The Sound of Solidarity

Emeritus Professor Judith Brett has spent much of her academic career writing about the Liberal Party. She argues that the Liberals face an existentialist crisis but that Labor is failing to take advantage of the moment.
Judith's books include Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, published in 1992, and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class, from 2003. Her most recent book, published last year, was on the Australian feminist, Beatrice Faust.
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Dr Sara Cheikh-Husain discusses her research into Islamophobia in Australia and argues that it cannot be understood separately from the imperialist agenda of the West and the attempt to silence the voices of Palestinians and their supporters.
She is the author of an upcoming book, The politics of anti-Islamophobia in Australia: The case of the Muslim community organisations. 
Read Sara's article in Overland.
Find out about her book. Academic books are, unfortunately, very expensive. Ask your library to order it.
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David Glanz discusses the fragile nature of the ceasefire and why it brings no respite, let alone peace, for Palestinian people. He looks at why Israel agreed to the ceasefire and how the movement here and overseas should respond.
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 30 October 2025.

Lucia Pradella and Fabio Santoro discuss the 3 October general strike in Italy for Palestine. Adam Adelpour gives an introduction to the meeting. The summing up by Lucia and Fabio that followed question time is included.
 
Lucia is an Italian scholar of political economy, Marxist theory and labour movements who helps coordinate University and College Workers for Palestine in Britain. Fabio is with the SI COBAS trade union.
 
This national Solidarity meeting took place on 16 October 2025.
 
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Casey Forsyth looks at the dynamic driving colonial settlement on this continent and draws lessons for the struggle for Indigenous rights and in solidarity with Palestine.
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This talk was delivered at the Resist and Rebel conference in Melbourne on 30 August 2025.

Victor Fernandez, an LA-based activist and member of Solidarity's US sister group, Marx21, talks about Trump's racist ICE raids and the growing resistance to them.
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This talk was given at the Resist and Rebel conference in Sydney on 23 August 2025.

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.
 
Read more about fighting racism and fascism.
 
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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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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.