Marxism brings together activists, radicals, rebels, students, unionists and revolutionaries from across the world for a weekend of debate and discussion of contemporary radical politics, history and theory.

Speaker Index

Yasmine is a socialist activist in Sydney and is the National Union of Students Education Officer for 2026. She is the national co-convenor of Students for Palestine.

Yasmine Johnson

Kevin Murphy teaches Russian history at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His 

Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory

 won the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize. He will speak over zoom about the Decists.

Kevin Murphy

Anderson Bean is a North Carolina-based activist, a member of the Tempest Collective, editor and contributor of the book 

Venezuela in Crisis. Socialist Perspectives

 from Haymarket Books, and author of the Communes and the 

Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis

Anderson Bean

Germán P. Montañes is a member of Anticapitalistas from the Spanish state. Graduate in Political Science and International Studies, he has been an active member in the student movement in 2019-2022, and then also in the solidarity movement with Palestine after the 7th of October 2023. He also writes in diverse media, especially 

Germán P. Montañes

Purity Machogu is a member of the Permanent Revolutionary Congress in Kenya. She is one of the leaders of its women’s front and a former leading student activist.

Purity Machogu

Martin Barker is a socialist and long time housing activist. He works in Sydney as a tenants advocate and has written for Red Flag on Australia's housing crisis.

Martin Barker

Bella Beiraghi is a member Socialist Alternative and one of the University of Melbourne Student Union Education Officers. Beiraghi has been a driving force behind the work of Students for Palestine, including the headline-grabbing student strikes, and she has helped to lead the weekly Palestine demonstrations as a member of Free Palestine Melbourne.

Bella Beiraghi

Eddie Stephenson

Megan Guy

Owen Marsden-Readford

Carter Chryse

Jack Mansell

Shirley Killen

Brendan Laws

Oskar Martin is a Bundjalung and Kamilaroi socialist and the current Indigenous Representative on the Students' Council at the University of Melbourne Student Union. He is involved in campaigns connecting the struggles of all oppressed and working-class people against capitalism.

Oskar Martin

Kelly Cvetkova

Liz has been a socialist activist for the last 25 years. She is a workplace delegate in the Australian Education Union and organiser of Socialists in Schools. She has fought to get refugees out of detention and win them permanent protection through protest and direct action. Liz was the Victorian Socialists 2022 state election candidate for the Western Metropolitan region, and organised protests of thousands in solidarity with those who lost abortion rights following the overturning of 

Liz Walsh

Joel Geier has been active in the US socialist movement since the 1960s. He has written on many topics, including world crisis, Marxist economics, social movements, and the soldier's rebellion during the Vietnam War. He will speak over zoom about the history of the American far left.

Joel Geier

Tom Sullivan

Shovan Bhattarai

Tim Arnot is a longstanding socialist and trade unionist, recently involved in fighting for COVID-safety at work. 

Tim Arnot

Liam Parry

Oula Shihan

Ella Marchionda

Emma Black

Cat Rose

Ruby Healer

Monica Sestito

Steph Price

Emma Dynes

Julien Macandili

Briana Symonds-Manne

Janey Stone’s mother sought refuge in Australia from Polish antisemitism in the 1930s. A lifelong socialist, Janey was active in the Women’s Liberation and ant-Vietnam War movements and a committed unionist. Janey is the author, with Donny Gluckstein, of 

Janey Stone

Robert Narai is a longstanding socialist activist and writer. Along with involvement in a variety of campaigns, Robert has written widely for Red Flag and the Marxist Left Review. His recent writing, featuring exhaustive interviews with those involved, has focused on the revolution in Myanmar, and includes the long form article '“Until the end of the world”: Myanmar’s unfinished revolution'.

Robert Narai

Jess Lenehan is a longstanding socialist and anti-fascist activist in Melbourne. She has played a prominent role in the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism and many other groups. She writes often for 

 newspaper and is currently the campaigns coordinator for the Victorian Socialists.

Jess Lenehan

Vinil Kumar

Elly is a long-term socialist and Secretary of New South Wales Socialists. She is an editor of Red Flag newspaper

Eleanor Morley

Omar Hassan is a socialist activist and the editor of 

. He has played a prominent role in a wide variety of left-wing campaigns, including the movement against the far right, for refugee rights and the environment.

Omar Hassan 

. His articles on Indigenous politics and history have been published in Red Flag, Marxist Left Review, Revolution Socialism in the 21st Century and Arena Quarterly 

Jordan Humphreys

Losing Santhia: Life and loss in the struggle for Tamil Eelam

The Art of Rebellion: Dispatches from Hong Kong

Ben Hillier

Liz Ross is a long term socialist who has written widely on Australian politics and the Australian labour movement. Her works include 'Revolution is for us: The Left and Gay Liberation in Australia', 'Dare to struggle, dare to win! Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981–94' and 'How capitalism is costing us the earth'.

Liz Ross

Nick Everett

Chloe is an activist and host of Socialist Alternative's podcast 

Chloe Rafferty

Kim Bullimore is a long-time socialist, political activist and anti-racist campaigner. A Murri woman and an active campaigner for Australian Indigenous rights, Kim is also involved in campaigns for and human rights and other social justice issues.

