The Sound of Solidarity

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.
Read more about fighting Bjelke-Petersen.
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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.
Read more about the Iraq War.
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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.

Ken Davis, a '78er who took part in the first Sydney Mardi Gras, and Jean Parker from Solidarity discuss the lessons from 1978, when the first Mardi Gras protest march demanding LGBTIQ+ liberation was violently attacked by police with 53 arrests and people severely beaten.
 
Mass defiance not only strengthened the fight against discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people but also triggered a campaign to drop the charges that won legal change and the right to march.
 
As we face new anti-protest laws today, Ken and Jean will explain what happened and the lessons for today.
 
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Sydney on 26 February 2026.

Robert Stainsby looks at a world in crisis and outlines the socialist solution in this talk introducing the politics of Solidarity.
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David Glanz discusses the resurgence of One Nation today and looks back to the 1990s, when mass protests and campaigning defeated Pauline Hanson and pushed One Nation back.
Read our pamphlet of fighting Hanson from 1996.
Read how One Nation was beaten.
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This talk was given in Melbourne on 5 February 2026.

Solidarity editor James Supple looks at Labor's continuing shift to the right and what it means for struggles today.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's annual conference on 31 January 2026.

Ian Rintoul looks at how Trump's break with the so-called "rules-based order" is reshaping imperialism today ... and making it ever more dangerous.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's conference on 31 January 2026.

Tom Fiebig explains how Donald Trump's kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife was a nakedly imperialist attack to assert US power in Latin America, push back Chinese influence and make the region a playground for US corporations.
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This talk was given in Melbourne on 15 January 2026.

Rouzbeh, an Iranian socialist, explains why mass dissent has erupted in Iran and how the majority on the streets are saying no to the Ayatollah and no to the Shah.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Sydney on 15 January 2026.

Professor Penny Green has recently returned from the West Bank. She describes the horror there.
Penny is a professor at Queen Mary University of London, the Director of the International State Crime Initiative and editor of the State Crime Journal. 
Read more about the West Bank.
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Find out more about the Gaza Tribunal.

Julie Monteiro explains the unfolding genocide in Sudan. She argues that today's horror is a result of the race by regional powers to grab Sudan's resources following the defeat of the 2019 revolution. 
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This talk was delivered in Melbourne on 20 November 2025.

David Glanz, an anti-Zionist Jew and Palestine solidarity activist, argues that the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the crimes of imperialism are root causes of the antisemitic massacre at Bondi beach. 
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 18 December 2025.

Liam McMullen discusses the failure of the COP30 climate talks despite the mounting evidence of global warming and climate change. He argues that the drive to profit means capitalism can't offer real solutions to the climate crisis.
Read more about fighting for climate action.
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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting on 4 December 2025.

Tara Burnett, former Greens candidate for Cooper and an AEU member, and Solidarity member Jasmine Ali discuss how Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York has generated hope. But they also warn that, since his election, Mamdani has started to soften some of his positions and draw conclusions for the struggle ahead.
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This talk was delivered in Melbourne on 27 November 2025.

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has recently released a report on anti-Palestinian racism in Australian schools. Zakaria Saleh, Wasim El-Haj and Chris Breen discuss the issues. Zak was a high school student in 2024 and is now studying at Western Sydney Uni. Wasim and Chris are both teachers. Chris is active in Teachers and School Staff for Palestine and a member of Solidarity.
Read the APAN report.
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Phil Griffiths, labour historian and Solidarity member, explains the forces at work behind the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government on 11 November 1975.
He describes how workers immediately walked out on strike, with a push to shut down the country until Whitlam was reinstated, and draws conclusions for our struggle today from the defeat.
Read more about Whitlam.
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Buy our pamphlet, written by Phil, on how workers fought the Dismissal.
This meeting was recorded at a Solidarity meeting on 13 November 2025.