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{{Short description|Australian socialist newspaper}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Green Left
| image = Green Left Weekly logo (cropped).png
| caption =
| type = Alternative weekly
| format = Compact
| foundation = {{start date and age|1990}}
| political = {{collapsible list
 | titlestyle = font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left;width:160px;
 | title = [[Social:Socialism|Socialist]]
 | [[Social:Eco-socialism|Eco-socialist]]
 | [[Social:Anti-capitalism|Anti-capitalist]]}}
| ceased publication =
| price =
| owners = Independent
| publisher = Green Left Association
| editor =
| language = [[Social:English language|English]]
| circulation =
| headquarters = 22 Mountain Street <br /> Ultimo, [[Place:Sydney|Sydney]]
| ISSN =
| website = {{URL|http://greenleft.org.au|greenleft.org.au}}
}}
'''''Green Left''''', previously known as '''''Green Left Weekly''''', is an Australian socialist newspaper, written by activists to "present the views excluded by the big business media".  The newspaper was founded in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Green Left - the need for alternative media |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/about |website=Green Left Weekly |access-date=17 May 2019 |language=en |date=6 September 2016 |archive-date=31 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331140603/https://www.greenleft.org.au/about |url-status=live }}</ref> Green Left is the de facto newspaper of the Socialist Alliance.

==Overview==
The newspaper is a notionally independent Australian source of local, national and international news, and provides left-wing analysis and debate.  In an editorial in the first issue,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55625 | title=Green Left launched amid anti-war campaign | newspaper=Green Left Weekly | date=18 January 2014 | access-date=21 January 2014 | archive-date=1 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201175654/https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55625 | url-status=live }}</ref> ''Green Left Weekly'' stated:
{{blockquote|This is a paper by and for the green and progressive movement. We would like it to reflect the movement in action and in discussion. We want to reflect the controversies and the concerns as well as the achievements and celebrations.}}

In 2023, the paper stated:

{{blockquote| Green Left's aim is to both help build movements of resistance as well as an anti-capitalist political alternative.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Green Left |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/about |website=greenleft.org.au |publisher=Green Left |access-date=7 November 2023  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000445/https://www.greenleft.org.au/about |archive-date= 1 November 2023}}</ref>}}

Although the newspaper was initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective,<ref>{{cite web |title=Australia: 'Green Left Weekly' celebrates 20 years! |url=http://links.org.au/node/2168 |website=Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal |access-date=17 July 2019 |archive-date=8 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408113243/http://links.org.au/node/2168 |url-status=live }}</ref> the newspaper has been supported by a variety of groups throughout its history.  In the early 1990s, Australian Democrats senators Sid Spindler and Janet Powell supported and sponsored the newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boyle |first1=Peter |title=Democrats: still trying to keep the bastards honest |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/democrats-still-trying-keep-bastards-honest |access-date=17 July 2019 |work=Green Left Weekly |date=28 February 1996 |language=en |archive-date=17 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717130917/https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/democrats-still-trying-keep-bastards-honest |url-status=live }}</ref>

Subjects of particular importance to ''Green Left Weekly'' include [[Social:Anti-capitalism|anti-capitalism]], workers rights, refugees, women's rights, [[Earth:Global warming|global warming]], environmental destruction, Australian Aboriginal land rights, and foreign policy, especially Australia's military intervention in the Asia-Pacific region, the US led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and other forms of US political intervention overseas.

In 2011, Victorian Consumer Affairs Minister Michael O'Brien asked the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to investigate whether a number of groups, including ''Green Left Weekly'', had breached secondary boycott laws by supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement pickets at the premises of the Max Brenner chain of chocolate shops.<ref name=aus>{{cite news | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/israeli-boycotts-accc-called-in/story-fn59niix-1226110465124 | title=Israeli boycotts: ACCC called in | newspaper=The Australian | date=8 August 2011 | access-date=11 November 2011 | archive-date=27 September 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927171828/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/israeli-boycotts-accc-called-in/story-fn59niix-1226110465124 | url-status=live }}</ref> The ACCC determined that the protests were not a secondary boycott.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48800 | title='You can't sweeten apartheid!' Protests target Max Brenner in Melbourne, Sydney | newspaper=Green Left Weekly | date=10 September 2011 | access-date=11 November 2011 | archive-date=4 November 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104212733/http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48800 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ACCC: Recent anti-Israel protests not a secondary boycott |url=http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1005794/fromItemId/142 |website=Australian Competition & Consumer Commission |access-date=22 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324102736/http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1005794/fromItemId/142 |archive-date=24 March 2012 |date=2 September 2011}}</ref>

