SEPTEMBER 2. 2025

New model reveals hidden dynamics of Indonesia’s booming songbird trade

Researchers have developed the first model to map how supply and demand interact in Indonesia’s highly lucrative songbird trade, revealing patterns that could help curb poaching pressure on rare and threatened species.

The Green Party Has Finally Picked a Side

With three leftists winning the landslide victories in the Green leadership election, the party has stopped trying to bridge its centrist and socialist factions and committed to a radical path, writes Adam Ramsay.

Lula’s Coalition Beat the Right. Can It Deliver for the Left?

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s experience in power in Brazil illustrates that a broad-front strategy in campaigning is decidedly weaker as a case for how to actually govern.

Union Contributions to the Consultation

Just one week before the consultation on the Draft Labor Code begins , we offer a glimpse into the preparation of unions and provinces, as well as the expectations, established conditions, and controversial topics that may raise questions and prompt worker interventions

Police Arrest Key Members of Protest Group Defying Palestine Action Ban After Dawn Raids

Counter-terror police arrested five key spokespeople for Defend Our Juries just hours before the group announced its latest protest. Simon Childs reports.

The anti-militarism of fools

How Western leftists and anarchists found ‘convenient’ voices from Eastern Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Debates on anti-militarism continue to shake the anarchist movement in the western part of the world. Often in these debates we can see some organisations from Ukraine or Russia show support for the ‘no war but class war’ position. Three

The impact of sea level rise on the world’s cities

The wider point here is that we’ve now reached a point where climate change has become a fact of life. One of the problems with this is that people in different silos are used to thinking of their climate change problems as being different from other people’s, rather than connected.

All About Tomatoes

We are not powerless. Every time we make a purchase, especially with our food, there are consequences to our health and the health of our environment.

How to break the hold of MAGA

We’re all in this together. I’m dropping these clues into our common work of dislodging the worst effects of this administration and returning our country to sanity and democracy.

The Fed Has Never Been Independent

While Donald Trump’s attacks on the Fed are deeply authoritarian, the institution itself is far from blameworthy. From the 2008 crash to the pandemic, its primary aim has been to protect the interests of the wealthy.

Mamdani’s Grade-A Housing Blueprint

Decades of corporate landlordism have devastated British housing and squeezed its tenants. To fight back, the Left should emulate Zohran Mamdani’s energetic, street-level community housing campaigns in New York.

Scientists reconfirm rare shark sightings after 50 years in PNG

In 1973, researchers scientifically described a species of shark based on a single specimen: a pregnant female caught a few years earlier by a fisherman near the mouth of the Gogol River in Astrolabe Bay, Papua New Guinea. They named this new-to-science species the sailback houndshark .

Restoring the Páramo: How Ecuador healed its degraded high-Andean ecosystem

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Ecuador’s Antisana páramo, southeast of Quito, offers a striking example of ecological restoration, turning back the clock on centuries of degradation caused by livestock grazing, reports contributor Ana Cristina Alvarado for Mongabay.

SEPTEMBER 1. 2025

The Trotskyist Fraction is Part of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza

The Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest international maritime initiative in solidarity with Gaza in history. Socialists are taking part in this effort to break Israel’s illegal siege and the larger fight for Palestinian liberation.

Jews of the Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International Demand an End to the Genocide

We publish for all the readers of the Left Voice the statement that Jewish militants of the Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International have written opposing the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. We oppose the attacks and murders perpetrated by settlers and the army on the population in the West Bank; and now the new occupation offensive that the Netanyahu government plans for the Gaza Strip — all this with the complicity and support of both European and U. S. imperialism and the criminal silence of Arab governments. We, Jewish revolutionary socialists, rise up and say: "Not in Our Name. " We call on anti-Zionist Jews around the world to join forces at the international level against imperialism and for Palestinian liberation.

Inside the Fight to Unionize Starbucks

Starbucks’ CEO makes millions, but baristas are still dealing with low pay and poor working conditions. We talked to Jason Woods, a union organizer fighting to change that.

Government Fails to Answer Novara Media’s Questions on Palestine Action Ban

In a letter to Novara Media, the Home Office dodged questions on how the proscription of Palestine Action will affect journalists. It did, however, suggest growing insecurity within the political establishment over Labour’s controversial decision to proscribe the group. Rivkah Brown reports.

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

BENGKULU, Indonesia — Yesi held her daughter Helda tightly, but the little one still shivered for days in the tropical heat over Teluk Sepang, a bay on Sumatra’s west coast. “Her cough hasn’t stopped for 10 days now, ” Yesi told Mongabay Indonesia. “I feel so sorry for her.

Knife Pulled in Racist Attack on Families Outside Portsmouth Mosque

Exclusive: Video footage shows a man waving a long-bladed knife in a racially-aggravated attack outside a mosque in Portsmouth after weeks of anti-immigrant protests and racist graffiti incidents across the UK.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025

Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language…