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IN MEMORY OF TORAB HAGHSHENAS Comrade Torab Haghshenas, a great friend and supporter of his native Iranian working class and the Palestinian struggle, died in a hospital on the outskirts of Paris on 1 February. He was surrounded by the kind and warm-hearted nurses for whom he was like family. For the last two years he had many conversations with them about the war against thecapitalist system.
LEIGHTON SCANDAL EXPOSES CORRUPTION Leighton scandal exposes corruption. by Tom Bramble. 19 October 2013. Every now and then a spotlight shines that allows us to see deep into the cesspit that is corporate Australia. A six-month inquiry by Fairfax journalists has revealed a sordid history of bribery and corruption at Leighton Holdings, a $23 billion construction anddevelopment
INDIA’S VACCINE DISASTER SHOWS PRIORITIES OF THE RICH India’s vaccine disaster shows priorities of the rich. by Priya De. 16 May 2021. The Indian government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout could have been world-leading. Instead, vaccination clinics are running out of supplies, and just 3 percent of the population is fully immunised. India’s rich are responsible for this disaster. VALE ANTHONY ASHBOLT Vale Anthony Ashbolt. Wollongong activists and unionists were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Anthony Ashbolt, a lifelong fighter against injustice, at the age of 67. As a socialist activist studying at the University of Wollongong, it didn’t take me long to meet Anthony. He was a politics lecturer and union stalwart who wasn’t HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. BACKYARD BULLY: AUSTRALIA'S IMPERIALISM IN THE The COVID-19 crisis has given the “Pacific Step Up” – a strategy for curtailing China’s growing influence in the region by strengthening Australian diplomatic, cultural, economic and military ties with Pacific island nations – a new relevance. “If we do not make the ‘Pacific Step Up’ a ‘Covid-19 Step Up’”, Labor’s shadow minister for international development argued in THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments WHY THE RIGHT HATES THE ABC The Australian government and its right wing, big business backers despise the ABC. If this wasn’t already well established, the recent leadership saga at the organisation has clarified it. The first sign of trouble came when managing director Michelle Guthrie was sacked by the ABC board on 24 September. Little explanation was given for thedecision.
IN MEMORY OF TORAB HAGHSHENAS Comrade Torab Haghshenas, a great friend and supporter of his native Iranian working class and the Palestinian struggle, died in a hospital on the outskirts of Paris on 1 February. He was surrounded by the kind and warm-hearted nurses for whom he was like family. For the last two years he had many conversations with them about the war against thecapitalist system.
LEIGHTON SCANDAL EXPOSES CORRUPTION Leighton scandal exposes corruption. by Tom Bramble. 19 October 2013. Every now and then a spotlight shines that allows us to see deep into the cesspit that is corporate Australia. A six-month inquiry by Fairfax journalists has revealed a sordid history of bribery and corruption at Leighton Holdings, a $23 billion construction anddevelopment
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Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. CANCEL THE TOKYO OLYMPICS 18 hours ago · If you listened only to Olympic officials and governments around the world, there would be no doubt about the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to begin on 23 July, going ahead. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president, Australian John Coates, is typical. “We’ve never had a postponed Games before, we’ve never faced a pandemic like this before”, he said. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. FASCISM, AUSTRALIAN STYLE 1 day ago · 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. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. In most of the rest of the world, at least in the developed countries, there have been FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy THE FORGING OF AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISM The forging of Australian nationalism. It took quite a struggle for Australia’s rulers to forge a national identity. The nation state, an institutional superstructure aimed at providing an administrative framework for capitalism, had to be built. During the 1890s, as referenda about the idea of federation went on, most people couldn’tcare
GENDER AND CAPITALISM The ultra-conservative Fatherhood Foundation of Australia makes the same argument for the nuclear family and capitalism. Its pamphlet “21 reasons why gender matters” explains: “A lifelong committed marriage between a man and a woman is good for the economy as awhole”.
