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The Party Line on how socialism hit the mainstream in Argentina
The crew are finally back together again, and start by reflecting on some of the listener feedback about the last episode with Jono Srinanganathan discussing the differences between the Greens and the Socialist Party. We then discuss the news, which is filled with mediocrity: Charlie Pickering chatting to a Nazi, Richard Marles celebrating second-hand submarines, and the Block’s Scott Cam complaining about only having $25 million bucks to pass on to his privileged spawn. The US-Israeli war in the Middle East is still continuing, and so we unpack some of the latest news about Israel’s appalling occupation of Lebanese and Palestinian territory, under the cover of a series of sham ‘ceasefires’. The rise and rise of Hanson in Australian politics is another talking point, with the new poll putting One Nation and Liberals way above Labor, as well as stories about Nazis getting gifted mansions by their millionaire mates.
The substance of the episode is about the rise of the FIT-U, a radical socialist coalition in Argentina which has shot to prominence over the last 12 months or so. From winning around 2.5% nationally, they’re now at 10-15%, with their main leader being the most popular politician in the entire country. We ask Jordan Humphreys, who just returned from a trip to the country, to fill us in about how this happened and to draw out lessons for socialists in Australia.
Reading:
The Left Front in Argentina grows in popularity
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editor Charlie Wardrop, our graphic designer James Plested, and our occasional content producer Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our material for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This episode is a special interview with two Victorian teachers and trade unionists about the state of play regarding their negotiations with the government. We talk about the fact that Victorian schools are the least funded in the country, despite nearly 26 years of Labor governments, and what that means for the conditions for both staff and students.
Reading
Victorian teachers betrayed by union agreement with government
Rebellion in the AEU: officials prevent debate as vote approaches on terrible deal
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editor Charlie Wardrop, our graphic designer James Plested, and our occasional content producer Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our material for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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The Party Line on Socialists, Greens and the Australian Left ft Jono Sriranganathan
This special episode is a response to an article written by former Greens councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan comparing the Queensland Socialists to the Greens. So we invited him on to discuss and debate strategies for taking the left forward. We discuss the role of election campaigns in relationship to broader social movements, how left parties should and would discipline its MPs, why the Greens have found themselves wedged by Labor and the political establishment, and how their tendency to vote for ALP legislation has tended to foreclose struggles around climate and housing rather than expand them. We also take a look at a bunch of headlines about how the Australian rich are getting richer based on the Oxfam report, including why Gina Rinehart is investing in the arms industry, and the pathetic minimum wage increase, and why the AFR thinks that the billionaires should run Australia. Also Barnaby Joyce is promoting anti-abortion bigots. Screw that guy.
Readings:
Greens vs Socialists: a response to Jonathan Sriranganathan
Queensland Greens vs the new Queensland Socialists: How different are they?
Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty
How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editor Charlie Wardrop, our graphic designer James Plested, and our occasional content producer Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our material for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 47 - The Party Line on why the Teals are trash
This week is dedicated to the leaning class, those parasites who earn income not by working but by possessing assets. These pampered whinging brats have been out in force across the media this last week, protesting that Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese’s move to tax asset-based income at the same rate as wages is an egregious attack on their fundamental human rights. We disrespectfully disagree. Screw them and the CGT and negatively-geared, trust-funded horse they rode in on. We then discuss the possibility of a new Teal party in Australian politics, and why that isn’t something to be celebrated. A party whose program is Malcolm Turnbull plus power feminism has nothing to offer the left. Unfortunately, far too many people think that the Teals are a good thing, despite the fact that their impact on progressive politics has been to act as a bridge from the ALP/Greens to the centre-right.
