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Solidarity is a socialist group with branches across Australia. We produce the monthly Solidarity magazine. Read it online, subscribe, join us. www.solidarity.net.au

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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The fascist Alternative for Germany has won a state election, the first such victory for the far right since 1945. Anni Fender explains why the AfD has broken through, the threat it poses and how anti-Nazis in Germany can organise against it. Anni is a member of Socialism from Below (SVU).
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Germany's far right on the march: crisis and resistance to the AfD | The Sound of Solidarity
The fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won a state election, marking the first such victory for the far right since 1945. It followed that up with a significant vote in another state election. ...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hundreds of striking hospital doctors brave the rain in Naarm - Melbourne today, demanding better pay and shorter shifts.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hundreds of striking hospital doctors brave the rain in Naarm - Melbourne today, demanding better pay and shorter shifts.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The film Palestine 1936 is highly recommended. If you didn’t hate the British Empire and imperialism before you go in, you sure as well will on the way out.
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1936: the year Palestine rose against the British empire – Solidarity Online
Twelve years before the Nakba that founded the Israeli state in 1948, Palestine rose in revolt against British colonial control and growing Zionist domination.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The film Palestine 1936 is highly recommended. If you didn’t hate the British Empire and imperialism before you go in, you sure as well will on the way out.
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1936: the year Palestine rose against the British empire – Solidarity Online
Twelve years before the Nakba that founded the Israeli state in 1948, Palestine rose in revolt against British colonial control and growing Zionist domination.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sydney teacher John Morris has been suspended without pay for speaking out for Palestine. Sign this petition to show your support for John.
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Reinstate pro-Palestine teacher John Morris
The NSW Department of Education has suspended teacher John Morris without pay, after a smear campaign by the right wing Daily Telegraph newspaper. This is witch-hunt and trial by media. John's suspen...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sydney teacher John Morris has been suspended without pay for speaking out for Palestine. Sign this petition to show your support for John.
megaphone.org.au
Reinstate pro-Palestine teacher John Morris
The NSW Department of Education has suspended teacher John Morris without pay, after a smear campaign by the right wing Daily Telegraph newspaper. This is witch-hunt and trial by media. John's suspen...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Héctor Puente Sierra talks about the Spanish Civil War that broke out in 1936. He describes how it showed the enormous revolutionary potential of the working class and explains why that potential was defeated.
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Spain 1936: revolution and counter-revolution | The Sound of Solidarity
Héctor Puente Sierra talks about the Spanish Civil War that broke out in 1936. He describes how it showed the enormous revolutionary potential of the working class and explains why that potential was ...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The AI boom is a capitalist frenzy but there's a growing likelihood that the bubble will burst, hitting the world economy, argues David Glanz. Meanwhile, giant data centres are being built across our suburbs and beyond. They are an environmental disaster in the making.
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Data centres, imperialism and the AI bubble | The Sound of Solidarity
The AI boom is a capitalist frenzy but there's a growing likelihood that the bubble will burst, hitting the world economy, argues David Glanz. Meanwhile, giant data centres are being built across our ...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why did the ALP Minister for External Affairs in the 1940s, Doc Evatt, play such a central role in the United Nations vote to partition Palestine? Jeff Rickertt explains that his actions were driven primarily by what was best for Australian capitalism. soundofsolidarity.podbean.com/e/doc-evatt-...
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Doc Evatt, Labor and the partition of Palestine | The Sound of Solidarity
Why did the ALP Minister for External Affairs in the 1940s, Doc Evatt, play such a central role in the United Nations vote to partition Palestine? Researcher Jeff Rickertt explains that while Evatt su...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why did the ALP Minister for External Affairs in the 1940s, Doc Evatt, play such a central role in the United Nations vote to partition Palestine? Jeff Rickertt explains that his actions were driven primarily by what was best for Australian capitalism. soundofsolidarity.podbean.com/e/doc-evatt-...
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Doc Evatt, Labor and the partition of Palestine | The Sound of Solidarity
Why did the ALP Minister for External Affairs in the 1940s, Doc Evatt, play such a central role in the United Nations vote to partition Palestine? Researcher Jeff Rickertt explains that while Evatt su...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The AI boom is a capitalist frenzy but there's a growing likelihood that the bubble will burst, hitting the world economy, argues David Glanz. Meanwhile, giant data centres are being built across our suburbs and beyond. They are an environmental disaster in the making.
