Response to “Organising the unemployed and the role of the lumpen-proletariat”, by Sam Murray (Bulletin #4) By Daniel Rashid Sam Murray’s article in Bulletin #4 does a good job of presenting Jean-Cristophe Angaut’s case on the lumpenproletariat, and giving ideas on how it can relate to struggles within Australia. However, […]
Sydney Anarcho-Communists
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Despite a ban by the Supreme Court, hundreds of people gathered at Taylor Square in Sydney, Saturday, to protest against Mark Latham’s anti-trans bill, and reject political censorship under the false guise of COVID-19 restrictions. One Nation’s Mark Latham has introduced a bill in the New South Wales parliament that […]
Bulletin #1. From the outset of the Covid-19 crisis, capitalists have been looking for a way to make workers pay for it. Across the Pacific in the United States, despite massive unemployment, billionaires are raking in more profit than ever. This is no different in Australia, where businesses are being […]