Readings:
Itamar Ben-Gvir is Israel
Business community has a big sook
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 46 - The Party Line on Labor’s Communist Budget
This week’s ep is all about the state of Australian political life post-budget. We take look at Labor’s BIG NEW DEATH TAX ON AUSSIE BATTLERS and why they’re out to DESTROY our start-up culture, including #inspiring companies/merchants of death like ‘Drone Shield’. More importantly, we look at what the budget does not address - crumbling healthcare system, woefully inadequate welfare payments, soaring university costs, or anything else we desperately need. We also take a look at Angus Taylor’s budget response, and his decision to denounce migrants as dole bludgers and unaustralian racists. Plus, a look at how the country liberal party in the NT is weaponising the tragic murder of Kumanjayi Little Baby to further steal and imprison Indigenous children.
Readings:
Crisis of First Nations children in care will worsen under NT child protection reforms, advocates warn | Indigenous Australians
NT laws to allow police to hold young people for 48 hours will be ‘funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons’, advocates warn | Indigenous Australians
So much budget bluster
‘We are not in Trump’s America’: migrant groups say Angus Taylor in race to bottom with far right
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 45 - The Party Line on Israel’s kidnapping and torture of flotilla activists
For over 15 years, activists have been drawing attention to Israel’s barbaric siege on Gaza via a series of flotillas. These involve boats full of activists and desperately-needed aid sailing to Gaza and highlighting to the world the suffering Palestinians face. This year’s flotilla is the biggest yet, involving over 60 boats and 1000 people. A number of boats were intercepted two weeks ago - in international waters nowhere near Israel - with participants starved, beaten, shot and imprisoned without access to lawyers or any due process. We speak to Ethan Floyd who was on the flotilla and subject to this inhumane treatment by the Israeli navy. He is a student at the University of Sydney and a Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Ngiyampaa person from the Central-West of NSW. We wrap up by returning to the royal commission, demonstrating the stark contrast between the dishonest and slanderous accusations being made by supporters of Israel with the barbaric treatment of the flotilla activists and the Palestinian people.
Readings:
Setting sail for Gaza: Australian student speaks from the Global Sumud Flotilla
What we’ve *actually* heard at the antisemitism royal commission so far
French President Emmanuel Macron declares “we are the true pan-Africanists”
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 44 - The Party Line on why Hanson and Reform UK keep winning
This weekend saw two important elections take place, one in Farrer (not an important place), and one in the United Kingdom (only slightly more important). The results in both cases saw big swings to the far right and fascists. Hanson’s candidate in Farrer (a very populist, anti-system agribusiness executive) won a huge victory, with some booths returning around 70% support for One Nation. This has been used by the political establishment to call for the Liberals turning even further to the right. Meanwhile Albanese and the Labor party have begun attacking Hanson, but have no credibility given their appalling, right-wing government has done nothing to push back on the economic and social crises facing working class people. So a socialist left is needed. Meanwhile in the UK Nigel Farage and his band of merry far-right freaks have triumphed in the council elections, with huge wins across the board. What does this mean for British politics? And is the rise of Zach Polanski’s Greens a sufficient response? All will be revealed if you take the time to listen.
Readings:
We have to fight, not accommodate, One Nation and the far right
James Butler · (UK) Labour’s Failure
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This episode features the universally loved Jerome Small, an organiser and educator with decades of experience in the union movement and wider socialist . We talk about why parliament is such a dead end for people trying to change the world, but why its still useful for socialists to contest elections when it’s possible. We then take a walk through the radical history of socialist MPs, from the Bolsheviks in Russia through to a certain Irish revolutionary in the 1970s who used her parliamentary immunity to punch a Tory in the jaw. The key point being that while socialism isn’t going to come about by parliamentary legislation, the process of elections - and even parliamentary debates - are a valuable space to strengthen and support class and social struggles. We also do a quick response to an article by former Brisbane Green councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan about how the greens are supposedly the same as the socialists. Unsurprisingly, we don’t agree.
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We start by looking at the terrible situation in Lebanon and Iran, after America and Israel’s war on the region continues into its third month. Including stories about Iranian kids being murdered in double-tap strikes. This sets the scene for a discussion about the disgraceful Royal Commission that has now entered its second phase, a topsy-turvy world where victims of genocide (and their supporters) are being investigated for our supposed racism while those who defend and support war crimes and mass slaughter put us on the dock. (Reminder, the Bondi killers had absolutely nothing to do with the Palestine movement, and our movement has always opposed antisemitism along with all forms of racism). We analyse some of the appalling contributions already made by senior figures in the pro-Israel lobby, and remind ourselves that none of this would be happening without Labor’s decision to call the Royal Commission in the first place.
