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15/06/2026

Watch the full video of Bhaskar Sunkara giving the inaugural Eric Aarons Memorial Lecture in Sydney on the SEARCH YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/eqSQpnEMZxU?si=HX1OnN7j2ELmgDjN

15/06/2026

The full video of the inaugural Eric Aarons Memorial Lecture featuring Bhaskar Sunkara is up on our YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/eqSQpnEMZxU?si=5LYDXIJE2ofey1pv

Thanks to Norma Ingram for the wonderful welcome, and to Meredith Burgmann, Patricia Ranald and Brian Aarons for their contributions about Eric and in reply to Bhaskar's speech.

And thanks to everyone that came to see Bhaskar speak and made it such a fantastic event!

Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine, President of The Nation journal, and author of The Socialist Manifesto (2019), gave the inaugural Eric ...

13/06/2026

The text of Bhaskar Sunkara's speech at Victorian Trades Hall Council is up on the Jacobin magazine website!

The era of class compromise is never coming back.

Any serious democratic socialist politics must pursue a politics of rupture with capitalism:

12/06/2026

SEARCH doesn't endorse any one political party, nor do we endorse one state in the State of Origin (especially since SEARCH member Greg Mallory wrote the history of Queensland Rugby League!), but we do note that the NSW Blues are training this week at Morry Breen Oval, home of the Wyong Roos, named after BLF trade unionist, communist and environmentalist, Morry Breen, who passed away in 2018. And Morry was originally a Nth Queenslander to boot!

10/06/2026

https://jacobin.com/2026/06/socialism-social-democracy-class-rupture

The era of class compromise is never coming back. Any serious democratic socialist politics must pursue a politics of rupture with capitalism.

09/06/2026

The era of class compromise is never coming back.

Any serious democratic socialist politics must pursue a politics of rupture with capitalism:

05/06/2026

As part of the SEARCH-Jacobin speaking tour, Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine, made a number of national TV and radio appearances. Here he is on ABC TV in Melbourne.

05/06/2026

As part of the SEARCH-Jacobin Speaking Tour, Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine spoke with national TV and radio audiences.

Here's his interview with ABC TV in Melbourne, where he comments on the upcoming US midterm and Presidential elections, and the levels of polarisation in the USA.

03/06/2026

Aaaaand we're done!

The SEARCH - Jacobin magazine tour is over!

By the numbers...

4 Major Lectures

2 National TV appearances

3 National radio interviews

2 Podcasts

3 Print media interviews

Plus dozens of meetings with unionists, environmental activists and community leaders and hundreds of conversations with comrades

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Over 1 million people have heard Bhaskar Sunkara talk about democratic socialism in the last 10 days!

Thank you for being part of it!

01/06/2026

Our panellists Danae Bosler and Lilia Anderson have joined the conversation, with Bhaskar Sunkara, and our MC Matt Kunkel, and the Q&A has begun!