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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.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Unions step up push for ‘same job, same pay’ rule

Community pushes back against Geelong City Council’s proposed cuts

Public housing residents suspend occupation, call on minister to save their homes

Protestors call on Vic Labor to save Barak Beacon housing estate

Industrial farming has killed billions of birds

International

Rich countries owe US$192 trillion in climate reparations to global South

Challenges for climate activists in Singapore

United States: The rich win, environment and people lose in ‘debt ceiling’ deal

‘We will not give in to blackmail’: Colombians defend government and progressive reforms

Swaziland: Campaign launched for release of political prisoners

India: Modi govt’s criminal neglect of railway safety

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The Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee has uncovered explosive evidence about the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) secrets-for-sale scandal.

View online at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-price-waterhouse-coopers-scandal

What went wrong at PwC and why is it such a big deal for Australian democracy?

Suzanne James talks to investigative journalist Michael West about the PwC scandal and the unsustainability of the Big 4 government consultancy model.

The scandal, triggered by a Senate Inquiry led by SA Greens Senator Barbara Pocock, has immense ramifications for Australia with a compromised corporate consultancy - the Government’s own auditor - now deeply embedded in Government core business. Clients include the ATO, the AFP and Defence to name a few.

The interview explores the global reach of KMPG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC, their lack of regulation and disclosure requirements, and why they are the very antithesis of democracy itself.

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 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.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

World Environment Day protests demand urgent action on climate, scrap anti-protest laws

Queensland Labor delegates vote against AUKUS

Ben Roberts-Smith: The breaking of a plaster saint

Housing activists occupy Glebe public housing slated for demolition

Rally calls for an end to public housing sell-offs

Housing crisis is another chronic market failure

As we struggle to get by, billionaires are getting richer

Councils must show solidarity, stop enabling drag panic

CPSU members reject federal public service pay offer

'From Australia to Cuba with love' campaign launched

Sudan solidarity rally: 'We will rise stronger and more beautiful than ever'

Podcast: Resisting Modi's India

International

Canada: Bay du Nord offshore oil project shelved

Brazil: Can Lula’s plan bring peace to Ukraine?

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Green Left's Alex Bainbridge spoke to Peter Boyle from the Socialist Alliance about the causes of and solutions to the current housing crisis and why housing needs to be organised to meet people's needs instead of being a source of investment profits.

Read more and view online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/housing-crisis-another-chronic-market-failure

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 journalists Isaac Nellist and Learo Earle go through the latest activist news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage at greenleft.org.au. 

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Stage 3 tax cuts: New figures on Labor's hand-out to billionaires

Extinction Rebellion organises three days of climate action

Traditional Owners demand Empire Energy stop plans to frack Beetaloo Basin

Human chain protests NAB loans to fossil fuel industry

XR Drum Rebellion’s ‘Prisoner Parade’ challenges NSW anti-protest laws

South Australians oppose Labor’s new anti-protest bill

WA firefighters take a stand for a pay rise, against exploitation

Protest calls on Labor to fight climate change, not prepare for war

Refugee children say they are living ‘in a bigger cage’

Federation University staff takes enterprise agreement protest to the CBD

Socialist set to take Geelong council position, after councillor resigns

International

United States: Republicans intensify anti-trans campaign

Leaked documents reveal extent of US espionage

Chile: Far right will control the drafting of new constitution

Ecuador: US gov’t, corporate media back Lasso’s manoeuvre

Spain: Sánchez counters rout in local polls with general election call

Turkey: Erdoğan’s unfair election win poses grave danger for democracy and Kurds

Gas decisions loom for Timor-Leste after election

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

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

The ocean heat bomb ignites

‘Do your job’ protesters tell Tanya Plibersek, as she approves new coal mine

Protest calls for a new approach to fish farming

The fight to save logging of koala habitat in Pine Creek State Forest

Beetaloo Traditional Owners speak out on Tamboran fracking pollution

Gurindji grandmother: Don Dale violates international obligations towards children, First Nations

Sisters Inside says alternatives exist to Palaszczuk’s youth ‘crime’ crackdown

Al Nakba 75 years on remembered and protested across Australia

Video: 'They stole my land, my dreams, my childhood,' Nakba Day march told

Activists call on Minns to save public housing in Glebe

NSW health workers, teachers push Labor to cancel pay cap

Transport union slams Qantas appeal against unlawful sackings of baggage handlers

Geelong residents react angrily to proposed library, service cuts

Why Labor needs to scrap ‘mutual’ obligations and raise the rate

Thousands protest new AFL stadium, call for funds for housing and health

Sydney rallies against AUKUS, after Quad meeting rescheduled

AUKUS criticised as being a step towards war on China

Labor rushes through a bill to exempt AUKUS nuclear submarines from environmental protections

Stella Assange headlines rally to free Julian Assange

International

Video interview: Pavin Chachavalpongpun on the 2023 Thailand general election result

Turkish presidential election goes to second round

Pakistan: Imran Khan arrested, what next?

