Red Flag (newspaper)

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Red Flag
"A world to win"
Type Newspaper
Owner(s) Socialist Alternative
PublisherRed Flag Press Inc.
Founded12 June 2013;12 years ago (2013-06-12) [1]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Trades Hall
54 Victoria St
Carlton South
Victoria 3053
City Melbourne [1]
Country Australia
ISSN 2202-2228
Website redflag.org.au

Red Flag is an Australian newspaper which is published fortnightly by the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative. [2] [3] It is also associated with the podcast Red Flag Radio.

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History

The first issue of Red Flag was published on 12 June 2013. [1]

In July 2014, the newspaper was criticised after publishing an issue featured a front page depicting then Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott with a razor to his neck and the caption "One cut we'd like to see", in protest of the Abbott government's proposed budget cuts. [4] In an interview, Abbott stated that the image "should not have any place in our public discourse". [3] The editors refused to apologise and defended the cover as an homage to a 1977 poster and political slogan "Give Fraser the razor!", while accusing critics of hypocrisy for defending Abbott from a "clearly metaphorical" threat at the same time as his government was deporting refugees to face real threats of violence. They nonetheless withdrew the edition due to "legal concerns". [5]

In 2019, Red Flag editor Ben Hillier's articles provided on-the-ground coverage of the siege and student rebellions at Hong Kong Polytechnic. [6] Hillier's eyewitness account has been documented in his book, The Art of Rebellion: Dispatches from Hong Kong. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Red flag: newspaper of Socialist Alternative". Trove. Socialist Alternative Melbourne Collective. 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "The ISL in Australia". LIS-ISL.org. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 Hurst, Daniel (3 July 2014). "Tony Abbott calls razor-against-neck image for newspaper cover 'awful stuff'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Rolf Harris found guilty on 12 charges of indecent assault". Mamamia. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Chang, Charis (1 July 2014). "Abbott's throat slit on newspaper cover". NewsComAu. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Hillier, Ben (14 November 2019). "Liberty or death in Hong Kong". Red Flag. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  7. ↑ Hillier, Ben (August 2020). The Art of Rebellion: Dispatches from Hong Kong. Australia: Spark Publishing Inc. ISBN   978-0-646-82119-1.
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