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