UNDERSTANDING THE 1917 GENERAL STRIKE The First World War was wreaking havoc on Australian society in 1917. More than 1 percent of the Australian population died in the war, 10,000 alone in the muddy chaos of Passchendaele, which coincided with the strike. The economic impact of the war was almost as great: real wages fell by a staggering 30 percent between 1914 and 1919. HONOURING EARLY ABORIGINAL RESISTANCE In April 1770, James Cook became the first European to see the east coast of the continent now known as Australia. Claiming the territory for Britain, he declared the land terra nullius, despite it being far from empty. As Cook sailed down the coast, his expedition was observed by the Dharawal, Eora, Bundjalung and other coastal peoples. RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed.RED FLAG BOOKS
The Russian Revolution of 1917 announced to the world that a new era had dawned. For the first time workers had succeeded in taking power. The fight was now on for the loyalty of the workers' movement internationally - between the established social democratic leaders who had betrayed their followers by backing the imperialist slaughter of World War I and the new communist parties, organised THE DISASTER OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIVATISED AGED CARE Australia’s scandal-ridden aged care sector is in crisis. More than 220 aged care residents have died of COVID-19, and 1,000 of the sector’s 3,600 personal care workers have tested positive for the virus. In the hardest hit state of Victoria, there have been REMEMBERING THE FIRST INTIFADA On 8 December 1987, at a Gaza checkpoint, an Israeli truck ploughed into a line of cars returning Palestinians from a day’s work in Israel. Four were killed, including three from the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s largest. WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE LABOR PARTY IS NO ALTERNATIVE The Labor party is no alternative. by Tom Bramble. 11 February 2021. With a federal election possible later this year, alarm bells are sounding in the ALP. There is growing concern that Labor is set for a hiding and that the Coalition will chalk up a fourth straight election victory. On the raw numbers, the panic seems unnecessary. VALE ANTHONY ASHBOLT Wollongong activists and unionists were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Anthony Ashbolt, a lifelong fighter against injustice, atthe age of 67.
READING THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO TODAY Why read the Communist Manifesto of 1848? It was written 30 years before the invention of the telephone, at a time when half of English children didn’t live to see their fifth birthday. The pamphlet was commissioned as a political program for the Communist League – an organisation of several hundred European anti-capitalists, many of them German émigrés centred in London, which disbanded HOW REFUGEES SHOULD BE TREATED How refugees should be treated. by Liz Walsh. 16 December 2013. Refugee policy ought to be driven by human solidarity, generosity and profound respect for those who have escaped persecution and attempted to save their own and their family’s lives. In Australia, instead of being welcomed, they are met with still more oppression. THE JAPANESE ANTI-WAR RESISTANCE DURING WWII The Japanese anti-war resistance during WWII. This article is based on a chapter from Fighting on all fronts: popular resistance in the Second World War, edited by Donny Gluckstein. The book will have its Australian launch on 21 August at the New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Melbourne. RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed.RED FLAG BOOKS
The Russian Revolution of 1917 announced to the world that a new era had dawned. For the first time workers had succeeded in taking power. The fight was now on for the loyalty of the workers' movement internationally - between the established social democratic leaders who had betrayed their followers by backing the imperialist slaughter of World War I and the new communist parties, organised THE DISASTER OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIVATISED AGED CARE Australia’s scandal-ridden aged care sector is in crisis. More than 220 aged care residents have died of COVID-19, and 1,000 of the sector’s 3,600 personal care workers have tested positive for the virus. In the hardest hit state of Victoria, there have been REMEMBERING THE FIRST INTIFADA On 8 December 1987, at a Gaza checkpoint, an Israeli truck ploughed into a line of cars returning Palestinians from a day’s work in Israel. Four were killed, including three from the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s largest. WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE LABOR PARTY IS NO ALTERNATIVE The Labor party is no alternative. by Tom Bramble. 11 February 2021. With a federal election possible later this year, alarm bells are sounding in the ALP. There is growing concern that Labor is set for a hiding and that the Coalition will chalk up a fourth straight election victory. On the raw numbers, the panic seems unnecessary. VALE ANTHONY ASHBOLT Wollongong activists and unionists were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Anthony Ashbolt, a lifelong fighter against injustice, atthe age of 67.
