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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.

Novelist, filmmaker and academic Tracy Sorensen, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, passed away on May 5. Neville Spencer writes about her life, which included a strong focus on social justice. 

Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist. 

The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman. 

Amid the biggest housing crisis in Australia’s history and public housing being sold off, the most vulnerable public housing tenants say they are now even more isolated. Suzanne James reports.