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25.01.2022 Solidarity with staff at Murdoch uni! We encourage staff to vote no this Friday in the proposed variation to the enterprise agreement. Staff shouldn't have to face pay cuts. This will do nothing to protect jobs. Instead it aims to blackmail staff into supporting the undermining of their pay and conditions.

25.01.2022 Thanks to the over 160 people who joined us for Socialism Perth 2020 this weekend. The conference attempted to grapple with the current period of overlapping po...litical, social and economic crises that the working class and oppressed are facing the brunt of. The capitalist class are willing to sacrifice workers and the oppressed to COVID, to keep profits flowing and the economy open. The climate crisis is wreaking havoc, as historic wildfires, orange skies and smoke become a part of the new normal. While healthcare workers fight COVID in underfunded hospitals, militarised police are well prepared to brutalise protesters, murder people of colour and defend the far right. These issues were introduced in our opening panel on crisis capitalism, and continued across sessions on the rise of authoritarianism, police abolition, and the COVID crisis. These conditions are producing death and destruction. But they’re also creating mass resistance, from Lebanon, Belarus, to the centre of global capitalism, the United States. We heard from radicals on the frontlines of this resistance. At the closing panel on Sunday, Khury Petersen-Smith, Boston-based, Black socialist discussed heroic resistance across the US to racist police violence. Khury celebrated the mass defiant resistance in places like Portland, New York and Minneapolis. But he also highlighted the transformative process happening in every neighborhood where people are organising resistance and discussing the police, racism and capitalism. We heard from radicals from the last major upsurge, the 60s/70s. Gumbainggir radical Gary Foley spoke on the Black Power movement in Australia which he was central to. US socialist Joel Geier spoke on the civil rights movement, student radicalisation and Black Power struggle, which he was deeply involved in. The discussions on resistance around the world and historically aimed to guide our approach to organising in Australia today. Police racism, state repression, inequality and exploitation are central to Australian capitalism and need to be opposed here. As Joel Geier concluded, Our job is to build something now to prepare for the ongoing radicalisations. You've got to decide for your whole life, what side are you on?

24.01.2022 Stonewall means fightback! Get along to the meeting next Wednesday - A History of Gay Radicalism & Rebellion

24.01.2022 194 days later and no one has been charged with the murder of Breonna Taylor. She was only 26 when Louisville police raided the house where she was sleeping..., looking for someone who did not live there, and shot her dead. Police fired at least 20 shots, 5 of which hit Taylor and the rest passed into other apartments. Taylor was a healthcare worker on the frontlines as an EMT, saving lives during this pandemic. Police raided the house without knocking and killed her, even though she was unarmed and innocent. Not only were they at the wrong home, but the person they were looking for was also already in police custody. Today, a grand jury indicted one of the police officers for wanton endangerment, the two other officers who fired shots were not charged. #SayHerName #Justice4Breonna See more

23.01.2022 Marxism Conference - marxismconference.org

22.01.2022 Join us for the 2nd day of Socialism Conference Perth at the UWA maths bloc on NOW

21.01.2022 NO PRIDE ON A DEAD PLANET LGBTI rights have only ever been won through defiant, mass mobilisations. The LGBTI movement was started by riots, like ...those in Stonewall in 1969. Uni Students For Climate Justice think that tradition of rebellion needs to continue. Corporations have tried to sanitise this history, and used Pride Parades as PR branding to cover for underpaying workers, exploiting other countries, and destroying the planet. In Perth, Woodside now sponsors the annual Pride Parade. This is the same corporation that is massively expanding fossil fuel extraction for more profits. We are endorsing Put the Protest Back in Pride! because we think these corporations have no interest in fighting for a better world. Instead, we need more activists that can continue to organise mass resistance to fight against the system.

19.01.2022 The anti-racist rebellion which exploded across the US in response to the horrific murder of George Floyd is historic. It’s encompassed demands against economic... inequality, state repression and underfunded social services, as well as justice for George Floyd. The protesters have withstood repression, utilising radical mass tactics, in some case reminiscent of the Hong Kong uprising. Socialism conference features debates that have arisen out of the movement - with sessions on the police abolition and debates on identity politics, reductionism and Marxism. We're incredibly lucky to hear from Black US socialist Khury Petersen-Smith on the closing panel - rebellion and revolution in the era of the pandemic, where he'll discussing the US uprising from his own experiences. We'll also draw from the radical history of Black resistance. A highlight of this will be hearing from Gary Foley, a key leader in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy of 1972 and longtime Aboriginal radical who will be speaking on Black Power in Australia.

