Green Left

Gideon Polya writes that free speech faltered and falsehood triumphed at the the University of Melbourne after the student union was forced to withdraw a motion condemning apartheid Israel.

More than 100 protesters defied police to stop traffic in the CBD on June 27 for just under an hour at 8am as part of Blockade Australia’s (BA) week of climate action. Rachel Evans reports.

Two miles away from the Summit of the Americas, the Peoples Summit was held to build international solidarity, social justice and show that another world is possible, reports Rick Sterling.

First Nations peoples have historically been excluded from Australian universities. Even the so-called “sandstone universities,” were built on a foundation of invasion, genocide and land theft. Markela Panegyres looks at how how colonisation continues at Sydney...

Four years after the signing of the US-Ghana defence cooperation agreement, Vijay Prashad spoke with Kwesi Pratt, a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, about its consequences.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has made clear it would rather make life much harder for workers — even if it means tanking the economy — than touch record-high corporate profits. Fred Fuentes reports.

The United States has been tightening a noose around Beijing for the past decade and a half, writes William Briggs.

The link between the entertainment industry and the military industrial complex has never been more evident than in the promotion of the latest offering in the Top Gun franchise, writes Binoy Kampmark.

Tamara Pearson spoke to Xun Sero, a filmmaker from Mexico’s southern Chiapas state on the release of his new film, Mamá, which premiered in Mexico this month.

Fires swept through large rural areas of New Mexico in April and May, destroying farms, ranches, homesteads and vast stretches of mountain forest, reports Bill Nevins.

Activists rallied at Sydney Town Hall and marched for LGBTIQ rights on Saturday June 25. The rally also commemorated 44 years since the first Mardi Gras protest in 1978, reports Hamish Jonathan.

There is strong evidence that property developers had significant involvement in the lobby group pushing for the Metro plan. Andrew Chuter and Jim McIlroy report on a community meeting rejecting the public rail sell-off.