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Australia: Labor consolidates as main party of capital, Greens’ left challenge has mixed results
“We are trying to fundamentally transform Australian politics, economy and society in favour of ordinary working people,” Greens housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather — who lost his seat of Griffith to Labor in the May 3 federal elections — told supporters on election night.
Max Chandler-Mather: ‘With long term planning and more organisation, we can change people’s lives’
In late October, Stuart Munckton and Federico Fuentes had an extended discussion with Greens federal housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather about the party’s campaign against Labor’s housing bill and the political method used by the Queensland Greens to win an unprecedented three lower house seats in the 2022 federal election. Below is the final of three extracts from that interview.
Australian Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather: ‘We should take every chance to deliver our message for working people’
In late October, Stuart Munckton and Federico Fuentes had an extended discussion with Greens federal housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather about the party’s campaign against Labor’s housing bill. The Greens eventually passed an amended bill, but only after winning $3 billion dollars in extra funding for public and community housing.
Podcast: Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather: ‘Our aim is a mass party for ordinary people’
About Green Left In a desperately unequal world facing a climate emergency, everyone has to pick a side. Our side is — and always will be — that of the 99%. Our goal is not only to expose the lies, hypocrisy and bias of the billionaire class and their media: we seek to help the organising efforts of all those actively resisting the increasingly authoritarian rule of the corporate rich, here and overseas. Read more about Green Left.
Australian Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather: ‘Our housing campaign leaves us stronger for the next fight’
A new phase in the struggle between the Australian Greens and the federal Labor government for real solutions to Australia’s housing crisis has opened up around Labor’s new bill, which it says will help first-home buyers. Last year, the Greens waged a months-long campaign against Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund (Haff) bill, one the Greens pointed out would do little to help the nation’s worsening housing crisis — and would likely make it worse.
The Brisbane Greens Are Building a Mass Party With Unashamedly Left-Wing Politics
Liam Flenady We won each of our three new lower house seats with slightly different campaign scales, tactics, and messaging. So it’s hard to come up with universal lessons to apply. Having said that, here are some lessons I’ve drawn from the experience. First, we put forward policies revolving around redistributing wealth and power away from big corporations and billionaires and toward everyday people. When we talked about it to people one-on-one, that program was immensely popular.
Bloody Sunday 50 years on - a symbol of ongoing injustice
“Tell the world, tell about the murderers... They won't get us, never. And they will not beat us...” This cry by a traumatised mother was captured by Italian photo-journalist Fulvio Grimaldi on the streets of Derry in British-occupied Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972. That day, British soldiers opened fire on an unarmed civil rights protest of at least 15,000 people, leaving 13 civilians — six of them teenagers — dead. A 14th victim later died in hospital from their wounds.
Hans Baer looks at how car dependence is driving us to extinction
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A close up look at the global context for Hong Kong's struggle
Unfree Speech: The threat to Global Democracy & Why We Must Act, Now Joshua Wong & Jason Y.Ng Penguin Books London, 2020 268pp, $19.99 Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, who had first risen to prominence at the head of the Scolaricism movement in 2011-12, was sentenced to six-month jail in 2017 after the Hong Kong Department of Justice successfully appealed to increase his sentence from 80 hours community service.
The Last Dance offers justifications of Michael Jordan's bullying and complicity in injustice
The Last Dance Directed by Jason Hahir ESPN films, 2020 Now showing on Netflix. During 1990s, the Chicago Bull dominated basketball in the Unied States, winning 6 National Basketball Association (NBA) championships with Michael Jordan at the centre of the team. Directed by Jason Hahir, the ESPN documentary The Last Dance gives us a nostalgic look at the rise of that dynasty. The story centres on Jordan, who became a superstar whose fame transcended the world of basketball to become a global icon.
The Last Dance offers justifications of Michael Jordan's bulliyng and complicity in injustice
The Last Dance Directed by Jason Hahir ESPN films, 2020 Now showing on Netflix. During 1990s, the Chicago Bull dominated basketball in the Unied States, winning 6 National Basketball Association (NBA) championships with Michael Jordan at the centre of the team. Directed by Jason Hahir, the ESPN documentary The Last Dance gives us a nostalgic look at the rise of that dynasty. The story centres on Jordan, who became a superstar whose fame transcended the world of basketball to become a global icon.