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Data centres, imperialism and the AI bubble | The Sound of Solidarity
The AI boom is a capitalist frenzy but there's a growing likelihood that the bubble will burst, hitting the world economy, argues David Glanz. Meanwhile, giant data centres are being built across our ...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A vibrant rally uniting members of the CPSU, MEAA and ETU in their first ever site-wide strike at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. They heard from a teacher in Fight The Crisis, the rank and file group in the AEU, about their strike. The strike saw three performances cancelled. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Héctor Puente Sierra talks about the Spanish Civil War that broke out in 1936. He describes how it showed the enormous revolutionary potential of the working class and explains why that potential was defeated.
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Spain 1936: revolution and counter-revolution | The Sound of Solidarity
Héctor Puente Sierra talks about the Spanish Civil War that broke out in 1936. He describes how it showed the enormous revolutionary potential of the working class and explains why that potential was ...
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RAC Vic @rac-vic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you to everyone who came to the Unite Against Racism forum on building the fight against One Nation last night. Attendees took away thousands of leaflets. UAR needs to print tens of thousands more -- and we need your help. Donate today. chuffed.org/project/unit...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Eighteen wharfies, members of the Maritime Union of Australia at the bulk goods handler Quantem at Coode Island, West Melbourne, have been locked out.
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Wharfies defiant in face of management bullying – Solidarity Online
Eighteen wharfies at the bulk goods handler Quantem at Coode Island, West Melbourne, have been locked out.
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RAC Vic @rac-vic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join the fight against One Nation and racism. Unite Against Racism forum at Trades Hall, Carlton, this Wednesday (9 September) at 6.30pm. Details and speakers in the link. www.facebook.com/share/1M3ctC... We'll be announcing plans for a united, peaceful anti-racism rally on 24 October.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The US has bullied Cuba for decades but Donald Trump is now threatening to finally overthrow the regime. Marcus Banks explains why revolutionary socialists stand with Cuba against US imperialism while rejecting the idea that Cuba is a socialist society.
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Cuba, Trump and US imperialism | The Sound of Solidarity
The US has bullied Cuba for decades but Donald Trump is now threatening to finally overthrow the regime. Marcus Banks describes the situation in Cuba today and its history since the 1959 revolution. H...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Several hundred activists turn out opposite the ALP offices in Naarm to defend RAFFWU and the right of workers to join their unions. Shame on Labor’s union-busting. Read more: solidarity.net.au/top/tell-vic...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Several hundred activists turn out opposite the ALP offices in Naarm to defend RAFFWU and the right of workers to join their unions. Shame on Labor’s union-busting. Read more: solidarity.net.au/top/tell-vic...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The US has bullied Cuba for decades but Donald Trump is now threatening to finally overthrow the regime. Marcus Banks explains why revolutionary socialists stand with Cuba against US imperialism while rejecting the idea that Cuba is a socialist society.
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Cuba, Trump and US imperialism | The Sound of Solidarity
The US has bullied Cuba for decades but Donald Trump is now threatening to finally overthrow the regime. Marcus Banks describes the situation in Cuba today and its history since the 1959 revolution. H...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lucy Honan tells how rank-and-file teachers in Victoria organised to fight for their EBA demands even though their union officials wanted to give up the struggle. Lucy is an AEU branch councillor, a co-founder of the rank-and-file group Fight the Crisis, and a member of Solidarity.
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Lessons of the teachers' revolt | The Sound of Solidarity
Lucy Honan tells how rank-and-file teachers in Victoria organised to fight for their EBA demands even though their union officials wanted to give up the struggle. Lucy is a branch councillor with the ...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is rewarding the conservative union that has backed his career by moving to shut down its more militant rival.
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Tell Victorian Labor – hands off RAFFWU – Solidarity Online
New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is rewarding the conservative union that has backed his career by moving to shut down its more militant rival.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is rewarding the conservative union that has backed his career by moving to shut down its more militant rival.
