Sylvia Siebel, Brisbane Three weeks ago, the Queensland branch of the Socialist Party, officially known as the “Queensland Socialists” (QS or QSocs) announced their candidate for the Stafford by-election on the 16th of May, called following the sudden death of previous incumbent Labor-come-independent Jimmy Sullivan. Stafford-based Socialist Alternative member Liam Parry was preselected as the […]

This is the sixth part of our publication of George Caffentzis’ essay concerning the Oil Shock of 1973. The female service worker meets her complement in the computer programmer and technician in the energy crisis. For while the most archaic forms of exploitation are resurrected by the energy price rise, at the opposite pole there […]

What are the conditions of action for a new socialist party in Britain? Ewan Tilley, writing for State & Confusion, explores the international, electoral, and membership questions. Introduction The first article established the internal architecture of the organic party: the cell as the basic unit of political life, the section as the intermediate layer, congress […]

Clarrie Lewis from the NSW Socialists and member of the Bread & Roses Caucus, writing in a personal capacity, explores whether the electoral organisation offers new hope or a collision course of old sect tensions. Note: This article originally appeared in the Labor Tribune on February 2, 2026. It has been republished with the permission […]

Written by Edith Fischer, presented to the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, January 2026. The Exceptional Regime and the Capitalist State The transition from immature capitalism to mature capitalism, which was marked by a transition from liberal, competitive capitalism to monopoly capitalism, and the transition from formal subsumption to real subsumption of world-production, also […]

Today, the Rules-Based International Order has few friends and many enemies. It seems the system is in crisis. Rumman Afaq argues that we need a systemic alternative. The organizing principle of the world as it emerged out of the Second World War is the primacy of American hegemony. Unlike the old order dominated by European […]

Written by Edith Fischer and Brunhilda Olding, presented to the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, January 2026.

The following theses were written by Edith Fischer and presented to the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, January 2026.

The following perspectives document was adopted by the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, Melbourne, January 2026. We live in the epoch of the transition from global capitalism to global communism. However, nowhere is the working-class in a position to take power. This fact has produced and continues to produce all manner of combined forms, […]

What are the essential tasks of communists today? Ober weighs in. A Necessary Correction Comrade Fox Luces’ well-intentioned letter “Abolish it how?” makes a number of serious errors that require correction lest they lead themselves or others astray. These corrections are made in good faith, recognising the appeal of alternative forms of organisation and individualised […]

The following theses were adopted by the Central Committee of Communist Unity as part of the official relaunching of the organisation on May Day, 2026. We have been nothing; we shall be everything. Communism Lives! Real human history begins and society leaves behind the realm of necessity. In the realm of freedom people will become […]

A draft program for the Communist Party in Australia, adopted by the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, Melbourne, January 2026. With the unification of the entire earth into a single world market, the growth of enormous financial and industrial monopolies, the intensifying rivalry between imperialists, and the threat of global war and ecological crisis, […]