Below is a speech given by Comrade Neil for the Spartacist League to the Palestine demonstration in Melbourne on 22 June 2025, the day the US began bombing Iran. US imperialism today is on the verge of doing to Iran what it did to Iraq, to Syria, to Libya, to Afghanistan. This US attack on […]

Simon Blow, OnlineDavid McMullen’s latest reply to my polemic ‘Red Specktarian’ only confirms what was already obvious: the politics of the duplicitous duo behind Red Speck have nothing to do with Marxism. What they advance is the detritus of Stalinism, carried through to its most illogical and embarrassing endpoint. Where Stalin demanded the subordination of […]

As unity talks between the RCO and the Spartacist League continues, Mila Volkova responds to ‘The Road to Party’ by asking what – if anything – does the Spartacist League seriously disagree with the RCO on. “You yourself know the difference between a sect movement and a class movement from personal experience. The sect seeks […]

2025 broadly marks the third year of the RCO producing a frequent publication. Max J, who has worked on the RCO’s publications from their beginning in 2023, reflects on the lessons and futures for the publishing wing of the organisation. Communists have broadly recognised the importance of the press in disseminating communist ideas to the […]

Revmira writes on the history of socialist and communist international groupings, and makes the case for an international conference of Partyist organisations. The distinctions of the Marxist and Anarchist tendencies was settled in the split within the International Working Mans Association (the First 1864-1876); the degeneration and betrayal of the Socialist and Labour International (the […]

The “March for Australia” on the 31st of August cannot be read as anything other than a major defeat for the socialist and workers movement. The wannabe jackbooted thugs of the National Socialist Network were able to tap into wide layers of the petit-bourgeois, and the backwards layers of the proletariat with their chauvinistic, racist, […]

Kia ora koutou to our comrades across the Tasman! I write into Partisan from across the ditch both to extend a hand of friendship, and to (I hope) see the spirit in which it is offered blossom. It has seemed, in the decade I have spent amidst the socialists and anarchists, that there is a […]

The Partisan Editorial Board introduce Partisan! #13. Much debate is had across the Left over electoralism and the viability of the ballot box. This is a historical debate that goes as far back as the time of Marx and Engels. This debate was one of many that would cause a near irreparable split between the […]

The Australian Labor Party remains an important site of struggle against imperialism, against Zionism and against the US military alliance, writes ALP member Marcus Strom. The Australian Labor Party is a liberal-bourgeois workers’ party. It governs in the interests of capitalism but does so on the base of the organised working class, and the electoral […]

David McMullen, Online Simon Blow in Partisan! 12 accuses me of being “behind this or that capitalist nation in its conquest for domination of the world market”. Let’s get clear about what is happening in Ukraine. Firstly, in pursuit of a restored Czarist empire, a nation is denied the right to self-determination. Secondly, we have […]