Angry Workers of the World (AWW) are a small communist collective based in London, influenced by Italian workerism and a wider array of socialist groups, like the original Solidarity (not to be confused with the Trotskyist Australian Solidarity), the women’s group Feminist Fightback and the German group Wildcat. For the […]
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The university frequently plays an important role in the political imaginary of our times. For many conservative – and some liberal – commentators, the university is seen as a means of leftist indoctrination, a place where ‘wokeness’ rules and alternative right wing views are shouted down. Meanwhile many leftists view […]
Agustín Guillamóns latest translated work “Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona” is a brilliant political history of the Stalinist and collaborationist-anarchist counter-revolution in Spain, and the last gasp of the proletarian rank-and-file resistance to it. Originally published in Spanish in 2017, AK Press published the English translation […]
Michael Heinrich’s introduction to Capital offhandedly deals with a point popular among leftist academics: “The difference between services and physical objects consists of a distinction of the material content; the question as to whether they are commodities pertains to their social form, and that depends upon whether objects and services […]
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, […]
A critical review of Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and Algeria, by David Porter By Mya Violet Walmsley ‘Starting a revolution is hard, and it’s even harder to continue it.’ Almost sixty years ago in 1962, Algeria broke free from French state control, after a seven year long militarised […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]