Rosa Luxemburg was one of the giants of the socialist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. She argued for revolution against reformism and celebrated the power of the mass strike. But, as Caitlin Doyle outlines, she failed to understand the need for independent revolutionary organisation, with terrible consequences. Read about Rosa Luxemb…

The Kanak, the Indigenous people of Kanaky-New Caledonia, have risen up against their French colonial masters. Paddy Gibson explains why we should draw inspiration from their resistance and build solidarity across the Pacific with all struggles for liberation. Read more about the Kanak struggle. Find out more about Solidarity.…

The Radical Jewish Tradition is an important new book that debunks the claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere. Solidarity hosted a book launch that heard from the two co-authors, both anti-Zionist Jews: Donny Gluckstein in Scotland and Janey Stone in Melbourne. Solidarity member and anti-Zionist Jew, Tami Gadir, was the fin…

Labor has a shocking record on so many issues. Solidarity editor James Supple looks at why Labor fails and the kind of alternative we need. Read Solidarity articles on Labor. Find out more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

Jason Wong looks at the contradictions within capitalism that make war a central feature of the system. He argues that workers have the interest and the power to end the slaughter. Read Solidarity articles about war. Find out more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

Israel is a pariah state, stripped of legitimacy in the eyes of billions around the world. Anti-Zionist Jews are mobilising in record numbers to say, not in my name. So can Israel survive? David Glanz discusses the issues. Read Solidarity articles about Israel. Find out more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

How can ordinary people fight for real change when our rulers seem so powerful? Cooper Forsyth argues that workers everywhere have the power to spread struggles around the world and win. Read more about revolution. Read more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

Phil Griffiths challenges the ruling class propaganda about China and argues that it is imperialist rivalry that is making the region less safe and threatening war. Read Solidarity's articles on China. Find out more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

Lucy Honan explains what Marxists mean by alienation and how its impact shapes our lives – and how we can retake control through collective struggle.By solidarity.net.au

Lebanese socialist Simon Assaf outlines how the crimes of the Israeli state are fostering anger and resistance across the region, creating a new opportunity for revolutionary change. Read Solidarity's coverage of the fight for a free Palestine. Find out more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

Australia is a settler colonial state. Israel is, too. But what does that mean for the struggle for Indigenous rights in Australia and liberation for Palestine? Paddy Gibson unbundles the theory. Read Solidarity's coverage of the fight against racism. Find out more about Solidarity.By solidarity.net.au

Sameh Nasser, who escaped Gaza in December and who has lost 16 family members to Israeli terror, addressed Solidarity's Keep Left conference. David Glanz provided an introduction. Read all Solidarity's coverage of the Palestine crisis here. Find out more about Solidarity and get involved.By solidarity.net.au

This talk by Paddy Gibson outlines the importance of anti-Aboriginal racism to the ruling class in Australia. Paddy explores the ways that the so-called "Aboriginal problem" has posed challenges for Australian capitalism and the way Aboriginal resistance continues to threaten the system. Recorded at a Solidarity meeting in April 2016, this podcast …

Teachers and School Staff for Palestine has organised some inspiring actions, despite hostile media coverage and attempts at suppression by Labor state education ministers and their departments. We talk to Lucy Honan, an experienced teacher and long-time member of the Australian Education Union. She’s also a member of Solidarity.…

Paddy Gibson gives an introduction to Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism. He includes basic explanations of the concept of alienation, surplus value, the centralisation and concentration of capital and what we mean by workers' power and socialist revolution. This talk was given to a Solidarity student club meeting at Sydney University in …

This episode is about what is happening in Melbourne for fans of electronic music from the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region, and for music fans who want to recognise and act on what is happening in Palestine. To discuss this, Tami Gadir is joined by MzRizk, a renowned Naarm/Melbourne radio broadcaster (Boogie Beat Suite, PBS) and prol…

Writing during the First World War, Lenin analysed how capitalism led to imperialism, which in turn led to war between the great powers. A century on, David Glanz argues that Lenin's arguments and his insistence that workers have the power to end war is still vitally relevant today.By solidarity.net.au

In this week’s episode of our Music and Politics miniseries, we talk to Erima Dall about the course of industrial disputes at the Sydney Opera House construction site and what lessons we can take from how they played out. Erima is a member of Solidarity, a wharfy, and a Maritime Union of Australia member and delegate. In 2023, to mark the 50th anni…

Zionism argues that antisemitism can't be fought and that Jews need a state at the expense of the Palestinians. David Glanz discusses how Zionism has always fostered racism and collaborated with imperialism.By solidarity.net.au

Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, is an authoritarian leader and an Islamophobe. Barry Pavier, author of Hindutva and the Sangh Parivar in Britain, explains the background to his politics and discusses how the Indian left can fight back. Read Barry's article here.By solidarity.net.au

Israel tries to smear its critics as antisemites. This episode features five anti-Zionist Jews in conversation, rejecting the myth that Israel speaks in their name. Nachshon Amir, Melanie Lazarow and John (Janusz) Ebel talk with Tami Gadir and David Glanz.By solidarity.net.au

Labor played a key role in the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948, despite enacting antisemitic policies at home. Tom Orsag discusses why the ALP has always supported Israel.By solidarity.net.au

Between 1996 and 1998, the Mirarr people in the Northern Territory fought plans for a uranium mine on their land in Kakadu. It included an eight-month blockade of the mine site. Tami Gadir argues that the mine was eventually stopped due to strong grassroots campaign made up of traditional Mirarr owners, Aboriginal activists and tens of thousands of…

We're often told people are too selfish to change the world. David Glanz challenges that argument, looking at the development of human society from the earliest years through to the mass solidarity movement for Palestine today.By solidarity.net.au

