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Marxism, Socialist Feminism and the Place of Class Struggle for Women’s Liberation Today: Examples from Brazil and Australia
By Ana Cavalcante This talk was part of a panel planned as a way to provoke debate on the question of women’s and workers’ organisations which took place at Red Ant’s founding conference in Sydney, August, 2022. Many socialist (or Marxist) women historically (Angela Davis is notable among them) have engaged in debates about the… →
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The Origins, Politics and Trajectory of the International Socialist Tendency
By Sam King The following was presented on day two of Red Ant’s Peace and Liberation Conference in August 2022. In today’s imperialist world, which is starkly polarised between rich and poor societies, revolutionary Internationalism is the most basic principle of Marxist politics. It is not enough simply to support the struggle of workers in our own… →
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Labour Aristocracy, Opportunism and National Chauvinism – A Historical Split in Socialism
By Nick D. The following was presented on day two of Red Ant’s Peace and Liberation Conference in August 2022. This talk will focus on the theory of the labour aristocracy – which in its most simple form can be understood as the notion that the relative privileges that imperialism provides to sections of the working class… →
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Reflections on the October Revolution
By Danial Nikovich In early 1917, misery and economic hardship bore down on the people of Tsarist Russia. The first imperialist world war had left millions dead. Both in cities and the countryside, people starved. On March 8 (new calendar), women textile workers had had enough and flooded the streets of Petrograd. This action, held… →
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Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena, Clinton Fernandes
Book Review by Sam KingSub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International ArenaClinton Fernandes, Melbourne University Press (2022) Fernandes’ short and readable book is useful to anyone concerned with the imperialism of Australia and the other rich countries against the rest of the world – the Global South. It addresses the AUKUS military alliance with its nuclear… →
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Red Ant’s founding Statement of Principles and Perspectives
At its conference in Sydney – held in August 2022 – the new Red Ant Collective adopted a founding Statement of Principles and Perspectives. A second national conference was in Melbourne in September 2023. The Statement expresses, very briefly, the political reasons why the founding members of the Collective took the decision to set it… →
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Australia’s Imperialist Foreign Policy
By Nick D. The following was presented on the panel, The Need for Anti-Imperialism in Australia, which took place on day one of Red Ant’s Peace and Liberation Conference in August 2022. Politically, Australia, and all other exploiter nations will do anything necessary to keep the world divided between rich and poor nations. War, invasion,… →
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“Notes on Exterminism” for the Twenty-First-Century Ecology and Peace Movements
by John Bellamy Foster In 1980, the great English historian and Marxist theorist E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class and leader of the European Nuclear Disarmament movement, wrote the pathbreaking essay “Notes on Exterminism, the Last Stage of Civilization.”1 Although the world has undergone a number of significant changes… →
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Hugo Chávez: Bourgeois Nationalist or Socialist Revolutionary?
By Sam King The article below was written in the aftermath of Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5th, 2013 as part of internal discussion within the group Socialist Alternative which the author was a member of at the time. It has never been published openly to the public before. We publish it today as a… →
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The Labour Aristocracy: A Crucial Marxist Theory in an Imperialist World
By Danial Nikovich In 2022, there is every chance the Australian Labor Party (ALP) will win the federal election. Does this mean we are in the final months of Australian capitalism? Are we set to see the ushering in of a system based on worker’s control? Definitely not. Writing about Australia in 1913, Lenin pondered… →
