OUT NOW: Partisan 10 (June 2025), It gets better! This month's issue focuses on queer liberation, and queer communism. 🔗 Grab a digital copy online at patreon.com/partisanmagazine 📰 Print copies available from the Revolutionary Communist Organisation (or subscribe to have one mailed to you).

Communists have a frosty relationship with queer social movements in Australia, rubbing up against the liberalism of NGOs and non-profits. But some of this, Luca Fraillon writes, comes down to communists not understanding what queer oppression is. partisanmagazine.org/2025/05/28/c...

For our next Talking Reds in Brisbane we will be discussing what kind of party do we need?

The Queer movement’s devotion to liberal democratic rights-first politics is a ball-and-chain on queer liberation politics. Mila Volkova explains how queer liberation is incompatible with queer liberalism, which is the “politics of injury”. partisanmagazine.org/2025/05/28/q...

"In the same way that we must make our education accessible, but not simple – we must make our criticism sympathetic, but without flattery." partisanmagazine.org/2025/05/26/l...

A great article on why Australian communists should join the Communist Caucus! ︀︀ ︀︀As it stands, the Socialist Party is a cynical attempt by Socialist Alternative to expand their reach. ︀︀ ︀︀Lets turn it into an internally democratic party with a Marxist program! weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1539/...

Max J, Newcastle RCO, responds to Aidan Young's, Newcastle CPA, op-ed in The Guardian criticising the RCO for "entryism into the Labor Party" partisanmagazine.org/2025/05/23/l...

As of last night, the Communist Caucus of the Victorian Socialists has officially launched! The RCO will be taking action to expand the caucus to ALL branches of the new Socialist Party! We must transform the party from a narrow sectarian electoral front into a true vanguard!

The next Talking Reds in Melbourne in two weeks will be a discussion of the federal election results and what comes next. Comrades from the RCO, CPA, and Red Ant will be speaking before general discussion!

Comrade Porco reports on their experience attending the conference, and how it demonstrates major flaws in Socialist Alternative’s “megachurch socialism”. partisanmagazine.org/2025/05/02/m...

A New Britannia - A weekly reading group hosted by the RCO! "An inquiry into the nature of nationalism, patriotism, radicalism, and the Australian labour movement." Join our Brisbane comrades at The Burrow in West End every Sunday at 4pm!

Yesterday comrades marched for international workers day! With attacks on the working class from all sides it is vital that we fight to reforge a communist party and rebuild the workers movement!

Marxism Fringe saw comrades coming together for discussions and debates about Marxism and Marxist strategy. Revmira clarifies questions around the RCO’s strategy and Partyist politics. partisanmagazine.org/2025/04/30/t...

Comrades from the RCO have proposed draft points of unity for the VS communist caucus! Come along on May 18th to propose your own, debate, and vote on the caucus’ points of unity.

After the rally on May 5th join us to discuss the way forward for The Labor Movement and The Socialist Movement

"Upon reflection of the historic failure which has been a pro-Palestinian ‘solidarity’ movement here in so-called ‘Australia’, it would be amiss to not beg the question “what went wrong?”." partisanmagazine.org/2025/03/30/l...

REMINDER of our very own Marxism Fringe tomorrow! ︀︀ ︀︀We'll be hosting talks from Daniel Lopez of the Victorian Socialists, Mike MacNair of the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC), and Motega of Red Ant alongside our own members! ︀︀ ︀︀See you there!!

Next Melbourne Talking Reds is on the 9th of May, in honour of May Day. We will be discussing what the day means for communists now, and what approach communists should take to it into the future.

Announcing the second official Marxist Trivia Night on the 5th of May! Comrades are encouraged to come along and bring your Marxist (and non-Marxist) friends to compete in a test of memorisation abilities, historical facts, and Revolutionary Marxist Intellect.

Revmira writes on how much of the Australian Left, in taking a position defending Ukraine and the EU/NATO, are taking a position in alignment with imperialism partisanmagazine.org/2025/03/28/s...

For this month's Talking Reds, we will be discussing the politics of the trade union movement and how communists have related to it historically! How can trade unions go from instruments of capital's control of labour to schools for communism?

For this month's Talking Reds, we will be discussing the politics of the trade union movement and how communists have related to it historically! ︀︀ ︀︀How can trade unions go from instruments of capital's control of labour to schools for communism?

