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They called on federal Labor to acknowledge complicity in the ongoing violence in Palestine and immediately stop exporting arms to Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Anti-genocide activists shut down Ferra factory
Pro-Palestine community members, including a local basketball coach, shut down the Ferra weapons factory. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
They called on federal Labor to acknowledge complicity in the ongoing violence in Palestine and immediately stop exporting arms to Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
The funding and running of universities needs to radically change. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Changes needed to end commodification of universities
Greater public funding of higher education and an end to the commodification of university education and research would be a basis for enhanced university governance and better staff and student exper...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The funding and running of universities needs to radically change. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
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I love this have been a big supporter of both the Sunbirds and Gaza SC.
Surfers for Gaza, a group of young activists in the southern coast of Victoria, are raising awareness about Palestinians’ struggle and the campaign for justice and freedom. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1422/ne...
Big turnout for ‘Gaza Surf Club’ in Ocean Grove
More than 100 people attended a film screening of Gaza Surf Club in Ocean Grove. Tim Gooden reports.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I love this have been a big supporter of both the Sunbirds and Gaza SC.
Surfers for Gaza, a group of young activists in the southern coast of Victoria, are raising awareness about Palestinians’ struggle and the campaign for justice and freedom. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1422/ne...
Big turnout for ‘Gaza Surf Club’ in Ocean Grove
More than 100 people attended a film screening of Gaza Surf Club in Ocean Grove. Tim Gooden reports.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Surfers for Gaza, a group of young activists in the southern coast of Victoria, are raising awareness about Palestinians’ struggle and the campaign for justice and freedom. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1422/ne...
A report, released in September, shows that aged care facilities have continued to ignore the wishes of its residents on Voluntary Assisted Dying. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Amanda Cohn MP: New Liberal anti-VAD bill ‘cruel’
Despite NSW legalising voluntary assisted dying in 2023, the Liberals, backed by the religious based aged-care sector, have decided on a push to legalise the institutional denial of medical care. Suza...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A report, released in September, shows that aged care facilities have continued to ignore the wishes of its residents on Voluntary Assisted Dying. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
The Jewish Council of Australia condemned the antisemitic Nazi stunt outside the NSW Parliament on November 8, saying, “As Jews, we refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.” www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Jewish Council of Australia condemns neo-Nazi stunt at NSW Parliament
The Jewish Council of Australia has called for united action to combat the far right and call out racism, rather than giving police more powers. Kerry Smith reports.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Jewish Council of Australia condemned the antisemitic Nazi stunt outside the NSW Parliament on November 8, saying, “As Jews, we refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.” www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Community members again protested outside the United State’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — on November 9 over its role in the Western-backed genocide in Palestine. They also called for war criminals to be made accountable. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Protesters demand Pine Gap closes, ends complicity in genocide
Community members protested outside the United State’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Community members again protested outside the United State’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — on November 9 over its role in the Western-backed genocide in Palestine. They also called for war criminals to be made accountable. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Co-organiser Rachel Evans described it as “a festival of cultural expression for the people and for Palestine”, raising funds for Green Left, Hebron Human Rights Defenders and Defence for Children International — Palestine. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/cu...
‘Party for the People and Palestine’ fills hall, raises much-needed funds
The Party for the People and for Palestine, organised by Green Left, filled the Gumbramorra Hall at Addison Road Community Centre and raised much-needed funds, reports Jim McIlroy.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Co-organiser Rachel Evans described it as “a festival of cultural expression for the people and for Palestine”, raising funds for Green Left, Hebron Human Rights Defenders and Defence for Children International — Palestine. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/cu...
The nuclear club, with its Armageddon fanciers and Doomsday flirters, is determined to keep the world in permanent danger. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/wo...
Pushing Armageddon: Trump’s nuclear testing plan
Binoy Kampmark looks behind United States President Donald Trump’s controversial announcement on resuming nuclear testing, including the internal push for the US to modernise its nuclear arsenal.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The nuclear club, with its Armageddon fanciers and Doomsday flirters, is determined to keep the world in permanent danger. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/wo...
