Analysis
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The Public’s Factory: Reclaiming the RFC Legacy through Co-Partnership in 21st Century Australia
Australia didn’t lose its factories, Government’s sold them. Cheap. To the same ruling class that begged the state for rescue, then demanded the state disappear.…
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Climate Solutions Part 1: Why Capitalism Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis
This is part one of a two part series that investigates why climate solutions are failing under capitalism and why China shows socialism is necessary…
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Class War from Above: Victorian Labor Government Attacks Retail and Fast Food Workers
Victoria’s Labor government has introduced legislation threatening to deregister the militant Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union, handing bargaining monopoly to the ALP-aligned SDA. Despite…
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Insights from a Delivery Driver
UberEats promised freedom but delivered precarity, spent tyres, blown budgets and no safety net. A former sessional academic turned delivery driver reflects on gig work,…
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The Inevitable Corruption of Audit – From KPMG to Northern Rock, and Why Socialism is the Only Cure
Under capitalism, the audit profession does not accidentally collapse into fraud. It is structurally propelled there.
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Unions vs the Rank and File: Charting a Way Back to Militant Unionism (Part 2)
Part two of a two part article exploring the need for union renewal through an activated, proactive and astute membership that challenges the existing leadership,…
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Unions vs the Rank and File: Charting a Way Back to Militant Unionism (Part 1)
Part one of a two part article exploring the need for union renewal through an activated, proactive and astute membership that challenges the existing leadership,…
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The Beautiful Game, the Cranky Machine: Football, Imperialism, and Working-Class Histories
The working class built the beautiful game. The ruling class has been flogging it to Gulf petrostates ever since and calling it sport. David Clarke’s…
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Organise Workers, Not Just Activists: A Response to Omar Hassan
David Clarke, a member of NSW Socialists, responds to Omar Hassan’s Marxist Left Review Article “The Australian Socialist Party: A Project to Transform the Left”
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The People’s Game Stolen Twice: A History of Rugby League, Media Wars, and the Gambling Takeover
The story of rugby league is not simply one of tries and grand finals. It is a story of how a people’s game, forged in…
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How the US manufactured repression in revolutionary Cuba
The Cuban Revolution developed under a siege that produced clear and distinct possibilities for Cuba: capitulate to the West’s pseudo-progressive cries for “freedom” and crumble…
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Weathering the Imperialist Storm Over Venezuela
United States’ President Donald Trump is obsessed with the idea of turning other countries into the 51st U.S state. He has targeted Canada, Greenland and…