Ben Radford

protest in the streets of Buenos Aires

Argentina’s Senate narrowly approved far-right President Javier Milei’s Omnibus Bill — a suite of neoliberal reforms geared towards big business interests — on June 12, marking his first successfully implemented laws since he took office in December, reports Ben Radford.

group of people in flood affected area

State Deputy Luciana Genro, a leading member of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½'s Ben Radford about the flooding crisis in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, the government’s response and the solidarity efforts to help those affected.

VI Encuentro Ecosocialista

The 6th International Ecosocialist Encounter (VI Encuentro Ecosocialista), drawing together representatives from more than 50 organisations in 15 countries, was held from May 10–11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Â鶹´«Ã½'s Ben Radford attended the event.

town in Peru

High in the Peruvian Andes, in the southeastern region of Huancavelica, lies a brown, treeless mountaintop — the scars of the now-boarded-up Santa Bárbara mercury mine, whose legacy is social and environmental devastation, reports Ben Radford.

book cover, face

Walkley Award-winning Australian-Jewish journalist Antony Loewenstein’s book, The Palestine Laboratory, is a brilliant piece of investigative work, bringing together mountains of research and interviews, which lays bare the relationship between Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestinians and its booming arms industry, writes Ben Radford.

Ben Radford talks about his experiences in Cuba

Â鶹´«Ã½ journalist Ben Radford speaks to Isaac Nellist about his first-hand experience in Cuba and the impacts of the United States-imposed blockade. 

Berlin housing referendum launch

Berlin’s grassroots housing movement Deutsche Wohnen Enteignen (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen, DWE) launched its new campaign on September 26 for a legally binding referendum to expropriate housing from corporate landlords, reports Ben Radford.

Thousands of Berliners took to the streets on bicycles on August 25 to protest the dominance of motor vehicles in the city, discriminatory road traffic laws and car-centric urban planning, reports Ben Radford.

Local communities are fighting to stop New South Wales Forestry Corporation from logging an area critical for koala connectivity and habitat on the NSW mid-north coast. Ben Radford reports.

Episode 8: Â鶹´«Ã½ journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.

Â鶹´«Ã½ News podcast Ep 7

Episode 7: Â鶹´«Ã½ journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.

Â鶹´«Ã½ News podcast Ep 6

Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.