Australia has seen two school walk-outs against the rightist Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party. Tomas A. reports. On August 13th this year, thousands of students took to the streets to protest against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation under the leadership of Socialist Alternative’s newest front organisation: High School Anti-Capitalists (HSAC). On September 17th, the […]

Papua New Guinea faces record droughts and forest fires, destabilising an already unstable and impoverished nation. Brunhilda Olding reports. The first spark of a long, sweltering summer El Niño seems to have landed on Lou Island in Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Archipelago. As of the 21st of October a horrendous bushfire has incinerated at least […]

The colossal Whyalla Steelworks is slated to close after decades in operation. Vasilis Vanco reports. With 500 employees and 200 embedded contractors in the line of fire and the extension of Whyalla Steelworks’ administration by KordaMentha, we must ask ourselves: how did we get here? How does a critical piece of infrastructure for Australian steel […]

Queensland’s new industrial relations bill should surprise no one, neither should the union response. The union movement lacks an organised, educated, and politicised membership and building it is the task socialists must take up. Jacklyn Scanlan reports. On 14 October, Deputy Premier and Industrial Relations Minister Jarrod Bleijie introduced the 182-page Industrial Relations and Other […]

The following manifesto was published as part of the call for an international strike of the youth and student movement on November 20th. Supporting organisations include the Sozialistisch-Demokratischer Studierendenverband (Socialist-Democratic Student Association), Links Jugend [solid’] (Left Youth [Solid]), Solidaires etudiante (Solidarity Youth), and student unions in France and Spain. Communist Unity has been invited to […]

The following is the third of a four part series by Mike Macnair, originally printed in the Weekly Worker in 2022. We are sharing the article for the benefit of our readers, in the context of Mike Macnair’s recent presentation on the topic at Crisis&Critique 2026, hosted by Communist Unity. Part I of this series […]

The following talk was delivered by Mila Volkova at Crisis&Critique 2025, the annual theoretical conference of Communist Unity. It has been edited for online publication. Actual feminist political consciousness, even of a liberal feminist bend, is extremely rare to find in Australia, including in our political movements and socialist organisations. Instead, a sort of “girl […]

David Passerine thinks that the International Communist League wants to have it both ways. The core thrust of the two Spartacist responses (here and here) to Comrade Volkova’s “Win battlers to our politics, don’t tail them” is that “open borders” should not be an immediate demand of the communist movement. Instead, they argue that a […]

Writing prior to the general elections in the Russian Federation, Michael Roberts gives a grim prognosis for the future of the Putin regime. Originally published at the Next Recession. Russia has elections to its parliament (Duma) starting today. This will also be the first legislative election in Russia to take place amid the ongoing war in […]

Students are striking against war and militarism, and the movement is spreading. Sylvia Steel reports. On the 25th of September, more than 45,000 high school students in over one hundred cities across Germany went on strike, for the fourth time in 10 months, to protest the potential reintroduction of conscription. The Military Service Modernisation Act […]

The following is the second of a four part series by Mike Macnair, originally printed in the Weekly Worker in 2022. We are sharing the article for the benefit of our readers, in the context of Mike Macnair’s recent presentation on the topic at Crisis&Critique 2026, hosted by Communist Unity. In the first part of […]

Responding to a letter by O. Dziga, Joey X. argues that communists cannot place the revolution in cultural life to one side. In his letter “Idealism or Liberation?”, O. Dziga criticises Volkova’s arguments as being fundamentally moralist, liberal, and idealist. Ironically, in criticising these trends, Dziga ends up reproducing a position which is fundamentally moral, […]