Students teach Hanson a lesson
There’s a power in collective resistance and solidarity that, if only it can be organised, could flush away Hanson and her ilk into history’s septic tank. Yesterday, students pointed the way forward.
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Rebel teachers taking their campaign against the Labor government all the way to parliament
Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.
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Luca Tavan
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Introducing the conveners of the Australian Socialist Party: Omar Hassan and Rebecca Barrigos
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Nick Reich
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Socialism 101
Why we carry the red flag
In 1913, two years before he was executed by the US state of Utah in a frame-up, Joe Hill wrote the song “Should I ever be a soldier”. The
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Duncan H
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How does Socialist Alternative fit into the socialist tradition?
Socialist Alternative is trying to build an organisation of people committed to this goal—but what does that mean in practice?
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Socialists in the student movement
Students today are operating in a campus climate of almost unprecedented repression. What does it mean for socialist students trying to build political organisations in the universities? The last great
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Tess Lee Ack
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Is it hypocritical for socialists to use iPhones and buy stuff on Temu?
Anti-capitalists are often accused of a double standard: you hate the system, but want to enjoy its benefits. The latest to employ this supposed gotcha is none other than
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Luca Tavan
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Why history matters for socialists
The attempt to apply socialist ideas without consideration of the movement's historic practice—and the way that practice can best be applied in contemporary contexts—is among the worst, and most frequently committed, errors socialists can fall into.
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Capitalism can’t end women’s oppression: we need a revolution
Women today have achieved formal equality in most spheres of life. They have much greater choice about what to do with their lives. But they are still a long way from being equal to men, and even further from liberation.
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Lenin in his own words: five key texts
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of history’s most well-known figures, and one of its most maligned. Mainstream culture vilifies him as a despot.
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Jess Lenehan
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What is the Australian state?
For most people, the word “politics” brings to mind the workings of the state: who will win the next election, what laws politicians are debating, how well or badly the
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Introducing the conveners of the Australian Socialist Party: Omar Hassan and Rebecca Barrigos
To help build an active party membership, the Socialist Party founding conference elected two national conveners: Rebecca Barrigos and Omar Hassan.
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Nick Reich
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International
See all‘Never again is now’: anti-fascist resistance in Germany
GERMANY—On 4 July, the 100th anniversary of the Nazi Party’s second conference in the German state of Thuringia, the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD)
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