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The activist’s dilemma
Recently, UK group Just Stop Oil was reported to have been “policed out of existence”. Key activists planning an event on Zoom were given five year jail sentences and now the group is holding one final protest to see the project out. As state repression and anti-protest laws escalate in our context, could this be…
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Girlboss feminism is out. Class struggle feminism is in
Background image is of Aboriginal domestic workers at the Pilbara Strike, from the 1987 documentary How The West Was Lost. In 2025, feminism has become dominated by its worst mutations. “Radical feminism” is obsessed with farcical concerns about cis women’s safety and “loss of identity”, at the expense of very real harm to trans women.…
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Organising workers under anti-union laws
You can read our article on Red and Black Notes: https://www.redblacknotes.com/2025/01/26/organising-workers-under-anti-union-laws/
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Invasion Day Statement
The celebration of ‘Australia Day’ is first and primarily a tool of colonisation. On January 26th, 1788, the British fleet raised its flag intending to take sovereign Aboriginal land for the crown, resulting in the still ongoing genocide of the continent’s First Peoples. This date has been celebrated yearly, since it was coined ‘Australia Day’…
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Hood self-help or hood self-organisation?
CW: This article contains images of people now deceased. There’s an upsurge in ex-career criminals taking to social media to tell their stories and to warn others against following in their footsteps. From Spanian to Dave Obeda, Gaz Wright and others; the message is clear. Crime costs more than it pays, and according to the…
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Where does the power to end genocide come from?
The modern Palestinian Resistance movement is the perfect demonstration of the chasm between the will of social movements and their power. Despite huge mobilisations and actions taken by people in solidarity around the world since October 2023, the genocide continues to be carried out with active support from major world powers. It’s crucially important that…
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Where to for the Tamil struggle?
15 years ago the national liberation war came to an end, with the destruction of the de-facto Tamil Eelam state and the mass slaughter of at least 169,796 Tamils by the genocidal Sri Lankan government. Now, even commemorating the Tamil dead, both civilian and soldier alike, is met with police repression. The Prevention of Terrorism…