Comrade Dead, WA. Communist Caucus (CC) comrades entered the recent founding federal conference of the Australian Socialist Party (SP) seeking a mass socialist workers party with a program. We left the conference with a socialist party and a majority pro-program federal executive. Members of this new federal executive have already begun discussions on how a […]

For the past forty years, Australia has served as a model of stability in the capitalist world economy. In the first of a two part series, Edith Fischer argues that history is slowly catching up to the Lucky Country. Is Australia exempt from the laws of social development? For decades, Australian society has been a […]

As part of our republication of several important works by Mansoor Hekmat of the worker-communist movement in Iran, we publish his commentary on the relationship between nationalism and the proletarian movement, based on the Iranian experience. At the time of writing, Hekmat was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Iran. […]

Mila Volkova In How the Left can Win Back the Battlers, C. Bourchier gets at something important, which is the need for the socialist movement to engage with rightist and reactionary proletarians. I agree with this. Though it is not our highest priority right now, which is to cohere the currently existing advanced layers of […]

C. Bourchier argues that for socialists to win the struggle against Hansonism, we need to win back the working class. The meteoric rise in the polls of One Nation signals a new juncture in Australian politics. For years Pauline Hanson has been seen as a peripheral figure—a political gnat for the bourgeoisie to swat away. […]

In an article titled Romantic Love and Family Are Not the Enemy, which involved a discussion between Jacobin editor Meagan Day and Swedish gender studies academic Evalina Johansson Wilen, Jacobin completely mischaracterise the ‘family abolitionist’ position. I would like to set the record straight. Of course, I can only speak for myself in this letter, […]

Editor-in-Chief Max J introduces Partisan 18 during this time of tumult. Partisan 18 can be found here. We live in chaotic times. Pauline Hanson’s gang of racist liberals are on the rise. The Labor Party is falling asleep at the wheel. No one even bothered burying the Liberal Party. America and Israel continue their imperialist […]

Antonio Garcia I recently had the privilege of reading Ober’s commentary on my article The Taiwan Conflict: Imperialism in Motion, and whilst doing so, noted some critical misunderstandings of my work which I believe would be productive to highlight. Firstly, there is a misunderstanding of the central topic of the article: imperialism, and what it […]

The following is the transcript of a talk delivered by Mila Volkova on behalf of Communist Unity at a Talking Reds forum in Melbourne on the 26th of June. Members of Trans-Feminists Unite and Radical Women also attended. Thank you for attending today comrades, I’ve really enjoyed hearing what comrades have to say, could I […]

Brunhilda Olding explains the class basis of Hansonism and discusses the various methods by which it can be fought. At the recent election for delegates to the founding congress of the Socialist Party, the Queensland Socialists party voted on a motion calling the party to “Oppose One Nation”. A similar motion is going to be […]

Ober “The Taiwan Conflict: Imperialism in Motion” presents itself as a rigorous Marxist analysis of the Taiwan question. In reality, it substitutes a vulgar economistic fatalism for Marxism and, in doing so, abandons nearly every major theoretical contribution of Leninism on imperialism. Its central thesis is simple: imperialism is capitalism in its contemporary form. Therefore, […]

Whats the problem with activism, anyway? For Amadeo Bordiga, activism represents “an illness in the workers movement”, which stems from the tendency to overestimate the subjective factors in the class struggle. The Australian left is today totally dominated by ‘activism’ of one form or another. We believe that the following text is a useful starting […]