CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. A leading influence in the VSP's formation was the British trade unionist Tom Mann, who lived in Australia from 1903 to 1910. Of course the Greens should be doing this too but, as a party, theyre just not as convinced as we are that the system stinks. While Socialist Alliance is withdrawing from Victorian Socialists, we remain committed to building democratic alliances that will help fight for anti-capitalist change in the unions, the environment movement, the campaigns for Indigenous and refugee rights and elections. Bernie Finn, the extreme right anti-abortion campaigner and former Liberal Party member, may also lose his spot. It allows us to build unity by working together on a campaign. [3] Despite the Victorian Socialist Party's rejection of independently running in elections, the party did contest the 1908 Victorian state election. The Animal Justice Party and Fiona Patterns Reason Party (which did not stand in 2018) scored a combined 5.3%. The working class must have a political voice, which the Australian ruling class is seeking to stifle with this legislation. As such, the party supports a platform that includes the reversal of historical privatization of industries, along with strong support for labour unions. Every significant issue confronting the working class demands an international solutionthe danger of US imperialism triggering a third world war, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, attacks on democratic rights and the danger of fascism. Despite the party labelling itself Marxist, "the Party's socialism in reality involved a loosely integrated body of ideas, largely British in origin or form". Whether its the relentless attacks on trans people, the racist panics about boat people or African gangs or the attacks on Aboriginal sovereignty all of it is there to divide us and to distract us from the great robbery going on right in front of our eyes. Six months on from the Albanese government taking office, the conditions of life for millions of working-class people have worsened dramatically. After a conversation in which we try and put 150-odd years of struggle into its historical context, they inevitably respond with: Yes, but dont you think youd be able to fight the right better if you were bigger and stronger?. Socialist Alternative has a long pro-imperialist record. Join Victorian Socialists Help us build the movement for a fairer, better and more sustainable society. But the Daniel Andrews government barely sustained a graze, while the very vulnerable combined African community has been left reeling and open to further attack. The Socialist Alliance condemns Russia's war against Ukraine,which violates international law and is a catastrophe for people in both countries. [8] Shortly afterwards, a group of independent members formed a caucus in the party called Socialist Unity. Claims the new IR laws willclosethe gender pay gap andstrengthen equal pay laws are welcome. Renee Heath, who led the Liberal Partys Eastern Victoria Region ticket, was so transphobic that former leader Matthew Guy said she would be banned from the party room. The encouraging votes for socialist solutions in working-class areas is a reminder that peopleare fed up with Labor taking them for granted, while doing little to support them, she said. THE VICTORIAN AGE. How else could Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull get away with his disgraceful attack on the Sudanese community, blaming them for gang violence? Socialist Alliance needs your financial support, Russia out of Ukraine! As a socialist, I believe we should put people before profit, and I'm committed to fighting for that. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Workers and young people seeking a genuine alternative need to consider the history and program of the only party advancing an internationalist and socialist perspective, the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the Socialist Equality Party. The Freedom Party, Angry Victorians and similar far-right parties scored less than 2% of the vote where they ran. Whichever group rejects this new round of war propaganda against China and Russia (which we have seen before, over and over, targeted at lots of nations over the years) which only serves the violent expansionist plutocrats give them your spare dollarydoos, or at least your spare time. A ghost is haunting the United States the ghost of socialism. Check out some of our events here. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. VS aims "to put politicians on a worker's wage so they live like the rest of us" and "to get socialists into parliament who will fight to make workers richer and billionaires poorer".