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The Sound of Solidarity — 240 episodes

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'Cease fire!' Black deaths and the racist police in the NT

2

Tech oligarchs and the AI arms race

3

From AIDS to puberty blockers: the battle for LGBTI+ rights in the healthcare system

4

Imperialism and revolution in Iran

5

Should the left support Taiwan independence?

6

Fighting Trump, fighting ICE: Eyewitness to repression and resistance in the US

7

Clinton Fernandes on the Iran war

8

How defiance beat Queensland's anti-protest laws

9

US imperialism: lessons from the Iraq War

10

Why the German communist party failed to stop Hitler

11

Why does Labor support Israel?

12

Why is the West bombing Iran?

13

How the first Mardi Gras defied anti-protest laws

14

Palestine, Trump, housing, racism, climate … how do we build a united fightback?

15

One Nation: lessons from the 1990s

16

Labor’s shift to the right: Palestine, AUKUS, CFMEU

17

Trump and the end of the ‘rules-based order’

18

Hands off Venezuela: Trump and Latin America

19

Uprising: an Iranian socialist speaks

20

West Bank: the other genocide

21

War, revolution and imperialism in Sudan

22

After Bondi: no to racism, no to genocide

23

Another COP fail: why capitalism can't solve the climate crisis

24

Mamdani wins New York: lessons for the left

25

Anti-Palestinian racism in schools

26

Why the rich wanted Whitlam sacked - and how workers fought back

27

Liberals face an existential crisis

28

Islamophobia, imperialism and resistance

29

Gaza after the 'ceasefire': will the killing stop?

30

Block everything: inside Italy's general strike for Palestine

31

Australian settler colonialism, racism and imperialism

32

Racism and the LA riots: The beginning of the end of Trump?

33

Capitalism, settler colonial law and the police

34

Fighting the rise of the far right: lessons from Greece and Britain

35

Alexandra Kollontai: women, family and revolution

36

Indonesian socialists speak

37

The case for one state in Palestine

38

May 68: when students and workers shook the world

39

1925-27: when China's workers challenged for power

40

Chaos, genocide and imperialism: Trump’s new world disorder

41

Palestine: strategies for liberation

42

From nuclear waste to nuclear weapons: resisting radioactive capitalism

43

James Connolly: an anti-colonialist revolutionary

44

Rebuilding the unions: the Militant Minority Movement

45

Uprising: War, resistance and settler colonialism

46

Marxist ecology: how do we save the planet?

47

Busting the myths of 'Marxism-Leninism'

48

No to war on Iran: how can Israel be stopped?

49

Anti-Zionism and the radical Jewish tradition

50

The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Australia

51

Russia’s 1905 revolution: birth of the soviet

52

Trotsky, Stalin, Mao: what is the real Marxist tradition?

53

Neurodiversity: disability, individuality and capitalism

54

Trump, racism and resistance

55

From Germany to Australia, the crisis of social democracy

56

Islamophobia: a growing racist threat

57

How mass revolt ended the Vietnam War

58

German Peasants' War: when revolt shook Europe

59

The Freedom Ride 60 years on: fighting Australian apartheid

60

Trump's tariffs, trade wars and imperialism

61

Can we win social change by voting?

62

Trump, Russia and the carve-up of Ukraine

63

Beyond the binary: transgender liberation and socialism

64

Robodebt: war on the poor

65

Trump, imperialism and a world in turmoil

66

I was there: the Battle of Waterdale Road

67

Left wing communism: an infantile disorder

68

Trump: instability, reaction and resistance

69

The Second International, war and revolution

70

I was there: the Austudy 5

71

Do workers in the West benefit from imperialism?

72

Fighting for the right to protest in 1970s Queensland

73

Sudan—civil war and revolution

74

The struggle against anti-Aboriginal racism in 1920s and 1930s Australia

75

US, Australia: the fight for abortion rights today

76

Why hasn’t the US restrained Israel?

77

Why did Trump win and how should the left respond?

78

I was there: ANU student occupation 1994

79

Revolution and the Middle East: can Israel survive?

80

I was there: S11 2000 - lessons for direct action

81

Unions and the fight against homophobia

82

Only allies? Marxism, unity and identity politics

83

What is fascism? Then and now

84

Why is Labor so rightwing?

85

Trump and Europe: how can we fight the rise of the far right?

86

Middle East in revolt: from permanent war to permanent revolution

87

Intifada, revolution! Fighting back for the CFMEU and Palestine

88

Marching on Albanese: speaking out for Palestine

89

AIDS crisis: nurses on the frontline

90

Kanaky's struggle for independence

91

Hands off the CFMEU

92

Refugees speak out against Labor's cruel limbo

93

Why it's not antisemitic to criticise Israel

94

A history of revolution in the Middle East

95

Trump, Trumpism and the crisis of US politics

96

Imperialism and Ukraine: has the US lost?

97

After COP28: fossil fuels and the future for capitalism

98

The missing party: Rosa Luxemburg and the German revolution

99

Kanaky rises against colonialism

100

The Radical Jewish Tradition

101

Climate, cost of living, Palestine: why is Albanese so right-wing?

102

How capitalism breeds war

103

Israel: is Zionism in crisis?

104

Is international revolution possible?

105

Imperialism and the Pacific: no US bases, no war on China

106

Alienation and the misery of capitalism

107

Palestine, resistance and revolution

108

Theories of settler colonialism

109

Eyewitness from Gaza

110

Capitalism and anti-Aboriginal racism

111

How teachers are organising for Palestine

112

What's wrong with capitalism? What's the alternative?

