The Party Line Podcast

Episode 53: The Party Line on how Pauline embraced her inner fascistThis ep looks at two big events this week: the Victorian teachers rejecting the shitty deal pushed by the Labor government and their union stooges, and Pauline Hanson’s fascistic press club tirade. The teachers have voted 58/42 percent to reject Jacinta Allan’s offer, and the effort was a product of an enormous rank and file upsurge largely led by comrades in Socialists in Schools. We talk about the implications of this huge win and what comes next. Then we unpack the extreme speech that Hanson delivered at the press club which revealed that this so-called populist is an extreme reactionary who hates workers, women, migrants, parents, trans people, and everyone else who isn’t a corporate executive, a property developer, or a mining boss.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.*****************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.

This ep features Roz Ward, enemy #1 of the Murdoch Press circa 2016, the Antoinette Lattouf of her era. We talk about the recent polling about One Nation, as well as the important anti-Hanson actions that took place over the weekend (and respond to some of the criticisms from tiny groups of sectarians). We then take a bit of a deep dive into the World Cup, looking at how Trump, FIFA, and capitalism have made this event a profiteering disgrace that marginalises working class people and undermines the beauty of the one truly world game.Reading:https://marxist.com/fifa-world-cup-2026-capitalism-is-ruining-sports.htmHosted 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.*****************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.

The Party Line on how socialism hit the mainstream in ArgentinaThe 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.*****************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.

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. ReadingVictorian 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.*****************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.

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 SriranganathanQueensland 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 povertyHow to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on GazaHosted 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.*****************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.

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.

Episode 47 - The Party Line on why the Teals are trashThis 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.*****************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.

Episode 46 - The Party Line on Labor’s Communist BudgetThis 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 AustraliansNT laws to allow police to hold young people for 48 hours will be ‘funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons’, advocates warn | Indigenous AustraliansSo much budget bluster ‘We are not in Trump’s America’: migrant groups say Angus Taylor in race to bottom with far rightHosted 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.*****************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.

Episode 45 - The Party Line on Israel’s kidnapping and torture of flotilla activistsFor 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.*****************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.