Green Left

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has urged a national move towards a four-day workweek, in a proposal put to the federal Labor government’s Economic Reform Roundtable. Jim McIlroy reports.

Indigenous Wampís leader Galois Flores Pizango spoke to Green Left’s Ben Radford about the struggle to defend territory and advance a vision of sustainable Indigenous development.

Tasmanian unions’ bargaining power has dramatically weakened since the 1970s, not only because of changing nature of traditionally union-strong industries. As Solomon Doyle writes, anti-worker laws have had their impact.

Judith Treanor, on behalf of Jews Against the Occupation ’48, asked at the Palestine Action Group’s rally, how it is possible that 22 months into a live-streamed genocide and the world is still debating whether it is even happening?

The Israeli military continued attacks on Gaza City as protesters in Australia gear up for a major national rally.

About 300 people attended a vigil in solidarity with the people of Sweida/Suwayda, Syria at Martin Place organised by the Sydney Druze community. Peter Boyle reports.

Despite the incumbents trying to weaponise the Members Coalition's support for justice for Palestine, several MC members won spots in the recent delegate elections. Steve O'Brien reports.

A well-attended meeting at the Victorian Trades Hall endorsed the call for unions to join the National Day of Action on August 24. Jacob Andrewartha reports.  

The looming Combat Antisemitism Movement summit on the Gold Coast is backed by an assortment of human rights advocates, astroturfers, property developers and Zionist agitators, as Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon explain. 

Algal blooms are produced by a combination of temperature, sunlight and nutrients allowing aquatic microorganisms to multiply at exceptional rates. But, as Renfrey Clarke reports, the current catastrophe is unprecedented.

Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide’s Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.

Pas Forgione reports that, after nearly three and a half years in office, South Australian Labor has barely made a dent in the state’s acute housing shortage.