Welcoming ceasefire, Sudanese left calls for involvement of civil society and regional institutions

Sudan: Appeal calls for ‘urgent humanitarian assistance and protection of civilians’

Racism and class struggle in France today

Te Pāti Māori: 'Your nuclear submarines are not welcome here'

‘No to expansion of US military forces on Philippines soil’

South Korea pivots to conflict

South Korea: Workers resist government’s ‘war on unions’

The US government is illegal, not migrants

United States: Biden continues cruel border policy

May Day in Havana: International solidarity to resist the US blockade

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Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Labor’s budget ignores the needs of millions

Labor’s budget is an attack on NDIS, Medicare

Young people left out by Labor’s budget

Labor must raise the JobSeeker rate for all

‘The welfare system is stealing people’s present and future’

Rent report says less than 1% are affordable for minimum-wage workers

‘Port Kembla is no place for a nuclear base’

Earth Care Café for peace not war

Knitting Nannas challenge anti-protest laws

NT Labor gives fracking the go-ahead

Ngarluma Elder restates her disappointment with work beginning at Perdaman fertiliser plant

Inaugural Love, Art & Revolution Film Festival a success

Forum discusses medical misogyny, seeks support for change

Community rallies against Geelong council job cuts

Nurses and midwives discuss making workplaces sustainable

Victorian NTEU members stop work for better pay, working conditions

Union members locked out, strike at James Cook University

Sydney Uni NTEU votes to end historic strike campaign, but fight continues

‘501s’ protest inhumane detention at MITA

‘501s’ demand Labor keep its promise to end indefinite detention

International

Austria: What’s behind the historic Communist surge in Salzburg?

Video: Green Left Party campaigns for real democratic change

Palestinian trade unions call for worldwide action to end Israeli apartheid

Khader Adnan dies in Israeli prison

Ballarat Trades Hall marks Nakba, calls for justice

Sudan: ‘Our people will ultimately triumph over tyrants’

Sudan: International community must act now

Iranian regime's desperate tactics to derail the people’s revolution

United States: Documents reveal sexual exploitation and abuse in Korean War

Cuba: US targets cruise lines in massive compensation case

Chile announces plan to nationalise lithium industry

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Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist 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.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Rising Tide activists stop coal train

A rising tide of climate activists stop coal train

Climate activists sit down in CBD

Unions, health organisations call for total ban on silica products

MUA welcomes Svitzer backdown

Allied health professionals demand a place at executive level

WA nurses and midwives still face huge fines, deregistration

Activists mobilise to defend Big Bird homeless shelter

Protesters say: ‘Housing is a right, not a business’

Barak Beacon Estate residents speak up against demolition

Students protest universities’ support for AUKUS

Protesters tell UQ Senate to cut ties with weapons manufacturer Boeing

Big crowd remembers Appin massacre

Video: Green Left Party campaign in Turkish general election launched in Sydney

Video: Rally calls on Australia to stand up against isolation of Kurdish leader

Protesters condemn Burma regime’s air attacks on villagers

Video: Protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers

Jews against the Occupation calls on Randwick City Council to reverse its decision to fly Israeli flag

Protesters urge Randwick Council not to fly Israeli flag

Indian labour lawyer Clifton D’Rozario to speak at Ecosocialism 2023

International

Sudanese left calls for restoring the revolution

Sudan: Death toll rises

Revolt in France: Macron humiliated, but no victory for workers yet

French fascism and the revolt against Macron

United States: ‘The Tennessee Three’ for democracy, against gun violence

United States: Fight to stop ‘Cop City’ continues

Irish-Australian activist arrested in Dublin while campaigning for Julian Assange

Very high participation rate in Cuba’s parliamentary elections

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Green Left's Alex Bainbridge speaks to outgoing Greens Gabba Ward councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan about politics, social change and the role of elected representatives.

Watch online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-jonathan-sriranganathan-greens-capitalism-and-social-change

0:00 Intro; 0:36 Jonno's reflections; 4:45 Elected positions and social change; 9:36 Accountability of elected reps; 15:41 Anti-capitalism; 18:16 Lack of democracy under capitalism; 23:50 The power of big capital; 26:25 Civil disobedience; 28:54 Role of police; 33:08 Radical and moderate views in the Greens; 39:13 Climate "safeguard mechanism"; 45:36 The Voice; 47:34 Left media and final comments

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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