In 1890, Australia and New Zealand were paralyzed by a strike. 50,000 workers in Australia and a further 10,000 in New Zealand shut down ports, mines, and railways. While the unions were defeated, for the first time the ruling class stood face to face with a new social force which […]
On 12 August, Ben Carroll and the Victorian Labor Government set the wheels in motion for a legislative attack on RAFFWU. Perhaps we should have seen this coming but it was a shock to me to see a media release announcing the introduction of the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill […]
In Australia we can learn a lot from Labor Notes and their approach to discussion and organising. This year I had the pleasure of attending the biannual Labor Notes conference in Chicago from Thursday June 11 to Sunday June 14, 2026. Labor Notes is a US-based training organisation and network […]
Isaac deserved to live in the world he believed in, the world he fought for—the world without classes, without government, without the bosses and cops and bureaucrats and everything else our species is presently saddled with. It is because of people like him that all of this can be more […]
The Nazis might find confidence in their isolated fight clubs and men’s retreats, but we can find our confidence in the multicultural working class that actually makes this country run.
On Sunday, 31 August, various far-right nationalist groups ranging from conspiracy theorists and “sovereign citizens” to the openly neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) staged coordinated rallies across Australia under the banner of March for Australia. Rallying around a central demand of ending “mass immigration”, the size of these demonstrations caught […]
An exploration of climate futures for working class militants. Modelling the future of global warming is a deeply difficult exercise. There are two main sources of uncertainty. One is uncertainty in the geophysical climate models. We know that increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions warm the planet, but the complexities of […]
No sincere socialist should make peace with the Greens defence policy. If there is a war to be fought, it is a class war.
One of the most distinctive aspects of anarchism is its anti-electoralism. When the doctrine was first coming together in the 19th century, our hostility to parliaments and electoral socialism was one of our key defining traits. Against both revolutionary and reformist social-democrats, anarchists argued for direct action and class organisation […]
The especifist tendency’s retreat from class analysis is not just a theoretical mistake – it in fact cuts them off from understanding the only thing that might actually realise anarchism.
