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Red Flag is the publication of Socialist Alternative.

We're a revolutionary Marxist group based in Australia. We organise activism, public forums, and study groups. Our aim is to help rebuild a revolutionary movement in Australia, to do our bit in the worldwide fight against capitalism.

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The 'palace letters' and the coup against Whitlam: so much for democracy

Mick Armstrong

The unelected Governor General Sir John Kerr secretly conspired for months to sack the twice-elected Whitlam government. This fact had been widely surmised.

France: Macron wounded, but still eyeing austerity

Close Victoria's schools now

Our 'hard lockdown' without medication, food, sunlight or information

Morrison finds billions for warfare

The end of Hong Kong?

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

I've seen how cops act in Flemington's public housing. Sending them in is a disgrace

Chris di Pasquale

In 2017, I helped organise an anti-racist protest in Flemington. Public housing residents joined in. The police were completely out of control. Sending them in to besiege residents during a public health crisis is unnecessary, punitive and wrong.

Australia

Even after the bushfires, the eco-vandalism continues

Chris Anderton

More than a billion animals perished, 3,000 homes were destroyed, and 18 million hectares were burned in Australia’s catastrophic 2019-20 summer of bushfires.

Debate, comment and reviews

Defunding, disarming, defeating and abolishing the police

Daniel Taylor

Is abolishing the same as defunding? Does either one mean the police have been defeated? What does it mean when liberals start saying abolishing the police isn't all that scary? A socialist take on an exciting set of slogans.

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

When Australia's workers fought back against the Accord

Liz Ross, Roz Ward, Ryan Stanton

The recently published Stuff the Accord! Pay Up! tells the little-known story of workers’ resistance to the Prices and Incomes Accord agreed between the ACTU and the Hawke Labor government in 1983. Red Flag’s Roz Ward and Ryan Stanton spoke to the book’s author, veteran socialist activist Liz Ross, who was a public service union delegate during the Accord years, about the book