2022 Despite growing recognition that Israel is an apartheid regime, Europe and the United States continue to facilitate the persecution of Palestinians.

18.01.2022 Activists want MPs from all parties to support a new bill calling for the old NSW gas exploration licences to be cancelled.

17.01.2022 Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers, farmers and their allies participated in a nationwide strike against recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

17.01.2022 Branding armed Papuan resistance groups as terrorists has sparked strong condemnation from human rights groups across Indonesia and in West Papua.

16.01.2022 Here's a last look back at this month's political news and all the best new music that related to it. https://www.greenleft.org.au//10-best-political-albums-wor

16.01.2022 Farmers have the potential to become carbon sequestration heroes but are being failed by the major parties.

15.01.2022 Public distrust in political parties and institutions is higher than it has been, yet we are a long way from where we need to be to even begin to challenge capitalism. So what will it take to build the movement we need today?

15.01.2022 Democrats are pulling out all stops to kick socialist Green Party candidates Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker off the ballot for the upcoming election

15.01.2022 Listen to a podcast of this month's political albums round-up, including all the music, here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1f0Jjp8hALzDT0kO6Y3ofx

13.01.2022 Madrid will now have an ultra-neoliberal, ultra-Spanish nationalist PP administration, supported from without by Vox: the prospect of Trumpism and war on the enemies of Spain, with the socialist-communist government of Pedro Sánchez as prime target.

13.01.2022 Thailand's youth-led democracy movement has refused to be deterred by the laying of lese majeste charges against 20 of its leading actvists, Kanyanatt Kalfagiannis, the spokesperson for the Australian Alliance for Thai Democracy told Green Left's Peter Boyle on November 29.

13.01.2022 For the second evening in a row, democracy protesters are defying a state of emergency decree issued by the military dictatorship in Thailand that bans gatherings of more than five. Police have continued to arrest leading democracy activists (including Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, a popular dissident) and attempted to lock down Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok. Yet people are still coming out into the streets as this video shows. Green Left’s source on the ground says "peop...le are no longer afraid". Report by Peter Boyle.

13.01.2022 Stay tuned for this livestream on tonight: UPDATED LINK: https://youtu.be/RDkL3nKjY-g

12.01.2022 Waterfront workers are calling on Caltex to suspend services with Ports and Harbour Services which has employed non-union labour

12.01.2022 Intense fighting that broke out on September 27 between Armenia and Azerbaijan has left scores of people dead and hundreds wounded, as the two neighbouring states teeter on the brink of all-out war

11.01.2022 Thai democracy activists took to Sydney streets on October 17 to express their anger at the violent police attack on a peaceful mass democracy protest in Bangkok the previous night. The Australian Alliance for Thai Democracy is calling on the Australian government to: * Condemn the Thai government for their human rights violation publicly * Sanction the Thai government until democracy is restored *Cease all military cooperation with Thailand until all state violence against... the citizens has stopped. Photos supplied by Kanyanatt Kalfagiannis.

11.01.2022 Australia’s political history is a dark tapestry, woven from the repeated redrafting of truth with a litany of political lies.

11.01.2022 Video from last night's rally to "Defund the Police" - protesting the Queensland Labor government's plan to increase police funding by $624 million.

11.01.2022 Across much of the advanced capitalist countries, the political class has decided to put all its eggs into the basket of a COVID-19 vaccine rather than elimination, heralding mega profits for the major pharmaceutical companies.

10.01.2022 The Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed that the Socialist Alliance will maintain its electoral registration.

10.01.2022 The Illawarra escarpment and Sydney's water catchment is under renewed threat from coal mining with the NSW Department of Planning giving its support to Wollongong Coal’s Russell Vale Underground Expansion Project

09.01.2022 A protest was held outside the Perth MyGov offices, as part of a national day of action on November 13, to protest against the federal government's plans for the Indue Cashless Debit Card program. Under the program, 80% of a social security recipient's benefits are placed on the Indue card, restricting their ability to control their finances. Following a trial of the card in various regions since 2016, the government is seeking to make it permanent in those areas and expand... its use to the Northern Territory and Cape York. If the plans are passed by the Senate, it will make it easier to further entrench the card and pave the way for a potential a nationwide rollout. Pictures by Sam Wainwright and Alex Salmon.

