The Sound of Solidarity

Mar 06 2025 100 ep. 30 mins 19

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A podcast series brought to you by Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist group in Australia. www.solidarity.net.au

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Beyond the binary: transgender liberation and socialism

Mar 06 2025 15 mins

Trans rights are under attack. Casey Forsyth explains why our rulers are so keen to promote transphobia and how we can defeat it and win a world of trans liberation. Read more about the fight against transphobia. Find out more about Solidarity.

Robodebt: war on the poor

Feb 27 2025 53 mins

Robodebt saw more than 526,000 people told they had Centrelink debts, even though it simply wasn’t true. To unpack this piece of bureaucratic bastardry, we talk to journalist Rick Morton, who has written a book about Robodebt called Mean Streak, published by HarperCollins. Rick is the Saturday Paper’s senior reporter. He won two Walkley Awards for his coverage of the Robodebt r

Trump, imperialism and a world in turmoil

Feb 20 2025 16 mins

Solidarity editor James Supple assesses a world in turmoil, the impact of Trump's election and the potential for a fightback against the rise of the right. Read more about Trump. Find out more about Solidarity.

I was there: the Battle of Waterdale Road

Feb 13 2025 32 mins

John (Janusz) Ebel was a student at La Trobe University in 1970 and active in the movement against the Vietnam War. He burned his draft card, helped lock up a Liberal Minister, was shot at and took part in the Battle of Waterdale Road, when police ambushed and bashed student activists. Read more about the Vietnam War. Find out more about Solidarity.

Left wing communism: an infantile disorder

Feb 06 2025 24 mins

David Glanz discusses Lenin's 1920 pamphlet, Left wing communism: an infantile disorder, its importance then and its relevance today. Read the pamphlet. Find out more about Solidarity.

Trump: instability, reaction and resistance

Jan 30 2025 17 mins

Jonathan Sherlock discusses Trump 2.0 - how Trump won, the threat he poses and the potential for resistance. Read more about the fight against Trump. Find out more about Solidarity.

The Second International, war and revolution

Jan 23 2025 22 mins

Jean Parker looks at how the debates between reformists and revolutionaries played out in the Second International, the grouping of socialist parties on the eve of the First World War, and their relevance for today. Read more about the Second International. Find out more about Solidarity.

I was there: the Austudy 5

Jan 16 2025 53 mins

In 1992, the then Labor government announced it would cut student support, Austudy, from its already derisory level. Thousands of students took to the streets. In Melbourne, the police counter-attacked by arresting five socialists. It took more than two years but a significant defence campaign led to all the major charges being dropped. Among the five were Marcus Banks and Jonathan

Do workers in the West benefit from imperialism?

Jan 09 2025 34 mins

David Glanz challenges some common arguments that workers in Australia and the West benefit from the exploitation of the Global South. He argues that workers everywhere have common interests, laying the basis for a common struggle against the system. Read more about imperialism. Find out more about Solidarity.

Fighting for the right to protest in 1970s Queensland

Jan 02 2025 35 mins

Solidarity member Judy McVey took part in organising the campaign for the right to march in Queensland. Judy talks about why the ban on marches was put in place, how the campaign was organised and what debates took place inside it, how victory was won and what this means today. Read more about struggle in Queensland. Find out more about Solidarity. This episode is republished with