Gary Foley is a legendary Aboriginal activist, writer, actor, teacher and historian. Politicised by police violence and reading Malcolm X after arriving in Redfern in 1967, aged seventeen, Foley helped establish the Aboriginal Legal Service and Sydney’s Black Power Movement. He was also a founding member of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972.

Heavily surveilled by ASIO for years, he remained at the forefront of Aboriginal rights struggles including the 1982 Commonwealth Games protest, the 1988 bicentennial demonstrations, the campaign to save Northland Secondary College and the fight against the Jabiluka uranium mine. He has also been a prominent speaker at Invasion Day and Palestine protests, supporting Palestinian liberation since the 1970s.

Foley has educated generations through activism, his history lectures at Victoria University and his extensive research and writing. He is currently building what will be the largest archive of Aboriginal history, preserving these resources for future generations.

A regular Marxism conference speaker, Foley brings powerful stories, historical knowledge and inspiration. If you want to be part of the next chapter of resistance to this barbaric, racist system, come to this session to hear from one of the living legends of our movement.