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Election 2025: What way for the working class? Australia’s federal election has been called for May 3rd, 2025. Every election is a competition for power, though the Left is split on what orientation we should take to them. Edith Fischer analyse…

Every election is a competition for power, though the Left is split on what orientation we should take to them. Edith Fischer analyses the electoral parties at play and makes the call to vote socialist in this upcoming federal election.
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After the rally on May 5th join us to discuss the way forward for The Labor Movement and The Socialist Movement

Open Letter on a Socialist Electoral Front in Queensland 1977 election results for the Socialist Workers Party (AU). Photo: Direct Action/September 22 1977 We address this letter to all socialists and communists in Queensland, including the Queensland-ba…

We address this letter to all socialists and communists in Queensland, including the Queensland-based branches of Socialist Alternative, Socialist Alliance, and the Communist Party of Australia.

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Communist unity talks in UK promising For our comrades in the UK we hope that their unification progress can prove successful and that they carry forward the fight for a communist party with renewed vigour!

Unity talks have been raised amongst several Marxist organisations in the UK. Ruben Sol reports.

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The Socialist Left needs unity This is a rat race with no end as the bourgeois capitalist class point and laugh or worse, completely ignore us. We embarrass ourselves in front of working Australians, confirm the stereotypes impo…

Alyssa argues that the organised Socialist Left in Australia needs to unite to mature out of its unserious sectarianism which repels the working class.

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Liberation for First Nations can only be achieved through communist revolution!

From dust to dust: A history of the BLF, and the fight for Green Bans The NSW branch of the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) was the most militant union in Australian labour history. Under disciplined rank-and-file leadership, they gained widespread popular suppor…

The NSW branch of the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) was the most militant union in Australian labour history, and gained popular support for their boycott of harmful projects. Brunhilda Olding recounts the background behind the BLF’s rise and fall.

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CC Open Letter: Assad Has Fallen! The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation outlines its perspective on the recent capture of the Syrian state by the Opposition led by Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The CC states tha…

The Central Committee of the RCO has released an open letter analysing the seizure of power in Syria by the Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led Opposition, arguing that this is not an end to the Civil War and that the liberation of Syria can only be won by workers.

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LETTER: Deny, Defend, Depose? Healthcare, Assassinations, and Workers’ Power Michael Ruhl, Brisbane The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was immediately met with praise and jubilation the world over. Bullet casings left behind were engraved with the word…

Michael Ruhl critiques the Left's response to the alleged assassination of a healthcare CEO by Luigi Mangione.

Ruhl claims that this attack has done nothing to alleviate the U.S. healthcare crisis, and that industrial organising is the only way forward.

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LETTER: “People’s Blockade” is no Blockade at all – so why should we go anyway? Max J, Newcastle Rising Tide is an up and coming ‘civil disobedience’ activist group which hosts the “People’s Blockade”, an activist festival which involves rafts and…

In their most recent letter, Max J explains the necessity of communist involvement in protest events like Rising Tide; it is to draw potential comrades away from opportunist radical liberal projects such as the Greens, and towards communist politics.

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The Capitalist Law of Conservation of Gendered Oppression Cassie Barnes explains how the wins of the queer and women’s movements in the Global North have come at the expense of intensifying patriarchal rule in the Global South; arguing that feminism…

Cassie Barnes explains how the wins of the queer and women’s movements in the Global North have come at the expense of intensifying patriarchal rule in the Global South; arguing that feminism must be revolutionary, proletarian, and universal.

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The Soil and the Worker The Editorial Board of Partisan introduce Partisan 5: On Fire. Worker of the Soil, John Edward Costigan, 1932. In 1875, the Social Democratic Party of Germany began their founding program by statin…

Presenting the editorial piece for "Partisan 5: On Fire": "The Soil and the Worker". In this article, the editors of the Partisan set the scene for the theme of the issue, that of environmental degradation by Capital, and the liberal responses to it.

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Announcing the release of our fifth issue: "Partisan 5: On Fire". This issue critiques capital and environmental degradation, as well as the liberal environmental movement (including the Greens!).

You can find a downloadable PDF copy of the issue below:

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Solidarity with striking Woolworths workers! The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation declares its solidarity with the ongoing United Workers Union strike at Woolworths distribution centres. Woolworths workers picketi…

The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation declares its solidarity with the ongoing United Workers Union strike at Woolworths distribution centres, calling on comrades to ensure the strike's success.

You can read the open letter below:

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What about the Greens? Michael Ruhl explores the class composition and history of the Australian Greens, and explains why they are not a viable way forward for the Left. Greens party leader Adam Bandt at a campaign event…

Michael Ruhl explores the class composition and history of the Australian Greens, and explains why they are not a viable way forward for the Left.

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Sometime the Wolf: Theses on the 2024 US Elections Edith Fischer presents her key takeaways on what the 2024 US elections show about the class dynamics at play (and not at play) in the United States today. Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya…

Edith Fischer presents her key takeaways on what the 2024 US elections show about the class dynamics at play (and not at play) in the United States today.

In her article "Sometime the Wolf", she explains what "Bidenism" was, and what it may be giving way to.

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SAlt Derangement Syndrome and the People Who Have It Socialist Alternative (SAlt) have no shortage of critics both outside of, and inside the left. Max J rejects some of the more popular criticisms of SAlt whilst providing their own. Left: Socialist …

Socialist Alternative (SAlt) have no shortage of critics both outside of, and inside the left. Max J rejects some of the more popular criticisms of SAlt whilst providing their own.

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Introducing: Partisan Magazine The Partisan Editorial Team introduce the first issue of the magazine. The Revolutionary Communist Organisation’s (RCO) second General Conference took place in Brisbane on the weekend of the 6th to…

Announcing the launch of the website of Partisan! Partisan is the official publication of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation (RCO), and we endevaour to become a platform of open critique and debate among the socialist Left.

Our introductory article:

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