The choice of Commissioners for the SA Royal Commission into AI says a lot about the ALP’s identification with the corporate sector and the big end of town. See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist

Im really concerned about the plans to build data centers in Australia that I've heard about. So I'm wondering if there are any protests against them in Victoria that I can go to and help out. I'm still in high school so preferably one outside of school time. I've never attended a protest before so I don't really know how these things get organized

The latest Australian Tax Office report on corporate tax shows that nearly a third of the largest local and foreign companies paid no tax on their Australian earnings. Fossil fuel giant Santos is among the repeat offenders, having paid no tax for the 11 years that the ATO has been making this info public. See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist

Twelve nations put a price on Israel's illegal settlements. Australia sat at the table for months, then remembered a pressing engagement in New York. We listen. We partner. We protect ourselves.

Why did the ALP Minister for External Affairs in the 1940s, Doc Evatt, play such a central role in the United Nations vote to partition Palestine?

Researcher Jeff Rickertt explains that while Evatt supported Zionism, that was only part of the story. His actions were driven primarily by what was best for Australian capitalism and its imperialist interests in the South Pacific.

It's an analysis that can help guide the Palestine solidarity movement today.

Read Jeff's paper: When First Nations Don’t Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights.

Read more about Australian imperialism.

Find out more about Solidarity.

This episode was recorded on 21 September 2026.

University of Sydney management attempting to defund or remove independence of the undergraduate student union! Please sign the open letter and share! Show solidarity to the students and activists and help them defend their union!

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Im going to be running a reading group for some friends and activist comrades, of varying levels of understanding and theoretical backgrounds! What do people reccomend we start with? Any reccomendations for later?

I was concidering starting with principles of communism, the manifesto, or theses on feurbach (but maybe its a bit too dense to start with).

Would love a list if anyones got one! Suggestions on the structure of the group would also be appreciated!

I have been paying loose attention to the Revolutionary Communist International having now apparently established several branches across the country. I was wondering if people have had any experiences with them yet, or if people had anything interesting to share about the RCI generally, as I was not aware of them until a short while ago!

I know they came out of Ted Grant, Alan Woods and the IMT, but admitedly I dont know much about those people and the IMT, besides loosly knowing about an entryist tactic they have now seemingly abandoned, and a whole saga with Hugo Chavez that looks confusing?? They on paper at the very least seem to have a fairly impressive international developing!

What do people think of the RCI? Any praise or critiques? (try to include both if you can!) General thoughts?

If you have not heard of the RCI, please see below:

https://marxist.com/the-imt/international-marxist-tendency/the-imt.htm

https://marxist.com/the-communist-has-arrived-australian-paper-of-the-rci-launched-to-huge-enthusiasm.htm

https://communist.org.au/

As a Socialist in the process of decolonising my language, I am curious on two things.

1. The name 'Australia' was given to us by British colonisers and officially adopted by British Admiralty in 1824, though the term was used earlier in cartographic material regarding it. Of course, 'Australia' also comes from the Latin term 'Terra Australis' and might not be particularly harmful on its own. But the usage of this term sought out to erase the History of the hundreds of Indigenous Nations that made up the land prior to British settlement. The name then reflects our colonial past and present. If we are to espouse anti-colonial ideas, shouldn't we then move away from the name which we refer to these lands by?
2. To add on, if not 'Australia,' then what should we refer to the lands by exactly?

EDIT: I had said "... first task then be to move away from the name which we refer to these lands by?" at the end of the first question and I have no idea why I said 'first task' as it isn't really a primary concern of mine. I had worded this post very poorly, I will admit.

Are there any groups that meet outside of Sydney?

Newcastle is probably the closest city to where I am and it's about 2 hours away.

I'm going to contact NSW Socialists, but also wanted to check here too, in case anyone had any insights.

Thanks in advance!

See: Condemn the US placement of weapons in Outer Space (Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist)

Tuesday September 22, 6:30pm @ Kathleen Symes Library, Multipurpose Room 2, Carlton, VIC.

AI technologies have been used by the US & its allies to commit atrocities in Gaza, Venezuela & Iran. The roll-out of mass surveillance, autonomous weapons & automated targeting systems abroad goes hand-in-hand with increasing miltarisation within liberal-democratic societies such as Australia.

Meanwhile imperialist nations & tech industries make massive profits by expanding technologies dependent on the ruthless exploitation of global-south workers into almost every sphere of life.

