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Supporters of democracy and international law joined Hands off Venezuela! protests across Australia to demand the US immediately stop its attacks on Venezuela and that the Australian government condemns the US' blatant violation of rules-based order. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/ne...
Photos: Hands off Venezuela protests
Supporters of democracy and international law joined Hands off Venezuela! protests across Australia.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Supporters of democracy and international law joined Hands off Venezuela! protests across Australia to demand the US immediately stop its attacks on Venezuela and that the Australian government condemns the US' blatant violation of rules-based order. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/ne...
The international legal system was torn to shreds on January 3, when the United States military intervened in Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, National Assembly deputy Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/wo...
Trump 'seizes control' of Venezuela
The international legal system was torn to shreds on January 3, when the United States military intervened in Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, National Assembly deputy Ci...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:56 AM
The international legal system was torn to shreds on January 3, when the United States military intervened in Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, National Assembly deputy Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/wo...
Opposition to Trump’s illegal bombing of Venezuela, its kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his partner, and its declaration that it would be running the country on January 3, is growing across the world, but not from the Labor government. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/ne...
Opposition to US attack on Venezuela grows with calls on Labor to condemn it
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January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Opposition to Trump’s illegal bombing of Venezuela, its kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his partner, and its declaration that it would be running the country on January 3, is growing across the world, but not from the Labor government. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/ne...
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela — a country I used to live in — the United States has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/wo...
US starts 2026 by bombing Venezuela and kidnapping its president, setting a tone of imperialist violence for the year
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela, the United States has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism, writes Tamara Pearson.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:37 AM
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela — a country I used to live in — the United States has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/wo...
The most insistent calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting are emerging from opposition politicians, peak Zionist organisations, and sections of the media already invested in a narrative that links antisemitism to criticism of Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Who is demanding a royal commission into Bondi attacks — and why?
Halim Rane argues that opposition politicians, Zionist organisations and establishment media are driving the calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting.
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January 3, 2026 at 2:21 AM
The most insistent calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting are emerging from opposition politicians, peak Zionist organisations, and sections of the media already invested in a narrative that links antisemitism to criticism of Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Daylesford New Years Eve Parade and Gala Committee called Victorian Police to remove a participant waving a Palestine flag. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/ne...
Daylesford NYE parade calls cops on Palestinian flag bearer
Daylesford New Years Eve Parade Committee called Victorian Police to remove a participant waving a Palestine flag. Kerry Smith reports.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Daylesford New Years Eve Parade and Gala Committee called Victorian Police to remove a participant waving a Palestine flag. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/ne...
The anger over Israel’s genocide has been largely expressed through peaceful protests, articles and interviews on radio and television. But Segal wants to criminalise those who take part in anti-genocide protests, labelling them “antisemitic”. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Bondi attack and the rush to enact new ‘antisemitism’ laws
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December 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The anger over Israel’s genocide has been largely expressed through peaceful protests, articles and interviews on radio and television. But Segal wants to criminalise those who take part in anti-genocide protests, labelling them “antisemitic”. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The rise of antisemitism in Australia is not an enormous wave. It is more like a ripple — albeit a deeply worrying one as it could rise into a tsunami if we do not untangle the conflation between Zionism and Judaism and distinguish between Jews and Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
A day of mourning
Jepke Goudsmit argues that we need to untangle the conflation between Zionism and Judaism and make clear the distinction between the worldwide community of Jews and the State of Israel.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The rise of antisemitism in Australia is not an enormous wave. It is more like a ripple — albeit a deeply worrying one as it could rise into a tsunami if we do not untangle the conflation between Zionism and Judaism and distinguish between Jews and Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The most famous Palestinian Jew in history, whose birthday is celebrated on December 25, imprinted the values of compassion, peace and justice into the ethos of a new religion some 2000 years ago. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Remaining steadfast for Palestine
Change comes when enough see that a better world is possible and work towards it. Therefore, Jepke Goudsmit argues, we cannot give up. Palestinians have a word for it — “sumud”.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The most famous Palestinian Jew in history, whose birthday is celebrated on December 25, imprinted the values of compassion, peace and justice into the ethos of a new religion some 2000 years ago. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Members of Queer Liberation Boorloo have sent an open letter to the organisers of Perth’s annual Pride Parade, expressing concern about the inclusion of armed and uniformed police officers in the event. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Queer Liberation Boorloo says police have no place in Pride
Members of Queer Liberation Boorloo sent an open letter to the organisers of Perth’s annual Pride Parade, expressing concern about the inclusion of armed and uniformed police officers. Cas Smith repor...
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December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Members of Queer Liberation Boorloo have sent an open letter to the organisers of Perth’s annual Pride Parade, expressing concern about the inclusion of armed and uniformed police officers in the event. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...
Labor’s invitation to President of Israel Isaac Herzog, as head of a state responsible for genocidal acts, is immoral, cowardly, illegal and wrong. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Israel President invitation must be withdrawn
Isaac Herzog cannot be welcomed in Australia as the government he represents has breached international law, including crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and e...