READING THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO TODAY Why read the Communist Manifesto of 1848? It was written 30 years before the invention of the telephone, at a time when half of English children didn’t live to see their fifth birthday. The pamphlet was commissioned as a political program for the Communist League – an organisation of several hundred European anti-capitalists, many of them German émigrés centred in London, which disbanded HOW REFUGEES SHOULD BE TREATED How refugees should be treated. by Liz Walsh. 16 December 2013. Refugee policy ought to be driven by human solidarity, generosity and profound respect for those who have escaped persecution and attempted to save their own and their family’s lives. In Australia, instead of being welcomed, they are met with still more oppression. THE JAPANESE ANTI-WAR RESISTANCE DURING WWII The Japanese anti-war resistance during WWII. This article is based on a chapter from Fighting on all fronts: popular resistance in the Second World War, edited by Donny Gluckstein. The book will have its Australian launch on 21 August at the New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Melbourne. RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed.RED FLAG BOOKS
The Russian Revolution of 1917 announced to the world that a new era had dawned. For the first time workers had succeeded in taking power. The fight was now on for the loyalty of the workers' movement internationally - between the established social democratic leaders who had betrayed their followers by backing the imperialist slaughter of World War I and the new communist parties, organised THE DISASTER OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIVATISED AGED CARE Australia’s scandal-ridden aged care sector is in crisis. More than 220 aged care residents have died of COVID-19, and 1,000 of the sector’s 3,600 personal care workers have tested positive for the virus. In the hardest hit state of Victoria, there have been REMEMBERING THE FIRST INTIFADA On 8 December 1987, at a Gaza checkpoint, an Israeli truck ploughed into a line of cars returning Palestinians from a day’s work in Israel. Four were killed, including three from the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s largest. WHY CAPITALISM CAUSES OPPRESSION Why capitalism causes oppression. “You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do,you’ll come
THE LABOR PARTY IS NO ALTERNATIVE The Labor party is no alternative. by Tom Bramble. 11 February 2021. With a federal election possible later this year, alarm bells are sounding in the ALP. There is growing concern that Labor is set for a hiding and that the Coalition will chalk up a fourth straight election victory. On the raw numbers, the panic seems unnecessary. VALE ANTHONY ASHBOLT Wollongong activists and unionists were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Anthony Ashbolt, a lifelong fighter against injustice, atthe age of 67.
READING THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO TODAY Why read the Communist Manifesto of 1848? It was written 30 years before the invention of the telephone, at a time when half of English children didn’t live to see their fifth birthday. The pamphlet was commissioned as a political program for the Communist League – an organisation of several hundred European anti-capitalists, many of them German émigrés centred in London, which disbanded HOW REFUGEES SHOULD BE TREATED How refugees should be treated. by Liz Walsh. 16 December 2013. Refugee policy ought to be driven by human solidarity, generosity and profound respect for those who have escaped persecution and attempted to save their own and their family’s lives. In Australia, instead of being welcomed, they are met with still more oppression. THE JAPANESE ANTI-WAR RESISTANCE DURING WWII The Japanese anti-war resistance during WWII. This article is based on a chapter from Fighting on all fronts: popular resistance in the Second World War, edited by Donny Gluckstein. The book will have its Australian launch on 21 August at the New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Melbourne. WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. THE DISASTER OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIVATISED AGED CARE Australia’s scandal-ridden aged care sector is in crisis. More than 220 aged care residents have died of COVID-19, and 1,000 of the sector’s 3,600 personal care workers have tested positive for the virus. In the hardest hit state of Victoria, there have been BACKYARD BULLY: AUSTRALIA'S IMPERIALISM IN THE The COVID-19 crisis has given the “Pacific Step Up” – a strategy for curtailing China’s growing influence in the region by strengthening Australian diplomatic, cultural, economic and military ties with Pacific island nations – a new relevance. “If we do not make the ‘Pacific Step Up’ a ‘Covid-19 Step Up’”, Labor’s shadow minister for international development argued in HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. HOW PRIVATISATION RUINED EVERYTHING How privatisation ruined everything. The privatisation craze began in earnest in Australia in the early 1990s. Governments—state and federal, Labor and Coalition—were on board from the beginning, and over the following three decades more and more of Australia’s most important, and valuable, public assets have been sold off. WHY THE RIGHT HATES THE ABC The Australian government and its right wing, big business backers despise the ABC. If this wasn’t already well established, the recent leadership saga at the organisation has clarified it. The first sign of trouble came when managing director Michelle Guthrie was sacked by the ABC board on 24 September. Little explanation was given for thedecision.
DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments WE HAVE TO STOP THE COMING WAR WITH CHINA Today, for the first time since the USSR developed its own atomic arsenal to challenge US nuclear hegemony, the world faces the realistic possibility of a war between great powers that might not immediately end in the mutual destruction of both sides and the end of all human civilisation. If anything, that makes the war more likely. We have to do whatever we can to stop it from happening. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. THE DISASTER OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIVATISED AGED CARE Australia’s scandal-ridden aged care sector is in crisis. More than 220 aged care residents have died of COVID-19, and 1,000 of the sector’s 3,600 personal care workers have tested positive for the virus. In the hardest hit state of Victoria, there have been BACKYARD BULLY: AUSTRALIA'S IMPERIALISM IN THE The COVID-19 crisis has given the “Pacific Step Up” – a strategy for curtailing China’s growing influence in the region by strengthening Australian diplomatic, cultural, economic and military ties with Pacific island nations – a new relevance. “If we do not make the ‘Pacific Step Up’ a ‘Covid-19 Step Up’”, Labor’s shadow minister for international development argued in HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT How Marxism explains unemployment. At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. HOW PRIVATISATION RUINED EVERYTHING How privatisation ruined everything. The privatisation craze began in earnest in Australia in the early 1990s. Governments—state and federal, Labor and Coalition—were on board from the beginning, and over the following three decades more and more of Australia’s most important, and valuable, public assets have been sold off. WHY THE RIGHT HATES THE ABC The Australian government and its right wing, big business backers despise the ABC. If this wasn’t already well established, the recent leadership saga at the organisation has clarified it. The first sign of trouble came when managing director Michelle Guthrie was sacked by the ABC board on 24 September. Little explanation was given for thedecision.
DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governmentsRED FLAG
Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. THE DISASTER OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIVATISED AGED CARE Australia’s scandal-ridden aged care sector is in crisis. More than 220 aged care residents have died of COVID-19, and 1,000 of the sector’s 3,600 personal care workers have tested positive for the virus. In the hardest hit state of Victoria, there have been REMEMBERING THE FIRST INTIFADA On 8 December 1987, at a Gaza checkpoint, an Israeli truck ploughed into a line of cars returning Palestinians from a day’s work in Israel. Four were killed, including three from the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s largest. HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. In most of the rest of the world, at least in the developed countries, there have been VALE ANTHONY ASHBOLT Wollongong activists and unionists were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Anthony Ashbolt, a lifelong fighter against injustice, atthe age of 67.
THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FILTHY SEXIST PIGS Rape allegations, gross misogyny, stalking and abuse, cover-ups, hiring prostitutes in Parliament House. What other reaction could you have but absolute disgust for the federal government? For six weeks, endless stories about the abuse of women by Liberal and National party staffers and politicians have featured in the news. Whether it’s carrying out the abuse, the attempted denials and HONOURING EARLY ABORIGINAL RESISTANCE In April 1770, James Cook became the first European to see the east coast of the continent now known as Australia. Claiming the territory for Britain, he declared the land terra nullius, despite it being far from empty. As Cook sailed down the coast, his expedition was observed by the Dharawal, Eora, Bundjalung and other coastal peoples. QUEENSLAND: RACIST ONE DAY, POLICE STATE THE NEXT The recent death of a motorcyclist in the north Queensland city of Townsville after being hit by a vigilante chasing a stolen car has once again focussed attention on law and order in the state’s north. The Murdoch-owned local paper, the Townsville Bulletin, dubbed the city “Crimsville” back in 2015, calling it Queensland’s “undisputed crime capital”, subject to a “youth crime WHAT COULD WE BUY WITH AUSTRALIA'S $19 BILLION POLICE Public housing: Five billion dollars a year buys us 40,000 public housing dwellings across the country, with costs decreasing each year as more public housing is built. If the entire $19 billion annual police and prison budget were put into housing, you could build 152,000 public housing dwellings. That would put a dent inAustralia’s
WHY THE GST IS UNFAIR (AND WHY THE WORKING CLASS SHOULD Any increase in the GST will make Australia’s tax system more unfair and benefit corporations at the expense of workers, writes Ben Hillier. ----- If there’s one thing that Malcolm Turnbull has the business elite excited about, it’s the prospect of lower corporate taxes. Lowering taxes on the profits of companies would require raising taxes elsewhere if government revenues are not to RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. INDIA’S VACCINE DISASTER SHOWS PRIORITIES OF THE RICH The Indian government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout could have been world-leading. Instead, vaccination clinics are running out of supplies, and just 3 percent of the population is fully immunised. India’s rich are responsible for this disaster. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. GENDER AND CAPITALISM “Is it a boy or a girl?” Before we take our first breath, society sets out a path that we must follow. Before we know our own name, others presume to know a whole lot about us. If our parents don’t know already, the midwife will glance down between our tiny legs and immediately assign a sex. Every now and then it’s not clear, which we call intersex. The usual policy is to mutilate the THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy A HISTORY OF ABORTION RIGHTS STRUGGLES Writing in the Communist (UK) in 1922, activist and sometimes socialist Stella Browne insisted that birth control “is no less essential than workshop control and determination of the conditions of labour Birth control is woman’s crucial effort at self determination and at control of her own person.” This demand for women’s control of our bodies has been the basis for mass campaigns VOICES FROM THE CHEMIST WAREHOUSE PICKET LINE Voices from the Chemist Warehouse picket line. Workers at Chemist Warehouse distribution centres began an indefinite strike on 12 March. Around 800 workers at two warehouses in Melbourne and 100 workers at the company’s Brisbane warehouse began picketing in the early hours and intend to continue until management concedes to their demands. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments RED FLAGARTS AND CULTUREAUSTRALIACLIMATE AND ECOLOGYDEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWSTHE ECONOMY Red Flag is a not-for-profit left wing newspaper established by Socialist Alternative in 2013. We stand for solidarity, struggle, internationalism and socialism. CAPITALISM IS KILLING US. WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT COVID-19 has challenged humanity: on what principles do you organise your society? The pandemic could have been defeated by cooperation, planning, transparency, and social solidarity. But instead, it was born into a society based on competition, secrecy, lies, and greed. INDIA’S VACCINE DISASTER SHOWS PRIORITIES OF THE RICH India’s vaccine disaster shows priorities of the rich. by Priya De. 16 May 2021. The Indian government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout could have been world-leading. Instead, vaccination clinics are running out of supplies, and just 3 percent of the population is fully immunised. India’s rich are responsible for this disaster. HOW AUSTRALIA OPPRESSES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TODAY How Australia oppresses Aboriginal people today. Two days into 2020, a 37-year-old Indigenous woman in Victoria died in prison after being remanded in custody on minor charges. Nine days later, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl was held overnight and strip searched by Tasmanian police for allegedly breaking a curfew. THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAIR WORK ACT The Fair Work Act that is the target of the ACTU’s Change the Rules campaign undermines wages and conditions and hamstrings trade unions. Passed by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, it is a particularly ugly piece of legislation, with many obvious problems. The Howard government’s WorkChoices legislation put individual contracts at the centre of labour law. FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy GENDER AND CAPITALISM The ultra-conservative Fatherhood Foundation of Australia makes the same argument for the nuclear family and capitalism. Its pamphlet “21 reasons why gender matters” explains: “A lifelong committed marriage between a man and a woman is good for the economy as awhole”.
