Special features

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.

We put out Red Flag as a print publication every two weeks. It's the most widely read revolutionary publication in Australia. You can support our project by taking out a print or digital subscription.

We have branches all around the country. Find out how to make contact with us and get involved.

‘We need to worry about our own lives’: Melbourne warehouse workers walk out for safety

Jerome Small

“It goes to show what team members as a union, collectively, what they want. And they showed it today, standing up for their safety and for other people’s safety ...

COVID-19 proves workers, not bosses, are essential

Jasmine Duff

27 Mar

Italian workers strike to force action on the coronavirus pandemic

Alexis Vassiley

26 Mar

Morrison's not just incompetent. He doesn't value our lives

Tom Bramble

26 Mar

‘Kill all pensioners to save the American Dream’

Ben Hillier

25 Mar

Get prisoners and detainees out before the pandemic gets them

Priya De

25 Mar

Viral plague and economic crisis

Rick Kuhn

15 Mar

Capitalism is killing us: a socialist response

The COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19 and children

Jorge Jorquera

Much has been said about COVID-19 and its impact on children. How are they affected and what responsibilities do they and the adults around them have in the context of this historic crisis?

Australia

The bitter years: class struggle in Depression-era Australia

Vashti Fox

The devastation of the Great Depression led to bitter class struggles, enormous political upheavals, and a deep desire among many workers for a socialist future.

Debate, comment and reviews

Coronavirus: a disaster of capitalism’s making

Ben Hillier

What to do if confronted with an extremely contagious virus that medical experts say they have not seen before and don’t understand, and which is fast spreading and killing hundreds of people?

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

The bitter years: class struggle in Depression-era Australia

Vashti Fox

The devastation of the Great Depression led to bitter class struggles, enormous political upheavals, and a deep desire among many workers for a socialist future.

Introduction to socialism

The capitalist roots of the environment crisis

James Plested

Amid the infinite, silent expanse of the universe, the emergence of any kind of life at all on the small speck we call Earth is miraculous enough.

Marxist theory

COVID-19, capitalism, and perpetual war

Ben Hillier

Today’s crisis is totally unprecedented, but it's not a whole new world. There's a resurgent logic of imperialism, always the basis of international life – the powerful attempting to shift the costs of crisis onto their rivals in other parts of the world, and onto the workers that serve them at home.

Oppression and liberation

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

Jane Kenway

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

Racism

Canada’s mass movement for land rights and environmental protection

Simpson Bulliman

When people think of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), they often picture the epitomical red-coated “Mountie” on horseback, a silly anachronism in the modern world.

Revolts and uprisings

Workers' control against the pandemic

William Lewis

Argentina has a long tradition of workers occupying their factories and producing under workers’ control. In the crisis, workers who once had to sew police uniforms have taken control of their workplace and are now making surgical masks. A U.S. hotel worker currently in Argentina reports.