Planet of the Humans: a muddy cocktail of valid criticisms, disinformation and defeatism
Planet of the Humans Directed by Jeff Gibbs Planet of the Humans is a new documentary about climate and environment politics, directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs, and produced by Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner (author of Green Illusions: the dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of environmentalism). Michael Moore is listed as executive producer and has actively promoted the film through his networks.
How the Murray-Darling River was killed
Cry Me a River: The tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin Quarterly Essay 77, March 2020 Margaret Simons "Cry Me a River", the March 2020 Quarterly Essay by Margaret Simons, charts the course of the Darling River and its historic demise from an inland paddle steamer route to a broken chain of algal ponds of recent years. From the mouth in the Coorong to headwaters in Queensland, it is a long and sorry tale of the competition for control of inland waters on the driest inhabited continent.
Six new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf
Climate and Captialism editor Ian Angus looks at six new books for ecosocialists. *** John Sayles YELLOW EARTH Haymarket Books, 2020 A new novel by filmmaker John Sayles —a powerful and engrossing account of what happens when shale oil is discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. Sayles draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes.
Emmanuel Barthélemy: A revolutionary who became a tawdry tabloid tale
The Murderer Of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Marc Mulholland W F Howes Ltd, 2019 It is the sad, but not entirely undeserved, fate of Emmanuel Barthélemy, to wind up as a star waxworks exhibit (No. 290) in Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors and stigmatised as an infamous murderer, writes Oxford University historian Marc Mulholland, about the 19th century French Republican and communist revolutionary. Karl Marx had the same view.
Emmanuel Barthélemy, revolutionary and a tawdry tabloid tale
The Murderer Of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Marc Mulholland W F Howes Ltd, 2019 It is the sad, but not entirely undeserved, fate of Emmanuel Barthélemy, to wind up as a star waxworks exhibit (No. 290) in Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, stigmatised as an infamous murderer, writes Oxford University historian Marc Mulholland, about the 19th century French Republican and communist revolutionary. Karl Marx had the same view.
Free doco makes case for Palestine solidarity
Often, I am asked for recommendations of video primers on the situation in Palestine. I try to think of something that people can screen for their families, friends and neighbors that shows more than what corporate cable news channels or propagandistic Netflix series “offer.” Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Bob Peck has just released a free documentary, Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories, that I am happy to recommend.
'Parasite' paints unflinching picture of class divide
Parasite Directed by Bong Joon-Hoo Starring Song-Kang Ho, Choi Woo-Shik & Park So-Dam In cinemas now At the 92nd Academy awards ceremony, the 2019 South Korean film Parasite made history as the first foreign-language film to ever win an Oscar, picking up four. The explicitly anti-capitalist film won Best International Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, beating out films such as 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Titus O'Reily takes on the corporate gambling monster
Please Gamble Irresponsibly: The Rise, Fall & Rise of Sports Gambling in Australia Titus O’Reily Penguin Random House Australia, 2019 279pp. “We’ll gamble on anything, from two flies crawling up a wall to less important things like federal elections. And thanks to the internet, phones and gambling-tax loving governments, these days Australians can indulge their love of a punt no matter what there are doing.
Parasite paints unflincting picture of class divide
Parasite Directed by Bong Joon-Hoo Starring Song-Kang Ho,Choi Woo-Shik & Park So-Dam In cinemas now At the 92nd Academy awards ceremony, the 2019 South Korean film Parasite made history as the first foreign-language film to ever win an Oscar, picking up four. The explicitely anti-capitalist film won Best International Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, beating out films such as 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Making gaming open to everyone
As our media continues to go further down the neoliberal alley, with the likes of US President Donald Trump's Twitter feed haunting our social lives, you’d be surprised to find a bastion of progressive values beginning to embed itself within an unlikely sector of the economy, the gaming industry.
'PC' gaming
As our media continues to go further down the neoliberal alley with the likes of Trump Twitter haunting our social lives, you’d be surprised to find a bastion of progressive values beginning to embed itself within an unlikely sector of the economy, our gaming industry.
How Kirk Douglas helped to beat the anti-communist blacklist
Award-winning film maker and Hollywood star of over 85 blockbuster films Kirk Douglas has died on February 5 at the age of 103. Peter Frost recalls how Douglas helped break the notorious ban on writers and actors during the early years of the Cold War. Born Issur Danielovitch, the son a Jewish ragman who took the name Harry Demsky, his mother’s name was Bryna and he would use her name for his own film company in later life. His parents were from from what is now Belarus.
