Anneke is sick this week, so Jordy and Omar decided to ditch her in favour of our Footscray candidate, Jasmine Duff. Is it an upgrade? You decide. (But seriously, send Anneke some love in the comments section please). This episode is all about the murderous war of choice that the US and Israel have initiated on Iran and now Lebanon. With over a thousand killed in Iran and 400 in Lebanon in just a week, the war is shaping to be a deadly one. As well, it now involves most of the region, with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the UAE all involved. Why is this war happening? Some believe it’s all a distraction from the Epstein Files - we think that’s total rubbish - and that the war is about entrenching US hegemony across the highly strategic region. We then explore the Australian government’s response, which has involved supporting the war politically, having soldiers on the submarine that killed nearly 100 Iranian soldiers, and now potentially sending troops to help ‘defend’ the reactionary Gulf Monarchies. Plus some headlines about Palantir, Cathy Wilcox, social democracy in New Zealand, Kristi Noem killing her dog, Asio collaboration with Israel, and more. 

Readings:

Stop the war, break the US alliance, resist capitalist barbarism | Red Flag

Iran war: A new phase of imperialist onslaught 

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

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To celebrate International Working Women’s Day, the crew start by talking about why cupcakes with pink icing - while nice - are not sufficient to end millennia of systematic sexism (yes, it’s true). We then look at how pop culture, corporate media, advertising and beauty industries all profit at the expense of women’s self-worth and happiness, all while promoting terrible stereotypes to the public. Red Flag editor Louise O’shea is our special guest for this ep, and she takes us through a marxist explanation of the source of all this oppression, namely the nuclear family and the sexist hyperexploitation of women at work. We then take a look at the alienation and despair driving the manosphere, and how opportunist capitalist scum like Andrew Tate and the social media corporations that drive his influence, manipulate the minds of young men and push misogynist attitudes. Finally, we talk about how sexism and misogyny can be resisted, rejecting liberal feminism in favour of revolutionary overthrow of the whole system, and discussing why the working class and trade unions are essential forces in combatting sexism.

Readings:

The everyday horror of modern sexism | Red Flag

Marxism and women’s liberation - Louise O’Shea

Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows

The Times They Aren't A-Changin (enough) - Eliza Littleton and Greg Jericho   

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

The Party Line's first ever live show was all set to go, packed with hilarity, interactivity and lots and lots of bullshit, before it was rudely interrupted by a brazen act of US and Israeli imperialism. As such we spent the first half of the ep discussing the very non-funny war, and how the left should oppose the US aggression without becoming defenders of a reactionary theocratic monarchy (sorry tankie morons). So it starts with heavy stuff, including pointing out the hypocrisy of Vance and Trump's so-called 'isolationism' and hostility to 'forever wars', and we're grateful for our audience for sticking with us. The second half of the show was more interactive, with our editor Charlie hosting a 'Reverse Albo' segment (where Grace Tame was called difficult once again),  a look at some unbelievable headlines from the last few weeks, as well as some special guest appearances.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

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Jerome Small joins the crew again to discuss the rise and fall of Hanson last time. Jerome was involved in the movement in Melbourne where people protested from Geelong to Echuca and everywhere in between. We discuss the political context in the 90s and what’s changed from them to now. 

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

Party Line Live tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/the-party-line-podcast-live-9jvxqwyy  

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

The gang brought Jasmine Duff back on to talk about the incredible week of protest that we’ve just had. Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong and co thought they could tour around the President of Israel as if he hadn’t just been involved in a genocide, but they were proven wrong, thanks to the actions of tens of thousands of people across Australia, who took to the streets in big numbers. We discuss the national spread, the aftermath of the police riot in Sydney, the despicable commentary of Karl Stefanovic (Australia’s answer to Tucker Carlson), and how people refused to be intimidated out of protesting this monster.  