VOICES FROM THE CHEMIST WAREHOUSE PICKET LINE Voices from the Chemist Warehouse picket line. Workers at Chemist Warehouse distribution centres began an indefinite strike on 12 March. Around 800 workers at two warehouses in Melbourne and 100 workers at the company’s Brisbane warehouse began picketing in the early hours and intend to continue until management concedes to their demands. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE Over the past 120 years, the Zionist movement and later the Israeli state have constructed a web of fallacies that surround the creation of Israel and the ongoing conflict, and which also seek to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people. This web of historical and current fallacies, which are often repeated by the capitalist media and Western governments A HISTORY OF ABORTION RIGHTS STRUGGLES A history of abortion rights struggles. by Liz Ross. 15 October 2013. Writing in the Communist (UK) in 1922, activist and sometimes socialist Stella Browne insisted that birth control “is no less essential than workshop control and determination of the conditions of labour . Birth control is woman’s crucial effort at selfdetermination
FACT: AUSTRALIA WAS INVADED, NOT PEACEFULLY SETTLED Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed “the Great Australian Silence”. Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy INTO THE MAINSTREAM: THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS This is part of Red Flag's guide to Australia’s four major political parties – Labor, Liberal, National and Greens – and One Nation.In this article, Red Flag editor Ben Hillier analyses the Greens.. In the early years, the Greens were one of the most politically contradictory organisations around. REMEMBERING THE FIRST INTIFADA On 8 December 1987, at a Gaza checkpoint, an Israeli truck ploughed into a line of cars returning Palestinians from a day’s work in Israel. Four were killed, including three from the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s largest. BACKYARD BULLY: AUSTRALIA'S IMPERIALISM IN THE The COVID-19 crisis has given the “Pacific Step Up” – a strategy for curtailing China’s growing influence in the region by strengthening Australian diplomatic, cultural, economic and military ties with Pacific island nations – a new relevance. “If we do not make the ‘Pacific Step Up’ a ‘Covid-19 Step Up’”, Labor’s shadow minister for international development argued in HOW MARXISM EXPLAINS UNEMPLOYMENT At the end of 1950, the unemployment rate in Australia stood at 0.2 percent – the lowest figure ever. For two decades, until the end of the 1960s, it was commonly said that the government of the day would fall if unemployment passed 2 percent. Today unemployment of 5-6 percent is considered “normal”. In most of the rest of the world, at least in the developed countries, there have been MORE THAN A VOICE: THE LEGACY OF TIGA BAYLES Over the weekend, a legend passed away. Tiga Bayles was so many things to so many different people. To his family, he was a rock – a much-loved brother, uncle, father, grandfather and great grandfather. To the radio station he helped set up, he was a stronghold – a man we turned to for guidance and support. To me, he was a mentor – a man who could have made so many feel THE NEW STOLEN GENERATION Indigenous communities and families are reeling under the impact of a new stolen generation, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are removed from their families in staggeringly high numbers. More than a third of the 39,600 children in “out-of-home care” nationally are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, even though they make up only 4.6 percent of the national child READING THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO TODAY Why read the Communist Manifesto of 1848? It was written 30 years before the invention of the telephone, at a time when half of English children didn’t live to see their fifth birthday. The pamphlet was commissioned as a political program for the Communist League – an organisation of several hundred European anti-capitalists, many of them German émigrés centred in London, which disbanded HENRY LAWSON AND THE ‘AUSTRALIAN LEGEND’ Romanticisation of the outback and the bush has been an enduring theme in the construction of Australian nationalism. Self-reliance in the face of an inhospitable natural environment allegedly epitomises, or at least captures something central to, “the Aussie spirit”. WHY THE RIGHT HATES THE ABC The Australian government and its right wing, big business backers despise the ABC. If this wasn’t already well established, the recent leadership saga at the organisation has clarified it. The first sign of trouble came when managing director Michelle Guthrie was sacked by the ABC board on 24 September. Little explanation was given for thedecision.
