Photo by Aman Kapoor On the evening of the 12th of March, over one hundred people – mostly young women – gathered at Sydney Town Hall. They were there to hear a number of speakers relate their own personal experiences with sexual assault, and to attack the government’s disgraceful complicity […]
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The movement to expel police from Pride parades has grown in popularity throughout the last decade. Famously, a Black Lives Matter sit-in at the Toronto Pride Parade in 2016 was successful in demanding the removal of the police from the parade. This demand was taken up and won successfully in […]
Coles workers at the Smeaton Grange distribution warehouse have been locked out over Christmas for months on end without pay, battling both Coles bosses and the union bureaucracy whilst fighting for a fair redundancy package. Union officials at the United Workers Union have failed to support Coles workers in any […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Honey Christensen and Robbie Mason. The mass media propagates an illusory sense of freedom. The belief that the media is an integral cog in democracy, holding governments and multinational corporations accountable, unequivocally benign, has a soporific effect. It makes the populace susceptible to the inculcation of values that encourage […]
The capitalist media in Australia are full of news and opinion designed to create fear and suspicion of China and its so-called “communist” government. To advance this agenda, many real and alleged instances of bad behaviour by Beijing are cited. This is having the desired effect. Public opinion is shifting […]
This article was first published as ‘The Plague’ in The Anvil, Vol. 9 No. 2, April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic started in a market in Wuhan late last year. It grew into a crisis through bureaucratic suppression of bad news by local “Communist” Party authorities. It has now become a […]
The following are a set of notes prepared for a talk presented at Students of Sustainability on 13 Jan 2020, originally titled “Anarchism 201: There is no parliamentary road to climate justice”. So far this summer, 27 people have been killed, 10 million hectares of bush, forest and national park […]
On 28 April this year, animal rights activists launched an impressive series of direct actions across eastern Australia as part of a campaign to promote the film ‘Dominion’. The resulting furor highlighted, once again, the confusion of ideas that exist at the intersections of anarchist and animal rights movements. The […]