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Tell Victorian Labor – hands off RAFFWU – Solidarity Online
New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is rewarding the conservative union that has backed his career by moving to shut down its more militant rival.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lucy Honan tells how rank-and-file teachers in Victoria organised to fight for their EBA demands even though their union officials wanted to give up the struggle. Lucy is an AEU branch councillor, a co-founder of the rank-and-file group Fight the Crisis, and a member of Solidarity.
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Lessons of the teachers' revolt | The Sound of Solidarity
Lucy Honan tells how rank-and-file teachers in Victoria organised to fight for their EBA demands even though their union officials wanted to give up the struggle. Lucy is a branch councillor with the ...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How Labor is helping fund the shadowy companies making parts for the F-35 fighter, used by Israel in its genocide in Gaza and its attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Great work by Solidarity's Tom Orsag.
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‘BLUE-WASHING’: CORPORATE PROFITS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA  - Declassified Australia
Behind a corporate web of Australian companies making lethal parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How Labor is helping fund the shadowy companies making parts for the F-35 fighter, used by Israel in its genocide in Gaza and its attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Great work by Solidarity's Tom Orsag.
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‘BLUE-WASHING’: CORPORATE PROFITS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA  - Declassified Australia
Behind a corporate web of Australian companies making lethal parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tom Fiebig looks to the anti-uranium movement of the 1970s to see how union action, community organising and direct action came together to block the nuclear agenda. He draws out lessons for the movement for Palestine today.
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Lessons from the anti-uranium movement | The Sound of Solidarity
Tom Fiebig looks to the anti-uranium movement of the 1970s to see how union action, community organising and direct action came together to block the nuclear agenda. He draws out lessons for the movem...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tom Fiebig looks to the anti-uranium movement of the 1970s to see how union action, community organising and direct action came together to block the nuclear agenda. He draws out lessons for the movement for Palestine today.
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Lessons from the anti-uranium movement | The Sound of Solidarity
Tom Fiebig looks to the anti-uranium movement of the 1970s to see how union action, community organising and direct action came together to block the nuclear agenda. He draws out lessons for the movem...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just four sleeps until Resist and Rebel in Melbourne. Sessions on Palestine, the teachers' rank-and-file rebellion (with Fight The Crisis activist Lucy Honan), how we can stop Hanson, and fighting imperialism. Saturday from 9.30am, 2 minutes from North Melbourne station. solidarity.net.au/resist/
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To change the world we need to understand it. That's why we've produced an updated edition of How Marxism Works. It's an accessible intro to understanding history, economic crisis, oppression, the role of the working class and why we need a revolution to achieve socialism. Buy it online now.
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How Marxism Works - Solidarity online store
How Marxism Works is an accessible introduction to the basics of Marxist theory and why we need socialism.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To change the world we need to understand it. That's why we've produced an updated edition of How Marxism Works. It's an accessible intro to understanding history, economic crisis, oppression, the role of the working class and why we need a revolution to achieve socialism. Buy it online now.
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How Marxism Works - Solidarity online store
How Marxism Works is an accessible introduction to the basics of Marxist theory and why we need socialism.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just four sleeps until Resist and Rebel in Melbourne. Sessions on Palestine, the teachers' rank-and-file rebellion (with Fight The Crisis activist Lucy Honan), how we can stop Hanson, and fighting imperialism. Saturday from 9.30am, 2 minutes from North Melbourne station. solidarity.net.au/resist/
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Help the fight against Hanson and One Nation. Donate now to Unite Against Racism.
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Help us defeat Hanson and One Nation
Unite Against Racism is a coalition of anti-racist, pro-refugee and pro-Palestine groups initiated by the Refugee Action Collective.
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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@socialistworker.bsky.social My friend Jason Arday died because of a racist witch-hunt socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
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Exclusive: My friend Jason Arday died because of a racist witch-hunt
‘He told me that the moment he walked through the doors of Cambridge, he was told they would destroy him’
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Great turnout at the Unite Against Racism rally in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong today. Powerful speeches attacking the racism coming from One Nation and Labor.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Great turnout at the Unite Against Racism rally in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong today. Powerful speeches attacking the racism coming from One Nation and Labor.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dialectics sounds complicated. But this episode explains how analysing the world dialectically helps us change it. David Glanz explains the development of the concept and gives two examples of how dialectics can help us untangle common problems for the left.
