The Party Line Podcast

Episode 44 - The Party Line on why Hanson and Reform UK keep winningThis 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.*****************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 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.*****************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.

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.*****************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.

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.*****************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.

Episode 40 - The Party Line on Labor’s savage NDIS cutsThis 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 NDISNDIS falls victim to familiar scare tactics – while untouchables roll on | The PointVictorian Liberals to preference One Nation at state electionThe 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.*****************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 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-SmithsBen 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 GuardianChalmers’ 5 budget tax changes explained (and our verdict) Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermonChris 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.*****************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 38 - The Party Line on Victor Orban’s defeat in Hungary ft Rob NaraiA 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.*****************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 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.*****************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.