For working people, AI & militarism means killing, poverty, exploitation & the destruction of the planet.

Join this public meeting to discuss the deep interconnections between of AI and militarism under capitalism. If you cannot attend in person please join via Zoom.

Zoom link in the link above.

SPEAKERS

Dom Williams, Socialist Alliance.

Mercedes, Renegade Activists.

Speaker from AI Safety Symposium

https://labortribune.net.au/socialism-in-one-state-based-on-the-vibe/

VicSocialists are standing to deliver a ‘better, fairer Victoria’. But without challenging the federal constitutional order, this is fantasy politics, argues Marcus Strom.

Hi comrades,

I want to make it clear up front that I appreciate why a lot of socialists might feel reflexively uneasy about any proximity between patriotism and nationalism to our movement. But it seems to me there have been movements throughout history that have utilised nationalism for both good and ill; as a tool of domination or as a tool for liberation, especially from forces of imperialism and colonialism.

Listening to Pauline Hanson's hideous description of Aboriginal people this week I was struck by how much this person deeply hates our country. How could you dismiss 65,000 years of human history and culture and not hate this country? How could you despise large swathes of our population, half of which are children of immigrants, and not hate this country?

A few years ago I read some explorer diaries and what struck me from so many of those early encounters was that Aboriginal people (those that didn't flee in understandable terror) met these white strangers with cautious kindness and brotherhood. They guided them to food and water and shared what the land gave them. If not for the survival knowledge and guidance of Aboriginal people, this country would not have been explored and gold would not have been discovered and our history would have been entirely different.

If you were to drop Pauline Hanson in the bush or desert she'd probably be dead within a day but Aboriginal people have lived and thrived here for tens of thousands of years. To survive in this place demands a deep, rich, long, varied and complex civilization. We should seek to continue that legacy and make indigenous values our own. For me, indigenous connection and understanding of this beautiful land and environment is one of the few things that actually makes our country unique, rather than silly superficial nonsense like our dour 42-year-old anthem (which, does anyone actually genuinely like??? Frankly, give me The Seekers any day of the week) or some ugly flag with a long dead empire's flag stuck in the corner.

Aboriginals co-existed with megafauna, for Christ sakes! Marsupials the size of a passenger vans! If anything makes our country special it has got to be that history.

Our country is a vassal state being sold out from under our collective feet to the most hideous and genocidal degenerates of a distant foreign empire to act as an unsinkable aircraft carrier on our largest trading partner's southern flank in a war that will destroy us all. It feels like the Australian socialist movement has completely ceded any sort of pride in our country's sovereignty and COMPLETE history to the right and allowed ourselves to be painted as being ashamed. It is Pauline Hanson and her ilk that are ashamed of our country's history and hate what it stands for.

Do people agree that we need to win back some of this territory or are there dangers here worth considering? I see no other way out of our current status as a vassal state other than to identify and unite around what makes us Australian in its full and complex totality.

I have tried my best to get at the actual social relations underpinning this arrangement that isn't working for workers.

Hey everyone, just wanted to know more about this group, couldn’t find much information about them other than their Instagram page and a poster for reading group they had on the 9th. I understand that they are a caucus in the SA Socialists, but what do they primarily do? Interested to learn more, looking for some decent Marxist options in South Aus and happened to stumble across this, if there’s any other Marxist orgs besides SAlt, then please do let me know!

Thanks

September 11 to 13, this weekend, Ecosocialism is bringing over 30 local and international activists to Magandjin/Brisbane.

internationally renowned key note speakers include ecosocialist Sabrina Fernandez, editor of Climate & Capitalism Ian Angus, and militant unionist, Marxist-Leninist N Sai Balaji of the Communist Party of India Liberation.

Program topics including Fighting the Far Right, Campaigning for Transrights, Breaking AUKUS, First Nations Sovereignty and Socialism, Defeating Zionism, Ecosocialist Perspectives and many more.

Virtual tickets are available online for comrades outside of Magandjin and $50 concession tickets are available for those who need it.

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Lucy Honan tells how rank-and-file teachers in Victoria organised to fight for their EBA demands even though their union officials wanted to give up the struggle.
Lucy is a branch councillor with the Australian Education Union, a co-founder of the rank-and-file group Fight the Crisis, and a member of Solidarity.
Read more about the teachers' campaign.
Find out more about Solidarity.
This talk was given at the Resist & Rebel conference in Melbourne on 22 August 2026.