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What do we mean by dialectics? | The Sound of Solidarity
Dialectics sounds complicated. But David Glanz explains how analysing the world dialectically helps us change it. He explains the development of the concept and gives two examples of how dialectics ca...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Health workers and supporters rallied outside the AHPRA office in Melbourne today against the regulator’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. We will not let them shut down the case against genocide. Rally supported by HACSU, AMNF, VAHPA, CPSU Vic and ASU VicTas.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Health workers and supporters rallied outside the AHPRA office in Melbourne today against the regulator’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. We will not let them shut down the case against genocide. Rally supported by HACSU, AMNF, VAHPA, CPSU Vic and ASU VicTas.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dialectics sounds complicated. But this episode explains how analysing the world dialectically helps us change it. David Glanz explains the development of the concept and gives two examples of how dialectics can help us untangle common problems for the left.
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What do we mean by dialectics? | The Sound of Solidarity
Dialectics sounds complicated. But David Glanz explains how analysing the world dialectically helps us change it. He explains the development of the concept and gives two examples of how dialectics ca...
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RAC Vic @rac-vic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you missed our recent forum on "Busting the racist myths about refugees", catch it on YouTube.
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Busting the myths about refugees. (RAC - Vic Forum 10/08/26)
YouTube video by Refugee Action Collective - Vic
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hundreds of striking allied health workers rallied in Parkville, Melbourne, today. Members of VAHPA. Time for Labor to pay up and meet workload concerns. ✊🏽
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hundreds of striking allied health workers rallied in Parkville, Melbourne, today. Members of VAHPA. Time for Labor to pay up and meet workload concerns. ✊🏽
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RAC Vic @rac-vic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
RAC welcomes two Iranian footballers granted Australian citizenship after seeking asylum during the women’s Asian Cup. But Minister Burke continues to refuse to give protection to hundreds of Iranians who have fled from the same authoritarian regime. rac-vic.org/2026/08/10/f...
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Football players need a level playing field – and so do all Iranian refugees | Refugee Action Collective (Vic)
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Phil Griffiths looks at how racism took root in the dispossession of Indigenous people and how our rulers have targeted migrants and refugees since. He argues that a history of racism is also a history of resistance, which shows the potential to destroy racism.
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The roots of Australian racism and how it can be fought | The Sound of Solidarity
Phil Griffiths looks at how racism took root in the dispossession of Indigenous people and how our rulers have targeted migrants and refugees since. But he argues that a history of racism is also a hi...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Phil Griffiths looks at how racism took root in the dispossession of Indigenous people and how our rulers have targeted migrants and refugees since. He argues that a history of racism is also a history of resistance, which shows the potential to destroy racism.
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The roots of Australian racism and how it can be fought | The Sound of Solidarity
Phil Griffiths looks at how racism took root in the dispossession of Indigenous people and how our rulers have targeted migrants and refugees since. But he argues that a history of racism is also a hi...
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RAC Vic @rac-vic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pauline Hanson has Gina Rinehart. We have you ... Can you donate to help fund leaflets, social media and forums organised by Unite Against Racism? Unite Against Racism is a coalition of anti-racist groups initiated by RAC.
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Help us defeat Hanson and One Nation
Unite Against Racism is a coalition of anti-racist, pro-refugee and pro-Palestine groups initiated by the Refugee Action Collective.
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Lisa Natividad (Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice) describes the impact of US bases on Guam/Guåhan and tells how the CHamoru people are fighting for an end to militarism. Maeve Larkins (Solidarity) talks about imperialist rivalry in the Pacific.
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Imperialism in Southeast Asia: fighting US bases, fighting the war machine | The Sound of Solidarity
Lisa Natividad (Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice) describes the impact of US bases on Guam/Guåhan and tells how the CHamoru people are fighting for independence and an end to militarism. Maeve L...
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Mike Grewcock looks at the rise of Australian militarism, the connection to AUKUS and Labor's drive to strengthen arms manufacturing.
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The war at home: AUKUS, arms exports and Labor’s military economy | The Sound of Solidarity
Mike Grewcock looks at the rise of Australian militarism, the connection to AUKUS and Labor's drive to strengthen arms manufacturing.  Read more about AUKUS. Find out more about Solidarity. This talk ...
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