The struggle carries on! Queer Liberation is class struggle!

The RCO Central Committee's statement on Trans Day of Visibility: For Trans Liberation Through Workers Liberation! partisanmagazine.org/2025/03/31/f...

Excited to announce Marxism Fringe we have a variety of upcoming panels with discussions on critical topics within the movement. Various speakers and panels to be announced over the coming days!

Talking reds is now coming to Newcastle. Talking Reds is a discussion forum focused on communist politics, the workers movement, and alternatives to capitalism. We will be answering the questions: What is communism? Why does it still matter?

From October 7th to World October

"Women deserve a future, not an endless reflection on the total suffering and individual outbursts of total violence." partisanmagazine.org/2025/03/18/l...

Newcastle’s International Women’s Day (IWD) march and rally had enthusiasm and hopeful energy, but the (unsurprising) dominance of the Labor Party, and a reformist feminist orientation, left much to be desired. Max J reports on the rally: partisanmagazine.org/2025/03/13/r...

A Talking Reds Special for Transgender Day Of Visibility! Come after the march on the 31st to the Clyde for discussion on queer liberation in Australia, featuring a short talk from Alice of the RCO.

Take Working Class Action for Trans Liberation! March with us on Transgender Day of Visibility!

This month's Talking Reds discussion will feature talks from Alison of the Freedom Socialist Party and Vi from the RCO. Come along to discuss the role of women in the struggle against, and the propaganda of, imperialist ideology

Draw all working women into the struggle for women’s liberation and socialism! No Unity with Liberalism! Break with the Bourgeois Feminists! Build the Communist Women’s Movement! partisanmagazine.org/2025/03/03/w...

Marxism Trivia Night was a great success!

The end of January 2025 saw a split in Adelaide’s communists: the Adelaide cell of the Australian Communist Party (ACP) has split to form the ‘Adelaide Communist Collective’. What caused this? What’s going on in the ACP? Anthony Furia investigates partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/28/w...

"Tongan democrats don’t have the guts to see their own project – the path to democracy – forward." partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/28/l...

Calling all communists and communism-watchers, the RCO and University of Melbourne Platypus Affiliated Society are co-hosting a Marxist Trivia night this Wednesday at the Clyde - there are prizes to be won, drinks to be drunk, and world-historic questions to be answered!

Comrades have been tabling at Melbourne Uni, if you're interested in coming down we have our last day tmr!

The so-called ‘Australian dream’ is a dream of untapped consumerism for men and suburban drudgery for women. Luca Fraillon explains why communists need to push against this idea in order to put forward a revolutionary, feminist program. partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/25/c...

Bread and Roses is launching the Communist Women's Front (CWF) at The Burrow, West End, at 1pm on International Working Women's Day, the 8th of March! All who are interested in women's liberation and socialism are welcome to come along and join the struggle!

Nothing, besides perhaps a world socialist republic, is better then coffee with comrades. If you're in Perth feel free to join us tomorrow for a cup of coffee!

Max J reports on a trans rights rally held on February 8th, and argues that communists need to do a great deal more to engage with the trans rights movement, and connect it to the broader workers movement. partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/16/n...

Marxism and the trans question - Roxy Hall discusses with Mike Macnair www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZZ7...

On the 28th Ruben and Motega will be hosting a discussion on Syria at the Clyde in Melbourne we hope to see you there!

Across Australia comrades joined the rallies for trans liberation.

Anthony Furia writes a response to articles appearing in Red Battler #2, which critique the RCO’s position on communist strategy. partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/06/p...

We address this letter to all socialists and communists in Queensland, including the Queensland-based branches of Socialist Alternative, Socialist Alliance, and the Communist Party of Australia. partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/05/o...

Open letter on the QLD trans healthcare restrictions from the Revolutionary Communist Organisation's Central Committee partisanmagazine.org/2025/02/05/o...

Partisan #6 "What Party?" is out now! Subscribe to our Patreon for free to receive a digital copy of the Australian left's leading Partyist magazine! www.patreon.com/posts/121232...

Brunhilda Olding reports on the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Forum which was hosted concurrently to unity talks by anarchists to form an Anarchist Federation at the federal level. partisanmagazine.org/2025/01/31/a...