The Party Line Podcast

The Party Line on Labor’s "Communist" Budget

Episode 46 - The Party Line on Labor’s Communist Budget This 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 Australians [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/northern-territory-child-protection-reforms-first-nations-indigenous-children-in-care-ntwnfb] NT laws to allow police to hold young people for 48 hours will be ‘funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons’, advocates warn | Indigenous Australians [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/19/nt-northern-territory-laws-hold-young-people-48-hours-aboriginal-indigenous-children-prisons-ntwnfb] So much budget bluster [https://redflag.org.au/article/so-much-budget-bluster/]  ‘We are not in Trump’s America’: migrant groups say Angus Taylor in race to bottom with far right [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/15/angus-taylor-opposition-plan-cut-benefits-ndis-non-citizens-visa-holders-dog-whistling-marginalising-immigrants] 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 [http://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 patreon.com/thepartyline [http://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 [http://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 [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Party Line on Israel’s kidnapping and torture of flotilla activists

Episode 45 - The Party Line on Israel’s kidnapping and torture of flotilla activists For 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 [https://redflag.org.au/article/setting-sail-for-gaza-australian-student-speaks-from-the-global-sumud-flotilla/]  What we’ve *actually* heard at the antisemitism royal commission so far [https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/what-weve-actually-heard-at-the-antisemitism]  French President Emmanuel Macron declares “we are the true pan-Africanists”  [https://www.instagram.com/p/DYMbnJukllQ/] 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 [http://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 patreon.com/thepartyline [http://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 [http://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 [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Party Line on why Hanson and Reform UK keep winning

Episode 44 - The Party Line on why Hanson and Reform UK keep winning This 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 [https://redflag.org.au/article/we-have-to-fight-not-accommodate-one-nation-and-the-far-right/]  James Butler · (UK) Labour’s Failure [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/james-butler/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 [http://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 patreon.com/thepartyline [http://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 [http://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 [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Party Line on what would socialists do in Parliament

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. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Party Line on Labor's genocide-defending royal commission

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. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.