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oskar and Anneke discuss the nature of modern Indigenous oppression and the rich history of the Pilbara strike, including what lessons we can draw from Australia's longest industrial action.
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on https://www.patreon.com/cw/ThePartyLine if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at https://www.patreon.com/cw/ThePartyLine.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at https://www.socialists.org.au/. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 40 - The Party Line on Labor’s savage NDIS cuts
This week we are joined by friend of the pod Simone, who has been a social worker for 25 years to discuss the savage cuts to NDIS Labor has announced this week. The NDIS ushered in a pro-market perspective on health. The market operates in the disability sector, meaning people with disabilities are shunted around and providers make bank. Labor has money for war budgets but won’t spend money on people with needs.
We also discuss Collingwood’s anti-war stance (crushing Essendon) and the support shown for Ben Roberts Smith at the dawn service.
Readings:
People with disabilities need free universal health care, not the NDIS
NDIS falls victim to familiar scare tactics – while untouchables roll on | The Point
Victorian Liberals to preference One Nation at state election
The manosphere is obsessed with Pilates. It’s about far more than fitness
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 39 - The Party Line on how Pauline Hanson is not a populist
We don’t like Pauline Hanson. Like, really really really don’t like her. In fact, we think she’s scum. So this ep goes through some of her statements on migrants, muslims, Indigenous people, unions, and welfare. TLDR; she’s terrible on all of it. So we discuss all that and why, given those facts, she still gets described as a populist. We also have a chat with one of the people arrested for saying From the River to the Sea in Queensland.
Headlines:
A father’s sword and a mother’s love: The unwavering support of the Roberts-Smiths
Ben Roberts-Smith’s comrades say he ordered them to execute unarmed civilians, court documents show
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret | Microsoft | The Guardian
Chalmers’ 5 budget tax changes explained (and our verdict)
Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon
Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws struck down. Again!
Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 38 - The Party Line on Victor Orban’s defeat in Hungary ft Rob Narai
A short and sharp one this time, as the Party Line debriefs the spectacular defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary. As the leader of Hungary since 2010, Orban has been one of the key figures strengthening and promoting far right politics across the world. His government promoted antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-migrant tropes aggressively, and ran an increasingly authoritarian government stacked with far-right stooges. As well, his time in office has seen the rich in Hungary - particularly his close mates - increase their wealth enormously, while workers and the poor have suffered. What next for Hungary? And what does this Peter Magyar fellow stand for anyway? The pod wanted to answer these questions, but we quickly realised we didn’t know very much about Hungary. So we invited a genuine Hungarian, Rob Nari, to tell us all about it.
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 37 - The Party Line on Trump’s blockade of Iran’s blockade
The pod crew are happy to be back in the studio after the massive Marxism conference over Easter. We discuss the AI-isation of Mark Zuckerberg and Trump’s false idol worship. Angus Taylor has announced his first major policy position, and surprise, it’s just what Hanson has been arguing for.
The war on Iran and Lebanon continues, despite ceasefire agreements and negotiations. The crew discusses the direction of the war, and how it resembles the beginnings of previous world war scenarios. And crucially, who has the bigger blockade.
We need to build a left that can break the US Alliance - that’s the only solution to this terrifying scenario of global imperial confrontation.