09.01.2022 Net zero by 2050 is too late Read the latest issue of Green Left Now online at https://www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1288

08.01.2022 The Tamil Refugee Council has condemned the Australian government for supplying five drones to the Sri Lankan police.

08.01.2022 The Maritime Union of Australia is fighting Patrick stevedores' attempts to use the pandemic to cut conditions and wages

08.01.2022 Since the latest fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh began, nationalist propaganda in both countries has reached a fever pitch and any anti-war activity is drowned out by vitriol and punished with arrests.

07.01.2022 Supporters of West Papua's struggle for self-determination took part in a Morning Star flag-raising ceremony at Leichhardt Town Hall organised by the Australia West Papua Association. Every December 1, West Papuan people brave brutal repression by the Indonesian occupation forces to raise their national flag on their own land. So, all around the world on that day, the flag is raised in solidarity. Photos: Peter Boyle

07.01.2022 Here's a last look back at this month's political news and the best new music that related to it.

06.01.2022 Galilee Blockade is campaigning to force Allianz, a giant German insurance company, to withdraw its support for the controversial Adani-owned Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland.

06.01.2022 Tuesday’s budget is on everybody’s mind. Most people will be looking for whatever life buoys Treasury throws

06.01.2022 Jacob Andrewartha is standing as part of the Sue Bolton Moreland Team in the Victorian local government elections.

06.01.2022 A look at a new edition of Stephen J Pyne's book, Fire: A Brief History, which examines the history of fire and humanity’s attempts to shape and use it.

05.01.2022 Despite pledging to only occupy the post for 90 days until elections could decide a new president, Áñez’s illegitimate regime has instead attempted to use its power to roll back anti-neoliberal measures implemented by the Morales government and unite the various anti-MAS factions.

04.01.2022 The future is literally toast if profit-driven corporations and the world’s rich continue to run the world.

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04.01.2022 The deaths of five food delivery riders in just two months has prompted unions to organise a vigil outside the Sydney HQ of Uber Eats.

03.01.2022 About 200 people rallied in Brisbane to protest the Labor government's recent decision to raise police funding by more than $624 million. Protesters instead called for the police to be defunded and abolished. "Police don't make you safe," one speaker said.... Led by First Nations people, protesters marched to Queensland Police headquarters and then to Queen St Mall in a highly passionate and moving demonstration.

03.01.2022 Profits up, wages down: Tax the rich New issue of Green Left out now Read online at https://www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1285

03.01.2022 XR Grandparents action outside the Perth headquarters of Chevron...No more gas, coal or oil. Keep your carbon in the soil!

03.01.2022 Donald Trump's defeat does not mean that Trumpism is dead. The struggles are going to have to continue.

02.01.2022 For weary parents and restless students, the staged return to school in Melbourne is a welcome relief. But teachers are warning about the risk of COVID-19 transmission in densely-packed classrooms.

02.01.2022 Latest podcast of Green Left Radio is up Our program this week features interviews with the organisers of the upcoming Ecosocialism 2020 - From Rebellion to Rev...olution conference happening on October 24th to 25th and a discussion with John Quiggin Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland about the failings of the Federal budget including it’s inadequacy of solutions to the climate. See more

02.01.2022 Denied jobs at Wollongong’s steelworks, working-class migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for 14 years. Women of Steel tells their story.

01.01.2022 No justice, no peace: Black lives matter Check out the latest issue of Green Left Now online at https://www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1283

01.01.2022 Baakindji woman and water activist Leah Ebsworth has pleaded not guilty to charges arising from a protest on the bridge earlier this year