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

Australia’s “most qualified idiot” has just become the leader of the Coalition, and a lot of people are wondering who he is. The Party Line is here to help. We do a deep dive into the history of this man, including his lowly upbringing on an enormous sheep station, the many challenges he overcame as a boarder at Kings College and Oxford, his joy at becoming a partner at McKinsey consultancy firm, and his eventual rise to the top of Australia’s most dysfunctional and despised political party. Plus why Hastie decided to hold fire, and what is in store for Victoria with Pauline Hanson polling at more than 20%.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

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We know we just released an episode but politics in Australia is moving fast. Anneke attempts to take on Jordy’s role as the tech director (and fails). 

NSW police conducted a riot in Sydney at the demonstration against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. People were battered, punched, pepper spayed, charged and arrested. It was a violent, brutal attack on people exercising their right to protest. It was like Trump’s ICE gestapo left Minneapolis for Sydney (organised by the Labor Party!).

We speak to Josh Lees from NSW Socialists and Palestine Action Group, who discusses the attempts to push back against the Minn’s government. We then talk to Ghaith Krayem, the national spokesperson for Muslim Votes Matter about the increase of Islamophobia directed at the muslim community. 

We finish with an argument for people to continue the movement to stand for a liberated Palestine, and an end to the genocide in Gaza. 

Thanks so much for listening to the podcast - like and subscribe! 

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

Omar is looking dashing this episode, with a bright vest to cheer us up. Speaking of cheer, we take a look at the excellent fighting skills of young kids in America against a racist MAGA man. With Herzog touching down in Australia on Monday, the crew discuss the repression coming from NSW police, the massive protests expected to take place and the role Socialist Party members across the country have played in organising and promoting the actions. We then hear from WAsoc member Clare Francis about the successful party conference in Perth. Finally, the team then discusses the vile Epstein files and what it shows you about the nature of the ruling class under capitalism. In particular we look at Lord Mendelson, Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky and Ehud Barak. Stay tuned to the end for some book recommendations to help fuel the fight against women’s oppression. 

Headlines: 

Bunnings tiny homes: Hardware giant to sell $45,000 studios amid housing crisis

Private schools: Should Australian taxpayers subsidise high-fee institutions?

‘Have a smarter baby’: Australians choosing embryos for IQ, height and hair colour 

Taylor forces plan spill this week as Hume savages Ley

Immigration crisis triggers rate hike shock 

Recommended readings: 

Rebel Women, Ed. Sandra Bloodworth and Tom O’Lincoln

Sex, Class and Socialism, Lindsey German

Pixel Flesh, Ellen Atlanta

Consent Laid Bare, Chanel Contos

Girl on Girl, Sophie Gilbert 

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

This ep starts by returning to the US rebellion against ICE, which has now expanded to the national scale via the January 30 day of action. Cities across the country were shut down due to street protests, student walkouts, and various types of legal and wildcat (that is, illegal!) strike actions against ICE and the Trump administrations’ cruelty. We then invite the irrepressible Jasmine Duff on the pod to talk about the situation in Palestine ahead of the upcoming Herzog visit. Jasmine is both the excellent VS candidate for Footscray and the national co-convenor of Students for Palestine. Make sure you attend these vital protests that are taking place on the 9th of Feb in every city in Australia! We need to shut the whole country down when this criminal lands. Finally we take a detailed look at recent polling by Redbridge that found One Nation is now on a stunning 26%, well ahead of the Coalition on 19%. We look at why this despicably racist figure has become so popular and what the left can and should do about it.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and special guest editor Auley Ryan.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

Bullshit has been confirmed as an essential part of the pod by popular acclaim, and so this ep begins with a healthy serving. So we start by exploring Omar’s first experience of Jordan’s fame, the quality of flooring in the office, and other essential issues facing the nation. The headlines take another look at US imperialism in relation to both Venezuela and Iran, before looking at the unholy alliance of Coles and The Australian, and the impending collapse of the Nationals. The first of our main segments looks at the massive Invasion day demos around the country, the much smaller fascist mobilisations, and the literal bomb thrown at the Invasion day protest in Perth. We then look at the inspirational resistance to ICE in Minneapolis, where 3000 thugs have confronted tens of thousands of students, workers and activists standing against the violent deportations of migrants. The general strike on January 23 was a clear turning point, leading businesses to complain about the disruption and Trump to lead (a partial but much welcomed) RETREAT! As of now the struggle remains ongoing and we send our full solidarity to the people of Minneapolis.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and special guest editor Auley Ryan.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

