Edith Fischer, Brisbane Pauline Slaughter’s recent article makes a series of errors which result in a sectarian understanding of the tasks facing the socialist movement in the United States. The problem starts when Slaughter raises the tactical question of an organisational split with state loyalism to the position of a strategy (or even a principle) […]

The Socialist Party has followed Socialist Alternative on a merry chase in search of a struggle against Hansonism. Conor K. is less than impressed. The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has made a fool of much of the left. Few have known what to make of it, and even fewer have known what to […]

Activists set up a camp at 251 Cope St in Waterloo, Sydney on May 24th to protest Homes NSW’s planned demolition. After the activists were dispersed on June 19th, Charlie G. and Porco report on the encampment and what the future may hold for it. Sydney’s residents have a long history of resisting evictions and […]

In the first in a multi-part series for State & Confusion, Ewan Tilley begins to outline the form of revolutionary organisation best suited for our current moment. The concrete is concrete because it is the concentration of many determinations, hence unity of the diverse. It appears in the process of thinking, therefore, as a process […]

Australia seeks to expand its influence over the Pacific by incorporating Pacific peoples into its colonial project. Brunhilda writes on the ‘Pukpuk treaty’ between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and its implications for Papuans that will inevitably wind up in the Australian Defence Force. Originally published in Temokalati. Australia’s foreign policy in the Pacific has […]

At Marxism 2026, Socialist Alternative attempted to define their line on the party question. Joey X was left with more questions than answers. If Socialist Alternative’s (SA) annual Marxism Conference has anything to show for it, it certainly succeeds in the spectacle: hundreds of Marxists across the country converging on the prestigious Melbourne Showgrounds, eleven […]

Charlie G reports back from the June 12th launch of the Bread & Roses caucus of the NSW Socialists, held at the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville, Sydney. Bread & Roses, the independent socialist caucus of the NSW Socialists, held a launch party to announce their formation on June 12th. The event was well attended […]

O. Dziga argues that the deepening US imperialist offensive across the globe, and a bonapartist drive in Indonesia, demands a unifying anti-imperialist struggle which fights the dead ends of imperialist backed liberalism and working class misleadership. The following presentation was given at a Melbourne panel organised by the Solidarity Committee For Rakyat Indonesia And Papua […]

Thomas Tews argues that the Trump administration is the latest stage of 128 years of US imperialism toward Cuba. At a meeting of US President Trump’s cabinet on May 27, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated: Cuba’s in a lot of trouble because, unfortunately for them, it’s run by a bunch of incompetent communists. […] It’s […]

In politics, it is sometimes necessary to draw a hard line. Pauline Slaughter argues that the time to draw a line in the Democratic Socialists of American has arrived. The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPAC) is a non-profit organisation based in New York City (NYC) that administers community service care programs. They service 8,000 people daily […]

A fetish for bureaucracy is not a substitute for revolutionary politics, argues Joey X. The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”– G, Deleuze & F, Guattari, […]

Fox Luces, WA The debate about the future of the Socialist party in Australia is heating up. In my article on the topic I expressed concern about the party’s ability to break from the left wing of the Greens and provide a stable, fighting force against Australian state and capital. Recently, the issue was discussed […]