The Sound of Solidarity

In October 1976, Thailand's military stormed Thamassat University in Bangkok, massacring student protesters to crush opposition to the return of military dictatorship. Angus Dermody tells the story.

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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Sydney on 8 October 2026.

Ninety years ago, on 4 October 1936, thousands of working class people packed the streets of the East End of London to stop the fascists marching through predominantly Jewish suburbs.

David Glanz tells how they organised and how they won and draws lessons for the fight against the far right today.

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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 4 April 2026.

The fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won a state election, marking the first such victory for the far right since 1945. It followed that up with a significant vote in another state election.

Anni Fender explains why the AfD has broken through, what kind of threat it poses and how anti-Nazis in Germany can build a powerful movement against its rise. With One Nation growing, it's a crisis with lessons for Australia.

Anni is a member of Socialism from Below (SVU), a German sister group of Solidarity.

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This talk was given by Zoom at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 24 September 2026.

Why did the ALP Minister for External Affairs in the 1940s, Doc Evatt, play such a central role in the United Nations vote to partition Palestine?

Researcher Jeff Rickertt explains that while Evatt supported Zionism, that was only part of the story. His actions were driven primarily by what was best for Australian capitalism and its imperialist interests in the South Pacific.

It's an analysis that can help guide the Palestine solidarity movement today.

Read Jeff's paper: When First Nations Don’t Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights.

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This episode was recorded on 21 September 2026.

The AI boom is a capitalist frenzy but there's a growing likelihood that the bubble will burst, hitting the world economy, argues David Glanz. Meanwhile, giant data centres are being built across our suburbs and beyond. They are an environmental disaster in the making, using huge amounts of electricity and water and driving a boom in gas-fired power stations.

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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Naarm/Melbourne on 20 August 2026.

Héctor Puente Sierra talks about the Spanish Civil War that broke out in 1936. He describes how it showed the enormous revolutionary potential of the working class and explains why that potential was defeated by a combination of political mistakes by the mass anarchist forces and sabotage by the Stalinised communist party.

Héctor is the author of a new book, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Spanish Civil War. Copies are available from Solidarity branches or by emailing [email protected].

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Héctor spoke by Zoom from Scotland on 3 September 2026.

The US has bullied Cuba for decades but Donald Trump is now threatening to finally overthrow the regime. Marcus Banks describes the situation in Cuba today and its history since the 1959 revolution. He explains why revolutionary socialists stand with Cuba against US imperialism while rejecting the idea that Cuba is a socialist society.

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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 27 August 2026.

Lucy Honan tells how rank-and-file teachers in Victoria organised to fight for their EBA demands even though their union officials wanted to give up the struggle.

Lucy is a branch councillor with the Australian Education Union, a co-founder of the rank-and-file group Fight the Crisis, and a member of Solidarity.

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This talk was given at the Resist & Rebel conference in Melbourne on 22 August 2026.

Tom Fiebig looks to the anti-uranium movement of the 1970s to see how union action, community organising and direct action came together to block the nuclear agenda. He draws out lessons for the movement for Palestine today.

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This talk was given at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 13 August 2026.

Dialectics sounds complicated. But David Glanz explains how analysing the world dialectically helps us change it. He explains the development of the concept and gives two examples of how dialectics can help us untangle common problems for the left.

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