Speakers

Lidia Thorpe is a Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman and Independent Senator.

Aishik Saha researches digital and algorithmic labour, data workers in the Global South

Coordinator for the Environmental and Climate Crisis Bureau for the Socialist Party of Malaysia

Elected leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

Farooq Tariq is President of the Haqooq Khalq Party and a leading activist in the climate justice movement in Pakistan

Founder and spokesperson of the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organization

Gunditjmara man and Koori organiser with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union

Kokila Annamalai is an abolitionist, community organiser, writer and activist from Singapore. She is a co-founder of Transformative Justice Collective and Workers Make Possible.

Chief of staff for Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown and activist with the South Brisbane Greens

Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist

Founder of and advocate for Unite union, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Author of Introduction to Marxism and a member of the national executive of Socialist Alliance

Co-founder of Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity, an Australian-based climate justice collective

Sonny Melencio is Chairperson of the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Philippines) and author of Full Quarter Storms

Long term unionist, feminist and Socialist Alliance leader

Co-editor of Green Left and member of the Socialist Alliance national executive

Postal worker and unionist in the Communications Workers Union

Kurdish-Iranian activist, author and film producer

Trans justice activist based in Naarm/Melbourne and is currently involved in the Victorian Pride Lobby

West Papuan activist

Karyn Brown is a leading activist in Action for Public Housing

Associate professor at Tokyo University and author of Capital in the Anthropocene

Antipoverty activist with the Antipoverty Centre and unwaged social policy researcher

Margaret Kelly is a resident of the Barak Beacon Estate and a housing activist

Spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)

Nova Sobieralski is a member of Socialist Alliance who is involved in campaigns for trans rights through Queer Liberation Boorloo

West Papuan activist

Co-editor of Green Left and a long time anti-war activist

Rachel Evans is Sydney organiser for Socialist Alliance and a leading activist in the campaign to save public housing

National Council member of the Party of the Laboring Masses and the head of the party’s international work

Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and former Fremantle City Councillor

National co-convenor of Socialist Alliance and a union activist

Australian Greens Senator for WA

Deputy Branch Secretary of the Australian Services Union (ASU) in Victoria