Marx Talks

By marxtalks

Talks from Socialist Alternative’s conferences, including Marxism Conference, Socialism Sydney & more

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April 21, 2026 Paradise on strike: class struggle in the Pacific - Vinil Kumar
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43min
April 21, 2026 Stalinism and Literature - Dougal McNeill
Stalinist counter revolution was experienced in all aspects of life, both in the USSR and in the global Communist movement. As part of the project of establishing political hegemony the Stalinist bureacracy sought to develop and enforce particular styles of cultural production. In literature the preferred style was socialist realism. This session will start by discussing debates that occurred in and around the Soviet Writers Congress of 1934 about the nature of proletarian art, modernism and socialist realism and conclude with an investigation of the politics of the Popular Front.
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37min
April 21, 2026 Sounding the French Revolution: A Marxist tour of Classical Music - April Holcombe
Marxism 2023
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55min
April 20, 2026 Understanding Stalinism and its impact - Liam Parry
Marxism 2024
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45min
April 19, 2026 From overthrowing a government to getting rid of capitalism: political and social revolutions - Ruby Healer
Do revolutions have the potential to create an entirely new kind of society, or do they merely replace one type of government with another? There have been countless revolutionary moments in which mass movements toppled dictators and smashed powerful empires, but left capitalism fundamentally intact – Germany 1918; Portugal 1976; Egypt 2011 and many more. No revolution begins with millions of people simultaneously deciding to destroy the existing system completely, yet struggles like these can raise issues and questions which point the way to a socialist solution. This session will discuss how political struggles can undermine the broader capitalist system and make possible the total transformation of our social reality, as well as the obstacles to be overcome for such a transformation to take place.
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38min
April 18, 2026 How the South African working-class defeated apartheid - Sandra Bloodworth
For almost five decades, racial segregation was enshrined and institutionalised South Africa. Apartheid was a system based on brutal racism which oppressed and exploited the majority of Black workers while maintaining the enrichment and rule of a white minority. This session will discuss what it took to overthrow apartheid - the heroic resistance within South Africa along with the solidarity of workers and student movements across the globe, as well as explore the broken promises and betrayals of the ANC.
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47min
April 17, 2026 Fortress Europe: militarisation and border control - April Holcombe
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO – pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior – have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European military budgets and inflows of combat-ready troops and cutting-edge hardware, looks forward to welcoming additional member states. This militarisation of Europe will only add further fuel to an increasingly unstable international system riven with political tensions. This talk will explore why European militarism is on the rise and the dangers it poses for the future.
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43min
April 16, 2026 Disrupting the Australian war machine: lessons, strategies, tactics
Jerome Small, Mick Armstrong, Yasmine Johnson

From the late 1960s a mass movement against the brutal US and Australian war in Vietnam shook Australian society. Thousands of radical students and young people resisted conscription and marched in the streets, linking up with workers who went on strike and refused to transport material for the war. This blazed a trail for other movements in the 1970s, 80s and 90s against the nuclear fuel chain, US bases, and the arms industry. With new wars and imperialist tensions building today, there’s a clear need for a new movement of resistance to the war machine, building on lessons from the radical movements of the past.
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55min
April 16, 2026 Why only a revolution can win socialism - Eddie Stephenson
Marxists argue that a workers' revolution is necessary to overthrow capitalism. In the last decade, uprisings have broken out in Sudan, Chile, Algeria, Hong Kong, Myanmar and more. Many of these revolts began with specific demands about democracy, inequality, or opposition to military rule. In all of them, the social power of organised workers played an important role in threatening the status quo. But how could a revolution go further and dismantle capitalism?
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39min
April 16, 2026 The Civil Rights movement and the struggle against Jim Crow - Chloe Rafferty
Marxism 2024
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34min

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The podcast currently has 116 episodes available.