Red Flag (newspaper)

Great Depression and Aftermath Cold War New Left Contemporary Active Historical Red Flag is an Australian newspaper which is published bi-weekly by the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative.

[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.

[3] The editors refused to apologise and defended the cover as an homage to a 1977 poster and political slogan "Give Fraser the razor!

[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.