This special episode of The Party Line features award winning journalist and author Kate Wild talking about her new book, The Red House: Kumanjayi Walker and Zachary Rolfe. Together we explore the fatal 2019 shooting of Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker by Constable Zachary Rolfe in Yuendumu, examining the event's connection to Australia's history of structural, institutional  racism. We look at the systematic violence of the criminal justice system, and how it punishes Indigenous people generally, and Indigenous youth in particular, for being poor and Black. 

We encourage our readers to grab a copy of the book to learn more about the horrific events surrounding the killing of Kumanjayi Walker. We also recommend The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper as a similarly enraging and moving account of an earlier black death in custody.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and special guest editor Auley Ryan.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

Omar made his glorious return this week, though quickly made it clear he hadn’t bothered listening to the last ep. (Probably for the best, he was easily replaced.) This ep is an Invasion day special, and looks at the past present and future of Aboriginal oppression and resistance in Australia. To help us go through it all, we invited Indigenous socialist Oskar Martin on to the pod (and we thought he was pretty excellent). We begin discussing the roots of Indigenous oppression, including the frontier wars, the massacres, and why stealing the land was so important to the early Australian capitalists. We then look at the sordid history of stolen generations and the genocidal intentions behind the plans to disrupt and dislocate Aboriginal people from their lands, communities and cultures. Finally, we look at the incredible resistance of Aboriginal people backed up by socialists and trade unionists, a proud history that is often glossed over by liberals today. To wrap things up we take a brief look at the appalling new hate speech laws passed by Parliament this week, and their chilling implications for freedom of speech and assembly, and the right to criticise Israel. 

Content

Headlines: 

After Renee Good’s Killing, Some Conservatives Scorn Liberal Women

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court 

The exchange of messages between Norway's prime minister and President Trump

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America…… Thank you! President DJT”

Trump's Gaza Board of Peace Aims to Rival UN, Charter Shows

Albanese to consider Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invitation

Wanted to give you guys a snapshot of what the main departments of the US empire have been posting about in the last few days: 

War Dept video: Hegseth working out with Japanese Defence minister 

Health Dept video: Drink whole milk

Ed Dept video: Weird cult of personality thing, anti-trans, pro-states' rights messages 

State Dept image: Tariffs helped us stop 8 wars  

FBI Director: Raiding and arresting journalists for WaPo

Dept of Labor: 250 Years of One White Nation Under God

DHS tweet: We'll have our home again 

DHS image: One of ours, all of yours

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

This week the gang voted Omar off the Island. Producers had a surprise up their sleeves, with Josh Lees as a special guest. We discussed the violent killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents, and the full throated support for the murderer from JD Vance, Trump and the US regime. We then discussed the fallout from the removal of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week, and the solidarity she received from 180+ other guests and writers. The ruling class offensive against the Palestine movement continues, with the Royal Commission announced, plus the introduction of hate speech laws that give the Attorney General the powers to prohibit organisations, and punishment of 15 years for people who support them. 

Content

Why we must oppose a royal commission | Red Flag

Liberals’ hate speech hypocrisy after Bondi | Red Flag

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week

Sacked for Israeli flag: How Sydney Uni handled pro-Palestine encampment

The march to the Bondi massacre began at Sydney Town Hall

An inconvenient truth: Anti-Semitism flourishes in mainstream progressive politics and some Islamic cultures

Headlines: 

Trump’s Gold Card Already Passed $1.3 Billion In Sales. Is This The Future Of Immigration?

