Green Left

Refugee rights protesters gathered outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation to demand the detainees’ freedom. Chris Slee, Andrea Bortoli and Chloe DS report.

Comic impersonator, poet and activist, Helchild, is back with another riotous show at the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, writes Darren Saffin.

Five hundred people rallied on March 29 at the Newcastle Museum to call on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to implement changes to stop gendered and domestic violence against women. The protest, called by What Were You Wearing, marched to Nobbys Beach.

Beware the slick TV ads that are part of the new wave of war propaganda to justify a bloody “Aussie” arms export dream, argues Peter Boyle.

Ukrainian writer, journalist, artist and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets has been documenting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from inside Kyiv since February 24, reports Susan Price.

The British-based Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign is publishing weekly reports by Marko Bojcun on the war in Ukraine. This is his first instalment, written on March 26.

Socialist Alliance candidate for Leichhardt Pat O’Shane has just returned from a listening tour to Thursday Island (Waiben), Boigu, Saibai, Poruma and Masig Islands. Renee Lees reports.

Peter Boyle asked Rachel Evans, who is part of the NSW Senate ticket for Socialist Alliance, about critical issues in the federal election.

There are a whole lot of things that can be done to ease the cost of living pressures on households argues Kamala Emanuel. It is a complete con to think that all we can possibly hope for is a tiny little one-off bonus.

Well-known Indigenous photojournalist Barbara McGrady's Deadly Sports Heroes photo exhibition was launched in Glebe on March 26, reports Jim McIlroy.

The Party is a detailed and lively account of the history of the CPA from its heyday in the early 1940s, to 1970 during its later Euro-Communist period, writes Jim McIlroy.

Chris Slee reviews a recent book exploring the rise and fall of workers' power in China.