Paddy Gibson speaks about a new edition of Tom O'Lincoln's book, Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, for which he has written the introduction.

Paddy describes how the book charts the CPA's strengths, but also how its Stalinist politics led to its decline. He draws lessons for revolutionaries today.

Copies of the book are on sale at Solidarity branch meetings or by contacting the publisher, Interventions.

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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting in Melbourne on 15 May 2025.

Adam Adelpour looks at the 1905 revolution in Russia and argues that the development of democratic workers' councils, known in Russian as soviets, was critical to the workers' victory over capitalism in October 1917.

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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

Jordi Pardoel discusses the ideas we need to win the fight against capitalism and argues that Stalinism and Maoism are dead ends for the struggle.

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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.

Lucy Honan explores the concept of neurodiversity, why capitalism puts people into defined boxes and how we can fight for a world where we live our fullest lives.

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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.

Los Angeles-based socialist Clare Fester talks about the Trump government's racist offensive and the growing movements of opposition.

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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April.

Ian Rintoul looks at how the Labor-style SPD has paved the way for the rise of the far right in Germany and draws lessons for the federal election in Australia.

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This talk was recorded at the Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.

Dr Nora Amath, the Executive Director of the Islamophobia Register Australia, reports on the horrific wave of racism affecting Muslims in Australia. She explains how the anti-Palestine agenda of mainstream politicians and the media encourages hatred.

Read the latest Islamophobia Register Australia report.

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Liz Grosshans tells how, together with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, mass revolt by students, soldiers and workers fragmented the US war machine and opened the way to national liberation for Vietnam and an end to the war.

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Five hundred years ago, the German-speaking lands of central Europe were gripped by mass revolt. Beginning in 1524 and continuing into 1525, the German Peasants' War involved hundreds of thousands of the poor.

Martin Empson, a member of Solidarity’s sister organisation in Britain, the Socialist Workers Party, has just published a book that brings this story of revolt to life, entitled The Time of the Harvest has Come: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants' War. He discusses the lessons for revolution.

Win a signed copy of the book! Answer the following question and go into the draw. "By which term, which was given to a monumental panoramic painting of the Battle of Frankenhausen commissioned by the East German state capitalist regime, did Engels characterise the German Peasants' War?"

Send your answer and your address and phone number to [email protected] by midnight, Melbourne time, on Friday 25 April. This offer applies only to Australian-based listeners.

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In February 1965, University of Sydney students held a “freedom ride” through northwestern NSW, exposing rampant racism against Indigenous people and putting Indigenous rights on the agenda.

Hall Greenland (Freedom Ride participant), Paul Silva (Indigenous activist) and Paddy Gibson (Jumbunna Institute and Solidarity) discuss its impact and relevance today.

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