New UKIP logo slated over 'similarities to Nazi symbol' | The National

'I'm baffled': Viral TikTok video sparks debate over act of removing energy stickers 

Details of Labor's new hate speech and gun laws revealed - ABC News

Splits emerging within Coalition over hate speech bill

Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce use Gina Rinehart’s private jet to visit flooded parts of Queensland | One Nation | The Guardian

Gina Rinehart and fellow billionaires add record $3.3trn in wealth:     

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

A big one this week. The unhinged attacks on the Palestine movement and Anthony Albanese have continued for another week, and so your faithful hosts do their duty to take up the cudgels against the lies once again. Our highlight is a Canberra Times editorial calling for “rabble rousers” to be forcibly brought before a House of un-Israelian Activities Committee. It takes us some time to respond to a bunch of the rubbish being put forward to justify this McCarthyist witch hunt by some of the most racist scum in Australia. But once that’s done, we take a look at Trump’s appalling aggression against Venezuela and what it says about international politics at the moment, before wrapping up with a look at the heroic protest and strike wave sweeping Iran right now with Iranian socialist Bella Beiraghi.

Content

Why we must oppose a royal commission | Red Flag

Calls for royal commission on anti-Semitism grow | The Canberra Times

Socialist Party statement on US imperialist banditry in Venezuela 

A timeline of CIA operations in Latin America | Al Jazeera

Iran on fire: rebellion returns to the streets | Red Flag

Energy Workers Join Strikes as Security Forces Retreat in Major Cities | NCRI

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

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As the dust settles on the horrific Bondi shooting, the nature of the bigoted onslaught has become clearer. This episode starts by looking at the tirade of lies and far-right propaganda spread by The Australian and other media outlets. Given Jillian Segal’s prominence, we do a little digging into her family’s history as managers of hyper-exploitative diamond mining companies in Apartheid South Africa as well as her links with racist lobby group, Advance Australia. To get a deeper look at the media landscape of the backlash we interview journalist Amy Remeikis on the media response to Bondi and how they have normalised racism and anti-Palestinian politics. We then take a look at the appalling attacks on rights going on in the UK, where the government has banned Palestine Action and has sought to criminalise support for the Palestinian people and their resistance to genocide, a direction that Australian state and federal governments appear to be moving in. NSW Premier Chris Minns gets a particular shout-out, as a key protagonist in the moves to censor pro-Palestine speech and increase authoritarianism and anti-protest laws in Australia. Finally, we explore the tensions in the ALP around this issue and why Albanese has invited the Israeli President, Isaac “no innocent civilians in Gaza” Herzog, to visit Australia. 

Content

Israel's propaganda machine endangers every Jew on the planet - including me | Middle East Eye

Politicising a Terror Attack | Michael West

Jillian Segal's plan to combat antisemitism straight from lobby group wish-list | Tom Tanuki

Black South Africans mine-workers [including employees of the Segal family] under Apartheid | The CJPME Foundation

Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bonde | Amy Remeikis

Chabad Picks a Side: The Ben-Gvir Alliance | Shomrim

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

This episode begins with a rambling exploration of Christmas-themed inanities including the merits of home alone 2, papal bulls, and the crucial question of whether or not Jesus was a communist. We then (finally) respond to your listener questions! Merry Xmas and happy holidays from the team at The Party Line.

Content:

When the guns fell silent for Christmas during WWI | Red Flag 

https://www.montfort.org.br/eng/documentos/decretos/anticomunismo/https://www.montfort.org.br/eng/documentos/decretos/anticomunismo/ 

Divini Redemptoris (March 19, 1937) 

Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) 

Pope Francis: questions remain over his role during Argentina's dictatorship 

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church, and Argentina’s “Dirty War” - Freedom Socialist Party 

The contradictions of Christianity | Red Flag 

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

Please support us on patreon

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

The massacre in Bondi struck the heart of decent people across Australia. It was shocking to see the murder of 15 Jewish people by suspected gunmen with links to ISIS. This special episode was recorded in the first days after the event, and tries to unpack the first responses by the media, the ALP, LNP, Pauline Hanson and Bob Katter.  In general, the horror of the attack has been amplified by the racist and anti-Palestinian response, which seeks to manipulate the tragedy for political ends. Benjamin Netanyahu’s absurd claim that Australia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood is somehow to blame was typical of this reactionary tidal wave. Also significant has been NSW Premier Chris Minn’s decision to rush through even more anti-protest laws under the guise of solidarity with the Jewish community.

