Jack Franklyn: wharfie, seaman, anti-fascist
Ninety years ago, Franco unleashed the dogs of war on the Spanish Republic. Men like Jack Franklyn heard the call to fight, writes Michael Samaras.
Labour History
International Women’s Day must rise again
The working class origins of IWD can be forgotten amid the corporate breakfasts. But Lea Campbell argues that socialism is inseparable from women’s liberation.
A history of anti-militarism in Australia
From Pemulwuy to Gaza, Bob Makinson looks at the long history of the peace and anti-war movement.
After 50 years, maintain your republican rage
On the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal, Hamish McPherson reviews Solidarity pamphlet ‘Strike Fraser Out!’
Historic achievement of Karl Marx
Karl Kautsky – before he became a ‘renegade’ – outlines here that Marx’s great achievement was uniting theory with the labour movement. We need that again.
From an age of Labor reform
Fifty years ago, Peter Duncan’s bill to decriminalise homosexuality in South Australia became law. Jane Timbrell reviews his autobiography.
Dear comrades: Comintern to CPA in 1922
Comintern wrote to the early CPA insisting Marxists organise inside the ALP, despite its racism and support for Empire.