The Sound of Solidarity
A podcast series brought to you by Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist group in Australia. www.solidarity.net.au
Episodes
Julie Monteiro tells how students and workers turned France upside down, with student protests helping trigger a 10 million-strong general strike. She looks at how the ruling class was able to reestablish "order" and discusses the political lessons we can draw today.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Melbourne branch on 31 July 2025.
A Chinese student activist and Griffin Phillips explain how the revolution unfolded and draw lessons for the struggle today. For security reasons, the student's voice has been replaced.
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This talk was delivered on 29 May 2025.
Solidarity editor James Supple looks at the agenda behind Trump's erratic behaviour and argues that to fight him, we need to take on the logic of the system he represents.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.
A Palestinian student activist from the West Bank and Chris Breen (Teachers & School Staff for Palestine and Solidarity) discuss the way forward for liberation.
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These talks were delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.
Karina Lester (Yankunytjatjara woman and anti-nuclear activist) is a descendant of Indigenous people who experienced nuclear testing in South Australia. She talks about the horror of that time and its consequences. Caitlin Doyle (Solidarity) argues why nuclear tensions are increasing and how we can resist today.
Apologies that the sound quality of this recording is poor but the content is great -- please stick with it!
Phil Griffiths looks back at how the Communist Party rebuilt a fighting union tradition in the 1930s and draws lessons from today, from both their successes and weaknesses.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.
Dr Stephen Gapps has just published Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844. Here he is in conversation with Solidarity member Paddy Gibson.
Read more about Aboriginal resistance.
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This talk was recorded at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.
Angus Dermody explains why the logic of capitalism is taking us to the brink of disaster and how we can challenge the system to fight back for the planet.
Read more about climate action.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.
Stalinism and Maoism continue to attract new supporters. To make sense of this, and to make the case for socialism from below, we talk to David Camfield, the author of a new book, Red Flags: A reckoning with communism for the future of the left.
Find out more about what's wrong with Stalinism.
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James Supple analyses Israel's onslaught on Iran, how it fits with the aims of imperialism in the region and how mass revolt from below can stop the war.
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This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting on 19 June 2025.
The majority of European Jews looked to socialist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. David Glanz argues Zionism was a fringe movement for decades and can be challenged again.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.
Paddy Gibson speaks about a new edition of Tom O'Lincoln's book, Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, for which he has written the introduction.
Paddy describes how the book charts the CPA's strengths, but also how its Stalinist politics led to its decline. He draws lessons for revolutionaries today.
Copies of the book are on sale at Solidarity branch meetings or by contacting the publisher, Interventions.
Adam Adelpour looks at the 1905 revolution in Russia and argues that the development of democratic workers' councils, known in Russian as soviets, was critical to the workers' victory over capitalism in October 1917.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.
Jordi Pardoel discusses the ideas we need to win the fight against capitalism and argues that Stalinism and Maoism are dead ends for the struggle.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.
Lucy Honan explores the concept of neurodiversity, why capitalism puts people into defined boxes and how we can fight for a world where we live our fullest lives.
Read more about capitalism and disability.
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This talk was delivered at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April 2025.
Los Angeles-based socialist Clare Fester talks about the Trump government's racist offensive and the growing movements of opposition.
Read more about the fight against Trump.
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This talk was given at Solidarity's Keep Left conference on 20 April.
Ian Rintoul looks at how the Labor-style SPD has paved the way for the rise of the far right in Germany and draws lessons for the federal election in Australia.
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This talk was recorded at the Keep Left conference on 19 April 2025.
Dr Nora Amath, the Executive Director of the Islamophobia Register Australia, reports on the horrific wave of racism affecting Muslims in Australia. She explains how the anti-Palestine agenda of mainstream politicians and the media encourages hatred.
Read the latest Islamophobia Register Australia report.
Liz Grosshans tells how, together with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, mass revolt by students, soldiers and workers fragmented the US war machine and opened the way to national liberation for Vietnam and an end to the war.
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