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The Sound of Solidarity — 246 episodes

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March separately, strike together: politics and the united front

2

The myth of monoculture: Hanson and the attack on multiculturalism

3

Water and imperialism: dams, droughts and the climate crisis

4

Can the unions fight for Palestine?

5

Violent, racist, sexist - why socialists oppose the police

6

From Palestine to anti-war: lessons from the Vietnam War movement

7

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

8

Tech oligarchs and the AI arms race

9

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

10

Imperialism and revolution in Iran

11

Should the left support Taiwan independence?

12

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

13

Clinton Fernandes on the Iran war

14

How defiance beat Queensland's anti-protest laws

15

US imperialism: lessons from the Iraq War

16

Why the German communist party failed to stop Hitler

17

Why does Labor support Israel?

18

Why is the West bombing Iran?

19

How the first Mardi Gras defied anti-protest laws

20

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

21

One Nation: lessons from the 1990s

22

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

23

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

24

Hands off Venezuela: Trump and Latin America

25

Uprising: an Iranian socialist speaks

26

West Bank: the other genocide

27

War, revolution and imperialism in Sudan

28

After Bondi: no to racism, no to genocide

29

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

30

Mamdani wins New York: lessons for the left

31

Anti-Palestinian racism in schools

32

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

33

Liberals face an existential crisis

34

Islamophobia, imperialism and resistance

35

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

36

Block everything: inside Italy's general strike for Palestine

37

Australian settler colonialism, racism and imperialism

38

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

39

Capitalism, settler colonial law and the police

40

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

41

Alexandra Kollontai: women, family and revolution

42

Indonesian socialists speak

43

The case for one state in Palestine

44

May 68: when students and workers shook the world

45

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

46

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

47

Palestine: strategies for liberation

48

From nuclear waste to nuclear weapons: resisting radioactive capitalism

49

James Connolly: an anti-colonialist revolutionary

50

Rebuilding the unions: the Militant Minority Movement

51

Uprising: War, resistance and settler colonialism

52

Marxist ecology: how do we save the planet?

53

Busting the myths of 'Marxism-Leninism'

54

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

55

Anti-Zionism and the radical Jewish tradition

56

The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Australia

57

Russia’s 1905 revolution: birth of the soviet

58

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

59

Neurodiversity: disability, individuality and capitalism

60

Trump, racism and resistance

61

From Germany to Australia, the crisis of social democracy

62

Islamophobia: a growing racist threat

63

How mass revolt ended the Vietnam War

64

German Peasants' War: when revolt shook Europe

65

The Freedom Ride 60 years on: fighting Australian apartheid

66

Trump's tariffs, trade wars and imperialism

67

Can we win social change by voting?

68

Trump, Russia and the carve-up of Ukraine

69

Beyond the binary: transgender liberation and socialism

70

Robodebt: war on the poor

71

Trump, imperialism and a world in turmoil

72

I was there: the Battle of Waterdale Road

73

Left wing communism: an infantile disorder

74

Trump: instability, reaction and resistance

75

The Second International, war and revolution

76

I was there: the Austudy 5

77

Do workers in the West benefit from imperialism?

78

Fighting for the right to protest in 1970s Queensland

79

Sudan—civil war and revolution

80

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

81

US, Australia: the fight for abortion rights today

82

Why hasn’t the US restrained Israel?

83

Why did Trump win and how should the left respond?

84

I was there: ANU student occupation 1994

85

Revolution and the Middle East: can Israel survive?

86

I was there: S11 2000 - lessons for direct action

87

Unions and the fight against homophobia

88

Only allies? Marxism, unity and identity politics

89

What is fascism? Then and now

90

Why is Labor so rightwing?

91

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

92

Middle East in revolt: from permanent war to permanent revolution

93

Intifada, revolution! Fighting back for the CFMEU and Palestine

94

Marching on Albanese: speaking out for Palestine

95

AIDS crisis: nurses on the frontline

96

Kanaky's struggle for independence

97

Hands off the CFMEU

98

Refugees speak out against Labor's cruel limbo

99

Why it's not antisemitic to criticise Israel

100

A history of revolution in the Middle East

101

Trump, Trumpism and the crisis of US politics

102

Imperialism and Ukraine: has the US lost?

103

After COP28: fossil fuels and the future for capitalism

104

The missing party: Rosa Luxemburg and the German revolution

105

Kanaky rises against colonialism

106

The Radical Jewish Tradition

107

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

108

How capitalism breeds war

109

Israel: is Zionism in crisis?

110

Is international revolution possible?

111

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

112

Alienation and the misery of capitalism

113

Palestine, resistance and revolution

114

Theories of settler colonialism

115

Eyewitness from Gaza

116

Capitalism and anti-Aboriginal racism

117

How teachers are organising for Palestine

118

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

119

Music and politics: DJing for Palestine

120

Lenin on imperialism and war

121

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

122

The reactionary roots of Zionism

123

The rotten politics of Narendra Modi

124

Jewish voices for Palestine

125

Why Labor is a loyal ally of Israel

126

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

127

Is human nature a barrier to socialism?