What the Royal Family actually does
… And What Do You Do? What the Royal Family Don’t Want You to Know Norman Baker Biteback Publishing, 2019 390 pages When conversing with commoners, members of the British Royal Family are instructed to always ask the question "And what do you do?" For, after all, this gives the working class something to talk about – their job.
Poem: Winter Is Near
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Bombshell's explosive charge
Bombshell Directed by Jay Roach Staring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman & Margot Robbie In cinemas now Nominated for three Oscars, this powerful drama is based on the real-life sexual harassment scandal and the women who brought down Roger Ailes, the infamous head and creator of Fox News, laying the foundations for the Me Too and Time's Up movements that were to come.
New edition of Radical Perth, Militant Fremantle adds to the story
Radical Perth, Militant Fremantle 2nd Ed. Edited by Charlie Fox, Alexis Vassiley, Bobbie Oliver & Lenore Layman Interventions Inc., 2019 462 pages, pb Following the success of the first edition of Radical Perth, Militant Fremantle in 2017, the editors heeded calls for the anthology to publish a second, more updated edition.The editors made several very apparent changes from the first edition.
Footballers' union registers record growth after huge equal pay win
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Challenging the toxic myths behind our age of discontent
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent By Nesrine Malik Orion, 2019 288 pages Leah Cowan reviews a book that systematically unpicks the myths that are spread in order to preserve the status quo. As a writer and editor on race, gender and state violence, I am no stranger to infestations of right-wing trolls in my social media mentions.
Mikhail Sholokhov: The scribe who served, and somehow survived, Stalin
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition and Survival – The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov Brian J Boeck Pegasus Books, 2019 388 pages Considering the terrors that Mikhail Sholokhov lived through, and nearly perished from, in Stalinist Russia, it is a wonder that the Soviet novelist retained any sense of humour. Yet he did.
The whistleblower who vindicated the anti-war movement
Official Secrets Directed by Gavin Hood Starring Keira Knightly, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes & Adam Bakri Screening from November 21 at selected cinemas. “I work for the British people, I do not gather intelligence so that the government can lie to the British people,” stated Katherine Gunn (Keira Knightly) to her interrogator when pressed on her decision to act as a whistle-blower.
Joker a tale of a victim of capitalism whose rage finally ignites
Joker In cinemas Written by Todd Phillips & Sam Silver Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Joaquin Phoenix Great films spark debates, perhaps even controversy. Todd Phillips' Joker certainly has. Some see it as a psychological analysis about one man, some see it as promoting and even inciting revenge violence and others believe it is about angry, dis-empowered white men, such as the anti-women incel groups. I loved this film. It has been said that art is in the eye of the beholder.
Uplifting coming-of-age film depicts British working-class life in the '80s
Blinded By The Light Directed by Gurinder Chadha Starring Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwel, Kulvinder Ghir & Nell Williams In cinemas now Blinded by the Light is a coming-of-age film set in 1980s Britain during the era of Margaret Thatcher. It revolves around the trials and tribulations of 16-year-old Pakistani teenager Javed as he struggles to deal with his domineering and traditional Pakistani family, racism and Thatcher's neoliberal assaults.
Perth Workers' Art Guild: an example of art at the service of social change
Art Was Their Weapon: The History of the Perth Workers' Art Guild Dylan Hyde Fremantle Press, 2019 365 pages, $34.99 "Art is a weapon in the People's fight" declared an advert for a 1940 production of the play Women’by the left-wing Workers Art Guild (WAG) that was active in Perth from 1935 to 1942.
US to Give Israel Largest Military Aid Package in History
The U.S. and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations in recent months to outline U.S. military aid to Israel for the next 10 years. The United States plans to offer Israel the largest military assistance package in U.S. history, according to an Obama administration official.
Chile Reburies Poet Suspected of Being Murdered by Pinochet
Despite being exumed and examined specialists say it will be difficulte to determine if the famous poet was poisoned. Chile reburied Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda's remains Tuesday after exhuming them to determine whether he was assassinated by late-dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime, a mystery that still lingers.
Bernie Sanders Says US 'Kill List' Legal, Backs Troops in Syria
The U.S. senator said he thinks President Obama's extrajudicial drone assassination program is constitutional and legal. People in the United States have "a lot of right to defend ourselves," presidential contender Bernie Sanders said at a town hall meeting Monday when asked if he too would have an extrajudicial "kill list" like President Barack Obama.
