The following statement has been circulated by organisations in Australia, the Netherlands, and Poland. Other organisations wishing to sign on and participate in future discussions are welcome to email communistunityorg@proton.me. The workers and youth of Europe have once again demonstrated their tenacity and organisation against the grinding oppression of decaying housing owned by parasitic landlords; […]

The following statement has been circulated by organisations in Australia, the Netherlands, and Poland. Other organisations wishing to sign on and participate in future discussions are welcome to email communistunityorg@proton.me. We the undersigned organisations condemn in the strongest possible term the arrest and trial of Bogdan Syrotiuk by the Ukrainian government, and call for his […]

Originally published in Critique in 2006, Hillel Ticktin argues that contemporary capitalist society has produced unique conditions of ideological domination that must be overcome. It is presented, in a serialised form. Present-day Reality: Reasons for Being Non-political In the first place, the bourgeoisie has learned how to make real concessions, even if they were often […]

For our last issue of 2026, Edith Fischer reviews the year that was and tries to balance between pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. – Genesis […]

Writing at the Next Recession, Michael Roberts reports on the elections in Brazil, and the long term prospects of Latin America’s largest economy. Editors Note: In the time since this article was written, Lula has won a narrow victory in the presidential elections, but has inherited a legislative assembly dominated by the Right. The most […]

Emma Kingdon’s appointment completes a handover and shows the union movement is putting all its chips on Labor. Jacklyn Scanlan reports. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has named its former campaigns director, Emma Kingdon, as President, completing a leadership handover foreshadowed for the past year. The ACTU Executive announced the 38-year-old’s appointment on […]

Giacomo Corrado puts forward a sketch of a communist approach to tenant organisation. Note on definitions: a tenants association is a group of tenants, generally in the same building or development, that organises to collectively advocate against their landlord. A tenants union is a membership-based organisation that collectively organises across properties or regions. No other […]

Originally published in Critique in 2006, Hillel Ticktin argues that contemporary capitalist society has produced unique conditions of ideological domination that must be overcome. It is presented, in a serialised form, with an introduction by Edith Fischer. Hillel Ticktin is one of the unappreciated giants of the Marxist theory in the late 20th and early […]

The crisis in housing is a crisis of capitalist production, and the only way out is social revolution. The workers and youth of the Spanish State are showing the way, writes F. Vos. Europe has been engulfed in unrest this October. Worsening economic conditions stemming from a capitalist system in crisis has brought the working […]

We reprint below the presentation (slightly edited for publication) given by Gabriel Perrault from the International Communist League to a plenary session at Communist Unity’s Crisis and Critique conference held in late September. Hello comrades and thanks for inviting me today. I always appreciate my interactions with the comrades of Communist Unity and I’d like […]

The capitalist press is in an uproar about “sexual strangulation”, and some of our friends in the socialist movement have joined in. Mila Volkova takes issue. On the 25th of August, a young woman from the Northern Beaches died due to a seizure, which New South Wales police reported was caused by consensual sexual asphyxiation […]

Writing for the Next Recession, Michael Roberts reports on the sudden collapse of the Asian “artificial intelligence” industry. It seems that the Asian AI bubble has burst. It all started in South Korea with the KOSPI stock market index plunging over 8% on 15 October. That just added to a huge fall in the Korean […]