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The anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne was a police farce. Now the government is giving them more power

Ben Hillier

An anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne’s Chadstone shopping centre over the weekend was farcical. At least, the police response was.

Civil rights, profits and the lockdown

The bosses' war on Victoria's lockdown

20 years on from S11: looking back at the battle of Melbourne

We’ve passed the point of no return on rising sea levels

The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange. Whose side are you on?

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

Sydney students defy repression to protest university cuts

Lily Campbell

23 September 2020 will go down in the University of Sydney’s activist history books as the day students and staff successfully defied the New South Wales government’s anti-protest laws and resisted the Liberal Party’s attacks on universities.

Australia

Sydney students defy repression to protest university cuts

Lily Campbell

Debate, comment and reviews

When climate strikers deny politics, they support the status quo

Selina Dowd

Despite decades of warnings from scientists about the urgent need to curb greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic global warming, we’re in a worse situation today than ever.

Gender and sexuality

Larry Kramer and the legacy of ACT-UP

Chris di Pasquale

“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection if you are to succeed.” Larry Kramer gave this advice to aspiring writers in the introduction to his 1992 play The Des

History

The Bolshevik revolution: why a revolutionary party matters

Sadia Schneider

On 25 October 1917, the Russian working class took power. At a meeting of the Congress of Soviets, the peak democratic body representing millions of workers, peasants and soldiers, Lenin declared: “We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order”. How?

Introduction to socialism

Should socialists centre the working class?

Omar Hassan

The impressive resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US is shining a spotlight on the depravity of this system. Protesters are grasping that something radical needs to be done to deal with systematic racism in the “land of the free”.

Marxist theory

Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Sandra Bloodworth

Karl Marx’s pamphlet The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, written in 1852, is a masterpiece of journalism with an enduring relevance that

Oppression and liberation

Why the Australian Refugee Council’s residency proposal should be opposed

Diane Fieldes

The Refugee Council of Australia has put forward a proposal for refugees to pick fruit and vegetables as a path to secure permanent residence in Australia.

Racism

Black communism in the Great Depression

Katie Wood

As the Depression destroyed the lives of workers in the US, it also radicalised many of them–including Black workers, even in the Deep South. The Communist Party came to represent a current of revolutionary Black workers and activists. But the party's political flaws saw it throw that achievement away in pursuit of alliances with liberals and the US ruling class.

Revolts and uprisings

David Graeber's anarchism and the Occupy movement

Daniel Taylor

The news that David Graeber had died so young, at only 59, was shocking and saddening. He had one of those inherently lively, energetic personalities that seems to contradict the concept of death itself.