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Red Flag is an Australian newspaper which is published bi-weekly by the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative.[2][3] It is also associated with the podcast Red Flag Radio.
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Type | Newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Socialist Alternative |
Publisher | Red Flag Press Inc. |
Founded | 12 June 2013[1] |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton South Victoria 3053 |
City | Melbourne[1] |
Country | Australia |
ISSN | 2202-2228 |
Website | redflag |
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]
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