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The Sound of Solidarity — 254 episodes

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Cuba, Trump and US imperialism

2

Lessons of the teachers' revolt

3

Lessons from the anti-uranium movement

4

What do we mean by dialectics?

5

The roots of Australian racism and how it can be fought

6

The war at home: AUKUS, arms exports and Labor’s military economy

7

Politics and activism: how to be a revolutionary at work

8

Imperialism in Southeast Asia: fighting US bases, fighting the war machine

9

March separately, strike together: politics and the united front

10

The myth of monoculture: Hanson and the attack on multiculturalism

11

Water and imperialism: dams, droughts and the climate crisis

12

Can the unions fight for Palestine?

13

Violent, racist, sexist - why socialists oppose the police

14

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

15

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

16

Tech oligarchs and the AI arms race

17

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

18

Imperialism and revolution in Iran

19

Should the left support Taiwan independence?

20

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

21

Clinton Fernandes on the Iran war

22

How defiance beat Queensland's anti-protest laws

23

US imperialism: lessons from the Iraq War

24

Why the German communist party failed to stop Hitler

25

Why does Labor support Israel?

26

Why is the West bombing Iran?

27

How the first Mardi Gras defied anti-protest laws

28

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

29

One Nation: lessons from the 1990s

30

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

31

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

32

Hands off Venezuela: Trump and Latin America

33

Uprising: an Iranian socialist speaks

34

West Bank: the other genocide

35

War, revolution and imperialism in Sudan

36

After Bondi: no to racism, no to genocide

37

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

38

Mamdani wins New York: lessons for the left

39

Anti-Palestinian racism in schools

40

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

41

Liberals face an existential crisis

42

Islamophobia, imperialism and resistance

43

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

44

Block everything: inside Italy's general strike for Palestine

45

Australian settler colonialism, racism and imperialism

46

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

47

Capitalism, settler colonial law and the police

48

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

49

Alexandra Kollontai: women, family and revolution

50

Indonesian socialists speak

51

The case for one state in Palestine

52

May 68: when students and workers shook the world

53

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

54

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

55

Palestine: strategies for liberation

56

From nuclear waste to nuclear weapons: resisting radioactive capitalism

57

James Connolly: an anti-colonialist revolutionary

58

Rebuilding the unions: the Militant Minority Movement

59

Uprising: War, resistance and settler colonialism

60

Marxist ecology: how do we save the planet?

61

Busting the myths of 'Marxism-Leninism'

62

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

63

Anti-Zionism and the radical Jewish tradition

64

The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Australia

65

Russia’s 1905 revolution: birth of the soviet

66

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

67

Neurodiversity: disability, individuality and capitalism

68

Trump, racism and resistance

69

From Germany to Australia, the crisis of social democracy

70

Islamophobia: a growing racist threat

71

How mass revolt ended the Vietnam War

72

German Peasants' War: when revolt shook Europe

73

The Freedom Ride 60 years on: fighting Australian apartheid

74

Trump's tariffs, trade wars and imperialism

75

Can we win social change by voting?

76

Trump, Russia and the carve-up of Ukraine

77

Beyond the binary: transgender liberation and socialism

78

Robodebt: war on the poor

79

Trump, imperialism and a world in turmoil

80

I was there: the Battle of Waterdale Road

81

Left wing communism: an infantile disorder

82

Trump: instability, reaction and resistance

83

The Second International, war and revolution

84

I was there: the Austudy 5

85

Do workers in the West benefit from imperialism?

86

Fighting for the right to protest in 1970s Queensland

87

Sudan—civil war and revolution

88

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

89

US, Australia: the fight for abortion rights today

90

Why hasn’t the US restrained Israel?

91

Why did Trump win and how should the left respond?

92

I was there: ANU student occupation 1994

93

Revolution and the Middle East: can Israel survive?

94

I was there: S11 2000 - lessons for direct action

95

Unions and the fight against homophobia

96

Only allies? Marxism, unity and identity politics

97

What is fascism? Then and now

98

Why is Labor so rightwing?

99

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

100

Middle East in revolt: from permanent war to permanent revolution

101

Intifada, revolution! Fighting back for the CFMEU and Palestine

102

Marching on Albanese: speaking out for Palestine

103

AIDS crisis: nurses on the frontline

104

Kanaky's struggle for independence

105

Hands off the CFMEU

106

Refugees speak out against Labor's cruel limbo

107

Why it's not antisemitic to criticise Israel

108

A history of revolution in the Middle East

109

Trump, Trumpism and the crisis of US politics

110

Imperialism and Ukraine: has the US lost?

111

After COP28: fossil fuels and the future for capitalism

112

The missing party: Rosa Luxemburg and the German revolution

113

Kanaky rises against colonialism

114

The Radical Jewish Tradition

115

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

116

How capitalism breeds war

117

Israel: is Zionism in crisis?

118

Is international revolution possible?