Kim Bullimore

Lewis Todman

Katie has been a delegate for the library at the University of Melbourne for the National Tertiary Education Union for just over a decade. She has been involved in numerous campaigns to save jobs, around Enterprise Bargaining and to defend working conditions. She is also an historian and archivist, undertaking a phd on women in the Australian metal trades. She has written several articles for the 

Katie Wood

Liam Ward is a Melbourne-based revolutionary socialist, a lecturer and fim-maker. Most recently he has been a founding member and key activist in 'NTEU Fightback', a rank-and-file centre that waged an electrifying opposition to the national union's agenda of pay cuts, concessions and capitulations amid the deep crisis in the higher education sector.

Liam Ward

James Plested

Alexis Vassiley

Tom Gilchrist

Hersha Kadkol

Mick is a founding member of Socialist Alternative. He writes for Marxist Left Review and has authored many books including 

Mick Armstrong

Grace has organised protests against the transphobic far right, successfully disrupting the speaking tour of anti-trans activist Posie Parker and shutting down a neo-Nazi gym in Melbourne's west. She is a member of Socialist Alternative's National Executive and co-ordinates our group's campus work around the country.

Grace Hill

Luca Tavan

Lily is an activist from Newcastle where she organises a student socialist club and climate campaigns

Lily Campbell

Kath Larkin is a socialist and trade union activist. Kath has a long history of organising for workers' rights in the Railway Industry and was the first female delegate in the RTBU. She has also researched and written on Australian labour history.

Kath Larkin

Rebecca Barrigos is a longtime member of Socialist Alternative Brisbane, and a rank and file teacher unionist and convenor of Queensland Teachers Fightback

Rebecca Barrigos

Louise is a long-time member of Socialist Alternative and editor of Red Flag newspaper. She regularly contributes articles on oppression and identity politics to Marxist Left Review. She was the convenor of Equal Love during the successful campaign for marriage equality in Australia.

Louise O’Shea

Duncan Hart

Jasmine is a Palestine activist and socialist organiser at RMIT university. She writes for Red Flag newspaper.

Jasmine Duff

Ella Gutteridge

Sarah is on the Socialist Alternative National Executive

Sarah Garnham

April has been a socialist and LGBTI activist in Sydney since 2011. She is a member of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union and co-convenor of Community Action for Rainbow Rights. She writes for Red Flag newspaper and Marxist Left Review.

April Holcombe

Jerome Small is a founding member of Socialist Alternative and ou industrial organiser. He has been a socialist and union activist in the telecommunications, clothing, clerical and construction industries for over 30 years, as well as playing a prominent role in climate, refugee and anti-uranium campaigns. 

Jerome Small

Anneke is on the National Executive of Socialist Alternative and hosts the Socialist Party podcast The Party Line. 

Anneke Demanuele

Tom Bramble is a long-term socialist activist, author and retired academic based in Queensland, Australia. He taught Industrial Relations at the University of Queensland for many years and has authored numerous books and articles on the Australian labour movement. His most recent book, with Mick Armstrong, is 

The Fight for Workers’ Power: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the 20th Century

Tom Bramble

Vashti is a socialist and member of Socialist Alternative's National Executive. She is the author of

Vashti Fox

Diane Fieldes has been active since the early 1970s in many campaigns including those for Indigenous and refugee rights. She has written about a range of working-class struggles such as the fight for equal pay and is a member of Socialist Alternative. 

Diane Fieldes

Sandra Bloodworth is a labour historian and socialist activist, based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been involved in radical politics since the 1970s, where she has played roles in the women's, Aboriginal, anti-uranium mining and trade union movements. She is a founding member of Socialist Alternative and has written on the Russian Revolution, the global financial crisis, women's struggles, working class resistance in the Middle East and Australian imperialism. 

Featured Speakers

Anderson Bean

Tempest Collective (USA)

Germán P. Montañes

Anticapitalistas (Spain)

Purity Machogu

Permanent Revolutionary Congress (Kenya)

Eleanor Morley

Editor of Red Flag newspaper

Kevin Murphy

Socialist historian and prize-winning author (USA)

Yasmine Johnson

NUS Education Officer & SfP national co-convenor

Sandra Bloodworth

Labour historian and socialist activist

Vashti Fox

Author of "The Story of Palestine"

Diane Fieldes

Veteran socialist activist and writer

Omar Hassan

Editor of Marxist Left Review

Joel Geier

Active in the US socialist movement since the '60s

Janey Stone

Socialist publisher and historian

Jasmine Duff

Students for Palestine national co-convenor

Kim Bullimore

Political activist and anti-racist campaigner

Sarah Garnham

From Socialist Alternative

Jerome Small

Socialist Alternative's industrial organiser

Anneke Demanuele

Socialist cultural commentator and podcaster

Grace Hill

Socialist Alternative campus convenor

Louise O’Shea

Editor of Red Flag newspaper

Jordan Humphreys

Author of Indigenous Liberation and Socialism

Chloe Rafferty

Host of Red Flag Radio

Rebecca Barrigos

Convenor of Queensland Teachers Fightback

April Holcombe

Socialist activist and writer

Tom Bramble

Historian of the Australian labour movement

Mick Armstrong

Veteran socialist

Liz Walsh

Socialist and refugee activist