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Understanding Hong Kong’s rebellion against China

The following is an extract from Red Flag contributing editor Ben Hillier’s new book, Dispatches from Hong Kong. It will be released by Spark publishing next month.

Who wouldn't want to rage against killer cops?

The university pay cut deal is defeated. It's a win for rank and file activism

The rank and file uprising in Australia's higher education union

Capitalist lockdown is bad. Capitalist reopening is worse

Elon Musk is a shithead

Capitalism and the climate crisis

Introduction to socialism

Red Flag Radio

Marx Talks

The COVID-19 Crisis

For-profit healthcare has to end. But so does our for-profit society

We need the complete nationalisation of health care, taking the whole system back into public hands. This might seem radical, but the pandemic has shown both how irrational for-profit health care is, and how easy it would be to change it.

Australia

What's behind the Australia-China conflict?

Jordan Humphreys

The renewed tension between the governments of Australia and China is a symptom of the shifting dynamics of world imperialism.

Debate, comment and reviews

Rosa Luxemburg warned us against national unity

Sandra Bloodworth

The despicable Scott Morrison and Donald Trump invoke the macabre metaphor of war to describe this crisis we are living through.

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

What's the legacy of Jack Mundey, union militant?

Jack Mundey was one of the most prominent leaders of that great era of working class militancy and assertiveness: the 1960s and ’70s.

Introduction to socialism

Crisis is back. Everything has changed. Marxism returns

In a short couple of months, the pandemic has exploded all the most fashionable arguments that Marxism is out of date.

Marxist theory

Unemployment isn't necessary

Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs in Australia over the last month. Many more have stopped receiving pay cheques but have not yet made it into the official figures.

Oppression and liberation

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

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

Racism

The scandal of refugees left to rot in the pandemic

Parameswary was displaced in Sri Lanka and spent 23 years in refugee camps in India. She then fled Chennai with two of her sons in search of something that many of us take for granted: security. But in Australia, her life has taken a nasty turn.

Revolts and uprisings

What just happened in Hong Kong?

Beijing plans to impose new national security laws in Hong Kong that many have said signify the end of Hong Kong’s “One Country, Two Systems” framework. Others have called it a complete breach of the city’s autonomy by the People’s Republic of China.