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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-size updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. This episode we discuss the Invasion Day protests on January 26, solidarity protests with Rojava and promote upcoming forums and rallies.  Naarm/Melbourne Venezuela forum: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026-01/event/venezuela-latin-america-trumps-war-la...

On January 3, the United States carried out a direct military operation against Venezuela. US forces bombed targets in and around Caracas, struck the electrical grid, killed over one hundred people, and abducted Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores. Federico Fuentes, socialist journalist, writer for Green Left and editor of Li...

Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance member and long-time solidarity activist with the Kurdish liberation struggle, joins Green Left Radio on 3CR to discuss the grave situation in Northern Syria and why Rojava demands our solidarity. Listen to more Green Left podcasts here . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for Fir...

This is a recording of the session on "Organising workers in today’s economy" at Ecosocialism 2025. Speakers included: Jiselle Hanna (then newly elected secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Victorian branch and long-time trade unionist), Jacqueline Kriz (Socialist Alliance member and former President of Geelong Trades Hall) and Kumarr (a labour researcher from Singapore). See...

This recording is from the "Always was, always will be! First Nations fight back for sovereignty" panel at Ecosocialism 2025. You can watch a video of this session at: https://www.youtube.com/live/f2rccgsH3fM . The panel featured: Senator Lidia Thorpe (Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung activist and Independent Senator for Victoria), Celeste Liddle (Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, union org...

This is a recording from Ecosocialism 2025: Ecosocialism not barbarism conference held in Naarm/Melbourne September 5-7, 2025. The panel featured: Yousef Alreemawi (award-winning Palestinian-Australian musician, thinker, and storyteller), Jordy Silverstein (historian and writer and a member of the Loud Jew Collective) and Markela Panegyres (activist, artist and advocate for the Boycott, Divestment...

This is an audio recording of the opening panel - Ecosocialism not barbarism - at the Ecosocialism 2025 conference held in Naarm/Melbourne September 5-7, 2025. This panel featured: Sue Bolton (Sue Bolton is a veteran socialist activist, member of Socialist Alliance National Executive, and councillor on Merri-bek City Council), Ammar Ali Jan (Ammar Ali Jan, general secretary of the Haqooq-e-Khalq (...

Surya McEwen and Madeleine Habib both participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver urgently needed aid to starving Palestinians. They spoke to the Green Left Show about the impact of the flotilla and how to keep building the Palestine solidarity movement. We acknowledge that this video was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solid...

Sydney's Inner West Council (IWC) claims its "Fairer Futures" plan will help address the dire housing affordability crisis by building tens of thousands of new homes. But housing campaigners are warning that affordable homes will be demolished to make way for expensive, luxury apartments. Erina Delinicolas and Duncan Roden are renters at 50–52 Warren Road in Marrickville, the first site slated for...

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". Watch this interview online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/analysis/green-left-show-77-take-back-wealth Read more: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/analysis/we-need-take-back-our-wealth The interview covered: Take bac...

Green Left and Socialist Alliance held a forum discussing the next steps for socialists following the inspiring victory for Zohran Mamdani in New York City. The forum featured Democratic Socialists of America member Winnie Marion, who spoke about her experience campaigning in New York and the lessons learnt through the campaign. It also featured Socialist Alliance member Alex Bainbridge, who said...

Green Left's Alex Bainbridge spoke to Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch about the coming social media ban, why it harms young people, what the alternatives would be and other issues related to digital privacy. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and...

Candice Alisha, blues and folk musician based in Naarm/Melbourne joins Green Left Radio on 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/greenleftaction Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenleftonline TikTok: https...

Doctor Shaday Wheatley, community health doctor and member of Victorian Socialists joins the Green Left Radio on https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/analysis/green-left-radio-shaday-wheatley-save-cohealth-campaign We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past...

The election of Zohran Mamdani, member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as mayor of New York City on November 4 was a kick in the teeth to United States President Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement, and a beacon of hope for socialists around the world. Mamdani’s win was built on an exciting campaign that mobilised more than 100,000 volunteers to promote his plat...

Catherine Connolly has won a resounding victory in the Presidential election with the largest percentage and largest total votes of any presidential candidate in history. It is also the first time the left has won a majority of votes in a national election in Ireland.  Connolly did this while up against the political and media establishment, and with a strong left platform that included opposing I...

Interview with city of Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly about the community campaign opposing the closure of Cohealth services in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you like our work, become a supporter: ht...

Sonny Melencio, chairperson of the Partido Lakas ng Masa/Party of the Labouring Masses (Philippines), speaks to the Green Left Show about the new wave of youth protests in the Philippines and what this represents as a challenge to the political dynasties in the Philippines. Watch online here: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/analysis/green-left-show-philippines-gen-z-protests-not-ordinary-si...

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 and how Labor and the Coalition are exploiting racism to hide their inability to address the housing, cost-of-living, climate and healthcare crises. We acknowledge that this video was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express...

Gen Townsend, artist of English and Scottish settler heritage with Garage 35 Art Studio , joins Green Left Radio to discuss the Press on for Palestine project. This project commemorates the 288 journalists who have been killed in Gaza since October 7. You can listen to full episode of Green Left Radio on the 3CR website . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express...

Baran Sogut, a Sydney-based Kurdish community activist, was part of a delegation from Australia which, in September, visited the Democratic Autonoumous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), the third of Syria liberated by Kurdish freedom fighters from the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in the Rojava revolution of 2012 and over the following years from the brutal and reactionary Islamic St...

Zack Schofield, organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio on here . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patre...

Marxist activist, author and academic Paul le Blanc is the guest on the latest Green Left Show discussing politics under the Trump regime with Green Left's Alex Bainbridge. They talk about the wide-ranging attacks imposed by Trump, whether or not the US is going fascist, the state of the socialist movement in the US, and the role of figures like Zohran Mamdani. Watch the full interview online: htt...

Green Left Radio played a recording of a talk by Mary Merkenich about the Relevance of Marxism on 3CR on October 24. Merkenich is from the Socialist Alliance. The original talk was on October 18. You can listen to the whole episode of Green Left Radio here . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations p...

Greens senator David Shoebridge speaks to Peter Boyle about his trip to the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria ("Rojava") - the first Australian politician to visit. They speak about the situation on the ground, the impact of the fall of the Assad dictatorship in Syria, threats from Israel and Türkiye, and the situation of Australian women and children who previously had...