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December 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Labor’s invitation to President of Israel Isaac Herzog, as head of a state responsible for genocidal acts, is immoral, cowardly, illegal and wrong. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
There's no protest music round-up this month (it returns next month). But you can stream our "Best protest songs of 2025" playlist here, which features far more artists than we could fit in the monthly round-up anyway:
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#protestsongs #protestmusic
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#protestsongs #protestmusic
The best protest songs of 2025
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December 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
There's no protest music round-up this month (it returns next month). But you can stream our "Best protest songs of 2025" playlist here, which features far more artists than we could fit in the monthly round-up anyway:
www.tunemymusic.com/share/FjzCtB...
#protestsongs #protestmusic
www.tunemymusic.com/share/FjzCtB...
#protestsongs #protestmusic
The wave of abuse, doxxing and death threats directed at anti-Zionist Jews, such as Judith Trainor and Michelle Berkon, following the Bondi shooting shows how little Zionists care about protecting all Jews. 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 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The wave of abuse, doxxing and death threats directed at anti-Zionist Jews, such as Judith Trainor and Michelle Berkon, following the Bondi shooting shows how little Zionists care about protecting all Jews. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
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The Right to Protest is a Basic Universal Human Right!
Taking away that BUHR must be regarded and considered one of the most serious crimes against humanity ever!
Fight ALL attempts/actions that limit or even prevent to raise your voice in protest, stand-up against those opposing ppl's rights!
Taking away that BUHR must be regarded and considered one of the most serious crimes against humanity ever!
Fight ALL attempts/actions that limit or even prevent to raise your voice in protest, stand-up against those opposing ppl's rights!
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor (with support from the Liberals) rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Resist NSW Premier Minn’s attack on the right to protest
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The Right to Protest is a Basic Universal Human Right!
Taking away that BUHR must be regarded and considered one of the most serious crimes against humanity ever!
Fight ALL attempts/actions that limit or even prevent to raise your voice in protest, stand-up against those opposing ppl's rights!
Taking away that BUHR must be regarded and considered one of the most serious crimes against humanity ever!
Fight ALL attempts/actions that limit or even prevent to raise your voice in protest, stand-up against those opposing ppl's rights!
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NSW’s new anti-protest laws weaponise terror fears to crush dissent. Targeting Palestine solidarity and broader activism, Minns threatens democracy itself. Protest is not crime. #NSW #RightToProtest #CivilLiberties #DemocracyUnderAttack
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor (with support from the Liberals) rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Resist NSW Premier Minn’s attack on the right to protest
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
www.greenleft.org.au
December 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
NSW’s new anti-protest laws weaponise terror fears to crush dissent. Targeting Palestine solidarity and broader activism, Minns threatens democracy itself. Protest is not crime. #NSW #RightToProtest #CivilLiberties #DemocracyUnderAttack
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Zionists exploit Bondi killings to attack dem rights, silence criticism of Israel.
The premier is further dividing a community that is already trying to heal in an environ filled with misinformation & hateful rhetoric. We cannot have calm & cohesion with a gov eroding our democratic freedoms
#Auspol
The premier is further dividing a community that is already trying to heal in an environ filled with misinformation & hateful rhetoric. We cannot have calm & cohesion with a gov eroding our democratic freedoms
#Auspol
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...
www.greenleft.org.au
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Zionists exploit Bondi killings to attack dem rights, silence criticism of Israel.
The premier is further dividing a community that is already trying to heal in an environ filled with misinformation & hateful rhetoric. We cannot have calm & cohesion with a gov eroding our democratic freedoms
#Auspol
The premier is further dividing a community that is already trying to heal in an environ filled with misinformation & hateful rhetoric. We cannot have calm & cohesion with a gov eroding our democratic freedoms
#Auspol
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US policy on Venezuela shows clear double standards. It buys oil, then threatens war. Maduro has failed workers, but invasion will only bring chaos. Respect sovereignty, reject military force.
#Venezuela #AntiImperialism #Peace
#Venezuela #AntiImperialism #Peace
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 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
US policy on Venezuela shows clear double standards. It buys oil, then threatens war. Maduro has failed workers, but invasion will only bring chaos. Respect sovereignty, reject military force.
#Venezuela #AntiImperialism #Peace
#Venezuela #AntiImperialism #Peace
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor (with support from the Liberals) rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
Resist NSW Premier Minn’s attack on the right to protest
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
www.greenleft.org.au
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor (with support from the Liberals) rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/an...
The trilateral meeting held in Port Moresby between the Indonesian, Australian and Papua New Guinean defence ministers marked a significant moment in Indo-Pacific regional security alignment. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
Aus-Indo-PNG trilateral defence pact and the West Papua crisis
The trilateral meeting held in Port Moresby on December 3 between the Indonesian, Australian and Papua New Guinean defence ministers took place in the shadow of Indonesia's brutal occupation of West P...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The trilateral meeting held in Port Moresby between the Indonesian, Australian and Papua New Guinean defence ministers marked a significant moment in Indo-Pacific regional security alignment. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/wo...
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 ...
www.greenleft.org.au
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...