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The true costs of Operation Epic Failure

The true costs of Operation Epic Failure

The full extent of the human and environmental costs of the latest illegal imperial war launched by the United States and the racist settler-colonial...

18.03.2026 10

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Labor must stop fanning racism and helping One Nation

Labor’s handling of the so-called “ISIS brides” issue is the latest example of its willingness to fan the flames of racism and division, argues...

02.03.2026 10

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PM Albanese deflecting blame from Closing the Gap failure

Multiple government agreements have been made to “close the gap” but, as Peter Boyle writes, the 2025 Closing the Gap report reveals that most...

23.02.2026 20

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Green Left Radio: Rojava Revolution under threat

23.01.2026 10

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The profits of war

03.12.2025 10

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Sudan: Is Australia helping arm another genocide?

25.11.2025 10

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Zohran Mamdani’s win a beacon of hope for a better world

07.11.2025 10

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Solidarity can defeat the racist ‘March For Australia’

29.10.2025 10

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Vale Jill Hickson, socialist activist and filmmaker (1955-2025)

23.10.2025 10

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Stop arming Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people!

15.10.2025 10

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Labor’s 2035 emission target a cruel deception

01.10.2025 10

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The banks never stopped behaving badly

28.09.2025 10

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The importance of Green Left

As Israel’s starvation genocide in Gaza continues, with the support of the United States and its Western allies, the importance of Green Left as...

03.09.2025 20

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We need real emission cuts not more dodgy climate targets

Labor will set a new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2035, in a few weeks time, to take to the United Nations climate summit in Brazil...

14.08.2025 20

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The deceit in Labor’s posturing on the ‘national interest’

“AUKUS is a win, win, win. AUKUS is a win for the United States, which gets more maintenance days and investments into its industrial base now and...

25.07.2025 10

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Labor must abandon AUKUS now

Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the aggressive $368 billion AUKUS nuclear-power submarine and military...

17.07.2025 10

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Why we are still protesting First Nations deaths in custody

There have been nearly 600 First Nations deaths in custody since the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody...

15.07.2025 10

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Why we are still protesting First Nations in custody

There have been nearly 600 First Nations deaths in custody since the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody...

11.07.2025 10

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No to Trump’s war drive!

Even before United States President Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit to agree to his demand that European...

03.07.2025 10

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Labor calls productivity summit to appease big business

Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his National Press Club (NPC) address on June 10 to announce his government was organising “a group of...

18.06.2025 10

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Racism, imperialism and the ANZAC myth

At the ANZAC Day dawn service in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra on April 25, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese repeated the core of the ANZAC myth; the 8709...

26.04.2025 10

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A socialist response to the Trump trade war

United States President Donald Trump’s tariff war against the rest of the world has sent stock markets into turmoil and prompted economists and...

11.04.2025 10

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Socialist Alliance: Cut military spending to address housing, cost-of-living and climate crises

The right-wing Donald Trump United States administration has demanded that Australia increase its military spending from 2% of GDP (about $56 billion...

26.03.2025 10

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Growing the pie for whose gain?

Politicians from the major parties and capitalist economists tell us that the only way out of the cost-of-living crisis is to work harder, increase...

12.03.2025 10

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The genocide and lessons from the first Nakba — a Gazan perspective

Shamikh Badra, a Palestinian Australian from Gaza, spoke to Green Left in February, the day after he had been told his father’s body, which had...

21.02.2025 10

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Why the Reserve Bank’s interest rate cut won’t solve cost-of-living crisis

The pollsters claim that the coming federal election will be decided on cost-of-living issues and there’s pile of speculation that Anthony...

20.02.2025 10

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Why the Reserve Bank’s interest cut interest cut won't solve cost-of-living crisis

The pollsters claim that the coming federal election will be decided on cost-of-living issues and there’s pile of speculation that Anthony...

20.02.2025 10

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How the billionaire class created the Trump monster

The world has just witnessed more than a dozen billionaires prominently seated at United States President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Among...

26.01.2025 10

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Dutton’s racist election campaign harms whether he wins or not

In every single speech or interview Coalition leader Peter Dutton has given in the first two weeks of this year, he has played to racism. Clearly, he...

17.01.2025 10

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