The Party Line Podcast

There’s a lot going on in the world, from Google bulldozing 250,000 trees in Finland to build an illegal datacentre, through incredible election results in Brazil and Serbia that have pushed the far right back, for now.

We start by reflecting on the brutal attack on Helen Haines, and the cynical politicisation of the tragedy by the capitalist media.

We then take a brief look at the Israeli election happening today, and how it is essentially a meaningless contest about how to manage and market the occupation of Palestinian territory - rather than anything substantive on policy or principle.

We also look at how One Nation is openly working with business to write their policies, and also recruiting more and more candidates from the Liberal and National party.

The final story is about how public housing residents are being shifted into private tenancies, which are highly insecure, all so that private developers can profit off bulldozing high rise public housing towers.

The substance of the ep is all about Ben Caroll’s campaign for the upcoming Victorian State Election. We look at his attacks on the CFMEU, his decision to lower land tax on the rich, and his reactionary law and order reforms that build on Jacinta Allan’s adult time for adult crime laws. We look at what sort of policies could actually help disadvantaged communities and address the root cause of crime, including public housing, investment into education, and other social justice causes. We then look at the proposal to cap toll and transport costs, which hands hundreds of millions to private providers and fails to address cost of living crisis. Our alternative - free, publicly owned roads and transport for all!

News

Palestine supporters guilty once again, declares Murdoch press

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | The Guardian

Brazil election: Lula wins fourth term in dramatic comeback over Bolsonaro

How a movement of students brought down Serbia's Vučić

‘Jordan, Lebanon & Syria are ours’: why young Israelis are voting more far right | The View From

‘It is ours’: The far-right Israeli settlers who want to build homes in Gaza

When Victorian pensioner Gail secured housing, it was the ‘best day’ of her life. Then she was ordered to vacate | The Guardian

The long list of former Coalition MPs seeking new home on One Nation’s crowded NSW ticket

She’s receptive’: Corporate Australia is taking note of Pauline Hanson’s pivot to policy

Further reading

Europe’s youth and workers in revolt

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood, and Jaan Schild our new cover photo designer.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

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Episode 70 - The Party Line on Jess Wilson’s Plan to Destroy Victoria

We start this ep looking at the successful campaign launches for VS candidates that took place over the weekend in Melbourne, Footscray and Preston, which together saw over 350 people attend to celebrate Jordan Van Den Lamb (@Purplepingers), Jasmine Duff, Priya Reddy and Serena Ashmore. We then discuss the ongoing situation in France, and the racist and authoritarian backlash against the student uprising. We rage against the hypocrisy of politicians and media pundits who backed the Gaza genocide and have done nothing to stop the US war on Iran calling out ‘violence’, with a special shout out to David Crowe . We also look at Sally Rooney standing up for Palestine at great personal cost, and Labor’s decision to give investors a massive tax break.

The body of the episode is all about Jess Wilson, the current odds on favourite to win the upcoming Victorian election. We look at her history as a blue blood, silver spoon eating, trust fund-inheriting nepo baby, and how her poor father was denied his rightful status as a long term Liberal MP for the eastern suburbs by the evil Steve Bracks. We look at how her plan to aggressively reduce Victoria’s deficit will mean savage cuts for schools, hospitals and essential services, despite their meaningless promise to focus the cuts on ‘back-office’ staff. At the same time, she is proposing $3 billion in tax cuts for businesses. She’s also planning to abolish the Victorian Treaty, winding back one of the few progressive measures made by Labor in this term. And behind the scenes lurks the various far right factions on the right, inside the Liberals themselves and in the growing power of One Nation.

News links

Nothing left to loot: Parisians ponder the real cost of another night of riots

Tax cuts for foreigners: How Labor says it will help first home buyers

US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000

Sally Rooney’s books pulled from UK shelves over Palestine Action support

Further reading

‘It’s crazy stuff’: How Abbott, Credlin and Loughnane won back power | The Saturday Paper

The origins of the Liberal Party

Thanks for listening, remember to like, comment, subscribe, share, HYPE!, and sign up to our Patreon if you can.

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood, and Jaan Schild our new cover photo designer.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 69 - The Party Line on the Youth Revolt in France

This ep is all about France. The eiffel tower, haute couture, smoking, and youth rebellions. Ok, mostly the last one. For the main portion of the show, Anneke speaks to a student from France who has been centrally involved in the protests and blockades of schools and universities for the past few weeks. She asks what the movement looks like, what it’s about, and what they’re fighting for. An inspiring discussion in a world that sometimes feels a bit bleak.

