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House prices and rents are rising at unprecedented rates and the Anthony Albanese Labor government has claimed a recent deal negotiated at the National Cabinet meeting is the “most significant housing reform in a generation”; but Labor is not investing in public housing and there are questions about whether these reforms will have any impact.

Green Left spoke to Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre about the housing crisis, what Labor is doing and common sense solutions.

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Green Left journalists 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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Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

CFMEU’s housing plan deserves support

Public housing tenant Margaret Kelly given eviction date

Calls grow for public housing to be saved, more built

NSW police shoot and kill man in Glebe during welfare check

As domestic violence deaths rise, NSW gov’t ponders more police powers

Anti-war protesters say Talisman Sabre war games should be cancelled

Packed-out Redfern meeting discusses how AUKUS can be stopped

Traditional Owners defeat proposed Kimba radioactive waste dump

Silky skills, shonky deals and powerful displays of solidarity

Protesting sports-washing and supporting Western Sahara

Djilang community mobilises against racism

International

Solidarity needed for Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky

Spanish election: Right blocked, but now Sánchez needs Puigdemont

Global outcry forces J&J to back down on TB drug patent

Malaysian socialists in election pact with youth-based party

Peru: Thousands defy police violence to protest Boluarte coup regime

Mexican authorities detain whole community for protecting water

Canada: Dockworkers strike declared illegal, among ominous government moves

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Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Leo Earle 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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Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Ten years too long: End offshore detention

Refugee rights activists to Jim Chalmers: '10 years too long!'

Four Big Banks refuse to renew loans to Whitehaven Coal

Peace conference calls for Pacific solidarity as Talisman Sabre war games begin

Merri-bek community takes to the streets against AUKUS

International

United States: Actors walk off the job, picket studios

70 years after armistice: It's time to end the Korean War!

Canada: Dock workers back on strike as union rejects gov’t mediated deal

10 West Papuan activists arrested in Jayapura

West Papua: More arrests at KNPB rally

'Golden Spike': Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene

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Public housing tenants and activists discuss the housing crisis and ecosocialist solutions at the #Ecosocialism2023 conference.

Speakers include Margaret Kelly from Save Barak Beacon, public housing activist Kerry Bryne, Waterloo Housing Action Group activist Karyn Brown, Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre and Rachel Evans from Action for Public Housing. The session was chaired by Angela Carr from Socialist Alliance.

More online at greenleft.org.au/tags/ecosocialism-2023

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Talk by Clifton D'Rozario of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation on "Caste and class in India today" at #Ecosocialism2023 conference.

Watch online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-caste-and-class-india-today

India's caste system was officially outlawed in 1950, yet it continues to impact on social relations in India today.

The early workers’ movement in India assumed that, with the spread of capitalism, the caste system would fade away. Instead, the opposite has happened — Indian capitalism has reinforced castes to solidify class divisions and divisions within the working class itself.

This workshop will explore the intersections between caste and class in India today, drawing on the experiences of winning greater rights and union representation for Dalits, who remain at the bottom of the caste system.

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#Ecosocialism2023 session with Mike Treen: https://ecosocialism.org.au/sessions/capitalism-crisis

Today we are facing a renewed global recession that threatens a return of a great depression. This is because the weak recovery after 2008 still required an enormous explosion of debt. The inflationary money printing followed this to cope with the COVID-19 crisis that will require interest rates we haven’t seen in decades to bring under control. That, in turn, will provoke a cascade of debt and broader financial crises across the globe.

Marx had identified the essence of the periodic crises of capitalism as crises of overproduction very early on, even in the Communist Manifesto in 1848. This crisis can only happen because production periodically exceeds monetarily effective demand, which is ultimately determined by the existing size and growth rate of the global hoard of the money commodity — gold.

Overproduction as the underlying cause of crisis, which is based on Marx’s concept of money as the universal equivalent, has been — especially since the end of what remained of the international gold standard in 1971 — all but forgotten, including by most of those claiming to be Marxist.

Mike Treen will use the latest crisis to illustrate how it confirms Marx's crisis theory.

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Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist and refugee rights activist 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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Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Big turn out for NAIDOC march

Protest calls on Plibersek to halt defence housing project at Binybara

Protesters say ‘no’ to Middle Arm gas project

NSW legal groups call for new religious discrimination amendments to be rejected

NSW Teachers Federation deepens opposition to AUKUS, militarism

NSW gov’t told not to demolish Explorer Street public housing

ICAC finds Berejiklian acted corruptly – and that’s it

Robodebt victims need justice, not platitudes

Jenin atrocity sparks call for Australia to ban all military exports to Israel

Protesters say no to Tamil refugee deportation

Federal Court judge rules hotel detention inhumane but legal

Talisman Sabre war games focus on interoperability

Korean community protests Fukushima waste plan

International

Israel seeks revenge with Jenin invasion

Rioting across France after police murder teenager

United States: Supreme Court upholds LGBTQ discrimination, denies student debt relief

United States: Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi law against Black voting rights

United States: Supreme Court outlaws affirmative action

Canada: Striking dock workers need working-class solidarity against ruling-class collusion

Kurds protest death threat to imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan

Australian company demands $3.3bn from Greenland for uranium mining ban

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Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Leo Earle 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. 

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Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Labor breaks election promise with new income management card

Family of man shot by NSW Police in 2019 calls for justice, reforms

Trans rights are human rights, protesters say

World Whistleblower Day protest calls for Assange’s release

No to AUKUS nuclear submarine meeting draws hundreds

Socialist Sarah Hathway elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council

Postal workers fight for an activist union

Bill to legalise personal pot introduced in NSW, Vic, WA

Public housing residents call action to save Barak Beacon Estate

International

Japan’s plan to dump radioactive Fukushima waste meets protests across the Pacific

A Russian leftist deciphers Prigozhin’s failed armed rebellion

United States: India's Modi receives a royal welcome

Turkish armed drones assassinate women political leaders in Rojava

Senegal: Violent clashes as protesters stare down president

Venezuela shows Australia the way on housing

Sudan: Local organising central to responding to war and humanitarian crisis

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Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist is joined by refugee rights activist Chloe as they go through the latest news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

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Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

‘Wall of gay’ formed to defend drag story time

Disability activists blockade Sydney Road, call for accessible tram stops

CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service

Voice to Parliament referendum confirmed to be held in next six months

Blockade Australia takes action in three ports

Environment coalition protests NT Labor’s plans for more gas

Lead concerns prompt NSW central west to demand toxic gold and silver mines are closed

Rally hears from public housing tenants fighting to stay in their homes

International

Shipwreck in Greece: Why were half those onboard Pakistanis?

Myanmar's spring revolution and the Rohingya genocide

Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity

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Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha an activist with All India Students' Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour about the real meaning of the emergence of AI development under capitalism.

Is it an apocalyptic existential threat as presented by many CEOs & tech 'leaders' or is it an accentuation of existing threats posed to the weakest sections of the working class?

Aishik Saha, will be speaking at a session on "'Artificial intelligence', capitalism and liberation" at the upcoming Ecosocialism 2023: A World Beyond Capitalism conference on July 1-2 in Naarm/Melbourne.

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