A couple of hundred people turned out to oppose cuts to bus services in the Eastern suburbs last Sunday. The rally organized by NSW branch of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) in Randwick saw a variety of speakers condemn the planned cuts to over 25 bus services. These […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
Following on from a workshop presented on the same topic at their Marxism conference earlier this year, Socialist Alternative has published a critique of anarchism under the title “Marxism vs. anarchism: how can we save the environment?” in their paper Red Flag, written by Grace Hill. Socialist Alternative is correct […]
Since the 19th century, the Zionist movement has waged brutal colonial war against Palestinian Arab society, nearly without pause. The recent attempted evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem is only the latest in a long history of oppression and victimisation of the Palestinian working classes. On […]
We have received insightful commentary from readers on articles published in the first and third editions of our bulletin, on our articles on the Russian Revolution and Sex Work. The comrade who wrote to us with amendments to our Russian Revolution article indicated they would prefer for their contribution not […]
All good socialist groups must appeal to the youth, the lifeblood of the future. Despite this, there is not one socialist group in existence that publishes a regular childrens’ activities page in its press.
By Mikhael Erzengel A bad article about activist praxis during the 2020-21 COVID19 pandemic would probably start like this: ‘The COVID19 pandemic of 2020 had monumental effects on society, the economy and politics’. That same bad article would then probably go on to list examples of these effects, and try […]
Anonymous Imperialism and colonial expansion are phenomena which have been occurring for hundreds of years. Justified and then further perpetuated by racism, imperialism has resulted in the subjugation of the Global South to international capital, a process tempered by racist and white supremacist ideology which has been encouraged and let […]
By Sam Murray There is nothing like a pandemic and an accompanying economic crisis to sharpen a question that has been perennial since the birth of capitalism: what is the role of the unemployed in resisting capitalism and building a libertarian socialist future? Left strategy has traditionally placed all focus […]
It should go without saying that socialists are deeply interested in race, gender, sexuality and all the other innumerate social categories that exist in the capitalist system, beyond the fundamental class structure of proletariat and bourgeoisie. Virtually all socialists agree that they are of concern; the disagreements come elsewhere, and […]
By Madden Gilhooly “Capitalism doesn’t exist without cops because cops are the violence workers that fabricate and maintain relations of private property that are fundamental to capitalism.” (David Correia and Tyler Wall, 2018, from ‘Police: A field guide’) Fast forward to May 25 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where unarmed Black […]
ANZAC Day statement of the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group. Reproduced with permission. A National Myth On 25 April 1915, Australian troops, accompanied by others from the British Empire, stormed a Turkish beach at Gallipoli. The landing didn’t go well and presaged a disastrous campaign that ended in Australian withdrawal in […]
Guest post by Iswed Tiggjan from Anarchist Communists Meanjin – Photo from APN QLD’s anti-gentrification squat in 2017 The LNP government has announced this week its planned changes to the JobSeeker payment in so-called Australia. After 27 years of no increases, they have decided to raise the dole from $40 […]