Content

Don’t Listen to the Ghouls Exploiting the Tragedy of Bondi Beach | The Nation

Shame on those using the Bondi massacre to slander Palestine solidarity | Red Flag

May our flames be a recommitment | Jewish Voices for Peace 

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

Please support us on patreon

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

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Big news this week: Anneke has been adopted! By her big sister that is. We discuss all that before moving on to headlines, including what the Annika Wells expense scandal reveals about the culture of entitlement that runs through Parliament. The main breaking story that was unfolding as we were recording was the US hijacking of a Venezuelan oil tanker, which follows months of deadly strikes on boats that have killed nearly 100 civilians.  This leads on to a chat about Trump’s new National Security Strategy, which declares his intent to see the US engage in aggressive operations throughout Latin America to reassert US hegemony over the ‘western hemisphere’, while also promoting the great replacement theory and other fascist ideas and organisations throughout Europe. We wrap up with some goss from the National Union of Students National Conference in Ballarat, which saw Labor Party members try (and fail) to lock out socialist party members from national office.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

Content

Australia’s senior politicians can claim ‘unlimited’ travel expenses for their spouse, watchdog rules say | The Guardian 

Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast | The Guardian

Trump’s Looming “Forever War” | Tempest 

Headlines: 

Australian employers cut back on diversity and inclusion programs amid US ‘anti-woke’ backlash

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

Albanese digs in on MPs entitlements saga as more Wells spending comes to light

From Tim Tam to Four’N Twenty: Aussie icons enjoy government sweeteners

Renters need $300,000 more superannuation in retirement than home owners, report finds

Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979

marxismconference.org.au 

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe and share it 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.

The team start this ep with a bold marketing ploy: attacking our listeners. We then discuss Jordy’s invitation to attend am allegedly anticapitalist forum hosted by SBS (turns out, it wasn’t). We then discuss the disgraceful comments made by Zack Polanski in relation to migrant workers in the UK, and what it reveals about the limits of liberal anti-racism, before launching into a critique of Labor’s NDIS program and their plan to use AI to further dehumanise and disenfranchise people with disabilities, as well as the workers who support them. The main segment features Chloe Rafferty from Red Flag Radio, our smarter, more sophisticated elder sibling, who led us in a discussion about the current crisis in the Liberal Party, why Sussan Ley is not the answer, why the Teals are no better, and how the growth of the far right will impact Australian politics into the future.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors, Persephone Waxman and Charlie Wardrop.

Content

If ‘ethical consumption’ changed anything, they’d make it illegal | Red Flag

NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul | The Guardian 

A Marxist analysis of the Liberal Party  

Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider review – the best criticism of identity politics | The Guardian 

Headlines: 

Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review?   

Is gentle parenting to blame for low attendance rates - The Australian

The CALDA Clinic | Award Winning Premium Rehabilitation

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply 

marxismconference.org.au 

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Red Flag Radio

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe and share it 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.

Who wants to be a millionaire is a somewhat surprising focus of our first segment, as Anneke and her friend fight for the right to participate in the toxic reality TV industry. We then interview Rising Tide community organiser Zack Schofield, who is one of the wonderful people that have just organised the People’s Blockade of Newcastle Coal Port. We discuss the history of the campaign, its demands and why it’s in workers interest to support the ending of the fossil fuel industry. We follow this up with a scathing look at Labor’s climate bill, in particular the Green’s decision to pass it barely amended, and what it says about the limits of the Greens’ parliamentary approach. 

