By Luke Alexander Amongst the Australian bourgeois left commentariat, on the subject of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, a form of consensus seems to be emerging – that of the compliant Australian. The story goes that, contrary to the myth of the iconoclastic larrikin, Australians’ response to the pandemic indicates […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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The Russian Revolution is one of the clearest and most inspiring examples of the potential for workers to take power in world history, where the working class revolted and radically changed the social and economic relations upon which society was based. However, it also serves as a demonstration that the […]
Last Saturday the 12th of December, people gathered in Sydney’s CBD to rally first for climate jobs and just transitions, and then in support of Coles workers who have been locked out of their Smeaton Grange warehouse in NSW for three months over Christmas and New Years after starting a […]
The 28th of November, 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels’ birth. Unsurprisingly, the occasion has been celebrated by the publication of a number of hagiographies from Marxist outlets. These do not satisfy us. The intention of this article is not to deny any of Engels’ strengths; they are […]
In acts of solidarity, passing workers in cars and trucks blare horns and raise fists from cockpit windows. Steadfast is their commitment to seeing their demands met: a worker reveals to us that it is now day 8 of continuous striking. Deep in the industrial heartland of Sydney, workers stand […]
In October, our group participated in a discussion on salting, industrialising, and other related strategies that have the common theme of seeking employment in particular jobs for political reasons. One of the texts was “In Defence of Working Class Existence as a Choice”, by the UK-based group Angry Workers of […]
A couple of days ago, a post went up in my union’s online forum: “Serious question here. Is there anyone who has worked in hospo for more than a year, who -HAS NOT- experienced some form of wage theft / underpayment / non payment of penalty rates/ non payment of […]
While Trumpism has networks of support amongst far-right white nationalists which Biden lacks, there is no doubt that the Democrats and Republicans are on a unity ticket when it comes to the agenda of deportation, privatisation, and war that creates the far right. The nature of this election cycle was […]
Radical history is littered with unknown people, anonymous figures who nevertheless – in their own modest ways – contributed to the development of socialism and the workers’ movement generally. Some were very important, others less so. An example of a man that falls into the latter category is William Edwell […]
T H Livingstone and James Sherriff It is no exaggeration to say that we are at a turning point in history. Our collective response to the global crises we are now facing will determine our success in not only the next few years, but the next few decades – perhaps […]
Social Anarchism and Organisation by the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) is a practical elaboration of the popular anarchist tendency of especifismo in South America. Especifismo takes its ideological roots from traditional anarchists and communists such as the 19th Century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and the 19th and […]
Reproductive labour has an essential role in the capitalist apparatus. It reproduces class divisions, structural racism and the subjugation of women to the needs of capital on an international scale. In this article I am going to analyse what social reproduction is first and foremost, the historical processes of how […]