While millions of people are falling into poverty due to skyrocketing rents and house prices, alongside rising costs for everyday needs like groceries and energy bills, Labor is spending billions of our money on AUKUS. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
AUKUS strips away a better future for all
While millions of people are falling into poverty due to skyrocketing rents and house prices, Labor should stop spending billions of our money on AUKUS, argues Isaac Nellist.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
While millions of people are falling into poverty due to skyrocketing rents and house prices, alongside rising costs for everyday needs like groceries and energy bills, Labor is spending billions of our money on AUKUS. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Blak Caucus called a rally on November 1 to highlight the urgent need to deliver justice to those grieving their loved ones who died at the hands of NSW Police. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Blak Caucus demands justice for deaths in custody
Blak Caucus called a rally to highlight the urgent need to deliver justice to those grieving their loved ones who died at the hands of NSW Police. TJ Wren and Rachel Evans report.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Blak Caucus called a rally on November 1 to highlight the urgent need to deliver justice to those grieving their loved ones who died at the hands of NSW Police. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Angela Carr, an Australian Services Union (ASU) delegate and Socialist Alliance member, told Green Left Radio on 3CR that the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) proposed changes to the award would take workers backwards. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Community service workers say proposed award changes will worsen pay
The Australian Services Union is campaigning against the Fair Work Commission’s proposed restructure of their award, which the union says will take workers backwards. Pip Hinman reports.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Angela Carr, an Australian Services Union (ASU) delegate and Socialist Alliance member, told Green Left Radio on 3CR that the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) proposed changes to the award would take workers backwards. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
The election of Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) member Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old person of colour, with an Asian and Muslim background, as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Zohran Mamdani’s win a beacon of hope for a better world
The election of Democratic Socialist of America member Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world because it was a popular rejection of Trumpism, a...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The election of Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) member Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old person of colour, with an Asian and Muslim background, as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Peter Boyle joins Green Left Show to discuss how solidarity can defeat the 'March for Australia' movement and how Labor and the Coalition are exploiting racism to hide their inability to address the housing, cost-of-living, climate and healthcare crises. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Green Left Show #72: Solidarity can defeat the racist 'March for Australia'
Green Left journalist and veteran socialist activist Peter Boyle joins the Green Left Show to discuss how solidarity can defeat the racist 'March for Australia' movement.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Peter Boyle joins Green Left Show to discuss how solidarity can defeat the 'March for Australia' movement and how Labor and the Coalition are exploiting racism to hide their inability to address the housing, cost-of-living, climate and healthcare crises. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
The United States interference in Australian domestic politics was confirmed by former US President Jimmy Carter in an apology to Gough Whitlam, via the president’s envoy at a breakfast meeting in the Qantas lounge in 1977. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
The United States and Gough Whitlam’s 1975 sacking
Eleven days before he was sacked, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam asked “whether any duly elected reformist government will be allowed to govern in the future?” Bevan Ramsden looks at the context of the ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The United States interference in Australian domestic politics was confirmed by former US President Jimmy Carter in an apology to Gough Whitlam, via the president’s envoy at a breakfast meeting in the Qantas lounge in 1977. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Baran Sogut, a Sydney-based Kurdish community activist, visited the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, which Kurdish freedom fighters liberated from the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship, in the Rojava revolution of 2012. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/wo...
Kurdish activist: The Battle of Kobane is an inspiration for all freedom fighters
Baran Sogut speaks to Peter Boyle about the gains and challenges of the Rojava revolution and, in particular, about his visit to Kobane, a city that was liberated from several Islamic fundamentalist m...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Baran Sogut, a Sydney-based Kurdish community activist, visited the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, which Kurdish freedom fighters liberated from the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship, in the Rojava revolution of 2012. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/wo...
