When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was launched in 2013, it was sold as proof that the state could be compassionate toward the working class. It promised “choice and control.” Then Prime Minister, Julia Gillard called it “a fundamental social reform that will change our nation,” ensuring that “people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in work and in the community.”
Australia has become a flashpoint in the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China. For Australia’s ruling class, balancing these two powers grows increasingly complex. The nature of the bourgeoisie, since its inception, is marked by short-sightedness, speculation, and a consistent loyalty to whichever imperialist power dominates.
Every two years the RCI holds a 5-day long World Congress in Italy. Here, comrades and delegates from over 40 countries attend to share updates and perspectives from their corner of the world and learn from others. 2025 is the first year that we had an Australian delegate attend- a significant moment for us as a growing group of the RCI. This has been an important few months for our group, with the release of our first issue of The Communist on 8th August. Copies of the paper were divided up and sent to our comrades in Australia with branches being formed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The World Congress is a staunch reminder that we are part of a single, international movement and has heavily inspired our work in Australia.
The planet is burning. The seas rise, the air thickens with smoke, and the workers’ human life and soul bend and warp under the crushing weight of capitalist decay. Every sharpening contradiction: the ecological, the economic, the social and psychological – dialectically echoes and reverberates another, because they are born of the same parent: The capitalist system that subordinates that essence which makes us human, to profit. In Australia, as in every capitalist nation, this rot reaches into our most intimate spaces. Behind closed doors, in the homes that capitalism once called “the heart of society,” domestic violence festers and grows. It is not an anomaly. It is a product of the system itself.
Domestic Violence in Australia: an Analysis, a Vision and the Way Forward
The climate crisis poses a catastrophic threat to the future of life on Earth. The capitalist classes of the world have beyond proven themself incapable of tackling this problem.
The Greens and Reformism: False Solutions to a Burning Planet
Established as a colonial outpost of British imperialism, Australian capitalism grew by extending its reach across the Pacific through financial domination and state coercion. Today it faces a world rocked by capitalism’s rotting system. With America’s relative decline and China’s power surging, the bosses are tightening their grip to protect their profits.
Australian imperialism and the crisis in the South West Pacific
The Communist is produced to arm workers and youth with Marxist ideas in a period of deepening capitalist crisis. War, austerity and environmental destruction are not policy failures, but the inevitable outcome of a system based on profit and exploitation.Revolutionary communists intervene in struggle
The following manifesto is of utmost importance to the world communist movement. We call on all our readers to study it thoroughly and give it the widest possible circulation. It was approved unanimously by the founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist International in June 2024 and constitutes its founding document.
Housing, a basic human right, is now more than ever a tool of profit-making for the wealthy. The working class face an acute emergency, intensified by decades of capitalist exploitation. While the rich amass enormous profits, millions are locked out of secure, affordable housing. This is not a policy failure, it is the inevitable result of a system that prioritises profit over people’s basic needs.
The task of building an international is not unheard of. Many comrades have dedicated their lives to it, and some have also lost their lives fighting for a future worth living in. At the current stage of capitalism’s crisis it is apparent that it would be a waste solely to fight for small scale reforms that the ruling class are unable and unwilling to afford. The only way forward is a revolution that can overthrow the entire system. As inflation keeps on rising, wages keep on sinking, bombs keep on dropping and the rich keep on exploiting- the working class will keep on fighting. However, most of the struggles currently being pursued by the working class ‘leaders’ are isolated. Only a united working class is capable of a successful socialist revolution.
Today, who cannot be aware of the culture war farce? People of different ethnicities, faiths, sexual-orientation, upbringings and genders are told that they present an existential threat to each other’s safety or livelihood.
We are living through a difficult period for traditional, establishment politicians. In country after country, renegade gangs of populists, demagogues and mavericks are challenging the old liberal elite for power, with increasing success. As the masses’ confidence in the liberals rightly crumbles, across the world the vacuum has been filled by the likes of Farage, Le Pen, Meloni and, of course, Donald Trump.