The following theses were adopted by the Central Committee of Communist Unity as part of the official relaunching of the organisation on May Day, 2026. We have been nothing; we shall be everything. Communism Lives! Real human history begins and society leaves behind the realm of necessity. In the realm of freedom people will become […]

A draft program for the Communist Party in Australia, adopted by the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, Melbourne, January 2026. With the unification of the entire earth into a single world market, the growth of enormous financial and industrial monopolies, the intensifying rivalry between imperialists, and the threat of global war and ecological crisis, […]

Labor MP and Minister for Health & Ageing and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Mark Butler has announced sweeping cuts to the funding scheme. Max J reports. Are you an NDIS recipient or support worker? Get in touch with Partisan to share your thoughts: partisanmagazine@proton.me. Albanese’s Labor government is set to announce their 2026-2027 budget […]

The following statement was circulated by the Central Committee of Communist Unity for May Day, 2026. On International Workers Day 2026, the Central Committee of Communist Unity sends its fraternal greetings to the communist movement of the world, and the struggling toilers on every continent. Today, with the world imperialist system unleashing terror and starvation […]

Max J introduces Issue 17 of Partisan Magazine. Partisan has undergone some subtle but interesting changes since Issue 16. These changes coincide with changes within the Revolutionary Communist Organisation. Firstly, the Revolutionary Communist Organisation accepted the membership of the Spartacist League of Australia, who now exist within the RCO as the Spartacist Tendency. Secondly, the […]

The Australian government has touted youth social media bans as the solution to all manner of social ills. Instead, it will just bring more repression. O. Dziga comments for the International Communist League. Last December, the Australian government introduced a ban on youth under 16 holding social media accounts across all major online platforms. Millions […]

Where now after the defeat of the Grassroots Left in Your Party? Ewan Tilley, writing in State & Confusion, provides a sketch. The Situation and the Question The Grassroots Left did not lose a vote. It lost a political struggle whose terms were set before most of its members understood it was occurring. The conclusion […]

Mila Volkova gave the following talk at the 2026 Marxism Fringe conference in Melbourne on the 6th of April. We publish it for the benefit of our readers and the broader socialist movement. Introducing the Debate The socialist movement’s most recent major debate on the topic of sexual politics has been the exchange between Socialist […]

C. Cunningham, Melbourne I read with interest the letter by Labor Tribune’s Martin Greenfield (March 21), “About the slogan ‘defend Iran’…” This is a polemic against Communist Unity (CU) for raising the call to “Defend Iran!” in the face of the barbaric US-Israel onslaught. Our critic calls centring defence of Iran “an error” that should […]

Nearly 100 years after the release of Metropolis (1927, Dir. Fritz Lang) Jean O’Donnell casts a critical eye over its seemingly revolutionary politics, revealing little more than neutered compromise. Metropolis (1927, Dir. Fritz Lang) is arguably one of the most famous and influential silent films to survive to the modern day. Visual references to it […]

This is the sixth part of our publication of George Caffentzis’ essay concerning the Oil Shock of 1973. Sraffa’s distinction between basic and non-basic commodities is essential to our explanation of the energy crisis as a response to working class attack on capitalist accumulation in the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, there is one […]

Thomas Tews On Wednesday, 1 April, US President Donald Trump attended an Easter lunch in the East Room of the White House. During the event, Trump called Somalia “just terrible” and “probably the worst, most dangerous country” with “no government” and “no police”. In his view, Somalis “have no money, no nothing” and “just shoot each other […]