White trash, redneck, clay eater, cracker. This is only a partial list of all the sneering names developed over hundreds of years to stigmatize poor white people in the United… Read more »
Book Review
History provides invaluable lessons in how to stop fascism in its tracks
The Fight Against Fascism in the U.S.A., by James P Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Joseph Hansen, Leon Trotsky and Murry Weiss, Resistance Books (2004), ISBN 1876646179, 237 pages, $19.95. In January… Read more »
Arundhati Roy’s eloquent answer to the neoliberal spin doctors
Arundhati Roy came to prominence when her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the 1996 Booker Prize for literature. She has gone on to write several works of… Read more »
Uncharted Waters: Social Responsibility in Australian Trade Unions
A significant theoretical contribution by Marx is the idea that workers are alienated from the product of their labour. Workers produce things, but at the end of the day it… Read more »
Bob Brown: Not quite revolutionary
Bob Brown — environmental activist, turned Senator — has loomed large on the Australian political landscape for nearly three decades. In 1983, when the first issue of Outrage, a new… Read more »
Helen Keller: A Rebel Life
What do you know about Helen Keller? Most likely that she was blind and deaf and overcame huge obstacles to learn to communicate by working with a dedicated teacher, Anne… Read more »
Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation
My hometown, Guilford Connecticut, had one African American family. The only other family of colour was from Puerto Rico, brought in as cheap labour for Pinchbeck’s prosperous rose farm, just… Read more »
“Government cannot be allowed to buy its way out of the truth” – Black Lives, Government Lies reviewed
Australian Governments have a horrible history of systemic racism. But they didn’t try to hide it! They wrote it all down. Thanks to historian and activist, Ros Kidd, the shameful… Read more »
Review: Gays and Lesbians who changed immigration history
Last February, as part of the Mardi Gras Festival, the Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force (GLITF) launched its self-published official history, Lesbians and Gays Changed Australian Immigration History/Herstory. The… Read more »
In and Out of Port: Workers’ power in action!
April 7, 1998. A date which is burnt into the memories of countless activists from all around the world. The day that Patrick Stevedores, at Webb Dock Port Melbourne, locked… Read more »
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Kansas: a beacon for abortion rights
Even in a post-Dobbs world, crucial liberties like reproductive freedom can be defended through vigilance and militant organizing!
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Cuba: A Socialist Dream Deferred
Traces the ups and downs of the Cuban Revolution and the critical issue of rising capitalist influence. Analyzes the main actors in Cuban society today and discusses the path forward.