The following statement has been circulated by the all-Brisbane Steering Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation in opposition to police repression, 2026. Less than a month ago, we argued that “‘social cohesion’ is the battle cry of the capitalists as they unleash hate speech laws to cripple anti-imperialist solidarity with Palestine.” The recent arrest of […]

The following statement was circulated by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation in light of the escalation of the war against Iran. As the skies of Iran are filled with the billowing plumes of oil smoke, the ghouls of capital claim that they are unleashing this brutal war in the name of ‘democracy, […]

The following article was originally posted on the Next Recession blog. – Edith Fischer, Editor Professor David Harvey is a highly influential Marxist geographer and economic theorist whose work spans several decades. He is the author of many important books over the decades analysing capitalism and its ever-changing features and contours. Although having turned 90 […]

The following is the first in a three part series reprinting the classic pamphlet by V.I. Lenin, usually printed under the title Socialism and War. Written in 1915, this text was Lenin’s attempt to assert the defeatist line of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party in the context of the imperialist massacre of the Great War, […]

Antonio Garcia provides a Marxist perspective and programmatic response on AI. This is Part 2 of 2. You can read Part 1 here. Marxism: Against Reaction, Activism, and Moralism The Activist Assertions We now shift our gaze to the tactics employed by the anti-AI left. As I mentioned before, the majority of anti-AI ‘organising’ takes […]

Antonio Garcia provides a Marxist perspective and programmatic response on AI. This is Part 1 of 2. You can read Part 2 here. The Presence of the Question Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an unavoidable question in recent years. Ever since the first surreal scribbles of Crayon appeared on our screens, the technology and its […]

The following is the first part of a republication of an essay by George Caffentzis in 1980 in the communist Midnight Notes journal. It concerns the 1973 Energy Crisis which precipitated a decade-long recession that threatened capital accumulation in general. Caffentzis emphasises that beneath the crisis in energy lies a general crisis in capitalist production […]

Talk of civil war has been part of the American political landscape for more than a decade. Is it finally on the horizon? Cassie Barnes weighs in. For more than a decade now, there has been talk of a “second” American civil war. It has become almost too easy to declare that it’s just around […]

The following article has been reprinted from Ewan Tilley’s blog, State & Confusion. In printing it, we hope to stimulate further debate around the process by which a revolutionary party comes into existence, and the origins of the revolutionary program. The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed […]

We publish below a statement from the Marxist Unity Group (MUG) on the recent conviction of the Prairieland 9. Partisan! opposes all political persecution, and fights for the freedom of all political prisoners. Last week, a federal jury found nine protestors guilty of various charges in connection with a July 4th noise demonstration outside of […]