Green Left

Countries are vying for their slice of ice, sometimes citing reasons of scientific collaboration but more often it is about national self-interest. Binoy Kampmark reports.

The 33th Alliance Française French Film Festival opens around Australia in March. This year’s selection includes many for people with a taste for social justice themes.

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, anti-war and progressive groups have responded with calls for Russia’s immediate withdrawal and for a diplomatic resolution of the crisis, reports Susan Price.

Left parties and anti-war groups internationally have added their voices to calls for a peaceful negotiation to end the Ukraine crisis, reports Susan Price.

Former PM Tony Abbott used a recent address to encourage Australians to support a new US-led war in Europe. William Briggs argues that as Russia and China are being threatened with offensive weapons they might reasonably argue they are responding to bullying.

The relentless drive by the United States to expand NATO up to Russia’s border and encircle it militarily is at the centre of the Ukraine crisis, argues Sam Wainwright.

Anti-war and peace networks are pushing back against Australia supporting a war in Europe, triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

Instead of running documentaries, statements or messages on how war might be averted, thereby yielding the floor to diplomacy, the message of conflict has become inexorably clear in the mainstream media, argues Binoy Kampmark.

Every year since the abduction and imprisonment of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan 23 years ago, an international peace delegation has collected evidence on the treatment of political prisoners in Turkey, reports Peter Boyle.

A district court in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo ordered the government nurses union to suspend strike action on February 9, reports Chris Slee. This followed more than three months of strikes and protests by health workers.

Andrew Chuter, active for public transport and public housing campaigns, will run for the seat of Sydney for the Socialist Alliance. Jim McIlroy reports.

Cuba was the first country in the world to begin the mass vaccination of kids as young as two years old against COVID-19, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.