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On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss the protests for Palestine and public housing outside the NSW Labor conference at Sydney Town Hall and various rallies against US imperialism and in solidarity with Latin America on July 4.  Find more upcoming events  here . Mu...

Fergus Green of the Australia Institute joins the Green Left Show to discuss the new report about Labor's climate policy - the Safeguard Mechanism. Green is the co-author with Frances Medlock of the new report "Safeguarding the Fossil Fuel Industry? How Carbon Offsetting Undermines the Safeguard Mechanism". Watch this interview online: greenleft.org.au/2026/1457/analysis/green-left-show-87-au-clim...

As “Gen Z” youth revolts rock many countries in Asia, Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Arveent Kathirtchelvan, a youth activist in the Socialist Party of Malaysia (Parti Sosialis Malaysia, PSM) about the political mood among young people in Malaysia and how right-wing politicians are channeling rising mass dissatisfaction into racist scapegoating of minorities. Kathirtchelvan also spoke about the...

Isaac Nellist spoke to longtime socialist and anti-racist activist Peter Boyle about the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation and how to stop it's racist, anti-worker agenda. Boyle is a member of the Socialist Alliance national executive and was involved in protesting Hanson's rise in the late '90s. If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on...

Sarah Baarini joined Green Left Radio on July 3 to discus the political situation in Lebanon and Israel's continued aggression against the country. Baarini is a member of the Lebanese community and organiser of the Free Palestine Sunday rallies in Naarm/Melbourne. You can listen to the whole episode at 3CR . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity wit...

Indian community member, Narendar, joined Green Left Radio on July 3 to discuss Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Australia. The Hindutva movement represented by the BJP and Modi must be opposed and there will be a protest planned for July 9. You can listen to the whole episode at 3CR . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity wit...

Izzy, a school teacher, joined Green Left Radio on June 26 to discuss Labor's recent enterprise agreement offer to school teachers and education support staff and why members overwhelmingly voted to reject the offer. Izzy is also an AEU member and part of Fight the Crisis. You can listen to the whole episode at 3CR . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solid...

Socialist Alliance candidate for Broadmeadow, Sue Bolton, joined Green Left Radio on June 26. Bolton, who is also a Merri-bek councillor, discussed the rising support for One Nation and how we can fight back. Additionally, she spoke about the upcoming anti-racism rally being planned in Broadmeadows on Saturday July 25. You can listen to the entire show on 3CR . We acknowledge that this was produce...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss a Cuba solidarity film screening, nationwide protests against Swisse and upcoming protests outside the NSW Labor conference.  Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowl...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss NSW Police clearing the save Waterloo protest camp, campaigning for abortion rights in South Australia and Victorian school staff rejecting Labor's shoddy pay offer.  Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean...

On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist speaks to Derek Wall, prominent ecosocialist writer and activist and former coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales, about the Greens recent success. Wall is a regular contributor to Green Left based in Berkshire and has recently written about the impact of Zack Polanski on the rise of the Greens and the Greens victory in the Gorton...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss protests outside Pauline Hanson's One Nation events and the three-day picket of Bisalloy Steel in Tharawal/Wollongong. Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge th...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss protests resisting government crackdown on the right to protest and the fight against Pauline Hanson’s racism. Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this...

Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha speaks to Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine, author of The Socialist Manifesto (2019) and President of American progressive journal The Nation about the political situation in the United States in response to the Trump administration and the prospects for building socialist politics. Sunkara visited Australia as part of a SEARCH Foundation sponsore...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss the workers’ campaigns fighting for better pay, workloads and conditions, and upcoming events for Naksa Day, which commemorates when Israel extended its illegal occupation 59 years ago. Find more upcoming events  here . Music a...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss the solidarity shown with Gazans under siege and Sumud flotilla participants and the ongoing fight to save public housing from demolition. Donate to the Action for Public Housing Waterloo occupation fundraiser here . Find more...

"Person to person" is a 70-minute panoramic video exhibit in the 2026 Sydney Biennale by Sydney-based artists Merilyn Fairskye and Michiel Dolk which shares the rich history of Woolloomooloo — a pocket of public housing nestled right next to what has become the playgrounds and luxury apartments of the rich on Sydney Harbour — told through first-hand stories of local residents. In this interview wi...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss rallies to mark 78 years of al Nakba (the Catastrophe) and upcoming actions to save Waterloo public housing. Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this vi...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss rallies to stop Labor's cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme and upcoming protests for Nakba Day. Find more upcoming events here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this vi...

There has been a massive investment in data centres to power rapid artificial intelligence growth around the world, but at what cost? On this episode of the Green Left Show we discuss the energy and water impacts of data centres, community opposition, and whether AI is a bubble ready to pop, or here to stay. Isaac Nellist is joined by Ketan Joshi, a climate and energy analyst based in Oslo, Norway...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss marches across the country to celebrate May Day, or International Workers' Day, and actions held in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was intercepted by Israeli forces.  We also discusss the upcoming national day...

Graham Matthews joins the Green Left Show to discuss Labor's planned cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - the "largest rollback of disability rights in a generation". Matthews is the Socialist Alliance national spokesperson on disability rights. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First N...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode we discuss anti-war campaigning and international solidarity with Cuba, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. Find more upcoming events here . Subscribe to updates from the Global Sumud Flotilla  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleA...

Tash Wark joined Green Left Radio to talk about the industrial campaign to win better wages and conditions for council workers across 8 councils through a multi-employer agreement. Council workers will be taking 24-hour strike action on May 5 to escalate their campaign. Wark is the Victorian secretary of the Australian Services Union (ASU). The whole episode can be heard on 3CR here . We acknowled...

Brooke Forbes joins Green Left Radio to discuss her new book Survival is an Instinct. The book blends fiction and non-fiction to create a multi-layered portrayal of surviving mental health diagnoses and sexual assault. Survival is an Instinct asks whether justice can be achieved through the very act of surviving, looks at where the legal system is failing survivors and talks to the exploitation of...