On Saturday, 8 February 2025, members of Geelong Anarchist Communists (GAC) and curious locals gathered under the shelter of Warrnambool’s Civic Green. Posters adorning the coastal towns’ streets promoted an Introduction to Anarchism workshop. These were the only signs of radical politics in Warrnambool, the words anarchism and communism enough […]

Back in December, Woolworths distribution workers took a deal after 17 days of strike which cost the company upwards of $140 million dollars. The strategy of organising undertaken by the United Workers Union (UWU) demonstrates what it means to walk the daggers edge between exercising workers power by fighting bosses […]

The Albanese Labor government has done a deal with the Liberals to pass legislation aimed at destroying the CFMEU. Make no mistake, the government’s CFMEU Act is a plan to kill a union. The strongest argument against this law is this: take a look at what is in it. The […]

As the government decides how best to cut down the union, it’s essential that workers stand with the CFMEU and defend it against government intervention. Any proposed administrators should be rejected, and the rank and file organised to take control of what’s theirs. 

We want to publish more reports from anarchists organising in their workplaces, and we want you to write them for us.  Your experiences are valuable. It is important that we write about organising in order to reflect, learn, and share lessons. We need anarchists to write about wins, losses, failed […]

Chris Oliver argues that left-wing activists should focus less on shallow mobilisation and protest, and more on deep, long-term organising. A few years ago I was involved in protesting outside a café in Sydney alongside a backpacker who’d previously worked there. The backpacker had been paid below the minimum wage […]

Republished from Geelong Anarchist Communistsby Tommy Lawson and Evan van Zijl As critics of genocide and Zionism, we are often told that settlement of Palestine offers a liberal utopia of pro-gay progressivism. Israel, the supposed sanctuary of Judaism, is in short the only alleged place for women and the LGBTQI+ […]

‘In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.’ Martin Luther King Jr.  It is no secret that the history of Palestinian resistance is deeply intertwined with the socialist movement. As anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism are basic principles, socialists have always opposed […]

Juan Verala Luz reviews Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-1976. This review began as opening remarks at a recent book launch for Anarchist Popular Power. You can read excerpts from the original statement in this report, and listen to it alongside a discussion with historian Troy Araiza Kokinis […]

Every so often the question of co-operatives is raised in the revolutionary socialist movement. Optimistic positions suggest that co-ops can form the basis for replacing capitalism with a new economy based on solidarity and labour where workers have ‘control’ and even suggest they are a vital part of revolutionary strategy. […]