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What are the prospects for revolutionary politics in the era of COVID-19? Amid the destruction, both human and economic, some have struck an optimistic note. HOW THE POOR DIE IN NEW YORKJasmine Duff
21 Apr
MURDOCH'S GUTTER PRESS CHEERS ON DEATHLouise O’Shea
21 Apr
THE US: THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL BASKET CASEOmar Hassan
18 Apr
SMALL VICTORY FOR BILOELA REFUGEE FAMILY, BUT THE FIGHT ISN’T OVERAran Mylvaganam
17 Apr
NATIONALISATION ISN'T ENOUGHDaniel Taylor
16 Apr
WUHAN'S PLAGUE, AND OURSChris di Pasquale
15 Apr
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THE COVID-19 CRISIS
THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTACK ON WORKERS IS A CHALLENGE TO UNIONSJerome Small
In a dramatic attack, attorney-general and workplace relations minister Christian Porter announced last Thursday that employers would now have to give only one day’s notice of an employee ballot to ram through any changes to enterprise agreements. POLICE ARE USING LOCKDOWN TO CHARGE, FINE, AND INTIMIDATE REFUGEEACTIVISTS
Anneke Demanuele
SELF-ISOLATION FOR SOCIALISTSLuca Tavan
THERE WILL BE NO 'SNAPBACK'. THE WORLD HAS CHANGEDMick Armstrong
THE UNIVERSITY ‘RELIEF PACKAGE’ IS A GIFT TO BIG BUSINESSNick Everett
AUSTRALIA
DIARY OF A ZOOM-BASED JOBSEEKERA. Jobseeker
My “Employability Skills Trainer” screen-shares a video with my class of unemployed workers. She’s teaching us how to succeed. The video is about an athlete at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics who tore his hamstring but still finished his race. ENGLISH TEACHERS FIGHT BACK AS BOSSES TRY TO MAKE THEM PAY FOR VIRUSCHAOS
Emma Daichi, Independent Education Union member THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTACK ON WORKERS IS A CHALLENGE TO UNIONSJerome Small
POLICE ARE USING LOCKDOWN TO CHARGE, FINE, AND INTIMIDATE REFUGEEACTIVISTS
Anneke Demanuele
PELL'S GUILTY OF MANY TERRIBLE CRIMES. THAT'S WHY RIGHT WINGERS DEFENDHIM
Emma Norton
DEBATE, COMMENT AND REVIEWS WHAT SHOULD WE TAKE FROM BERNIE SANDERS’ CAMPAIGN?Ben Hillier
Bernie Sanders will not be the Democratic Party candidate in this year’s United States presidential election. What political takeaways can be drawn from his momentous campaign? CORONAVIRUS: A DISASTER OF CAPITALISM’S MAKINGBen Hillier
NO EXCUSES – WE HAVE TO SHUT DOWN THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRYOmar Hassan
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES SHOW NEED FOR AN ALTERNATIVEMick Armstrong
CORONAVIRUS DEMANDS INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, NOT AUTHORITARIANISMSarah Garnham
GENDER AND SEXUALITYWHY 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 incelBettina Arndt.
