The government’s talk of fairness and tackling inequality is empty noise. Yet in some ways, the budget is ambitious: it is characterised by an ambition to keep Australian capitalism’s winners rich and its losers poor.
One Nation must be fought relentlessly. That has to be the lesson the left and the working-class movement takes from the victory of Hanson’s far-right racist party in the Farrer by-election.
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 chorus
Socialist Alternative is trying to build an organisation of people committed to this goal—but what does that mean in practice?
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
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 Meg
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.
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.
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. But
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
The government’s talk of fairness and tackling inequality is empty noise. Yet in some ways, the budget is ambitious: it is characterised by an ambition to keep Australian capitalism’s winners rich and its losers poor.
BERLIN—Tens of thousands of German high school students skipped class on 8 May to protest against conscription and militarism. In total, 45,000 took part in demonstrations in 150
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