119

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

120

Alienation and the misery of capitalism

121

Palestine, resistance and revolution

122

Theories of settler colonialism

123

Eyewitness from Gaza

124

Capitalism and anti-Aboriginal racism

125

How teachers are organising for Palestine

126

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

127

Music and politics: DJing for Palestine

128

Lenin on imperialism and war

129

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

130

The reactionary roots of Zionism

131

The rotten politics of Narendra Modi

132

Jewish voices for Palestine

133

Why Labor is a loyal ally of Israel

134

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

135

Is human nature a barrier to socialism?

136

Why the ”two-state solution” is no solution

137

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

138

Who are Hamas?

139

Fighting apartheid: from South Africa to Israel

140

Imperialism and revolution in the Middle East

141

Nuclear is no solution to climate crisis

142

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

143

Free Palestine: why it’s right to resist Israel

144

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

145

Labor, imperialism and the politics of war

146

Material Girls: why trans rights is class struggle

147

Sexism, sport and nationalism

148

Strategies for revolution: why Trotsky matters

149

White Australia and the labour movement

150

Ben Abbatangelo on the Voice

151

Socialists, war and revolution

152

No to war: lessons from the Vietnam Moratoriums

153

What’s the alternative to the Voice?

154

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

155

Imperialism and Ukraine: NATO’s proxy war in Europe

156

Music and politics: Hip hop, hippies and the homeless

157

Climate, capitalism and catastrophe

158

No to war: Australia, China and the new imperialism

159

Has enterprise bargaining killed the right to strike?

160

Music and politics: the protest song

161

The Palestine Laboratory

162

Is Putin all-powerful?

163

In defence of drag queen story time

164

Music and politics: dance music

165

Inflation, crisis and the world economy

166

Spain 1936: when anarchism failed

167

Why universities should boycott Israel

168

Red in the rainbow – sex, gender and the system

169

Labor’s climate cover-up

170

Trotsky and the Chinese revolution

171

Crisis and revolt in the Middle East

172

Unions: building rank-and-file power

173

Art and revolution

174

Can Israel change from within?

175

Are robots taking our jobs?

176

Too Quiet on the Western Front?

177

AUKUS and the rising threat of war

178

Guam: Indigenous people resist US military

179

COVID lockdown: a failure of public health

180

Will the Voice to Parliament change anything?

181

Communism in Australia 100 years on

182

Marx versus Malthus: the myth of overpopulation

183

Capitalism, inequality and the Australian economy

184

Frontier warfare and colonial capitalism

185

Lenin: What is to be done

186

Australian imperialism and PNG

187

Australia’s horrific atomic history

188

Gomeroi and unions, together against Santos

189

Is Australia an American puppet?

190

Invasion and resistance in early colonial Sydney

191

Why I stand with Lidia Thorpe

192

Refugees trapped in Indonesia are welcome here

193

No to nuclear waste dumps

194

Iran: from 1979 to today

195

Anti-colonialism and the Communist International

196

Climate scientist speaks out

197

Abortion and women’s liberation in the US

198

Early educators speak out

199

Is revolution possible in the West?

200

Neither Washington nor Moscow

201

Refugees: will anything change under Labor?

202

Labor and the Great Depression

203

Hiroshima: why did the US drop the bomb?

204

Wage theft: a not-so-hidden scandal

205

I was there: the Black Moratorium

206

I was there: fighting apartheid in South Africa

207

Roe v Wade: the fight for abortion rights

208

No to AUKUS and nuclear submarines

209

Sexual politics and socialism

210

What would socialism look like?

211

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

212

I was there: Brunswick Against the Nazis

213

The Communist Manifesto

214

Does privilege explain racism?

215

On the offensive: union activists speak

216

Morrison out: but what’s the alternative?

217

Ukraine: no to Putin, no to NATO

218

Labor in power: has it ever made a difference?

219

Alexandra Kollontai and women’s liberation

220

Why Labor’s ’small target’ approach fails

221

The united front

222

I was there: Woomera breakout 2002

223

Introduction to Marxism

224

I was there: freeing Baby Asha 2016

225

Pilbara strike 1946-49

226

I was there: Sydney College of the Arts occupation 2016

227

Jeff Sparrow on crimes against nature

228

COVID Australia sharply divided by class

229

I was there: storming Parliament 1996

230

501s: locked up and left to rot

231

Marx, Engels and Indigenous struggles

232

The contradictions of China

233

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

234

New Caledonia: the fight for Kanak self-determination

235

Why supporting Palestine is not antisemitic

236

COP26: Why capitalism fails the climate

237

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

238

The fight for trans liberation

239

The NDIS: where disability has a market price

240

Does Australia need an independent foreign policy?

241

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

242

Why NAPLAN is bad for children‘s education

243

Celeste Liddle: vaccination needs persuasion

244

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

245

Palestinian resistance and revolution in the Middle East

246

COVID and the cops

247

Malaysia: resistance challenges repression

248

Palestine and the Unity Intifada

249

Poverty: Australia's dirty secret

250

Busting the Liberals' gas myths

251

COVID and the working class

252

The struggle today in Aotearoa / New Zealand

253

Taking stock: the refugee movement in Australia today

254

West Papua: a rising tide of struggle for liberation