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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.

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Why only socialist internationalism can solve the climate crisis

Dave Blinderman

International cooperation at a historic, unprecedented scale is essential if the world is to avert the looming climate catastrophe. Anyone can see that and, for their part, our world leaders are happy to go through the motions.

The Northern Hemisphere’s summer of climate carnage

Why won't they respond to COVID-19 with the same urgency as 9/11?

9/11 didn’t ‘change everything’—the odious responses of Western governments did

How the US helped create Osama bin Laden

‘Like a mini-holocaust’: the last time a pandemic came to Aboriginal communities

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

Crocodile tears on mental health

Simone White

Australian politicians and business leaders have very suddenly become interested in mental health.

Australia

Massive cuts meet resistance at University of Wollongong

Jack Mansell, Sean McLachlan

Students and staff at the University of Wollongong are locked in an ongoing battle with university management. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a sustained attack on conditions of teaching, learning, and campus services.

Debate, comment and reviews

The left and state restrictions

Mick Armstrong

Various commentators, including Adam Schwab in Crikey, have proclaimed that it is a major contradiction for leftists, “who once championed human rights and freedoms” to back the state “adopting authoritarian methods

Gender and sexuality

Brazen Hussies and the weaknesses of the women’s liberation movement

Diane Fieldes

Brazen Hussies, a documentary about the women’s liberation movement in Australia, gets off to a promising start.

History

9/11 didn’t ‘change everything’—the odious responses of Western governments did

Ben Hillier

9/11 provided a pretext to rehabilitate the idea of a muscular, interventionist US imperialism. The world is worse for it.

Introduction to socialism

What’s wrong with capitalism?

Hersha Kadkol

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Tesla CEO Elon Musk illustrate everything that is wrong with capitalism.

Marxist theory

Mending the metabolic rift: Marxism, nature and society

James Plested

Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism provides the key to understanding the environmental catastrophe we’re witnessing, and to gaining a clearer picture of what’s needed to repair our damaged relationship with the Earth.