18.01.2022 On this day, 4th of December 1969, the leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was assassinated in his sleep by the FBI. Hampton was betrayed by William O’Neal, his ...bodyguard and the Panthers’ head of security, an FBI informant who drugged Hampton's coffee in preparation for the raid. After the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the virulently anti-communist FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover feared the rise of a new Black Messiah and was determined to wipe out the Black Panthers’ leadership, of whom Hampton was the most impressive. In one of his last speeches Hampton spelled out his vision for the Black Panthers: We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with Black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism ... We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.. Read more about the Black Panthers and their legacy here: https://redflag.org.au/node/7352

18.01.2022 Check it out! The Marxism Conference program is now online! Featuring more than a hundred talks on socialist theory, history, debates, and every question facing... activists today. Join hundreds of others at the Marxism Conference in 2021. PS. Watch this space, guest speaker announcements are coming soon... https://marxismconference.org/

17.01.2022 The world's superpower is in a historic crisis. Over 200,000 people have died from COVID-19. There's dramatic levels of economic crisis and unemployment. The fa...r-right organising violently on the streets is being promoted by the President. At Socialism conference, we'll be discussing crisis and resistance in the US across multiple sessions. Some highlights are: *** hear about the incredible Black Lives Matter rebellions with Black US socialist Khury Petersen-Smith on the closing panel on rebellion and revolution in the era of the pandemic *** discuss the upcoming US elections with US author and migrant rights activist Justin Akers Chacon *** join veteran activist and socialist Joel Geier to hear the lessons of the last great US rebellion in the 1960s

15.01.2022 Issue 172 of Red Flag is out now. Support Australia's voice of resistance - subscribe today at https://subscribe.redflag.org.au/ and get your copy delivered fortnightly.

13.01.2022 New episode of Red Flag Radio! The Brereton report exposed the horrific war crimes of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Less is known about the activities of ...the Australian military in the Pacific region. On this episode of Red Flag Radio, we explore the bloody history of Australia as an imperialist power and how socialists today understand the dynamics of imperialism in the region with Vinil Kumar. https://redflag.podbean.com/e/the-bloody-history-of-austra/ Read more: Owning up to Australia’s slave labour past by Hersha Kadkol http://redflag.org.au/node/6017 Backyard bully: Australia's imperialism in the Pacific by Vinil Kumar http://redflag.org.au/node/7150 The forging of Australian imperialism by Tom O'Lincoln http://redflag.org.au/article/forging-australian-imperialism Support Red Flag Radio on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redflagradiopodcast Subscribe to Red Flag newspaper: https://subscribe.redflag.org.au/ Contact the show: [email protected] Hosted by Roz Ward. Produced by Liam Ward. Music by Dan Kenny.

11.01.2022 5 DAYS UNTIL SOCIALISM 2020 Don't miss out on Perth's biggest & best left wing conference! We have a whole weekend of radical theory, history, and debates ...scheduled. Check out the full conference program & grab your tickets now! socialismperth.org/program

09.01.2022 Excellent result from the staff EA

08.01.2022 The US is again engulfed in protest against the racist injustice system. The grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case ruled that two white policemen who murdered h...er will not be prosecuted because their use of force in the raid that killed her, was justified. Black Lives Matter protesters have gone to the streets to express their rage. Join us at Perth Socialism's conference for a discussion of the political situation in the USA in the lead up to the elections with socialist activist and Latino historian Justin Ackers Chacon at midday on Sunday and then hear from Black Lives Matter activist Khury Petersen Smith for the final wrap up session at 4:30pm. If you haven't got your ticket yet, don't miss out at socialismperth.org. See more

05.01.2022 Refugees are imprisoned in Melbourne hotels. Activists are following them Liberation now! End the torture of refugees!

04.01.2022 Join us for the final panel 'Rebellion and Revolution in the era of the Pandemic' at Socialism 2020. We will be hearing from activsits, rebels and revolutionari...es from across the world. We are excited to announce the participation of Khury Petersen-Smith, the American socialist, writer and Black Lives Matter activist. Khury will be speaking on the significant ruptures occuring in American society and the magnificent rebellions which are sweeping that country in response to police brutality. Do not miss out. Get your tickets today at http://socialismperth.org

03.01.2022 Joel Geier is a longtime revolutionary socialist from the United States. Active in revolutionary politics since the 1960s, Joel has been involved in some of the... defining moments of socialist politics in the US, including the Berkeley Free Speech campaign. Joel will be speaking on Sunday at the session The Fire Last Time: Eyewitness to the 1970s struggle in the USA. Don't miss out! Book your tickets now socialismperth.org

02.01.2022 This year has seen a wave of struggle break out around the world - from the struggles against repression in Hong Kong and Thailand, to the fight against police ...brutality in Nigeria and the defiant Black Lives Matter movement that swept the United States. Red Flag is a voice of resistance, reporting from the front lines of struggle in Australia and around the world. Subscribe using the code GIFT before November 30 and you'll receive this mug celebrating these struggles designed by Melbourne artist and activist Maddie Hah. Subscribe at https://subscribe.redflag.org.au/