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Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2, Social Justice

We’re not done yet

Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell rejects Labor’s triumphalism and media spin, reminding us that in a world on fire our purpose-driven politics seek transformation, not minor tinkering. [...]

Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2, Social Justice

For our communities — What we built in Greensland

We will continue to be present in and for our communities, in and out of Parliament. Holstein Wong affirms the potential of our prefigurative politics, building solidarity across struggles from housing and climate to Palestine. [...]

by Holstein Wong, 4 months ago

Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2, Peace, Social Justice

From Gaza to the gasfields: Why the Greens won’t back down

In a political landscape defined by fear, Senator David Shoebridge affirms our commitment to justice for Gaza and climate alike. This isn't an electoral calculation — it's what Greens values demand. [...]

David Shoebridge , 4 months ago

Environment, Featured, Forests, Green Agenda 2025:1

Reforestation as destruction, in Sarawak

In Sarawak, eucalyptus plantations are replacing biodiverse forests under the guise of "reforestation". Indigenous communities fight to protect their lands while Australia continues to import timber grown on stolen territories. [...]

by Fiona McAlpine, 7 months ago

Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:1, Theory

Europe’s far right, mapping its class politics

While the far right shares a racist discourse, from country to country its parties represent different factions of capital, from domestic manufacturers in Hungary to hedge funds in Britain. Beneath the rhetoric of Europe’s far right we find a web of competing economic interests. For the past decade or so, the steady rise of far-right populism has been a defining... Read More

Vladimir Bortun , 7 months ago

Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3

Policy fails, but gardens grow

If it has occurred to the members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture that there is nothing to eat on a dead planet, they have chosen not to present that framing to government. Instead, community-based regenerative food advocates have to continue to subvert agribusiness as a form of grass-roots sustainable materialism [...]

Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice, Theory

Not a commodity, climate justice

A dominant view of climate justice advocates for richer nations to pay developing ones to do the work of “solving” climate change. But this renders climate justice a mere commodity, and perpetuates the longstanding global division of labour, class disparity, and the north-south flow of value. [...]

Jake Fremantle , 8 months ago

Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice, Theory

Negotiating left politics in Sri Lanka: The NPP in government

Sri Lanka’s left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured historic electoral victories in 2024, winning both the presidency and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. A victory marking the first time a formerly insurgent political force has gained state power through democratic means in the country. But as the National People’s Power coalition settles into government, their anti-corruption platform and middle-class appeal... Read More

by Rajni Gamage and Harindra B. Dassanayake, 8 months ago

Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice

Bike by bike: a Torres Strait ride revolution

On Waibene/Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, a grassroots movement is transforming how locals move through community, one bike at a time, overcoming the barriers of remoteness to make sustainable transport accessible to First Nations women, mothers, caregivers, and children [...]

Mobilise TI and Sarah Tedder , 9 months ago

Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Theory

Beyond the far-right

Seeing the rise of the far-right through the lens of anti-establishment sentiment reveals why current strategies fail. Mainstream responses that defend the political order or adopt right-wing positions will only accelerate their decline. [...]