The Sound of Solidarity
A podcast series brought to you by Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist group in Australia. www.solidarity.net.au
Podcast Description
A podcast series brought to you by Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist group in Australia. www.solidarity.net.au
Episodes
Jul 26, 2024
Why it's not antisemitic to criticise Israel
Jul 26, 2024
Jul 26, 2024
18 min
Defenders of Israel cannot justify the slaughter in Gaza so they resort to smearing supporters of the Palestinians as antisemitic. Tami Gadir, a Solidarity member and anti-Zionist Jew, takes apart their arguments and shows how fighting for Palestine and fighting antisemitism go hand in hand.
Read more about Zionism.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Jul 19, 2024
A history of revolution in the Middle East
Jul 19, 2024
Jul 19, 2024
28 min
Erima Dall talks about the waves of revolutionary struggle that have rocked the Middle East and points to the importance of rebuilding the socialist tradition of struggle from below.
This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 30 March.
Read more about imperialism and resistance in the Middle East.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Jul 12, 2024
Trump, Trumpism and the crisis of US politics
Jul 12, 2024
Jul 12, 2024
24 min
Sophie Cotton explains how growing inequality and racism in the US, together with the failures of the pro-big business, pro-Israel Democrats, is opening the door for another Trump presidency. The response by working class people and students has to be struggle in the workplaces and the streets.
Further reading:
How does Trump survive?
California workers strike for Palestine
US workers begin to flex some industrial muscle
More about Solidarity
Jul 5, 2024
Imperialism and Ukraine: has the US lost?
Jul 5, 2024
Jul 5, 2024
25 min
Adam Adelpour looks at how inter-imperialist rivalry has turned Ukraine into a bloody quagmire and points a way forward based on workers on both sides rejecting their rulers' war.
Read more on Ukraine.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
21 min
Chris Breen looks at the failure of international talks to halt global warming, why capitalism can't solve the problem it's caused and how ordinary people can organise and win against fossil fuels.
Read more on fighting climate change.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Jun 21, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
29 min
Rosa Luxemburg was one of the giants of the socialist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. She argued for revolution against reformism and celebrated the power of the mass strike. But, as Caitlin Doyle outlines, she failed to understand the need for independent revolutionary organisation, with terrible consequences.
Read about Rosa Luxemburg.
Find out about Solidarity.
Jun 14, 2024
Kanaky rises against colonialism
Jun 14, 2024
Jun 14, 2024
25 min
The Kanak, the Indigenous people of Kanaky-New Caledonia, have risen up against their French colonial masters. Paddy Gibson explains why we should draw inspiration from their resistance and build solidarity across the Pacific with all struggles for liberation.
Read more about the Kanak struggle.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Jun 7, 2024
The Radical Jewish Tradition
Jun 7, 2024
Jun 7, 2024
47 min
The Radical Jewish Tradition is an important new book that debunks the claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere.
Solidarity hosted a book launch that heard from the two co-authors, both anti-Zionist Jews: Donny Gluckstein in Scotland and Janey Stone in Melbourne.
Solidarity member and anti-Zionist Jew, Tami Gadir, was the final speaker.
In Australia, the book is available from Interventions, elsewhere from Bookmarks.
Read more on the fight against Zionism.
Find out more about Solidarity.
May 31, 2024
May 31, 2024
22 min
Labor has a shocking record on so many issues. Solidarity editor James Supple looks at why Labor fails and the kind of alternative we need.
Read Solidarity articles on Labor.
Find out more about Solidarity.
May 24, 2024
How capitalism breeds war
May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024
29 min
Jason Wong looks at the contradictions within capitalism that make war a central feature of the system. He argues that workers have the interest and the power to end the slaughter.
Read Solidarity articles about war.
Find out more about Solidarity.
May 17, 2024
Israel: is Zionism in crisis?
May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024
32 min
Israel is a pariah state, stripped of legitimacy in the eyes of billions around the world. Anti-Zionist Jews are mobilising in record numbers to say, not in my name. So can Israel survive? David Glanz discusses the issues.
Read Solidarity articles about Israel.
Find out more about Solidarity.
May 10, 2024
Is international revolution possible?
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024
22 min
How can ordinary people fight for real change when our rulers seem so powerful? Cooper Forsyth argues that workers everywhere have the power to spread struggles around the world and win.
Read more about revolution.
Read more about Solidarity.
May 3, 2024
May 3, 2024
27 min
Phil Griffiths challenges the ruling class propaganda about China and argues that it is imperialist rivalry that is making the region less safe and threatening war.
Read Solidarity's articles on China.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Apr 26, 2024
Alienation and the misery of capitalism
Apr 26, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
21 min
Lucy Honan explains what Marxists mean by alienation and how its impact shapes our lives – and how we can retake control through collective struggle.
Apr 19, 2024
Palestine, resistance and revolution
Apr 19, 2024
Apr 19, 2024
24 min
Lebanese socialist Simon Assaf outlines how the crimes of the Israeli state are fostering anger and resistance across the region, creating a new opportunity for revolutionary change.
Read Solidarity's coverage of the fight for a free Palestine.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Apr 12, 2024
Theories of settler colonialism
Apr 12, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
35 min
Australia is a settler colonial state. Israel is, too. But what does that mean for the struggle for Indigenous rights in Australia and liberation for Palestine? Paddy Gibson unbundles the theory.
Read Solidarity's coverage of the fight against racism.
Find out more about Solidarity.
Apr 5, 2024
Eyewitness from Gaza
Apr 5, 2024
Apr 5, 2024
19 min
Sameh Nasser, who escaped Gaza in December and who has lost 16 family members to Israeli terror, addressed Solidarity's Keep Left conference. David Glanz provided an introduction.
Read all Solidarity's coverage of the Palestine crisis here.
Find out more about Solidarity and get involved.
Mar 29, 2024
Capitalism and anti-Aboriginal racism
Mar 29, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
26 min
This talk by Paddy Gibson outlines the importance of anti-Aboriginal racism to the ruling class in Australia. Paddy explores the ways that the so-called "Aboriginal problem" has posed challenges for Australian capitalism and the way Aboriginal resistance continues to threaten the system.
Recorded at a Solidarity meeting in April 2016, this podcast is dedicated to the memory of Arrente and Alyawarr Elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, who famously asserted, "Don't try and suppress me. I am not the problem. I have never left my Country, nor have I ever ceded any part of it."
Mar 22, 2024
How teachers are organising for Palestine
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024
36 min
Teachers and School Staff for Palestine has organised some inspiring actions, despite hostile media coverage and attempts at suppression by Labor state education ministers and their departments. We talk to Lucy Honan, an experienced teacher and long-time member of the Australian Education Union. She’s also a member of Solidarity.
Mar 15, 2024
Mar 15, 2024
22 min
Paddy Gibson gives an introduction to Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism. He includes basic explanations of the concept of alienation, surplus value, the centralisation and concentration of capital and what we mean by workers' power and socialist revolution. This talk was given to a Solidarity student club meeting at Sydney University in August 2014.
Find out more about Solidarity
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Responsibility for election comment is taken by James Supple, 410 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010.