Content

Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle | The Guardian

Long-sought environmental law reform is finally here. But will the compromise deal actually protect nature? | The Conversation

The new climate denialism: Labor’s Net Zero Plan | Red Flag

Marxism and the natural world | Marxist Left Review  

Headlines:

Return of nativity scene to Melbourne ends years of ‘woke’ Christmas | Herald Sun

How the pope went pop

Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in jewellery store

Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To - WSJ

Australian prisoner sues for his 'human right' to eat Vegemite

Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all | ScienceDaily

NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul | The Guardian

A non-white face on a racist asylum policy is just a mask for cruelty | Middle East Eye

Musical outro: Marc Ribot - Bella Ciao

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe and share it 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.

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Anneke kicks off the episode with a sad story about alleged police harassment - and the risk of not paying fines promptly. We then examine the decision by Vic Pol to designate the entire CBD and surrounds as a zone where they can stop and search anyone without reason, for an incredible six months. This is especially dangerous in light of a recent report which shows that Indigenous and African people are massively more likely to be searched, harassed, tasered and so on by police. We chat next about Hanson’s racist stunt in Parliament and her broader rise to prominence in Australian politics. We wrap up with an interview with Channel Six’s Leo Puglisi about his successful efforts to establish an alternative media project as a school-aged journalist, the coming social media ban, and why young people should be able to vote.

Content

After the surreal Trump-Mamdani summit

‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months | Melbourne

How we beat Pauline Hanson in the 1990s

Check out Leo’s work at 6 News Australia | Independent & unbiased journalism

Headlines:

Cotality Housing Affordability Report shows 'extraordinary rise' in home values

Hastie knows Libs could die if they lose this fight

Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

Body-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enraged

The exceptional thing about the battle of the bobs? It’s not exceptional

Hospitalised and told to send the kids to foster care: Tenants’ VCAT woes revealed

Indigenous, African men endure rampant police profiling

Immigrant crime: Trump administration orders US embassy to collect data from Australia

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe and share it 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 land that was never ceded, 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.

Inspired by last week’s detour into pop culture, this ep starts with a debate about the relative virtues of Monchichi’s vs Labubu’s. We then take a quick look into AI, the Epstein files, and a bunch of fairly insane headlines (see below). Anneke explains what’s been going on with the interstate Socialist Party conferences, and we discuss the prospects of (re)uniting with the Socialist Alliance. We wrap by taking a belated look at the Whitlam dismissal and the past, present and future of the Labor Party via an interview with socialist historian and Labour history professor Diane Fieldes. 

Note: We barely mention Epstein but please indulge our cynical attempt to manipulate the search engine optimisation algorithm.

Content

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal Is a stain on both parties | Jacobin

Now is the time for socialists to unite | Victorian Socialists

The ALP: what class of party | Marxist Left Review 

The Labor Party: A Marxist analysis

Headlines:

Dangerous week to be a Liberal leader as killing season kicks off

Liberal leadership: The participation award for everyone in class

US government shutdown is over, and the US Department of Education hits us with a very cool tweet

‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links

South African man detained in pre-dawn immigration raid after attending Sydney neo-Nazi rally

From the extreme to the luxurious, toilets occupy my mind when travelling | The Age 

Germany lifts weapons freeze on Israel in response to Gaza ceasefire

Trump says he will approve sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia

Scaramooch!  Scaramooch! What’s it like in Mar-a-Lago? | The Age 

‘Things happen’: Trump downplays journalist’s murder as he hosts Saudi leader

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister

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Serious content

Robert Bollard on WW1 and Anti-conscription campaigns

RSL: Footsoldiers of capital 

Review: The real history of WWI

How WW1 led to class war

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

AC/DC - Hells Bells 

Silly Headlines:

Welcome to Barangaroo! We graciously provide affordable housing but you’re not allowed to enjoy it

Nandy says BBC must uphold highest standards

Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney are in a “bitter feud” over differences in their political beliefs

Investor cleans up on first home buyer surge in $700,000 sale

Will a 50-Year Mortgage Make Homes More Affordable? Here’s How It Would Work.

