Labor Tribune is a voice for the Marxist Left in the Australian labour movement. As a resource for news and reports, opinion and debate, it contributes to a renewal of socialist theory and practice.
We welcome contributions from people across the labour movement and the socialist left.
Please email the editors at labor.tribune@proton.me.
About the editors
Editor: Marcus Strom
Deputy editor: David Lockwood
The editor and deputy editors form part of an editorial board of five people, most of us members of the Australian Labor Party.
Together, we come from a broad background: union leaders and activists, ALP members, former members of the Communist Party, former members of other Marxist organisations.
What unites us is a commitment to the democratic core of Marxist politics. Not only must revolutionary change be backed by the majority of society, the organisations of the working class pursuing such change must be democratic themselves.
This will take a positive transformation within the left to establish a new political culture for Partyism.
Most left groups operate as bureaucratic sects – debate and disagreements are kept behind closed doors so as not to ‘frighten the children’. Their newspapers delivering the ‘truth’ as determined by the anointed few. However, Marxism needs to be a living social science, with debate open so that our entire class can learn and participate in creating the future socialist society.
The trade union movement and ALP are general travesties of democratic behaviour, needing a cultural revolution in order to be opened up and made accountable to working class people.
Labor Tribune aims to challenge the existing culture of the left and work to bring about Marxist unity, so we can form a political party that can challenge capitalism itself.