Neither Israel, Nor Palestine: No War but the Class War

Déjà vu? We have been here before. Precisely three times before, since Hamas seized control of Gaza 15 years ago. The pattern is always the same. Israel makes yet another move to create “facts on the ground” such as the planned eviction of Palestinians from parts of East Jerusalem. Then Hamas fires off all the […]

Prisons and Police Brutality: Last Line in the Defence of Exploitation and Oppression

(The following piece of writing contains the names of people who have died at the hands of the bourgeois state) The role that law enforcement plays around the world is not simply one of preventing crime or ensuring the safety, health and belongings of all members of society as some common views, definitions and media […]

Solidarity with Firefighters, Paramedics, and Hospital Workers!

(The following has been written for adaptation as an agitational flyer at a South Australian protest rally for Firefighters and Paramedics on 1 April 2021) The Situation While the South Australian Marshall government announces the building of a new $700 million indoor stadium and just recently provided an additional $93.2 million in funding for the […]

8 Historical Working Women Moments for 8 March

(The following was written in collaboration with comrades sympathetic and affiliated to the ICT) For what was once International Working Women’s Day, before it became International Women’s Day upon being co-opted by the UN and its corporate sponsors, we have written on 8 struggles throughout history in which working women played a vital and influential […]

NYC Produce Workers’ Strike: Capitalism’s Treatment of its “Essential Workers”

(We recently helped our North American comrades in Klasbatalo and the Internationalist Workers’ Group write this article about a produce workers’ strike in New York City. It was originally published on Leftcom.org on 3 February, 2021 and is also available in Italian) 1. Unity for who? Since the beginning of this pandemic, around the globe, […]

New Year, Same Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has left the entire working class living with a new level of uncertainty. There have now been cases reported on every continent after researchers and military personnel on Antarctica recently reported their first cases. As of 29 December 2020, there have been over 81.2 million COVID-19 cases and 1.77 million deaths. The […]

The First World War and the Christmas Truce

In capitalist society, human needs are not decided on before commodities are made. Profits are the driving force behind production and needs are manufactured by what has already been produced then being shoved down our throats through advertising. Christmas is just one of several occasions throughout the year where people are encouraged to blow money […]

Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 2)

(This is the second installment in a series of articles that we have written with the Internationalist Workers’ Group in the United States) In our first part on reproductive struggles in class society, we highlighted some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception. We also commented on the family unit and prostitution – two phenomena […]

On An Island Watch House Bed, A Black Man’s Lying Dead

We are publishing this article to commemorate last year’s shooting in Yuendumu, shortly before the 5th year anniversary of the Sydney Long Bay Jail Killing, and for the 16th anniversary of the Palm Island Riots. Its content is largely reflective of these events and other deaths in custody. We wish to advise Indigenous readers that […]

A Quick Glimpse at the Current State of the Pandemic in Oceania

The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the world, infecting tens of millions, killing over a million so far and leaving many survivors with recurring or permanent health conditions. The region of Oceania has had tens of thousands of virus cases and around a thousand deaths. However, it has been hit even harder in the form of […]