The newspaper strongly supports  the socialist policy of Bolivia and Ecuador and the [[Social:Bolivarian Revolution|Bolivarian Revolution]] in Venezuela led by Hugo Chávez, and in the past opened a bureau in [[Place:Caracas|Caracas]] to improve its coverage of events there.  At the time, it claimed to be the only Australian newspaper with a bureau in Latin America.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/770/39707 | title=Bolivian indigenous people lead democracy struggle | newspaper=Green Left Weekly | date=10 October 2008 | access-date=21 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202103715/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/770/39707 | archive-date=2 December 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

It is also the only Australian newspaper to regularly print articles by left-wing journalist John Pilger.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/806/41485 | title=John Pilger wins Sydney Peace Prize | newspaper=Green Left Weekly | date=9 August 2009 | access-date=21 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110165538/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/806/41485 | archive-date=10 November 2009 | url-status=dead }}</ref>  Pilger has said of ''Green Left Weekly'': "There are few other newspapers — radical or any other kind — that draw together news and analysis that is as well informed, credible, and non-sectarian as ''Green Left Weekly''.  Its work has influenced mine and has been a beacon to those who believe the press ought to be an agent of the people."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/donate.php | title=Make a Donation to Green Left | newspaper=Green Left Weekly | access-date=21 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526171032/http://www.greenleft.org.au/donate.php | archive-date=26 May 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Since 2008, ''Green Left Weekly'' has published a monthly [[Social:Arabic|Arabic]] language supplement, ''The Flame'', edited by Socialist Alliance members of the growing Sudanese Australian community.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://links.org.au/node/699 | title=The Flame, October 2008 - Green Left Weekly's Arabic supplement | publisher=Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | date=22 October 2008 | access-date=21 April 2010 | archive-date=8 July 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708202923/http://links.org.au/node/699 | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2009, ''Green Left Weekly'' launched a new [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish language]] supplement, ''Foro Social Latinamericano'', edited by the Latin America Social Forum in Sydney, a collaboration between left-wing members and groups in the Latin American community in Australia.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://links.org.au/node/1370 | title='Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement launched | publisher=Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | date=25 November 2009 | access-date=21 April 2010 | archive-date=27 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527155850/http://links.org.au/node/1370 | url-status=live }}</ref>

''Green Left Weekly'' is routinely criticised by News Corp Australia publications in editorials and opinion pieces. ''The Australian'' accused ''Green Left Weekly'' of supporting [[Social:Terrorism|terrorism]] for its criticism of [[Place:Israel|Israel]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://greenleft.org.au/content/proud-stand-palestine-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-response-australian|title=Proud to stand with Palestine — a response to The Australian|last1=Murphy|first1=Emma|last2=Munckton|first2=Stuart|last3=Iskander|first3=Soubhi|date=1 July 2009|newspaper=Green Left Weekly|access-date=8 August 2022}}</ref>

==Awards==
In June 2005 ''Green Left weekly'' won an award from web-surveying company Hitwise.  Hitwise ranked the website as the most popular Australian-based political site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hitwise.com.au/info/awards/popup.html?sDomain=www.greenleft.org.au&iDate=200502&iCatnum=295&Cal= |title=Hitwise Competitive Intelligence - Top Ten Awards - 2005 |access-date=23 February 2007 |publisher=Hitwise |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901183056/http://www.hitwise.com.au/info/awards/popup.html?sDomain=www.greenleft.org.au&iDate=200502&iCatnum=295&Cal= |archive-date=1 September 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Green Left Weekly'' received a similar award in 2006, and in the period between June and December 2009, ''Green Left weekly'' once again ranked in the top ten, achieving 7th position.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/830/42693 | title=GLW wins web award for popularity | newspaper=Green Left Weekly | date=13 March 2010 | access-date=21 April 2010 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803044822/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/830/42693 | archive-date=3 August 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* List of newspapers in Australia

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/319 ''The Flame'']
*[http://www.socialist-alliance.org/ Socialist Alliance website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127200629/https://socialist-alliance.org/|date=27 January 2019}}
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