Episode 18 - The party line on Invasion day, deaths in custody, and creeping fascism

Omar made his glorious return this week, though quickly made it clear he hadn’t bothered listening to the last ep. (Probably for the best, he was easily replaced.) This ep is an Invasion day special, and looks at the past present and future of Aboriginal oppression and resistance in Australia. To help us go through it all, we invited Indigenous socialist Oskar Martin on to the pod (and we thought he was pretty excellent). We begin discussing the roots of Indigenous oppression, including the frontier wars, the massacres, and why stealing the land was so important to the early Australian capitalists. We then look at the sordid history of stolen generations and the genocidal intentions behind the plans to disrupt and dislocate Aboriginal people from their lands, communities and cultures. Finally, we look at the incredible resistance of Aboriginal people backed up by socialists and trade unionists, a proud history that is often glossed over by liberals today. To wrap things up we take a brief look at the appalling new hate speech laws passed by Parliament this week, and their chilling implications for freedom of speech and assembly, and the right to criticise Israel.

Content

Headlines:

After Renee Good’s Killing, Some Conservatives Scorn Liberal Women

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court

The exchange of messages between Norway's prime minister and President Trump

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America…… Thank you! President DJT”

Trump's Gaza Board of Peace Aims to Rival UN, Charter Shows

Albanese to consider Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invitation

Wanted to give you guys a snapshot of what the main departments of the US empire have been posting about in the last few days:

War Dept video: Hegseth working out with Japanese Defence minister

Health Dept video: Drink whole milk

Ed Dept video: Weird cult of personality thing, anti-trans, pro-states' rights messages

State Dept image: Tariffs helped us stop 8 wars

FBI Director: Raiding and arresting journalists for WaPo

Dept of Labor: 250 Years of One White Nation Under God

DHS tweet: We'll have our home again

DHS image: One of ours, all of yours

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

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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.

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Episode 16 - The party line on the Bondi Royal Commission, Venezuela and Iran

A big one this week. The unhinged attacks on the Palestine movement and Anthony Albanese have continued for another week, and so your faithful hosts do their duty to take up the cudgels against the lies once again. Our highlight is a Canberra Times editorial calling for “rabble rousers” to be forcibly brought before a House of un-Israelian Activities Committee. It takes us some time to respond to a bunch of the rubbish being put forward to justify this McCarthyist witch hunt by some of the most racist scum in Australia. But once that’s done, we take a look at Trump’s appalling aggression against Venezuela and what it says about international politics at the moment, before wrapping up with a look at the heroic protest and strike wave sweeping Iran right now with Iranian socialist Bella Beiraghi.

Content

Why we must oppose a royal commission | Red Flag

Calls for royal commission on anti-Semitism grow | The Canberra Times

Socialist Party statement on US imperialist banditry in Venezuela

A timeline of CIA operations in Latin America | Al Jazeera

Iran on fire: rebellion returns to the streets | Red Flag

Energy Workers Join Strikes as Security Forces Retreat in Major Cities | NCRI

Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman.

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.