Demolishing the idea of public housing
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on adequate housing, Koldo Casla, usually deals with slum demolitions in third-world countries. Last month, he took aim at the Victorian Labor government.
Germany’s far right surges
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) made significant gains in several state elections across Germany in September.
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Socialism 101
The case for socialist organisation
To win socialism, we will need to build a force as powerful as the political and ideological institutions of the capitalist class.
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Luca Tavan
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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’s the deal with productivity?
The bosses are trying to convince workers that lower corporate taxes, fewer regulations and workers’ rights, and less union power would be good for real wages. What they really want is more profits.
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Tom Bramble
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International
See allFrench high school students on the march
“I like this kinda thing because it’s revolutionary”, a 16-year-old high school student told me as we stood out the front of her school in Nice at
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Emily Lassam
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