Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union national secretary Zach Smith addresses the national Housing Justice Summit . Smith explained the CFMEU's campaign for a super profits tax to build public and community housing. He also addressed housing activists questions about whether 'Green Bans' or 'Black Bans' could be put on public housing estates that are under threat of demolition. The Housing Justice Summit was organised by Action for Public Housing and brought together hundreds of housin...
Oct 13, 2023•22 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of the Green Left Show highlights the campaign to defend whistleblower rights, in particular the case of David McBride who faces trial in November. Read more: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/war-crimes-whistleblower-david-mcbride-ill-eventually-win-public-support View this episode online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/green-left-show-33-punish-war-criminals-not-whistleblowers Topics in this episode include: 0:00 hunting generals not corporals; 1:15 war crimes in Afghani...
Oct 06, 2023•26 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Stop Black Deaths in Custody | Housing Justice Summit | Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port | Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR Read Green Left articles featured in this episode here . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Abori...
Oct 06, 2023•37 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Antony Loewenstein, journalist and writer of Disaster Capitalism about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. View this online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/palestine-laboratory-antony-loewenstein Link to the book: https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-palestine-laboratory-9781922310408 We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express ...
Oct 01, 2023•22 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast This episode features talks by Sue Bull (union activist and member of Socialist Alliance), Zane Alcorn (CFMMEU member, Earthworker Construction coop member, Socialist Alliance member and People’s Blockade organiser) and Chloe DS (refugee rights activist, 3CR presenter and Green Left journalist) at a Melbourne forum on August 26. Since Albanese's Labor government has been in power, it has continued to roll out many of the Coalition's unpopular policies such as the Stage 3 tax cuts, and the contro...
Sep 28, 2023•50 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast This is a recording of the talk by Vladyslav Starodubtsev at the public forum "Ukraine resists! Fighting back against Russian tanks and Western banks" organised by Green Left in Sydney on August 22, 2023. Starodubtsev is an historian of Central and Eastern Europe and a member of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Sotsyalnyi Rukh (Social Movement). He was speaking from Kyiv, Ukraine. This event also served as the Sydney launch of Ukraine Resists! Left Voices on Putin’s War, NATO and ...
Sep 28, 2023•24 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Public forum: Albanese's Labor: Sacrificing principles for power? | Housing Justice Summit | Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port | Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR Read Green Left articles featured in this episode here . We acknowledge t...
Sep 23, 2023•22 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Housing Justice Summit | Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port | Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR [block:views=node_blocks-related] Read Green Left articles featured in this episode here . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Ab...
Sep 13, 2023•15 min•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast The Socialist Alliance national council updated the Alliance's position on the Voice at a September 10 meeting. Green Left's Alex Bainbridge spoke to SA national co-convenor Sam Wainwright about the Alliance's position on the Voice. Read Green Left's full coverage on the Voice here: https://www.greenleft.org.au/tags/voice-parliament Socialist Alliance's resolution: https://socialist-alliance.org/news/2023-09-11/socialist-alliance-position-voice Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:18 Critical Yes 0:47 How t...
Sep 12, 2023•11 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Housing Justice Summit Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia Price controls needed in cost-of-living crisis Waterloo residents slam Labor’s housing pl...
Sep 08, 2023•29 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Housing Justice Summit Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia Labor fails on AUKUS, housing and taxation Photos: Thousands protest AUKUS, push for housing and saving native forests at Labor conferen...
Aug 31, 2023•21 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast House prices and rents are rising at unprecedented rates and the Anthony Albanese Labor government has claimed a recent deal negotiated at the National Cabinet meeting is the “most significant housing reform in a generation”; but Labor is not investing in public housing and there are questions about whether these reforms will have any impact. Green Left spoke to Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre about the housing crisis, what Labor is doing and common sense solutions. We acknowledge ...
Aug 28, 2023•22 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Join Hiroshima Day rallies across the country. Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia CFMEU’s housing plan deserves support Public housing tenant Margaret Kelly given eviction date Calls grow for public housing to be saved, more built NS...
Aug 03, 2023•26 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Leo Earle go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Join Hiroshima Day rallies across the country. Green Left housing forums: Naarm/Melbourne | Gadi/Sydney Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia Ten years too long: End offshore detention Refugee rights activists to Jim Chalmers: '10 year...
Jul 24, 2023•14 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast Public housing tenants and activists discuss the housing crisis and ecosocialist solutions at the #Ecosocialism2023 conference. Speakers include Margaret Kelly from Save Barak Beacon, public housing activist Kerry Bryne, Waterloo Housing Action Group activist Karyn Brown, Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre and Rachel Evans from Action for Public Housing. The session was chaired by Angela Carr from Socialist Alliance. More online at greenleft.org.au/tags/ecosocialism-2023 Join upcoming...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Talk by Clifton D'Rozario of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation on "Caste and class in India today" at #Ecosocialism2023 conference. Watch online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-caste-and-class-india-today India's caste system was officially outlawed in 1950, yet it continues to impact on social relations in India today. The early workers’ movement in India assumed that, with the spread of capitalism, the caste system would fade away. Instead, the opposite ha...
Jul 19, 2023•38 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast #Ecosocialism2023 session with Mike Treen: https://ecosocialism.org.au/sessions/capitalism-crisis Today we are facing a renewed global recession that threatens a return of a great depression. This is because the weak recovery after 2008 still required an enormous explosion of debt. The inflationary money printing followed this to cope with the COVID-19 crisis that will require interest rates we haven’t seen in decades to bring under control. That, in turn, will provoke a cascade of debt and broa...
Jul 18, 2023•43 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist and refugee rights activist Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Cover image Zebedee Parkes . Join refugee rallies across the country. Green Left housing forums: Naarm/Melbourne | Gadi/Sydney Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia Big turn out for NAIDOC march Protest calls on P...
Jul 16, 2023•25 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Leo Earle go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Join refugee rallies across the country. Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia Labor breaks election promise with new income management card Family of man shot by NSW Police in 2019 calls for justice, reforms Trans rights are human rig...
Jul 07, 2023•20 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist is joined by refugee rights activist Chloe as they go through the latest news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here . Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia ‘Wall of gay’ formed to defend drag story time Disability activists blockade Sydney Road, call for acc...
Jun 28, 2023•14 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha an activist with All India Students' Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour about the real meaning of the emergence of AI development under capitalism. Is it an apocalyptic existential threat as presented by many CEOs & tech 'leaders' or is it an accentuation of existing threats posed to the weakest sections of the working class? Aishik Saha, will be speaking at a session on "'Artificial intelligence', capitalism and lib...
Jun 27, 2023•40 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist is joined by refugee rights activist Chloe as they go through the latest news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here. Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats . Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia Unions step up push for ‘same job, same pay’ rule Community pushes back against Geelong City Council’s ...
Jun 20, 2023•15 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast 
