US imperialism and the war in Iran
The US war on Iran was meant to demonstrate US military might. It has revealed US weaknesses instead.
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Tom Bramble
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The hue and cry about the Democratic Socialists
The Democratic Party electoral road isn’t leading to “socialism”. It’s leading socialists away from it, argues Lance Selfa.
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Lance Selfa
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Old traditions of anti-Catholic hate lie beneath UK race riots
For three years in a row, Britain has been seized by summertime racist rioting. Islamophobes and nationalists seem to have laid claim to UK streets for the months of June through September. But this is not without precedent: summer has always been high time for bigots and diehard patriots.
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Ruby Healer
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Rebel teachers taking their campaign against the Labor government all the way to parliament
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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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‘Ready to fight for a socialist future’: eight hundred attend Victorian Socialists’ campaign launch
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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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Australia
See allWhy One Nation is attacking women
Pauline Hanson has spat in the faces of the millions of Australian women who have experienced family violence by describing the crime as a “two-way street”. Returning to a
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International
See all‘Mortal danger’: French firefighters battling wildfires and the government
Successive heatwaves across Western Europe through May, June, July and August have propelled one of the biggest wildfire crises the continent has ever seen. Extreme dryness and drought, combined with
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Joe Allen
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