The Sound of Solidarity

Sophie Cotton (NTEU) and Matt Maher (NSWTF) draw on their experience at the University of Sydney and as a teacher about how to be an effective revolutionary at work.
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This session was recorded at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 5 April 2026.

Lisa Natividad (Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice) describes the impact of US bases on Guam/Guåhan and tells how the CHamoru people are fighting for independence and an end to militarism. Maeve Larkins (Solidarity) puts that struggle in the broader picture of imperialist rivalry in the Pacific.
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This episode was recorded at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 5 April 2026.

Paddy Gibson explains why the strategy of the united front is central to successful resistance to the right and to revolutionaries increasing their influence.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's conference in Sydney on 1 February 2026.

David Glanz discusses the long history of Australian racism behind Pauline Hanson's argument for a monoculture and argues we should look to the proud record of working class unity in struggle across ethnic divides.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 2 July 2026.

Ian Rintoul looks at how climate change, increasing droughts and rivalry between nation states intersect and argues that dealing with the crisis will mean overcoming the capitalism system.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 5 April 2026.

Teacher and AEU member Jonathan Sherlock tells how Teachers and School Staff for Palestine was built in Victoria, winning official union backing, mobilising hundreds of teachers on Palestine rallies and laying the basis for a rank-and-file network, Fight the Crisis.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 11 June 2026.

Paddy Gibson explains the function of the police in keeping down workers and the oppressed and argues that a fight to abolish the police is part of the fight to overthrow capitalism.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Sydney on 26 March 2026.

The fight against genocide in Gaza and the West Bank has brought millions on to the streets. But how can we turn the movement into one that opposes all imperialist wars? Julie Monteiro looks back to the movement against the Vietnam War for inspiration.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity branch meeting in Melbourne on 21 May 2026.

Mililma May (Dangglaba Kulumbringin Tiwi organiser) describes the ongoing crisis of police and state repression against Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. Luke Ottavi (Solidarity) introduces the session.
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These talks were delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 4 April 2026.

Erima Dall explains the developments in AI and the threats they pose. She argues that workers need to fight to bring AI under our control.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 5 April 2026.

Geraldine Fela, author of the award-winning book Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis, talks about the role that health workers and patients play in the battle for bodily autonomy and dignity in the health system.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 4 April 2026.

Madison Lee outlines how Western imperialism has made continual efforts to control Iran but has been confronted with revolt and revolution, from the constitutional revolution of 1905 to the 1979 revolution and the recent waves of protest against the Islamic regime.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 30 April 2026.

The left internationally has generally supported the right of small nations to national independence. Should that also apply to Taiwan in any conflict with China? Griffin Philips introduces the politics of “One China” and “Taiwanese independence” and discusses their impact on the class struggle in Taiwan and globally.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 5 April 2026.

US socialist and long-time campaigner for migrant rights, Victor Fernandez, tells how mass organising has pushed back ICE and laid the basis for a working class fightback against Trump.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 4 April 2026.

Professor Clinton Fernandes is in the Future Operations Research Group at UNSW. His latest book is Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era. In this episode he discusses the US-Israel war on Iran.
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Judy McVey describes the building of a movement in 1970s Queensland that beat back the banning of street marches by the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government. She draws out the lessons for the Palestine movement today.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 19 March 2026.

David Glanz looks at why the US and Australia invaded Iraq in 2003, how it blew up in their faces and how anti-war activists responded to the crisis. He draws lessons for opposing war today.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 26 March 2026. The background noise in the first half of the talk was caused by an exceptionally heavy rain burst. Blame global warming.

Liz Grosshans explains how the Stalinist politics of the German communist party -- and the reformism of the German socialist party -- allowed Hitler to come to power over the strongest working class in the world. She draws out lessons for today, including the need to build a united front between revolutionaries and reformists against the far right.
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity branch meeting in Melbourne on 23 October 2025.

Riley Hogan explains Labor's deep commitment to US imperialism and its watchdog in the Middle East, Israel.
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This talk was given in Melbourne on 19 February 2026.

Liam McMullen explains the imperialist pressures that are driving the US and Israel, backed by countries including Australia, to bomb Iran. He criticises the "campist" idea that to oppose the US we need to back the Tehran regime and argues that revolt from below is the hope for the region.
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This talk was given at the Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 12 March 2026.