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The crew went to Marxism 2026, alongside MANY others. We broke the mould of smart and serious talks to present a bullshit heavy episode of the party line. Join us for a game of “defamation or definitely”, where we guess if Anneke has made up stories or if rich men are actually just psychos. Then we do some myth busting (exactly like the TV show) where we take up some commonly held positions on socialism and capitalism
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on https://patreon.com/thepartyline if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at https://patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at https://socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 35 - The Party Line on the fuel crisis + the far right in France
Omar was out sick so “friend” of the pod Luca Tavan joined us. Luca has “an internet connection and a library card” and has been doing a lot of research into the left and far right across Europe. Following the death of a fascist activist who attacked a left wing MPs meeting, the far right have been normalised and the political centre has rallied with them against France Insoumise, the party of Melanchon. We discuss the ways the far right have been normalised over the last few decades, as well as the fall out from the local elections across the country that took place this month.
The human toll of America’s war on Iran continues to roll on, as we enter the fifth week. Thousands of civilians have been murdered, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has resulted in a global fuel and food crisis. The World Food Program estimates that 45 million more people will be plunged into acute hunger. Trump’s war for empire threatens the entire globe.
The team also discusses the upcoming Marxism conference taking place in Melbourne this Easter. The conference will bring together over 1500 people and is organised around the theme of “Marxism for a new left”, and will discuss the dire need of developing a strong socialist movement to confront the barbarism of capitalism. Get your ticket and come along!
Readings:
Death, destruction, destitution—and profits
First came petrol pain. Now get ready for high-priced groceries
Political confusion and fragmentation: the outcome of France's local elections - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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On Tuesday the 24th, 30,000 teachers and education support workers went on strike demanding higher pay and better conditions. This was the first strike of AEU members since 2013. Teachers in Victoria are among the worst paid in the country. They’re expected to work full weeks and do marking and lesson planning for free, in their own time.
Anneke and Omar (with a brief cameo from Jordan) interviewed teachers, socialists, parents and unionists who came to stand up for teachers, educators and education support staff.
The Victorian Labor government is offering workers peanuts when they deserve the world.
We hope you enjoy our first Party Line live on location episode!
Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This pod was recorded just after Trump gave the Iranians 48 hours to avoid the destruction of their entire electricity network, and Iran responded by threatening the water and energy infrastructure of the entire Middle East. So hopefully by the time you’re listening to this ep the internet still exists and World War 3 has not yet begun. In that case, we try and break down what the hell is going on in the Strait of Hormuz and generally with this war, and how the US and Israel are sending the whole planet into a political, military and economic meltdown. We then discuss the implications for all this on Australian politics, including the rise in petrol and grocery prices, the despicable RBA’s decision to increase interest rates, the far right lies about city-dwellers hoarding all the fuel, and what a genuinely pro-working class government could do in this situation. We then look at the surge in support for Hanson in the recent SA elections, and analyse how the hell we got to a point where One Nation is the main opposition party on the right, and how the ALP is responding by emphasising a very tepid form of liberal multiculturalism. We wrap by discussing our very successful anti-Hanson door knocking campaign in Melbourne over the weekend, where nearly 200 people got together to talk to people in working class and migrant communities in Melbourne’s outer suburbs, as well as the strong results for the SA Socialists in their first ever electoral run.
Readings:
Why the US is attacking Iran
Horrific violence is the basis of US empire
Unemployment rises expose RBA's costly misread of the economy
Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 32 - The Party Line on why capitalism needs war and empire
We had a request for more socialist theory, so this ep delivers some classic marxist content in classic party line style (which is not very theoretical). The concept of imperialism has been widely discussed following Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the more recent US-Israeli assault on Iran and Lebanon. We argued last week that it wasn’t about Trump’s foibles, still less Epstein files, but about profit, power and empire. This week we unpack why countries go to war, what tools they use to compete, how it evolves directly from capitalist competition in the marketplace, and why only socialism can end war for good. We also take a look at why tankies and stalinists are wrong to defend bourgeois dictatorships that happen to be opposed to the US for whatever reason (looking at Russia, China, Iran, etc here). Shout out to the PSL and the FRSP in the US for being some of the most toxic propagators of this reactionary theory that is unfortunately spreading across the world at this moment.
Readings:
Understanding war: Lenin’s 'Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism'
Lenin and Bukharin on imperialism
Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.
While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.
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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.
If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.
If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.
(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)
This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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