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Climate change and the class divide

No, we're not all in it together. Our rulers are responsible for the system that's creating an ecological catastrophe. As that crisis intensifies, it's exposing and intensifying the divide between us and them.

Remembering the great Arab revolution

What does it mean to be a Marxist?

Canada’s mass movement for land rights and environmental protection

Simpson Bulliman

Is Hong Kong’s springtime coming?

The capitalist roots of the environment crisis

The courage of Chelsea Manning

Capitalism and the climate crisis

Introduction to socialism

Marxism 2020

Red Flag Radio

Australia

Bring this family home to Biloela

Refugee rights campaigners, Tamil activists and trade unionists rallied on 21 February outside the federal court in Melbourne in support of Priya, Nades, Tharunicaa and Kopica, the Tamil refugee family currently held in Australia’s detention centr

Debate, comment and reviews

No excuses – we have to shut down the fossil fuel industry

In the face of an ecological catastrophe as enormous and terrifying as this season’s bushfires, you might think that policy might begin to shift, as those in power face up to the reality of human-induced climate change. But you’d be wrong.

Gender and sexuality

Why sexism persists

Louise O'Shea and Grace Hill

Despite all the gains of the women’s liberation movement, sexism remains widespread. The latest act of bastardry is the awarding of an Order of Australia to right wing sex therapist and honorary incel Bettina Arndt.

History

Sweden's 'radical' Meidner plan was a defeat of the workers

In the 1970s, Sweden’s main trade union federation and the social democratic party toyed with a “wage-earner funds plan”, sometimes called the Meidner Plan after one of its architects, the economist Rudolf Meidner.

Introduction to socialism

How the rich plan to rule a burning planet

The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather – cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves.

Marxist theory

How the rich plan to rule a burning planet

The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather – cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves.

Oppression and liberation

How St Kevin's College obeyed the elites' rules of entitlement

Elite schools like St Kevin's teach the values of the ruling class. That means they teach entitlement, abuse, violence, and cover-up.

Racism

Coronavirus demands international solidarity, not authoritarianism

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has unleashed terror upon the people of Wuhan. It has killed over 1000 and possibly infected hundreds of thousands. It has also spread beyond China and has the potential to become a pandemic that will kill millions.

Revolts and uprisings

Repression and resilience in Iraq

brian bean and Shireen Akram-Boshar

It’s been one month since the US assassinated Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, and, as the immediate danger of all-out war seems to have subsided, interest in the issue has waned.