Western leaders bleat about the "two-state solution". But as Sarah Thorne explains, it has never offered justice for the Palestinians. The only solution is one state from the river to the sea, where everyone has equal rights, including the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.By solidarity.net.au

Some musicians are as well known for their politics as they are for their music. Paul Robeson is one such figure. Robeson, born just before the turn of the twentieth century, during his life observed the parallels between the struggles of international workers against their ruling classes and the struggles for Black civil rights at home in the USA.…

David Glanz outlines the history of Hamas and how its politics have developed. He argues that socialists must support the fight for national liberation today but that freedom for Palestine needs a different strategy.By solidarity.net.au

Phil Griffiths looks back at the struggle of the Black working class in South Africa for inspiration in the fight against Israeli apartheid today.By solidarity.net.au

Israel and the Arab states are tightly connected to US imperialism, argues Lucy Honan. But the many millions of Arab workers have the power that can break their control.By solidarity.net.au

Australian Conservation Foundation's Nuclear Campaigner and long-time environmental activist Dave Sweeney joins us to talk about the numerous pitfalls of nuclear power—from waste to war. Since this episode was recorded, The Guardian reports that the only company to have a small modular nuclear power plant approved in the US has cancelled its first …

Salome MC grew up in Iran and currently resides in the USA. She is a music producer, composer and multimedia artist. She is also on the advisory board for Iran in the American anti-war organisation Code Pink. Most famously she is known as having been Iran's first woman to be a hip hop MC and rapper. Salome joins Solidarity to discuss her journey in…

Ahmed Abadla (Australian-Palestinian from Gaza) and Jean Parker (Solidarity) discuss why the occupation is the source of the violence and why Palestinians have a right to resist Israel.By solidarity.net.au

All the data indicates that global heating is accelerating. Paddy Gibson argues against despair and for a strategy of resistance that can challenge a capitalist system addicted to fossil fuels. The graphs he refers to in his talk can be found here.By solidarity.net.au

Erima Dall takes us through the lessons of building anti-war movements, from World War One to opposing AUKUS today, and argues why the politics of the united front is central to winning.By solidarity.net.au

This is a talk by Sophie Cotton about how trans people can fight back against the system. Sophie looks at the different theories of the system and argues that that class struggle is the best avenue to winning trans rights. She also argues that gender and trans experiences are grounded in material fact (contra Kathleen Stock's transphobic feminist b…

In the wake of the Women's World Cup and the Matildas' success, Lucy Honan looks at how sexism, nationalism and corporate profit distort sport.By solidarity.net.au

Adam Adelpour outlines the key contributions made by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky to workers' revolution and, after the rise of Stalinism, to keeping alive the flame of revolution from below.By solidarity.net.au

Phil Griffiths challenges the enduring myth that the White Australia policy was the creation of the Australian working class. This talk was delivered as the Brisbane Labour History Society's Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture 2023. Footnote from the author: In the lecture itself, and the original version of this text, I failed to acknowledge the impor…

Ben Abbatangelo is a Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk writer and journalist who has written for The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and IndigenousX, and also appeared recently on ABC’s Q&A. He spoke to Paddy Gibson about his thoughts on the Voice to Parliament.By solidarity.net.au

War is grounded in capitalist competition, argues Jason Wong. And it can be stopped through workers' revolution.By solidarity.net.au

Hall Greenland (Greens founder and anti-Vietnam war activist) and Ian Rintoul (anti-Vietnam war activist in Brisbane and Solidarity) discuss how grassroots activism and mass protest helped stop the Vietnam War. The height of the movement in Australia was the mass Moratorium marches, which involved tens of thousands of workers striking to attend on …

Ian Brown (Gomeroi activist) and Paddy Gibson (Solidarity) discuss why the Voice to Parliament won't bring change and why Indigenous people and anti-racists need to look to mass struggle on the streets.By solidarity.net.au

Jean Parker discusses the weaknesses of the Albanese Labor government and compares it with previous Labor governments, arguing that Labor has always put the interests of business ahead of those of its working class supporters.By solidarity.net.au

As the horrific war in Ukraine grinds on, Adam Adelpour discusses how the left should respond.By solidarity.net.au

Do members of a band need to be politically in harmony? Can heavy metal, hip hop, or house give us hope? How much stock should we put in Woodstock? What are the politics of Oakland, California, the birthplace of the Black Panthers and once-haven for Black people escaping the Jim Crow South, where over 5000 people were recorded as homeless in 2022? …

We are getting closer to climate tipping points, with the danger of global heating becoming a runaway catastrophe. Chris Breen looks at how the crisis is unfolding and argues that solutions cannot be found so long as society is run for profit. He argues that workers' struggle is key to overcoming the stranglehold of fossil fuel capitalism.…

David Brophy (author of the book China Panic) and Phil Griffiths (Solidarity) discuss how our rulers are preparing for a possible war with China, why tensions are rising and how workers and students can organise against racism and war.By solidarity.net.au

Workers find themselves fighting the boss with one hand behind their backs, thanks to anti-union laws that restrict the right to strike. Erima Dall (MUA activist) and Sophie Cotton (NTEU branch committee, Sydney Uni) discuss how we find ourselves in this situation and how workers can escape the legal straitjacket.…

In the second episode of our "music and politics" miniseries, Tami Gadir talks to John Street, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia (UK), about his AHRC project "Our subversive voice: the history and politics of the English protest song". After discussing this 400-year history, John also addresses to what extent culture h…

We talk with Australian writer Antony Loewenstein about his latest book, The Palestine Laboratory, which describes how Israel uses weapons, drones and espionage systems against the Palestinians and then sells them as "battle tested" to reactionary regimes around the world for use on their populations.…