Australian Marxist Review • AMR #79 • April 2025

Dear readers, in this issue of the Australian Marxist Review we bring together a collection that deals with the problems of our time: the rise of right-wing popularism and the re-emergence of the different forms taken by these open terrorist regimes using a mix of bourgeois democratic covers; the decline of trade unions and the urgent task to rebuild the workers’ basic organisation.

Introduction Union membership in Australia has been on the decline for decades, with the most recent figures estimating union membership to be 13.1% as of...

The final part of Sally Mitchell’s interview with the AMR describes the experience witnessing the amalgamations of unions and the narrowing of trade union organising...

Statement made by J. McPhillips, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Australia to the International Theoretical Conference for the Centenary Celebration of G. Dimitrov’s birth, Sofia, 15 to 17 June, 1982

(This is a reprint of an article published in World Marxist Review Collected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 6 (Beijing: People’s Publishing House 1999), 350....