Always was, always will be! First Nations fight back for sovereignty | Ecosocialism 2025

This recording is from the "Always was, always will be! First Nations fight back for sovereignty" panel at Ecosocialism 2025. You can watch a video of this session at: https://www.youtube.com/live/f2rccgsH3fM.

The panel featured: Senator Lidia Thorpe (Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung activist and Independent Senator for Victoria), Celeste Liddle (Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, union organiser, freelance writer and activist), Raelene Cooper (Mardudhunera woman, former Chair of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, founder of Save our Songlines), and Arama Rata (Māori researcher, writer, and organiser whose work centres on Indigenous solidarities and Internationalism; anti-colonial methodologies; and liberatory pedagogies).

See more at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/analysis/videos-and-podcasts-ecosocialism-2025-conference

We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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