Green Left

Abdullah Ocalan's jailers hoped that by slamming shut the prison doors, the world would forget about him. But, as John Tully writes, for millions of Kurds and their supporters around the world, Ocalan remains a living symbol of resistance to a century of oppression by...

The current United States-Russia crisis has its roots in Washington’s betrayal of its well-documented promise to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the early 1990s to not move NATO eastward, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Essential food workers, members of the United Workers Union, employed at six sites across New South Wales and Victoria are on strike. Jim McIlroy reports.

Several candidates running in the February 12 by-election for the former Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian’s seat of Willoughby, including high-profile independent Larissa Penn, are outspoken opponents of the tollway tunnel projects. Peter Boyle reports.

The Israeli state is pulling out all stops to deligitmise international organisations that dare use the term "apartheid" to describe its decades-long brutal occupation of Palestine, writes Vijay Prashad.

We do not need to become scientists to understand that some human behaviour is killing the only precious thing we need — a functioning planet, writes Pat O'Shane.

Kurdish journalists continue to be killed or jailed simply for reporting the news, reports Steve Sweeney.

The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) discussed the “God” powers of the immigration minister, so named because of their unlimited nature. Chris Slee reports.

Nurses and midwives across Western Sydney are protesting the lack of staff at work which leads to extreme strain and unsafe work conditions. Viv Miley reports.

Grace Tame signalled that women are not happy with the system and bravely pulled off her widely acclaimed, and criticised, protest. Markela Panegyres argues women have a lot to be angry about. 

A mass mobilisation of far-right forces across Canada took place at the end of January and early February, reports Jeff Shantz, as thousands descended on the nation’s capital, Ottawa, in the culmination of what was deemed “Freedom Convoy 2022”.

The recent Islamic State (ISIS) attack on the al-Sina’a prison in Hesekê, northeast Syria, made headlines around the world, reports Peter Boyle. Aimed at freeing the almost 4000 ISIS members, the breakout began with an attack by suicide bombers on January 20.