OPPOSE MURDOCH’S GENDER AGENDARoz Ward
RIGHT RAISES HELL OVER ABORTION BILLEmma Norton
A THOUSAND RAINBOWS WILL SHAKE THE SKY: THE LEFT AND GAY LIBERATIONLiz Ross
THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN IS BOUND UP WITH THE LIBERATION OF ALLChloe Rafferty
HISTORY
JOHN PERCY'S UNFINISHED 'TASKS AND PERSPECTIVES'Ben Reid
“Tasks and perspectives” is an interesting term. The plural of the word perspective doesn’t formally exist in the English language. It was the Communist International that introduced the term as a translation of a Russian term. FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE: MARCHING AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT INBRITAIN
Eleanor Morley
JOHN PASSANT, 1953-2020: A CONTRIBUTION THAT LIVES ONRick Kuhn
THE BITTER YEARS: CLASS STRUGGLE IN DEPRESSION-ERA AUSTRALIAVashti Fox
ABORIGINAL SOCIETY, EUROPEAN INVASION, AND THE BUSHFIRE DISASTERSandra Bloodworth
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIALISM CRISIS IS BACK. EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. MARXISM RETURNSDaniel Taylor
In a short couple of months, the pandemic has exploded all the most fashionable arguments that Marxism is out of date. THE CAPITALIST ROOTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT CRISISJames Plested
HOW THE RICH PLAN TO RULE A BURNING PLANETJames Plested
GLOBAL PROTEST HAS RETURNED TO HAUNT WORLD CAPITALISMSandra Bloodworth
WORKERS’ POWER: WHAT EVERY STRUGGLE NEEDSApril Holcombe
MARXIST THEORY
CAPITALISM IS A VIRUSJeff Sparrow
Organisers of the UN’s COP26 conference have postponed the world’s most significant international climate summit. Paradoxically, the cancellation has taken place as scientists noted a fall in the very carbon emissions that COP26 was to discuss. CRISIS IS BACK. EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. MARXISM RETURNSDaniel Taylor
COVID-19, CAPITALISM, AND PERPETUAL WARBen Hillier
THE CAPITALIST ROOTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT CRISISJames Plested
ABORIGINAL SOCIETY, EUROPEAN INVASION, AND THE BUSHFIRE DISASTERSandra Bloodworth
OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION HOW ST KEVIN'S COLLEGE OBEYED THE ELITES' RULES OF ENTITLEMENTJane Kenway
Elite schools like St Kevin's teach the values of the ruling class. That means they teach entitlement, abuse, violence, and cover-up.WHY SEXISM PERSISTS
Louise O'Shea and Grace Hill THE COURAGE OF CHELSEA MANNINGJasmine Duff
WORKERS’ POWER: WHAT EVERY STRUGGLE NEEDSApril Holcombe
RIGHT RAISES HELL OVER ABORTION BILLEmma Norton
RACISM
POLICE ARE USING LOCKDOWN TO CHARGE, FINE, AND INTIMIDATE REFUGEEACTIVISTS
Anneke Demanuele
When activists took part in a car cavalcade protest calling for the release of refugees detained in a hotel in Melbourne’s north, Victoria Police used new powers to fine participants a total of nearly$50,000 and char
FASCISTS AND THE FAR RIGHT SEE AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE PANDEMICVashti Fox
GET PRISONERS AND DETAINEES OUT BEFORE THE PANDEMIC KILLS THEMPriya De
CANADA’S MASS MOVEMENT FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONSimpson Bulliman
CORONAVIRUS DEMANDS INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, NOT AUTHORITARIANISMSarah Garnham
REVOLTS AND UPRISINGS IRAN'S STRUGGLE INTERRUPTED – FOR NOWSimone White
Three things are clear about the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. First, its scale is far greater than in many other countries – officially, it has the sixth highest death toll, after the US, Italy, Spain,France and the UK.
WORKERS' CONTROL AGAINST THE PANDEMICWilliam Lewis
REPRESSION AND RESILIENCE IN IRAQ brian bean and Shireen Akram-Boshar IS HONG KONG’S SPRINGTIME COMING?Ben Hillier
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