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Red Flag is the publication of Socialist Alternative.

We're a revolutionary Marxist group based in Australia. We organise activism, public forums, and study groups. Our aim is to help rebuild a revolutionary movement in Australia, to do our bit in the worldwide fight against capitalism.

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Jacinta Price is Australia’s leading far-right activist

Sarah Garnham

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could well become as synonymous with the far right as Pauline Hanson.

Andrews saved lives, but was no socialist

Everybody knows the reef is dying

Marcia Langton is correct: the No campaign is racist and stupid

The revolt in Iran, one year on

Why the left should vote Yes in the referendum

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

The descent into COVID denialism

Diane Fieldes

The World Health Organization declared on 5 May that the public health emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

Australia

Refugee women walk for freedom

Renee Nayef

Refugee women desperate for visas are walking 650km from the office of Immigration Minister Andrew Giles in Melbourne to Parliament House in Canberra.

Debate, comment and reviews

'How to blow up a pipeline' review: The courage and futility of sabotage

Cormac Mills Ritchard

If eight people could build two bombs with $700 worth of material and destabilise the global oil market, “What does that say about the tactics currently being employed in the climate movement?” Quoted in an interview with Vulture, this is the premise of Daniel Goldhaber’s environmentalist thriller How To Blow Up a Pipeline.

Gender and sexuality

Westmead Children’s Hospital publishes anti-trans research

Emma Terry

Recent research published by Sydney’s Westmead Children’s Hospital is being weaponised by anti-trans activists to argue against the use of gender affirming medical care for trans youth.

History

Weavers of Revolution: the story of a Chilean textile mill

Jack Mansell

In the preface to his History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky wrote that the “most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historical events”.

Introduction to socialism

Lenin’s struggle for an anti-imperialist Marxism

Mick Armstrong

August 1914 was a decisive turning point for the world socialist movement.

Marxist theory

Lenin’s struggle for an anti-imperialist Marxism

Mick Armstrong

August 1914 was a decisive turning point for the world socialist movement.

Oppression and liberation

Socialists and the fight for Indigenous rights

Jordan Humphreys

One of the goals of my new book Indigenous Liberation & Socialism is to highlight the often ignored story of how, throughout the history of this country, the struggles of Indigenous people have overlapped with the socialist movement.

Racism

Refugee women walk for freedom

Renee Nayef

Refugee women desperate for visas are walking 650km from the office of Immigration Minister Andrew Giles in Melbourne to Parliament House in Canberra.

Revolts and uprisings

The revolt in Iran, one year on

Bella Beiraghi

The murder of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police last September sparked the largest revolt in Iran since the 1979 revolution.