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This episode of the Green Left Show highlights the campaign to defend whistleblower rights, in particular the case of David McBride who faces trial in November.

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View this episode online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/green-left-show-33-punish-war-criminals-not-whistleblowers

Topics in this episode include: 0:00 hunting generals not corporals; 1:15 war crimes in Afghanistan; 3:26 why Attorney General Mark Drefus won't drop the prosecution; 6:07 Ben Roberts-Smith and cover-ups of war crimes; 10:36 national security laws 13:30 They knew 15:40 the case of tax office whisteblower Richard Boyle; 17:56 the campaign to drop the prosecutions; 18:36 why David McBride blew the whistle; and 21:30 the campaign to free Julian Assange

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Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

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Stop Black Deaths in Custody | Housing Justice Summit | Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port | Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR

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Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Antony Loewenstein, journalist and writer of Disaster Capitalism about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world.

View this online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/palestine-laboratory-antony-loewenstein

Link to the book: https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-palestine-laboratory-9781922310408

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This episode features talks by Sue Bull (union activist and member of Socialist Alliance), Zane Alcorn (CFMMEU member, Earthworker Construction coop member, Socialist Alliance member and People’s Blockade organiser) and Chloe DS (refugee rights activist, 3CR presenter and Green Left journalist) at a Melbourne forum on August 26.

Since Albanese's Labor government has been in power, it has continued to roll out many of the Coalition's unpopular policies such as the Stage 3 tax cuts, and the controversial AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal.

In addition to spending tax-payer money in ways that further the interests of the ruling-class, this government has refused to support practical measures that could improve the quality of life for all Australians, such as capping rents during a cost-of-living and housing crises.

Every time that the Albanese government is criticised for not carrying out serious reforms that help working class people or the environment, the refrain “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” gets rolled out to silence progressive critics.

Why is the government refusing to carry out serious progressive reforms? What is the essence of the ALP government? Is the ALP ruling for the rich or the working class? Have ALP governments always been like this?

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This is a recording of the talk by Vladyslav Starodubtsev at the public forum "Ukraine resists! Fighting back against Russian tanks and Western banks" organised by Green Left in Sydney on August 22, 2023.

Starodubtsev is an historian of Central and Eastern Europe and a member of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Sotsyalnyi Rukh (Social Movement). He was speaking from Kyiv, Ukraine. This event also served as the Sydney launch of Ukraine Resists! Left Voices on Putin’s War, NATO and the Future of Ukraine The book is available for purchase via Resistance Books. Paperback https://www.resistancebooks.com/product/ukraine-resists-left-voices-on-putins-war-nato-and-the-future-of-ukraine/ PDF: https://www.resistancebooks.com/product/ukraine-resists-left-voices-on-putins-war-nato-and-the-future-of-ukraine-pdf-download/

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Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Public forum: Albanese's Labor: Sacrificing principles for power? | Housing Justice Summit | Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port | Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR

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Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Housing Justice Summit | Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port | Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR

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Read Green Left articles featured in this episode here. 

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The Socialist Alliance national council updated the Alliance's position on the Voice at a September 10 meeting.

Green Left's Alex Bainbridge spoke to SA national co-convenor Sam Wainwright about the Alliance's position on the Voice.

Read Green Left's full coverage on the Voice here: https://www.greenleft.org.au/tags/voice-parliament

Socialist Alliance's resolution: https://socialist-alliance.org/news/2023-09-11/socialist-alliance-position-voice

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:18 Critical Yes 0:47 How to decide 2:22 Why not just Yes, or progressive No? 6:20 Working with First Nations activists 7:20 Progressive?

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Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Housing Justice Summit

Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port

Listen to Green Left Radio on 3CR

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Price controls needed in cost-of-living crisis

Waterloo residents slam Labor’s housing plan

Kristin O’Connell: Labor’s housing deal will do ‘basically nothing’

Pacific elders to Australia: No support for your COP31 bid until you end fossil fuel subsidies

Pilbara Climate Network says ‘No’ to Woodside’s seismic testing

Protect marine life and stop Woodside from seismic blasting for gas

Campaign stops NSW Forestry from logging Newry State Forest

Rising Tide activists celebrate after court validates their coal train action

Aboriginal teenager who died in care ‘needed cultural connection’

Voice to parliament discussion

NTEU at Melbourne Uni begin week of industrial action

Monash NTEU steps up fight for fair enterprise agreement

Save Manipur protest calls for an end to ethnic violence

Refugees in PNG point to Australia’s negligence

Glenroy campaigns for its Post Office to stay open

Residents say ‘no’ to proposed waste-to-energy incinerator

Communities call for binding plebiscites on NSW council demergers

International

Fiji: Solidarity march in Suva opposes Fukushima waste water release into Pacific

India: Fact-finding team visits Manipur, holds government responsible for violence and suffering

Ukraine offers concrete solidarity to jailed Russian anti-war activists

Russian court rejects appeal to free Ukrainian human rights activist Maksym Butkevych

Russian folk-punks release track in solidarity with political prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky

Progressive Luisa González and millionaire Daniel Noboa head to run off elections in Ecuador

Bernardo Arévalo will be Guatemala’s next President

Five reasons why radical right candidate Javier Milei could win Argentina’s presidential elections

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Housing Justice Summit

Peoples’ Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Labor fails on AUKUS, housing and taxation

Photos: Thousands protest AUKUS, push for housing and saving native forests at Labor conference

Time's up: Labor conference opens to union and climate protest

Margaret Kelly: Homes Victoria had other options than to evict people from their ‘lifetime home’

Residents campaign against their eviction from Techno Park Estate home

Housing Justice Summit

Gomeroi say ‘no’ to fracking in the Pilliga, again

No New Gas Coalition forms to stop NT Labor gas push

Labor needs to move on Murray-Darling Basin water protection

Rising Tide: ‘We have to build a movement to stop coal’

First Nations groups sidelined by WA cultural heritage changes

Calls to protect cultural heritage grow after sacred Djab Wurrung Birthing Tree vandalised

UN finds Australia violated Indigenous peoples’ land rights

Photos: Hiroshima Day protesters say 'No subs, no war'

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day march says ‘No’ to AUKUS nuclear submarine deal

AUKUS is a ‘choice’ and it’s the wrong one, Hiroshima rally told

Welfare not warfare, protesters say

Albanese fails to embrace war power reforms

Communities rally for Preston Market

International

Nigerian Socialist Labour: ‘Niger needs a mass struggle against inequality, not a coup’

What’s happening in Niger is far from a typical coup

‘FriendlyJordies’ brings new attention to West Papuan occupation ahead of independence day arrests

PSM’s Bawani KS: Building a third force in Malaysian politics

Algeria: Environmental activist takes on Australian mining company

Canada: BC dockworkers vote to accept deal

United States: Child labour and exploitation on the rise

Maui’s deadly fires: Government failures and disaster capitalism

India: Commemorating poet, writer and revolutionary, Saroj Dutta

India: Students fight back against hazing rituals on campus after tragic death

India: Fact-finding team visits Manipur, holds government responsible for violence and suffering

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