Max J reports. Student activists across multiple high schools in Newcastle (including Hunter School of Performing Arts (HSPA), Merewether High, and Newcastle High) staged a walkout today, drawing a large crowd. Activists marched to Civic Park demanding action on climate change, among other demands. Activists were part of Youth Rising, the Under-18 contingent of Rising […]

The debate around unity between Socialist Alliance and The Socialists continues. John Blackford writes that since Socialist Alliance and The Socialists have near identical politics, there are no legitimate arguments against unity between them. In a statement posted on the 12th of November, 2025, the Victorian Socialists executive announced that efforts to take the electoral […]

As the need for unity between Socialist Alliance and The Socialists becomes clearer over the electoral registration of the NSW Socialists, Victorian Socialists member Daniel Lopez provides an independent (non-Socialist Alternative) perspective to the unity debates. Socialists in Australia agree that we need to build a united socialist party with a strong working class membership […]

Revmira, Melbourne There are a lot of criticisms that the Revolutionary Communist Organisation (RCO) receives, some of them are worth engaging with, some not. But one of the more fascinating ones dragged out by our opponents, and critics is that we are “too pretentious”. This usually takes two forms. The first attacks the way we […]

Simon Blow, Online With the Australian Electoral Commission blocking the Socialist Party from registering under the name “Socialist Party” on the grounds that it is too similar to “Socialist Alliance,” the question of socialist unity has once again been forced onto the agenda. The AEC defends this undemocratic restriction by claiming it prevents voters from […]

The Central Committee releases a statement in solidarity with Linksjugend. At their recent Federal Congress, the 12,000 strong youth wing of Die Linke, “Linksjugend [‘solid]” adopted a motion titled “We Must Never Again Remain Silent in the Face of a Genocide”. This motion, which was explicitly anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian liberation, is a huge step forward in […]

Having previously explained the momentum model and Rising Tide’s politics, Max J writes on how Rising Tide engages with the Left, and how the Left engages with Rising Tide in turn. Socialists are unclear on how to relate to and engage with Rising Tide, and groups like it. Organisations such as Socialist Alternative and their […]

The author of the Notes South from Nowhere blog, Tyler West, passed away suddenly last week (October 30th, 2025). A communist, a historian, and a faithful archivist of our movement, we share his reflections on his project. Comrade Tyler reflected the best qualities of a communist intellectual – willingness to educate, a deep love of […]

Mila Volkova, Canberra Firstly, I would like to thank comrade Fox Luces for their complements on my article. I find the lack of serious attention paid to the Arab Spring by the heirs of the International Socialist Organisation quite frustrating. Instead of truly investigating whether their strategy really turned out to work in practice, they […]

Rising Tide exploded back onto the activist scene in 2022 after a decade of absence. Since then, it has hosted increasingly larger “blockades” of the coal port in Newcastle, NSW. Max J writes about the history of Rising Tide, its politics, and the momentum model of activist organising it adheres to. Rising Tide is one […]