The Sound of Solidarity

Michael Grewcock, a retired lecturer in criminal law and criminology, speaks on the history of capitalism, settler colonial law and the police in Australia.
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This talk was delivered at Resist and Rebel in Sydney on 23 August 2025.

Socialists from Britain and Greece draw on their experiences of fighting the rise of the far right. Judy Cox is a member of the Socialist Workers Party, which has played a central role in Stand Up to Racism counter-demonstrations against the far right in Britain. Petros Constantinou is a socialist and coordinator of the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (Keerfa), which helped smash the Nazi party Golden Dawn. Liz Grosshans gives an introduction about the relevance for Australia today.
 
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This Solidarity forum took place in Melbourne on 18 September 2025.
 

Liz Grosshans introduces the ideas of Alexandra Kollontai, a Russian revolutionary who argued that liberation for women was tied to the fight against capitalism. In a socialist society private domestic drudgery would be replaced by public services for all.
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This talk was given at the Resist and Rebel conference in Melbourne on 30 August 2025.

There have been waves of protest against the Prabowo government in Indonesia. Solidarity spoke to Indonesian socialists about the issues. Neysia is from the Socialist Youth Organization and Aldi represents the Perserikatan Sosialis or Socialist Union.
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This interview was recorded on 10 September 2025.

Chris Breen discusses why Anthony Albanese's recognition of a Palestinian state is a sham, why a "two-state" solution is an illusion and why one Palestinian state based on equality between the river and the sea is an urgent necessity.
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting in Sydney on 28 August 2025.

Julie Monteiro tells how students and workers turned France upside down, with student protests helping trigger a 10 million-strong general strike. She looks at how the ruling class was able to reestablish "order" and discusses the political lessons we can draw today.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Melbourne branch on 31 July 2025.

A Chinese student activist and Griffin Phillips explain how the revolution unfolded and draw lessons for the struggle today. For security reasons, the student's voice has been replaced. 
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This talk was delivered on 29 May 2025.

Solidarity editor James Supple looks at the agenda behind Trump's erratic behaviour and argues that to fight him, we need to take on the logic of the system he represents.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.

A Palestinian student activist from the West Bank and Chris Breen (Teachers & School Staff for Palestine and Solidarity) discuss the way forward for liberation.
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These talks were delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.

Karina Lester (Yankunytjatjara woman and anti-nuclear activist) is a descendant of Indigenous people who experienced nuclear testing in South Australia. She talks about the horror of that time and its consequences. Caitlin Doyle (Solidarity) argues why nuclear tensions are increasing and how we can resist today.
Apologies that the sound quality of this recording is poor but the content is great -- please stick with it!
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Buy Solidarity's anti-nuclear pamphlet, Atomic Ambitions.
These talks were delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

James Connolly was a socialist whose role in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin made him a key figure in Ireland’s national revolution.
 
But he was also a major theorist, one of the few socialists of his day to link working class struggles with the fight for national liberation. 
 
Paddy Gibson discusses the importance of a new book about him, The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898, by Conor McCabe.
 
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting on 1 May 2025.
 
 

Phil Griffiths looks back at how the Communist Party rebuilt a fighting union tradition in the 1930s and draws lessons from today, from both their successes and weaknesses.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

Dr Stephen Gapps has just published Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844. Here he is in conversation with Solidarity member Paddy Gibson.
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Buy a copy of Uprising.
This talk was recorded at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

Angus Dermody explains why the logic of capitalism is taking us to the brink of disaster and how we can challenge the system to fight back for the planet.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

Stalinism and Maoism continue to attract new supporters. To make sense of this, and to make the case for socialism from below, we talk to David Camfield, the author of a new book, Red Flags: A reckoning with communism for the future of the left.
Find out more about what's wrong with Stalinism.
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Buy a copy of Red Flags: A reckoning with communism for the future of the left.
Read Hal Draper's The Two Souls of Socialism.
Listen to David's podcast, Victor's Children.

James Supple analyses Israel's onslaught on Iran, how it fits with the aims of imperialism in the region and how mass revolt from below can stop the war.
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting on 19 June 2025.

The majority of European Jews looked to socialist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. David Glanz argues Zionism was a fringe movement for decades and can be challenged again.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.

Paddy Gibson speaks about a new edition of Tom O'Lincoln's book, Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, for which he has written the introduction.
Paddy describes how the book charts the CPA's strengths, but also how its Stalinist politics led to its decline. He draws lessons for revolutionaries today.
Copies of the book are on sale at Solidarity branch meetings or by contacting the publisher, Interventions.
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 15 May 2025.

Adam Adelpour looks at the 1905 revolution in Russia and argues that the development of democratic workers' councils, known in Russian as soviets, was critical to the workers' victory over capitalism in October 1917.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

Jordi Pardoel discusses the ideas we need to win the fight against capitalism and argues that Stalinism and Maoism are dead ends for the struggle.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.