Cuba Offers Medical Treatment to 800 Kids in Chernobyl
Cuba provided about 25,000 children with medical treatment over two decades, despite the U.S.'s destructive economic blockade. About 25,000 children who suffered from medical conditions in the aftermath of Chernobyl's nuclear explosion have been sent to Cuba to receive treatment up to this date, documented an exhibition presented Tuesday in Lima, Peru.
Live Updates: Sanders to 'Reassess' Campaign After Tonight
Voters will choose their candidate for the race to the White House with a large pool of delegates awaiting both parties. Bernie Sanders will meet with his aides and "reassess" his campaign after today's primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, according to a campaign aide. "Reassess does not mean that he's not going to be part of this race," Tad Devine, Sanders' senior strategist, told The New York Times.
Journalists Protest Arrest of Colleagues in Egypt
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has faced a wave of public criticism for agreeing to cede control of the uninhabited Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. Around 100 Egyptian journalists staged a protest in central Cairo on Tuesday against the arrest of colleagues for covering demonstrations opposing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Venezuelan Opposition Initiate Maduro Recall Referendum
A total of four million signatures is required in order for a referendum against Maduro to be given the go ahead. Venezuela’s opposition obtained the necessary documents Tuesday to apply for a recall referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro from office, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) agreed to hand over the documents. The opposotion will now have to collect about 200,000 signatures to continue with the process.
Marco Rubio Takes Photo Op with Che's Assassin
The CIA recruited Felix Rodriguez in 1967 to hunt down Che Guevara, who had left Cuba to lead a guerrilla movement in Bolivia. At an event in Miami commemorating the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba Sunday, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio paid homage to the 2506 Brigade, which led the assault. Organized by the CIA in 1961, the disastrous invasion was soundly defeated by the Cuban military and its people.
Peru's Goldman Prize Winner Maxima Acuña's Life is in Danger
Unidentified agents shot at Maxima Acuña's home while she was away to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize—just the latest in a series of intimidation tactics. Maxima Acuña, the Peruvian campesina who just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, continues to face harassment including her home being shot at for her resistance against a copper and gold mine threatening to displace her from her land, local media reported Monday.
Macri's 1st 'Political Prisoner' Just Spent 100 Days in Prison
Allies of Milagro Sala say her arrest is a politically-motivated campaign being exploited to tarnish her public image. Milagro Sala, an Indigenous leader and member of South America’s Parliament of the South, Parlasur, has now spent 100 days in prison since her controversial arrest in January by Argentine police on charges of public disturbance.
German Minister: 'TTIP Will Fail' if US Remains Selfish
U.S. President Barack Obama is in Germany in an attempt to boost efforts to finalise the free-trade deal before he leaves office. Negotiations surrounding the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, better known as TTIP, "will fail" if the United States refuses to make concessions, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned Sunday ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. "The Americans want to hold fast to their 'Buy American' idea. We can't accept that.
Monsanto GMO Banned by Africa's Largest Cotton Producer
One genetician from Burkina Faso has accused Monsanto of "criminal" acts. Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton producer and the only West African nation that has ventured into biotech farming, has decided to ban genetically-modified (GM) cotton produced by Monsanto on quality grounds. Earlier this month Burkina Faso, the world’s 10th largest cotton producer, announced it was giving up Monsanto’s GM Bt cotton as it had proved uneconomical.
New York Suspends Clerk Who Wiped 126,000 Voters from the Books
Both the city comptroller and the attorney general are investigating the unprecedented election irregularities. New York suspended and may fire the chief clerk of elections in Brooklyn, who was responsible for wiping over 126,000 voters from the records.
5 Anti-Colonial Caribbean Leaders That You've Never Heard Of
To mark World Anti-Colonialism day, teleSUR presents five Caribbean leaders who fought bravely against slavery, fascism and colonialism. 1. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti Wikicommons François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture is perhaps the best-known leader of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804), and although he styled Haiti into what was essentially an autonomous colony after years of French rule, he never declared independence from France.
US Ambassador's Motorcade Kills 7-Year-Old Boy in Cameroon
Samantha Power's motorcade was moving at high speed, exceeding 60 mph, when the boy was run over. The boy died in hospital. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power's motorcade in Cameroon on Monday ran over a seven-year old boy killing him, AP reported.
90% In Brazil's Amazons Gravely Affected by Mercury Poisoning
A new study shows that water and food sources for 19 Indigenous communities have been massively affected by illegal mining. Illegal mining companies in the Brazilian Amazon are poisoning local indigenous communities, as high quantities of mercury have been found in the water and food sources of over 19 Yanomami and Yekuana communities.
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