On the world's current trajectory, there’s little chance that even the grimmest of scientists’ projections will be averted.
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From nuclear subs and defence pacts to politicians fawning over 'our best friends', the Australian government’s support for US empire is far from secret. But the single most important contribution Australia makes to the alliance is much more opaque.
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The organisers of Marxism 2024 would like to thank everyone who bought tickets, attended sessions and participated in the discussions. This year’s was the largest Marxism conference we have ever organised.
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The Albanese government is attempting to introduce legislation that would allow for the prosecution of refugees who try to prevent their own deportation.
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Imagine what it’s like struggling to survive on less than a can of beans per day. Imagine what it’s like to witness the people you love suffer the same. This is the reality for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.
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The past few decades have seen a race to the bottom between the major parties on using racism for electoral gain.
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Moshe Machover is the only surviving founding member of the revolutionary anti-Zionist organisation Matzpen. Vashti Fox interviewed Machover about his life, the history of Matzpen and its theoretical insights regarding Zionism and colonisation.
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The treatment of refugees and asylum seekers by the Australian government is notoriously cruel and has been lauded even by neo-Nazis in Europe.
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Student unions around Australia, with few exceptions, are controlled by the student factions of the Labor Party. And they have failed to stand up for Palestine.
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Australia's rulers are doubling down on the military alliance with the US that has served their interests well for decades. In doing so, they risk dragging us all into a deadly confrontation between nuclear-armed rivals.
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During WWII the Communist Party of Australia supported its own ruling class in waging war in defence of the imperial interests of its allies. The party's pro-war stance amounted to a complete departure from the internationalist tradition of the Bolsheviks.
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Bertolt Brecht’s life was shaped by war, revolution, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and Stalinism and the Cold War, and his work reflects this. “Art”, he said, “is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”.
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As Israel lays waste to Gaza, an ideological battle rages over who can lay legitimate claim to Jewish identity and historical experience. This work by Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone—unapologetic Marxists, Jews and anti-Zionists—could hardly be timelier.
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The daily grind of life in capitalism empties our souls, the better to fill them with trash.
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When it comes to operating nefarious international spy networks, Australia can match it with the best.
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For many leftists, the only viable opposition to imperialism in the Middle East appears to be armed groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Yet there is a hidden history of working-class struggle in the region that dates back many decades.
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Banyule City Council has become the eighth metro council in the Melbourne area to formally call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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In a monumental betrayal, Melbourne University’s Students’ Council last month voted to rescind a motion supporting the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
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The truth, it turns out, won’t set you free: under capitalism it can get you locked up. That’s what Julian Assange discovered when he spoke truth to power.
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