The recent investigation into the Victorian branches of the Australian Labour Party (ALP) revealed branch stacking and corruption at an 'industrial scale'. In this episode we discuss the history of the ALP and analyse what has changed, and what has remained the same. Why is it that the ALP are so decrepit? Rick Kuhn is a Marxist economist, political analyst and honorary associate professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. Rick is also the co-author of Labor’s Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class (2010). Kath is a rail worker and activist in the Rail Tram and Bus Union and has just been preselected as the Victorian Socialists' candidate for Lord Mayor of Melbourne.
Labor's leaders don't deserve true believers https://redflag.org.au/node/7235
The ALP: What class of party? https://marxistleftreview.org/articles/the-alp-what-class-of-party/
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The Movement for Palestine in Australia (+ the gender pay gap)
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The class struggle in Argentina
How South African apartheid was ended
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Palestine and the Myth of a Two-State Solution
The war on Gaza and the origins of Israel
Racism and the Voice Referendum - An interview with Jordan Humphreys
Why socialists support a free Palestine
The System Behind Sexism
Indigenous Liberation and Socialism - part 2
Interview: Mint My Desk Workers United!
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The revolutionary life and ideas of Karl Marx, with Rick Kuhn
The housing crisis - part 2
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