CBA posts $2.6b quarterly profit but sheds 6.6pc in value

Cost of hosting COP summit could reach $2b

Companions and Pets Party Rename Themselves 

Melbourne Coles’ bold strategy to stop surge in in-store thefts

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Extra readings

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies | The Nation 

An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens 

Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive | Internet | The Guardian 

The classes of capitalism | Red Flag

Woodside’s WA gas export expansion emissions greater than all Australia’s coal power stations

Climate Analytics | Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is…

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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

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This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

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We start with a moment of silence to mourn the loss of the White House’s east wing, a symbol of liberty and democracy whose light once shone brightly across the world.  But then the ep takes a deep dive into some of the injustices of Australian capitalism right now. We take a look at the regressive nature of the Australian tax system, inspired by Jordan speaking at a tax conference in Canberra hosted by the Australia Institute. Why do nurses and teachers pay more tax than QANTAS? Only Albo knows. Then we return to the absurdity of median house prices reaching $1.75 million in Sydney, and the NIMBY vs. YIMBY ‘debate’, before looking at the stressed state of the public health system through the prism of the collapse of multiple NGO health clinics in Melbourne, including CoHealth.

Extra readings

Labor’s tax policy hits the middle class, not big business

Tax corporations and the super-rich 

Missionaries, Radicals, Feminists: A History of North Yarra Community Health

Private profit vs public access: How class struggle shaped Australia’s healthcare system 

The fight for Richmond’s rebel school | Red Flag 

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (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 land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

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The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats | Tempest

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s First Year | Against the Current

The Left under Brandon Johnson | Tempest

The No Kings protests must go beyond the Democrats to defeat Trump | Counterfire

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (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 land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

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Against the New McCarthyism - Tempest

Ahead of DNC, Brandon Johnson puts Chicago homeless on the street to make room for tent city occupants 

https://x.com/AlboMP/status/1980418575761609055   - Albo and Rubio 

Trump, AUKUS and the US alliance | Red Flag 

Premier’s tone-deaf response to a city crying for help - Chip le Grand 

Constant protest gridlock in the CBD is symptom of how Melbourne has lost its way - Phillip Dalidakis 

https://x.com/spencerhakimian/status/1980303616750788857 - Trump and Rudd

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (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 land that was never ceded, 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.

Anneke would like to note that her last name is pronounced: “De man u el”

PS. Make sure you join the day of anti-fascist action this Sunday, October 12.

Email us! socialistpartypod@gmail.com 

Extra content:

• Trump knocking on heaven’s door
• Gaza as a laboratory for a MAGA overseas empire | Toufic Haddad
• Newly minted peace laureate Machado firm on pro-Israel stance | Daily Sabah
• The far right is organising—we have to resist | Anneke Demanuele
• Labor's revised super proposal | ABC News 

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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 subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. 

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (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 - always was, always will be.

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

PS. Make sure you join the October 12 National day of Protest for Palestine, wherever you may be.

Email us! socialistpartypod@gmail.com 

Extra content:

• Il Manifesto: Not just general, but widespread: it's a strike again
• Video: Italians on strike over Israel's arrest of Gaza flotilla activists
• Italy’s general strike shows the way forward | Josh Lees
• What can we learn from past union revivals | Jerome Small 

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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). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events 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.

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The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (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 - always was, always will be.

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Show notes/relevant followup pieces:

• Email address: socialistpartypod@gmail.com
• Hesgeth: https://x.com/mjfree/status/1973021113220501561?s=46&t=yuBQLcxweJvRV2KiOR44Pw
• Italian dockworker: https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1972339657250640081?s=46&t=1Ku7CbM7hfPGLYfWZobUPg
• "Block everything with Palestine in our hearts": https://redflag.org.au/article/block-everything-with-palestine-in-our-hearts-italy-paralysed-by-gaza-actions

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