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Red Flag is the publication of Socialist Alternative.

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Neoliberalism's pandemic

Louise O’Shea

For decades, neoliberalism has ground down social services and eroded the rights of the working class. Now we're all paying the price.

How AOC and Bernie ended up working for Biden

The world's forests are in peril

'A brand-new beat': DRUM and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Should socialists centre the working class?

Public housing is a human right

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

Victorian teachers speak out against reckless school policy

Brendan O'Stanton

“When my school closed it was in school holidays. People found out 13 days after they were in contact with this student that they had an infectious student in their class ….

Australia

The left should criticise Daniel Andrews

Kath Larkin

The Murdoch press and the Liberals are hypocrites–but that doesn't mean Victorian Labor are the good guys. They've privatised, outsourced, and cut their way into a disaster.

Debate, comment and reviews

The left should criticise Daniel Andrews

Kath Larkin

The Murdoch press and the Liberals are hypocrites–but that doesn't mean Victorian Labor are the good guys. They've privatised, outsourced, and cut their way into a disaster.

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

Gramsci, Bordiga, and the factory occupations

Luca Tavan

In the wake of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, Italy was swept by a militant workers' movement that inspired and challenged Marxist theorists like Antonio Gramsci. This article, the first in a two-part series, explores how the factory council movement emerged.