In the news we discuss a remarkable series of articles by an age journo, Marta Pascual Juanola, who spent a month in Ecuador exploring the human and environmental damage being done by Hanrine, an Australian mining company that is owned by Gina Rinehart. We also look at why more and more Liberal party donors - including big capitalists and the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce - are flipping to one nation, Hegseth’s desire to broadcast an execution and what that says about AUKUS and the US alliance, and how big tech companies like Amazon are buying their way into our parliament. Finally, we look at the planned eviction of over 100 Indigenous people from a high-needs residential housing and health facility in the NT.

News links

La Totale, by Frédéric Lordon

Melbourne’s wealthy Liberal donors pay homage to Pauline Hanson

Inside Gina Rinehart’s company’s push into Ecuador and how La Merced de Buenos Aires is pushing back

A frog, a toad and Leonardo DiCaprio: Rinehart’s rainforest mine plan hits unusual problems

McLarens, Mar-a-Lago and machine guns: Introducing Gina Rinehart’s controversial new frontier point man

Fiona Dhawunymurruwuy will be evicted on Sunday, along with 120 other First Nations people: ‘There’s no place for me’ | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian

Thanks for listening, remember to like, subscribe, share, HYPE!, and sign up to our Patreon if you can.

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood, and Jaan Schild our new cover photo designer.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 68 - The Party Line on the socialist campaign for Footscray

We start by talking about elite private schools being parasites, Australia’s fusion with the US military-industrial complex, big corporations paying ZERO TAX while we struggle with inflation, and serial Liberal failure, Amelia Hamer, cosplaying as a construction worker (after her attempt to be a renter was called out).

We then take a look at an absolutely explosive and inspirational struggle going on in Spain right now, where working class people have risen up against the indignity of exorbitant and insecure rentals. Hundreds of thousands have protested across the country in response to an 87 year old woman, Maricarmen, being evicted from her home after 71 years. They’ve now occupied public plazas in a number of cities, including the location of the history-defining indignados movement of 2011, with the demand of the struggle being an immediate 50% rent cut, indefinite rental contracts, and expropriating empty properties and lands. The unions are now calling a general strike, and the government is now offering a 4 year eviction ban to try and quell the struggle.

Finally, we chat to Jasmine Duff about her brilliant campaign in Footscray, where she hopes to unseat the Labor incumbent Katie Hall. We speak of her volunteer teams, the heroic door knocking efforts (over 20,000 knocked so far!), the positive response by locals, and her plans to turn the old hospital site and a number of developer-owned empty properties into public housing and amenities. Finally we address the socialist response to the issues of homelessness and crime in the area, and how Labor’s failure to invest in housing and support services continues to make things worse.

Thanks for listening, remember to like, subscribe, share, HYPE!, and sign up to our Patreon if you can.

News links

ASX defence stocks soar as the world becomes more dangerous

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood, and Jaan Schild our new cover photo designer.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 67 - The Party Line on how the RBA is screwing us

Big news week in the headlines: AI being evil and hacking medicare, more on raunch culture, Barnaby Joyce hanging out with Nazis, and anti-fascism in Northern Ireland.

Our first key story is Omar’s exposure of the media’s uncritical promotion of fascist narratives. Pauline Hanson and One Nation have been getting a total free ride in the media, which is determined to ‘take them seriously’. Rather than examining who their policies serve (the rich), and who they hurt (workers, migrants, women, etc), this means just publicising their press releases and allowing far right talking points to lead national politics.

The second story is about the Reserve Bank of Australia’s looming call to increase interest rates. We look at the growing expenses hurting working class people including groceries (Coles and Woolies increasing prices by 7% in three months), petrol (up nearly 50% in 3 months), and housing, and how the RBA’s decision will only make our lives worse. Who benefits from these policies you might ask? The rich (strange, right?).

Finally we talk to Chris Dite, the VS candidate for Richmond, on the campaign that he has helped lead to stop the closure of cohealth clinics across Melbourne. The inspiring campaign of protests, pickets and mass meetings has had some early wins, but threats remain present. Particularly given the board, which includes at least one senior Greens figure, has smuggled nearly a million dollars in bailout money to pay a handful of executives.

Thanks for listening, remember to like, subscribe, share, HYPE!, and sign up to our Patreon if you can.

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood, and Jaan Schild our new cover photo designer.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 66 - The Party Line on Labor’s immigration capitulation to One Nation 

This ep is about Labor doing Labor things - adopting One Nation talking points on immigration. But first we check out the news, looking at KKK support for Pauline Hanson, why CEO’s are abandoning the Liberals for One Nation, Liberal plans to bring soldiers into schools to indoctrinate kids, why Labor is actually expanding datacentre approvals (despite the Guardian headlines) and why homeless women are being forced to use sex to secure housing. 

