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Latin American political economy professor, Helen Yaffe joins the Green Left Show to discuss the current strangulation policies imposed by the US government against Cuba.

View this episode online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1450/world/green-left-show-81-helen-yaffe-very-serious-moment-cuba

Cuba needs your solidarity now, she says.

This episode covered: 1:47 the current situation in Cuba; 11:09 practical impacts of US strangulation policy; 14:54 oil supplies from Russia, Venezuela and Mexico; 20:23 US-Cuba 'negotiations'; 28:08 the Nuestra América Convoy; 31:36 Cuba as a positive example; 37:38 infant mortality and motherhood in Cuba; and 42:16 why Cuba needs solidarity now!

In the interview she refers to this article she wrote in Jacobin.

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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.

This episode, we discuss more protests against the United States-Israeli war on Iran, and Australia's involvement in that illegal war. We also discuss upcoming protests to save our forests, hands off Cuba, ending racial discrimination and Green Left's Ecosocialism Seminar in Sydney.

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Jackson Payne from Stop the Demo joined Green Left Radio on March 13 to speak about the campaign to oppose the destruction of 44 public housing towers by the state Labor government. You can listen to more from that day's show at 3CR.

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Iranian community member Abbas Saeidavi joins Green Left Radio this week on 3CR to discuss a left-wing Iranian response to the US-Israel led war against Iran. The bombing has nothing to do with supporting democratic rights for those in Iran.

Abbas Saeidavi is a member of the Iranian diaspora and part of Voices of Revolution Iran in Naarm/Melbourne

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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.

This episode, we discuss International Women's Day protests, rallies opposing the war on Iran and the crack down on freedom of speech in Queensland. 

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Green Left and Socialist Alliance held this forum on Resisting genocide and police repression — Why is Labor criminalising freedom of speech? at the Resistance Centre in Gadigal Country/Sydney on February 26.

Speakers included Palestinian activist from Gaza Shamikh Badra; Tim Roberts from the NSW Council of Civil Liberties; Grace Street, president of the University of Sydney Student Represenative Council; Yehuda Aharon from Jews Against the Occupation ’48; and Pip Hinman from Socialist Alliance. It was chaired by Isaac Nellist from Socialist Alliance.

They discussed the attacks of civil rights by the Chris Minns Labor government in NSW, particularly in the context of the police violence against people protesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Sydney Town Hall on February 9.

They also discussed the current anti-protest laws and how to build the campaign to resist repression and defeat these undemocratic measures.

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0:00 Shamikh Badra

13:23 Tim Roberts

21:54 Grace Street

30:51 Yehuda Aharon

43:39 Pip Hinman

55:23 Mark Gillespie

57:14 Shamikh Badra

1:00:56 Grace Street

1:05:46 Tim Roberts

1:14:49 Pip Hinman

1:20:35 Yehuda Aharon

1:26:34 Rachel Evans

1:28:19 Tim Roberts

1:30:35 Pip Hinman

1:33:00 Yehuda Aharon

1:35:45 Grace Street

1:38:21 Shamikh Badra

Marx del Rosario visited Cuba in January 2026 with the Southern Cross Brigade organised by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society. He spoke to Green Left's Peter Boyle on February 28.

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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.

This episode we discuss protests against the United States and Israel's war on Iran, Pride in Protest being barred from the Mardi Gras parade and rallies in solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela.

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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.

This episode we discuss the global day of action against military bases and promote upcoming Palestine solidarity protests. 

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