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Documents the view on Palestine

12/10/2023

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This document represents the organisation position on Queer Liberation

08/09/2022

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Provides perspective on Liberation of Women

01/01/1970

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Provides a view on the Russia Ukraine war

01/01/1970

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Views on the "Voice to the Parliament"

01/01/1970

We are the Revolutionary Communist Organisation. We believe the Australian socialist movement is hopelessly divided into numerous dogmatic sects. In this state, we are less than the sum of our parts. We are a pre-party fighting group who seek to re-organise and re-unite the socialist movement into a new communist party. Drawn from a variety of socialist tendencies and life experiences, we are unified by our common democratically-drafted program to seize power and smash the capitalist system.

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The following statement was circulated by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation for International Working Women’s Day, 2026. For over one hundred years, March 8th has been a day of struggle for working women around the world. Born of the titanic class struggles at the turn of the century, International Working Women’s Day […]

10/03/2026

On the 2nd of March, 2026, unknown gunmen murdered Yanar Mohammed, the President of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Alternative Organization in Iraq (OCAI) in her home in Baghdad. We send our revolutionary condolences to the toilers of Iraq and to members of […]

10/03/2026

What is Partyism, and what does it mean in Australia today? Brunhilda Olding explains. What is Partyism? Does it matter? What does it mean in Australia today? There are many questions that have emerged around the strategy, orientation, and political perspectives of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation (RCO) since its foundation, nearly all of which can […]

10/03/2026

The movement for Indigenous liberation in Australia has been set back. What’s needed, argues Black Liberation (Communist Unity), is the waging of a serious political struggle to rebuild Indigenous sovereignty, and the understanding that the liberation of all people is bound together. This year marks 238 years since British colonial forces first began what would […]

05/03/2026

C. Bourchier reports on the fourth general conference of Communist Unity (formerly Revolutionary Communist Organisation), laying out the perspective of the Spartacist Tendency. Over the weekend of 17-18 January, the Revolutionary Communist Organisation (now renamed Communist Unity) held its fourth general conference, the first one Spartacist comrades have attended. The Spartacist League of Australia was […]

03/03/2026

Fox Luces, Online “What would it take for the socialist left to recognise that its own disunity is partly to blame for this chaos?” writes Porco reflecting on the ongoing expansions of state violence against the Palestine solidarity movement. This is an understandable question to ask. Equally understandable is the despair and anger that ripples […]

26/02/2026

Lawrence Parker, London Dear comrades, I have been following Brunhilda Olding’s series Towards a History of Partyism [part one, part two] with interest. However, without wanting to be a smart-arse, I must correct one error: the British Open Polemic group did not go on to found the CPGB-ML. Open Polemic (OP) was a pro-Soviet group […]

22/02/2026

In the past three months, we have seen attack after attack on the socialist and workers’ movement, all under the new watchword of the bourgeois order – “social cohesion”. “Social cohesion” is the battle cry of the capitalists as they unleash hate speech laws to cripple anti-imperialist solidarity with Palestine. It is the cry of […]

20/02/2026

With the movement of the USS Abraham Lincoln into the Arab Gulf and increasingly bellicose sputterings from the President, it seems an attack on Iran by the imperialists is imminent. The American imperialists, in their desperation to keep the peoples of the world bent beneath their boot, want to take advantage of the crisis in […]

20/02/2026

Originally presented at Marxism Fringe in 2025, Brunhilda Olding presents a revised history of the Partyist Tradition. The following is part two of a two-part transcript. “The Communist Party of Great Britain is not dead. Our Party founded in 1920 has parted company with those elements who attempted to hijack the party, who dragged its banner […]

18/02/2026

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