Events

Popular power in the face of US attacks with Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina

Public webinar with Jorge Vilalta & Carlos Ron

The 2003 documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised plunges viewers inside the palace coup that briefly toppled Hugo Chávez in April 2002, capturing in real time how Venezuela’s oligarchy, private media and sections of the military tried to overturn a democratically elected government.

Join us on Sunday 22, 2pm at Victoria Park (behind Carslaw building), Sydney for Red Books Day. This year we’ll be marking 100 years with Fidel with a reading and discussion group of the 1960 First Havana Declaration.

Join us at 6pm on Thursday 26 February at the Humanist Society in Sydney to learn what is at stake if the Bolivarian Revolution is defeated, and the Venezuelan government’s strategies to resist imperialism.

Resist the United States revival of colonialism. The sovereignty of all states should be recognised and protected. We demand that the Australian government condemn the US blockade of Cuba and Venezuela, repair diplomatic and economic ties with Venezuela and Cuba, and demand the release of Maduro and Flores.

This IWWD event is held to honour the perspectives of women who resist imperialism every day in Latin America and beyond. We celebrate those who organise communities, governments, and collective defence efforts to defend their sovereignty and socialist projects.

On the 29th January 2026, the US announced the blocking of all oil shipments to Cuba. Cuba has been a target of the US long before the sanctions first began in 1960, with Thomas Jefferson stating in 1805 that Cuba is “the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States”. This proves that the origin of the US’s aggression towards Cuba is in their contradicting national projects: for the US, empire building; and Cuba, self-determination.

As Israel and the US’s brutal imperialist aggression expands in 2026, Palestine continues to influence the outlook of people who want to build a better world. But what is the situation on the ground? What are the perspectives and actions of the liberation movements inside Palestine itself?

Cuba’s teaching method for adult literacy, ‘Yo, Sí Puedo’, has been effectively teaching in Australia for years. Join us as we watch an artefact of the merit of the method in a rural NSW town, and discuss the internationalism and value of education at the heart of Cuban socialism. Join us 6pm this Sunday at […]