The substance of the show is about Tony Burke’s announcement about migration last week. While the policy substance was fairly minimal, the significance of the day was Labor openly accepting the narrative that migrants are to blame for Australia’s social crises, and that therefore limiting them and policing them was an important policy priority. This line was borrowed straight from the talking points of the far right, and has no connection to reality. The people to blame for our declining living standards are the bosses and the political decisionmakers, who have failed to invest and support working class living standards. 

We also take a look at the Landforces convention happening in Perth in a few weeks, which is a massive military expo designed for arms dealers to spruik their wares to the world, including companies that are involved in the ongoing wars on Palestine, Iran, Yemen and more. We speak to an organiser of a protest against the event in Perth, and reminisce about our protest in Melbourne that drove them out.

Thanks for listening, remember to like, subscribe, share, HYPE!, and sign up to our Patreon if you can. 

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our new (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) 

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 65 - The Party Line on the truth about 9/11 (and Macklemore)

It’s been 25 years since the attacks on the twin towers, and the wars that ensued. So in light of that we decided to start this ep by discussing Macklemore’s stance for Palestine and Sydney Sweeney’s stance for misogyny, betting companies, and her own bottom line. 

But following our brief cultural dalliance, we get into the crux of the issues in Australian politics this week. How should we remember 9/11? Whose losses get remembered, and whose are ignored and forgotten? We then explore the devastating impact of the wars that the US launched in the aftermath, the nearly 5 million deaths which eventuated from them, and the violent Islamophobia which shaped the lives of millions of Muslims the world over for decades to come.

Aside from the anniversary, this is all significant because of the fash-on-fash spat between Andrew Hastie and Pauline Hanson about whether or not Hastie was a traitor for selling out Ben Roberts Smith. We discuss and conclude that Hastie is in fact a piece of shit, and that the liberal defence of his war record is badly misplaced. 

Finally, we look at reporting about how to respond to Pauline Hanson, and the criminally mistaken views of Get Up and Victorian Trades Hall, who have come up with a strategy for combatting her ideas without mentioning racism or Gina Rinehart. Genius! (not)

Thanks for listening, remember to like, subscribe, share, HYPE!, and sign up to our Patreon if you can. 

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our new (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) 

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 64 - The Party Line on Fascism and the Climate Crisis

This week Omar is interstate, so we replaced him with the Victorian Socialists communication officer James Plested, who is an expert on both Germany and the climate crisis. 

In Germany, the far right AFD has won over 40% of the vote. This is a grim development, and evidence that the far right is continuing to gain ground. 

The climate crisis is intensifying, with the floods in Nepal claiming the lives of over 1000 people. The northern summer led to in excess of 35,000 deaths. With an extreme El Niño developing, the southern summer could lead to droughts, fires and famines. 

The climate emergency is intrinsically linked with the pursuit of profits under capitalism. To resolve it we will need to get rid of this barbaric system. 

Thanks for listening, remember to like and share and HYPE! 

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our new (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) 

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 63 - The Party Line on how Labor lost Secret Harbour

This ep looks at a number of crazy developments unfolding across the world, starting with Trump’s endless war on Iran and the continued cooptation of Venezuela and its oil. We then look at the social meaning of yet another death of a woman at the hands of a man, this time by strangulation - and the broader sexist attitudes that make this possible. After that we check out the massive profits being made by corporate America - especially, but not exclusively the AI companies. We also explore how workers are copping it both via the corresponding inflation (which everyone now admits is caused by corporate price rises) and by lower wages. Finally we look at One Nation’s momentum continues to build, with yet another big victory in a WA by election, and why it is that the Greens are absolutely unable to cut through despite the crisis in Australian politics. 

Thanks for listening, remember to like and share and HYPE! 

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our new (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working in Hollywood.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) 

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 62 - The Party Line on how factory farming caused bird flu ft Michael Dulaney

This ep is all about how capitalism is destroying the planet. We chat to Michael Dulaney about his new book Sentinels, which explores the way in which factory farming and intensive agribusiness is unleashing new diseases across the world, particularly targeting working class and marginalised communities. This includes a deep dive into the horrors of factory farming of chicken and pigs, and a discussion about a disease that exclusively shows up in refugee and homeless populations.

Thanks for listening, remember to like and share and HYPE! 

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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our new (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working for Hollywood.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.

(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) 

This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.