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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 to solve the climate crisis.
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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 the SDA’s history of employer collusion and wage theft scandals, RAFFWU has recovered billions for…
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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, class, and race, arguing the only real fix is public ownership, decent pay, and a…
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“Disclosure Day” Review: Propaganda as profound as a Trump tweet.
Disclosure Day is another remake of a remake, a spin-off of a spin-off that went stale before the smartphone existed.
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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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Checking out of the Hotel Abyss: A Review of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
In the lead up to Rockhill’s tour, Brendan Duncan-Shah reviews his book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
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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, and discuss the political considerations these groups must grapple with.
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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, and discuss the political considerations these groups must grapple with.
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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 latest digs into the cranky machine beneath the beautiful game.
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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 the industrial north of England and the working-class suburbs of Sydney, was gradually captured by…
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Dialectic of State Power and Solidarity
What if the violence we condemn abroad is the same machinery we tolerate at home? This article unpacks how state power manufactures conditional solidarity, and why collective refusal for Palestine, Iran, and Aboriginal sovereignty is the only political path.
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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 under imperial pressure, or fight against imperialism and bear the brunt of all the demonisation…
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Cultivating Organic Intellectuals: Refaat Alareer’s Pedagogy and Praxis Under Scholasticide
Dylan Prunster outlines the principles underlining the work of Palestinian author, poet and academic Refaat Alareer and his role as an organic intellectual which made him a high-value strategic target for the Zionist project.
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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 Mexico, but now he has Venezuela firmly in his sights