Europe boils and burns: capitalism’s climate hellscape
If you want to know how many lives our rulers are willing to sacrifice to defend the fossil fuel industry, you could start by looking at Europe.
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By ditching Jacinta Allan, Labor has bent the knee to the bosses again
After over a year of relentless campaigning by the capitalist press, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is history. Few on the left will mourn her passing. Yet her departure marks a shift to the right.
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Omar Hassan
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Security treaties advance Australian neocolonialism in the Pacific
Since 2024, Australia has also concluded a string of security agreements of varying form. All are aimed squarely at maintaining Australia’s dominant position as a neo-colonial power in the south-west Pacific.
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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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Hanson is hardening up a far-right base—we need to organise against her
Hanson is making no attempt to sanitise her politics for the sake of broad appeal. On the contrary, she is hardening her political positions, becoming more unapologetically fascistic, and encouraging her supporters to follow.
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Ruby Healer
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See all‘Never again is now’: anti-fascist resistance in Germany
GERMANY—On 4 July, the 100th anniversary of the Nazi Party’s second conference in the German state of Thuringia, the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD)
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