113

Music and politics: DJing for Palestine

114

Lenin on imperialism and war

115

Music and politics: Workers' control and the hands that made the Sydney Opera House

116

The reactionary roots of Zionism

117

The rotten politics of Narendra Modi

118

Jewish voices for Palestine

119

Why Labor is a loyal ally of Israel

120

Jabiluka: When Aboriginal people took on a mining company and won

121

Is human nature a barrier to socialism?

122

Why the ”two-state solution” is no solution

123

Music and politics: Lessons from Paul Robeson for the politics of the present

124

Who are Hamas?

125

Fighting apartheid: from South Africa to Israel

126

Imperialism and revolution in the Middle East

127

Nuclear is no solution to climate crisis

128

Music and politics: Iran, hip hop and anti-militarism

129

Free Palestine: why it’s right to resist Israel

130

Climate and catastrophe: is it too late to save the planet?

131

Labor, imperialism and the politics of war

132

Material Girls: why trans rights is class struggle

133

Sexism, sport and nationalism

134

Strategies for revolution: why Trotsky matters

135

White Australia and the labour movement

136

Ben Abbatangelo on the Voice

137

Socialists, war and revolution

138

No to war: lessons from the Vietnam Moratoriums

139

What’s the alternative to the Voice?

140

One year on: What’s the point of Labor?

141

Imperialism and Ukraine: NATO’s proxy war in Europe

142

Music and politics: Hip hop, hippies and the homeless

143

Climate, capitalism and catastrophe

144

No to war: Australia, China and the new imperialism

145

Has enterprise bargaining killed the right to strike?

146

Music and politics: the protest song

147

The Palestine Laboratory

148

Is Putin all-powerful?

149

In defence of drag queen story time

150

Music and politics: dance music

151

Inflation, crisis and the world economy

152

Spain 1936: when anarchism failed

153

Why universities should boycott Israel

154

Red in the rainbow – sex, gender and the system

155

Labor’s climate cover-up

156

Trotsky and the Chinese revolution

157

Crisis and revolt in the Middle East

158

Unions: building rank-and-file power

159

Art and revolution

160

Can Israel change from within?

161

Are robots taking our jobs?

162

Too Quiet on the Western Front?

163

AUKUS and the rising threat of war

164

Guam: Indigenous people resist US military

165

COVID lockdown: a failure of public health

166

Will the Voice to Parliament change anything?

167

Communism in Australia 100 years on

168

Marx versus Malthus: the myth of overpopulation

169

Capitalism, inequality and the Australian economy

170

Frontier warfare and colonial capitalism

171

Lenin: What is to be done

172

Australian imperialism and PNG

173

Australia’s horrific atomic history

174

Gomeroi and unions, together against Santos

175

Is Australia an American puppet?

176

Invasion and resistance in early colonial Sydney

177

Why I stand with Lidia Thorpe

178

Refugees trapped in Indonesia are welcome here

179

No to nuclear waste dumps

180

Iran: from 1979 to today

181

Anti-colonialism and the Communist International

182

Climate scientist speaks out

183

Abortion and women’s liberation in the US

184

Early educators speak out

185

Is revolution possible in the West?

186

Neither Washington nor Moscow

187

Refugees: will anything change under Labor?

188

Labor and the Great Depression

189

Hiroshima: why did the US drop the bomb?

190

Wage theft: a not-so-hidden scandal

191

I was there: the Black Moratorium

192

I was there: fighting apartheid in South Africa

193

Roe v Wade: the fight for abortion rights

194

No to AUKUS and nuclear submarines

195

Sexual politics and socialism

196

What would socialism look like?

197

Revolution and the Middle East: why Palestine is still the issue

198

I was there: Brunswick Against the Nazis

199

The Communist Manifesto

200

Does privilege explain racism?

201

On the offensive: union activists speak

202

Morrison out: but what’s the alternative?

203

Ukraine: no to Putin, no to NATO

204

Labor in power: has it ever made a difference?

205

Alexandra Kollontai and women’s liberation

206

Why Labor’s ’small target’ approach fails

207

The united front

208

I was there: Woomera breakout 2002

209

Introduction to Marxism

210

I was there: freeing Baby Asha 2016

211

Pilbara strike 1946-49

212

I was there: Sydney College of the Arts occupation 2016

213

Jeff Sparrow on crimes against nature

214

COVID Australia sharply divided by class

215

I was there: storming Parliament 1996

216

501s: locked up and left to rot

217

Marx, Engels and Indigenous struggles

218

The contradictions of China

219

Women‘s liberation: lessons from the ‘60s and ‘70s

220

New Caledonia: the fight for Kanak self-determination

221

Why supporting Palestine is not antisemitic

222

COP26: Why capitalism fails the climate

223

Nuclear power—not safe, not the answer to climate change

224

The fight for trans liberation

225

The NDIS: where disability has a market price

226

Does Australia need an independent foreign policy?

227

No jab, no job—how should unions and the left respond?

228

Why NAPLAN is bad for children‘s education

229

Celeste Liddle: vaccination needs persuasion

230

The imperialist alliance: Australia, the US and the Asia-Pacific

231

Palestinian resistance and revolution in the Middle East

232

COVID and the cops

233

Malaysia: resistance challenges repression

234

Palestine and the Unity Intifada

235

Poverty: Australia's dirty secret

236

Busting the Liberals' gas myths

237

COVID and the working class

238

The struggle today in Aotearoa / New Zealand

239

Taking stock: the refugee movement in Australia today

240

West Papua: a rising tide of struggle for liberation