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Ana Parampil's 2024 book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire, documents how how successive United States political leaders worked to undermine Venezuelan sovereignty. Coral Wynter reviews.

PEN America reported on April 24 that authoritarian regimes around the world jailed more journalists and writers last year than ever before, writes Julia Conley.

Susan Price looks at what happened in the leadup to the May 2 attack on the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) ship carrying urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian children have been forcibly abducted and relocated, in violation of international law, reports Christopher Ford.

Ukrainian workers make up the bulk of frontline soldiers defending the country against Russia’s war of aggression, but that hasn’t stopped Volodymyr Zelensky’s government from attacking trade union rights, reports Federico Fuentes.

In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people marched and rallied in more than 1000 cities across the country on May 1, International Workers’ Day, reports Malik Miah.

Join protests and vigils across the country to mark the 77th anniversary of al Nakba (Catastrophe), when 750,000 people were expelled from Palestine to establish the state of Israel in 1948. 

Independent Citizens Against Apartheid protested in Martin Place with a presentation condemning Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza. Jim McIlroy reports.

Abortion rights activists rallied in Martin Placeto support NSW Greens MLC Dr Amanda Cohen’s bill to make abortion more accessible to regional and remote communities across New South Wales. Zebedee Parkes reports.

Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW Senate, joins the Green Left Show to discuss the result of the May 3 federal election, in which Labor won a landslide victory after a disastrous result for Peter Dutton and the Coalition.

Nala Mansell, spokesperson for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, has demanded the Tasmanian government immediately close the Ashley Youth Detention in Deloraine. Kerry Smith reports.

First Nations people, unionists and environmental activists took their protest about Santos’ coal seam gas plans in the Pilliga Forest to NSW Parliament, ahead of a decision by the Native Title Tribunal. Jim McIlroy reports.