The national strike was sparked by the government unilaterally ending the diesel subsidy, a move that Noboa promised twice he would not do. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...
Ecuador: Brutal gov’t repression forces end to national strike
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government, reports Be...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The national strike was sparked by the government unilaterally ending the diesel subsidy, a move that Noboa promised twice he would not do. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...
The dramatic demonstrations in late August in Indonesia have prompted important debates among activists about the significance of a renewed culture of street protest that has emerged since 2019. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...
Indonesian youth activists: Learning from past struggles, building solidarity, organising for social change
In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semara...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The dramatic demonstrations in late August in Indonesia have prompted important debates among activists about the significance of a renewed culture of street protest that has emerged since 2019. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...
Shutting down the factory means less armoured steel for Israel, which could mean one less armoured vehicle in Gaza or the West Bank. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Stop Bisalloy Steel from arming Israel
Anti-Zionist Jewish journalist Yaakov Aharon told a protest against the Indo Pacific weapons expo that Bisalloy Steel is a crucial part of the supply chain for Israel's armoured vechicle fleet.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Shutting down the factory means less armoured steel for Israel, which could mean one less armoured vehicle in Gaza or the West Bank. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Despite two years of genocide and warning from human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti that Israeli companies exhibiting at the Indo-Pacific Arms Expo could be a breach of Australia’s obligations under the Genocide Convention, the expo was given special treatment www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Minns spruiks defence exports, while protesters take aim at Indo-Pacific arms expo
Anti-genocide and anti-AUKUS protesters rallied outside the Indo-Pacific Arms Expo to tell Labor it has no excuse for supporting companies complicit in genocide. Pip Hinman reports.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Despite two years of genocide and warning from human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti that Israeli companies exhibiting at the Indo-Pacific Arms Expo could be a breach of Australia’s obligations under the Genocide Convention, the expo was given special treatment www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans, including 12 civilians, during a military operation in Soanggama Village in the Intan Jaya Regency in occupied West Papua. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...
Indonesian military massacres West Papuans, gov’t signs trade deal with EU
Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans during a military operation in the Intan Jaya Regency. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the European Union have just finalised an economic agreement that give...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans, including 12 civilians, during a military operation in Soanggama Village in the Intan Jaya Regency in occupied West Papua. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/wo...
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Carbon capture and storage is a dead horse
Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Gen Townsend, an artist of English and Scottish settler heritage with Garage 35 Art Studio, joins Green Left Radio to discuss the Press on for Palestine project, commemorating the 288 journalists who have been killed in Gaza since October 7. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
Green Left Radio: Press on for Palestine — remembering journalists killed in Gaza
Gen Townsend joins Green Left Radio to talk about the Press on for Palestine project.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Gen Townsend, an artist of English and Scottish settler heritage with Garage 35 Art Studio, joins Green Left Radio to discuss the Press on for Palestine project, commemorating the 288 journalists who have been killed in Gaza since October 7. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/an...
ICE raids are by no means a new phenomenon, and mass deportations have been a bipartisan policy priority for decades, but the second Trump administration has dramatically increased the pace and scale of detentions and deportations. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1440/wo...
United States: Organising to resist mass immigrant raids
Los Angeles County voted to declare a state of emergency in response to ongoing immigration raids by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Jonathan Cannard paints a picture of the crisis...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
ICE raids are by no means a new phenomenon, and mass deportations have been a bipartisan policy priority for decades, but the second Trump administration has dramatically increased the pace and scale of detentions and deportations. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1440/wo...
Zack Schofield, organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio on 3CR to discuss why people should join the upcoming People’s Blockade at the Port of Newcastle — the world’s largest coal port. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/an...
Green Left Radio: Join the People’s Blockade
Zack Schofield, an organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio to discuss this year’s People’s Blockade.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Zack Schofield, organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio on 3CR to discuss why people should join the upcoming People’s Blockade at the Port of Newcastle — the world’s largest coal port. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/an...