[5][6]. While Socialist Alliance is withdrawing from Victorian Socialists, we remain committed to building democratic alliances that will help fight for anti-capitalist change in the unions, the environment movement, the campaigns for Indigenous and refugee rights and elections. Very scarce copy devoted to their god Stalin with Picture on front, and others The Ukrainian people have a right to resist the invasion. Or standing up for our health and education services and demanding that the cuts and outsourcing be reversed? They are likely to pick up two more upper LC, giving them three seats. While Victorian Socialists showed great potential when it was formed in early 2018 and ran two big and exciting socialist election campaigns, it has not lived up to its promise to build a more united left. The 'socialist imperialists' were in the clear majority after 1900. "Imagine if we had had a socialist in . The Socialist Alliance sends its warmest fraternal greetings to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on the eve of the 21st hearing in the "Kobane" show trial against 108 HDP leaders, 28 of whom are currently being held in prison. . While Socialist Alliance supports the right of the Ukrainian people to resist the Russian invasion and to access military assistance to do so, including military training, it is opposed to Australian personnel participating in the British training program Operation Interflex. However, the Greens vote grew in the seats they had already won and they won Richmond. In 2020, Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne. Join us for a discussion of the Victorian Socialists manifesto and find out how you can help get the first socialists elected to an Australian parliament for almost a century. [27][28], VS ran candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2022 federal election, and subsequently launched a campaign to win a seat in the 2022 Victorian state election. Victorian Socialists are wearing out their boot leather ahead of Saturday's state poll. The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a socialist political party in the Australian state of Victoria during the early 20th century. [17][18] Endorsements were received from several prominent left-wing personalities, such as Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Gary Foley, Tom Ballard, Corrine Grant, and Helen Razer. Socialist . [22] The party won votes of 4.6% in Calwell, 4.5% in Wills, and 4.2% in Cooper. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We recognised then that in any new collaborative effort it is important to retain the political strengths of existing groups, and that this can be a challenge to balance against developing more united structures. Politicians are overpaid and out of touch. The party was founded in 2001 as an alliance of various socialist organisations and activists. A zero carbon economy by 2035. Reform Acts. Overhaul the health system with funding to increase hospital capacity, improve ambulance response times, boost worker numbers and raise wages. Politics of Australia. [10] It was officially registered by the Victorian Electoral Commission on 6 June 2018. He played a critical role in saving Richmond Secondary College from closure in the 1990s. [Jacob Andrewartha is a national co-convenor ofSocialist Alliance. Victorian Socialists is now dominated by members of Socialist Alternative, which for many years was avowedly against participation in electoral politics. Winning a seat in the Victorian parliament cannot turn around years of attacks and marginalisation. Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. [6] Formed in 2010, it describes itself as being "from the political centre". These groups have all either taken office or propped up the discredited existing establishment parties, in order to suppress working-class resistance to the austerity dictates of the global financial markets. Victorian Socialists are campaigning in those wards because the Alliance demanded that we do that when they were still part of VicSocs and now the Alliance is likely to just split the vote and make it harder to get a socialist elected into any of those. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In other words, Victorian Socialists would function as a loyal opposition to the state Labor government. However,the lawswill divide workers and weaken the Better Off Overall Test. The Committee for Public Education (CFPE), a rank-and-file teachers, parents and students group supported by the Socialist Equality Party, politically led the opposition to the sell-out. The Victorian Socialists (VS) stood in all 22 seats that cover the two Legislative Council (LC) regions of Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. However, we no longer feel that the Victorian Socialist project is capable of uniting broader layers of socialists in an alliance that has the dynamic to move beyond electoral politics. [36] In addition, the party seeks to cap the pay of Members of Parliament at AUD $87,000 per year, equivalent to that of a six-year nurse. Contents History Australian Socialist League Socialist Labor Party But Victorian Socialists do not even pretend to advance a program for workers globally. The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused a crisis for the VSP. It falsely labels both Russia and China as imperialist, and through this designation lines up with Washingtons aggression against both countries. [36] The party proposes the creation of a publicly owned electricity grid, along with increased funding for transportation, healthcare system and public education, while removing government funding from private schools who have more resources than is necessary to meet the Schooling Resource Standard. Members who were later prominent included John Curtin (Prime Minister of Australia 194145), Frank Anstey (a federal Labor MP 191034), Maurice Blackburn (a federal MP 193443), Don Cameron (a Senator 19381962), Fred Katz (a Senator 19471951),[1] and John Cain (three times Premier of Victoria). Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. [29], Members of the party are involved in activist campaigns for a range of progressive causes. [3] These included more mainstream activities such as "regular lectures on political topics, speakers classes, the writing and distribution of radical literature, and public protest" to more eccentric such as "dances, camps, bicycle riding clubs, choirs, a Sunday School for youth". They were not listened to. In Western Metropolitan, it received3.76%. Victorian Socialists was established in 2018 as an alliance of pseudo-left groups, but now functions as an electoral front for Socialist Alternative. The Victorian Socialists began as a collaboration between Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Alliance, and individuals not aligned with either group. Seats that recorded big votes for VS were: Footscray, where Maribyrnong councillor Jorge Jorquera won9.77%; Broadmeadows(8.37%); Greenvale (7.15%); Brunswick(8.24%); Northcote (6.76%); Preston(6.28%); Laverton (6.36%); and St Albans(6.78%). The Socialist Labor Party was a socialist political party of Australia that existed from 1901 to the 1970s. Would you recommend joining both parties then, to get the best of both worlds? [2] Party members such as Tom Mann and John Curtin took the stance of anti-imperialism and internationalism, while members such as Maurice Blackburn argued that Australia required a strong army to enforce the White Australia Policy. Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. In Victoria and across the country, Labor and the unions are imposing continuing real wage cuts, as well as cuts to public hospital and health spending. Australian Greens Public transport should be publicly built, owned and managed. As at November 2020, the party had one elected representative, Jorge Jorquera, a Councillor on Maribyrnong City Council. Socialist Alliance needs your financial support, Robodebt fiasco reveals Centrelink workers opposed it, Jim Chalmers values-based capitalism magic trick wont fly, Voice to Parliament has to be more than a token gesture, Socialist Alliance opposes deepening military cooperation with Britain, The movement for refugee rights must continue, Blak Sovereign Movement given a boost by Senator Lidia Thorpe, Socialist Alliance makes ambitious plans at its 17th National Conference, Invasion Day 2023: The struggle for First Nations justice and sovereignty continues, Australian armys torture resistance course breaches human rights, United States ramps up threats against China, Russia, Macquaries statue must tell the truth, activist says, Miko Peled: Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir have all but guaranteed a new Intifada will soon erupt, Corrupt and fraudulent: Laying bare the Adani Group. I suggest you ask them if they support Australian military being in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and ask very pointedly if they believe the massive imperial propaganda campaigns against China, Russia and Iran. Some of the anti-Labor swing went to the Liberals and the far right. SA ran a smaller campaign, standing in the Geelong seats of Lara and Geelong and the Melbourne seats of Pascoe Vale and Broadmeadows. Founded in February 2018, it is an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. Republican stalwarts are striking at the heart of the socialist movement in New York City the Queens neighborhoods represented by US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and . Legalise Cannabis looks like winningthreeLC seats. In 1907, the VSP, plus similar groups in the other Australian states, came together in a loose federal organisation calling itself the Socialist Federation of Australia, but this never became a functioning national party. According to the Greens, VS is unlikely to win an LC seat. Socialist Alliance accepted this limitation at that time as we could see that the initial greater unity displayed by Victorian Socialists made it attractive to other new and independent left individuals and forces that might develop it beyond its limited electoralist focus. Our schools are in crisis. Socialist Alliance is hostile to the elimination policy advanced by the SEP and principled epidemiologists because it is oriented to the very political parties responsible for the mass social. Both Victorian Socialists and Socialist Alliance are running candidates. ], Subscribe to Socialist Alliance & Green Left newsletters. 27 febrero, 2023 . Join the SEP campaign against anti-democratic electoral laws! [2] This was in conflict with the mainstream Labor movement which was in favor of the White Australian Policy. Left-wing independent Gaetano Greco received 14.38% in the seat of Preston and has a chance of winning the seat from Labor. the woman question the victorian debate about gender summary. Engaging in a combination of grassroots activism and electoral politics, Socialist Alliance currently has two elected officeholders across Australia, all of whom serve on the local government level. See events What we'll fight for Climate change Early childhood, primary and secondary education First Nations Now, we are aiming to get a socialist elected to Victorias parliament and the effort is being supported by two socialist organisations, some unions and many left activists. Albaneses Labor government is committed to both offensives, placing the population on the frontline of a potential World War III. The Victorian Socialists ( VS) is a democratic socialist political party based in the Australian state of Victoria. 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