Revolutionary Communist Organisation

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9410/m…

Private property and war go hand-in-hand. Capitalism in turn has made wars ever bigger and ever more dangerous. How do we rescue human civilisation? Ted Reese outlines some of his answers weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/ma…

LETTERS: John M calls various socialist groups to form a Democratic Socialist Federation, with the aim to merge united by a programme. prometheus-mag.com/2026/03/17/tow…

Merchandise displaying the cover of "Proletariat," which was the organ of the Melb Uni Labor Club from 1932-35. This cover was designed by Noel Counihan. (From "Tribune" negatives, ca. 1987).

"We will return it to France when we have carried it through out the world."

#OTD 1871 Paris Commune began. “It was the first attempt of the proletariat to govern itself....The establishment of the Commune meant not the replacing of one form of class rule by another, but the abolishing of all class rule.” Eleanor Marx

We will be hosting a variety of speakers from across Australia and overseas to speak on eight must-see panels to put forward the key debates in socialist politics today. 6th of April - Ascot Vale Neighbourhood Centre - 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM - FREE ENTRY

MELBOURNE We are excited to announce the second Marxism Fringe - now expanded to a full day theoretical conference covering communist politics and the state of the left today.

‘The Communist University for Eastern Workers’ by Mikhail Pavlovitch from Moscow. No. 6. May 31, 1921. A central figure in its founding speaks to the ‘University of the East’ established by the Soviets. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/03/12/the…

#OtD 11 Mar 1975 there was an attempted far right coup in Portugal, following the overthrow of the dictatorship the year prior. The coup was defeated by revolutionaries, and under pressure from workers 1/3 of the economy was nationalised. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/08/13/e41…

Today’s left is in a mess. The worst thing we can do is to repeat solutions that unmistakably failed in the past. Charlotte Bourchier of the Spartacist League of Australia discusses the debates in Communist Unity weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/ke…

The Petrograd Soviet issued Soviet Order No. 1 on Mar. 14, 1917, instructing soldiers and sailors to obey their officers' orders and the Provisional Government only if they did not contradict the decrees of the Soviet, and to elect representatives to the Soviet. #OTD #Russia

Yasmin Dualeh offers a meditation on the likelihood of Somaliland nationalism's survival in the wake of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, as well as its implications for imperial geopolitics and the future of Somali sovereignty in the Horn of Africa. prometheus-mag.com/2026/03/12/som…

The month-long Ruhr Uprising, in which 50 to 80,000 workers affiliated with the Communist and Socialist parties formed a Red Army, began on Mar. 13, 1920, in response to the right-wing Kapp Putsch. One thousand workers would be killed in its repression. #OTD #Germany

The long investigation into the assassination of Rio councilwoman Marielle Franco exposed a shadow alliance of paramilitaries, police, and far-right politicians. The conviction of her killers proves that the Left is the real defender of democracy: jacobin.com/2026/03/franco…

Everytime I start seriously thinking about the South Pacific and the need for socialist theorisation of the region, I feel increasingly crankish but for Australian socialists we need to understand that this is perhaps the single most important region to our imperial interests

Good to see some decent quality theoretical debate in the Australian socialist left.

#OtD 10 Mar 1919 Leo Jogiches, Polish-German communist, key figure of the Spartacus League & KPD, and lover of Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered while trying to investigate the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8216/l…

#OtD 10 Mar 1972 the Day of the Galician Working Class took place for the first time, when Francoist police fired upon a union protest, injuring around 50 people. The day is still celebrated annually, calling for social and labour improvements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8221/g…

We join our comrades from OCAI and the OWFI in mourning the loss of a proletarian fighter for women's emancipation.