Australian communists merge - The road to unity b/w Sparts & RCO, with Comrades Bourchier & Edith

In a special episode, Mansa is joined by Comrades Bourchier and Edith from Australia to discuss the merger of their two organisations, the Spartacist League of Australia and the Revolutionary Communist Organisation, respectively. We discuss the basis for the merger, what led to this despite differences on some questions of analysis and programme, what this merger means for rebuilding the Australian left and lessons for the left internationally. The merged organisation will be relaunched as Communist Unity in May 2026.

Reports on the RCO conference and RCO-SLA merger which give a somewhat different taste:

• Communist Unity's 2026 General Conference, by Anthony Furia and Christina Veselovskiy of the RCO
• Factions, nameswitching and unity, by Mia Volkova of the RCO

SLA articles:

• Why we are joining the RCO, and you should too, by the SLA

Check out the issues of Red Battler, the now-ceased paper of the Spartacists in Australia.

For more from the RCO:

• The website of the RCO can be found here: https://revcomorg.info/
• Partisan! the official publication of the RCO, can be found here: https://partisanmagazine.org/articles/
• Follow RCO on Insta @rev_com_org

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