128

Why the ”two-state solution” is no solution

129

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

130

Who are Hamas?

131

Fighting apartheid: from South Africa to Israel

132

Imperialism and revolution in the Middle East

133

Nuclear is no solution to climate crisis

134

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

135

Free Palestine: why it’s right to resist Israel

136

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

137

Labor, imperialism and the politics of war

138

Material Girls: why trans rights is class struggle

139

Sexism, sport and nationalism

140

Strategies for revolution: why Trotsky matters

141

White Australia and the labour movement

142

Ben Abbatangelo on the Voice

143

Socialists, war and revolution

144

No to war: lessons from the Vietnam Moratoriums

145

What’s the alternative to the Voice?

146

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

147

Imperialism and Ukraine: NATO’s proxy war in Europe

148

Music and politics: Hip hop, hippies and the homeless

149

Climate, capitalism and catastrophe

150

No to war: Australia, China and the new imperialism

151

Has enterprise bargaining killed the right to strike?

152

Music and politics: the protest song

153

The Palestine Laboratory

154

Is Putin all-powerful?

155

In defence of drag queen story time

156

Music and politics: dance music

157

Inflation, crisis and the world economy

158

Spain 1936: when anarchism failed

159

Why universities should boycott Israel

160

Red in the rainbow – sex, gender and the system

161

Labor’s climate cover-up

162

Trotsky and the Chinese revolution

163

Crisis and revolt in the Middle East

164

Unions: building rank-and-file power

165

Art and revolution

166

Can Israel change from within?

167

Are robots taking our jobs?

168

Too Quiet on the Western Front?

169

AUKUS and the rising threat of war

170

Guam: Indigenous people resist US military

171

COVID lockdown: a failure of public health

172

Will the Voice to Parliament change anything?

173

Communism in Australia 100 years on

174

Marx versus Malthus: the myth of overpopulation

175

Capitalism, inequality and the Australian economy

176

Frontier warfare and colonial capitalism

177

Lenin: What is to be done

178

Australian imperialism and PNG

179

Australia’s horrific atomic history

180

Gomeroi and unions, together against Santos

181

Is Australia an American puppet?

182

Invasion and resistance in early colonial Sydney

183

Why I stand with Lidia Thorpe

184

Refugees trapped in Indonesia are welcome here

185

No to nuclear waste dumps

186

Iran: from 1979 to today

187

Anti-colonialism and the Communist International

188

Climate scientist speaks out

189

Abortion and women’s liberation in the US

190

Early educators speak out

191

Is revolution possible in the West?

192

Neither Washington nor Moscow

193

Refugees: will anything change under Labor?

194

Labor and the Great Depression

195

Hiroshima: why did the US drop the bomb?

196

Wage theft: a not-so-hidden scandal

197

I was there: the Black Moratorium

198

I was there: fighting apartheid in South Africa

199

Roe v Wade: the fight for abortion rights

200

No to AUKUS and nuclear submarines

201

Sexual politics and socialism

202

What would socialism look like?

203

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

204

I was there: Brunswick Against the Nazis

205

The Communist Manifesto

206

Does privilege explain racism?

207

On the offensive: union activists speak

208

Morrison out: but what’s the alternative?

209

Ukraine: no to Putin, no to NATO

210

Labor in power: has it ever made a difference?

211

Alexandra Kollontai and women’s liberation

212

Why Labor’s ’small target’ approach fails

213

The united front

214

I was there: Woomera breakout 2002

215

Introduction to Marxism

216

I was there: freeing Baby Asha 2016

217

Pilbara strike 1946-49

218

I was there: Sydney College of the Arts occupation 2016

219

Jeff Sparrow on crimes against nature

220

COVID Australia sharply divided by class

221

I was there: storming Parliament 1996

222

501s: locked up and left to rot

223

Marx, Engels and Indigenous struggles

224

The contradictions of China

225

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

226

New Caledonia: the fight for Kanak self-determination

227

Why supporting Palestine is not antisemitic

228

COP26: Why capitalism fails the climate

229

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

230

The fight for trans liberation

231

The NDIS: where disability has a market price

232

Does Australia need an independent foreign policy?

233

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

234

Why NAPLAN is bad for children‘s education

235

Celeste Liddle: vaccination needs persuasion

236

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

237

Palestinian resistance and revolution in the Middle East

238

COVID and the cops

239

Malaysia: resistance challenges repression

240

Palestine and the Unity Intifada

241

Poverty: Australia's dirty secret

242

Busting the Liberals' gas myths

243

COVID and the working class

244

The struggle today in Aotearoa / New Zealand

245

Taking stock: the refugee movement in Australia today

246

West Papua: a rising tide of struggle for liberation