The SEP held an important online meeting Thursday night, ahead of Saturday’s New South Wales state election. SEP candidates Oscar Grenfell, Max Boddy and Mike Head addressed the meeting, which was chaired by National Secretary Cheryl Crisp.
The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.
Only the SEP has advanced a socialist program to reorganise society to meet the pressing social needs of the vast majority, not the private profits of the super-rich.
The Socialist Equality Party is the only party in the NSW election offering workers an alternative to the ongoing slashing of wages and cuts to health, education and other social services.
The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.
This article, published on the World Socialist Web Site five years ago exposed the hypocrisy involved in the parliamentary events, such as yesterday’s, hailing the anniversaries of the former Rudd Labor government’s “national apology.”
Neither faction of the Greens represents the interests of working people. Both promote racial identity politics, which serve to divide the working class and cultivate a privileged Aboriginal elite.
Rudd’s nomination is another signal by the Albanese government of its readiness to align Australia more closely than ever behind US imperialism and its aggressive confrontation with China.
The collapse of the Lehrmann trial may be a further blow to the #MeToo crusade, but its proponents are just as likely to seize on another case to seek to revive their reactionary efforts.
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The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
The ludicrous campaign is aimed at fostering a pro-war atmosphere, and to legitimise the escalating US-led war drive against China, which is viewed as the principal threat to American imperialist hegemony.
The announcement marks a further significant stepping up of both governments’ involvement in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, and the resumption of closer ties in preparation for war against China.
While there is no money for public healthcare and education, both in an unprecedented crisis, the war machine is being provided with a blank cheque.
Imperialism’s spiral toward a catastrophic nuclear war must be stopped. But to build an anti-war movement, youth and students must understand the root of war.
“There’s been no greater time for the building of an anti-war movement. Capitalism has no answer to the needs of the population. All it has is austerity policies.”
In the coming war, Australia is not some distant and uninvolved party. Australia and New Zealand have been placed, behind the backs of their populations, on the front lines of US-led war plans.
“I definitely support an anti-war movement. I think we need to do our part for society and to stop war. The way the world is, things aren’t going to get any better unless people like us do something.”
For a mass movement of youth and students to stop the war in Ukraine!
The IYSSE—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people against war.
The war in Ukraine must be stopped before it results in a global catastrophe. The interaction of NATO’s imperialist militarism, recklessly pursuing its global geopolitical agenda whatever the consequences, and the increasing desperation of Russia’s oligarchic capitalist regime threatens to escalate into a nuclear conflagration.
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Deepal Jayasekera to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Chris Marsden to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Tom Peters to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
“The criminal ‘let it rip’ pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation.”
“The same contradictions and crisis of world capitalism are also propelling the working class into struggle, providing the basis for the building of an international anti-war movement.”
A mass network of interconnected rank-and-file committees can and must serve as the foundation for the fight for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ government based on a socialist program.
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
“Our workplaces lack basic public health measures, including mask mandates and adequate ventilation, under conditions of the ongoing global pandemic.”
The stand being taken by the Kinetic workers—their third strike in six weeks—is of national and international significance, and should be actively supported by workers everywhere.
The state-owned postal service has entrusted the CWU with the task of introducing changes to the delivery model that will drastically increase the workload of postal workers and slash jobs.
University workers and students across Australia face intensified pro-business restructuring and integration into war research, as well as deepening budget cuts.
The Labor government defied and suppressed warnings in order to pursue a corporate profit-driven “let it rip” policy, knowing that many people would die.
If the rate of fatalities continues, this year will be even deadlier than 2022, when almost 15,000 Australians were killed by the “let it rip” COVID policies of Labor and Liberal governments.
As in the US, Europe and elsewhere, the fall in life expectancy is a historical retrogression reversing a decades-long trend.
The censorship of Craig Wallace is just one example of the suppression of those opposing the murderous “let it rip” policies of governments and their false claim the pandemic is over.
The latest revelation demonstrates that while occasionally making vague statements about Assange’s plight, Labor is continuing the more than ten-year record of Australian governments collaborating in his persecution.
Albanese broke a longstanding silence on Assange, but his comments fell far short of a demand for the immediate and unconditional freedom of the persecuted Australian journalist.
The address was subjected to a virtual boycott by Australia’s official media, demonstrating its alignment with the state and with imperialist war.
The case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is critical to the interests of all workers, in the US and throughout the world.
In a blatant act of political censorship, the Socialist Equality Party has been deregistered. Nevertheless, the SEP will stand candidates in the federal election, if and when it is called, and conduct the broadest possible campaign for a genuine socialist alternative.
The working class must have a political voice, which the ruling class through its latest legislation is seeking to stifle. The opposition to the dictates of big business and its political servants needs to be guided by a socialist program that puts the social needs of working people—above all their health and lives—ahead of the private profits of the wealthy few. The SEP alone fights for this perspective.
Our party fights:
● For a scientific program to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic against the criminal, “herd immunity” policies of the ruling elite.
● For an end to militarism and war.
● Against all forms of nationalism and racism and for the unity of the international working-class.
● For the social rights of the working class, including quality, free education and healthcare for all, and a decent, full-time job with permanent conditions for those able to work.
● For a workers’ government and socialism, that is a society in which the working-class democratically controls the wealth that it produces, not the banks and the billionaires.
Fill out this form to apply to join the SEP as an electoral member. The membership fee is $5 (waged) or $2 (unwaged/student).
The program of the Socialist Equality Party is of a principled, not a conjunctural and pragmatic, character. It is based on an analysis of the crisis of world capitalism and an assimilation of the strategic revolutionary experiences of the working class and the international socialist movement.
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party was adopted by the Founding Congress of the SEP in Sydney in 2010. It traces the historical events and strategic experiences of the working class and Marxist movement spanning more than a century.
Membership in the Socialist Equality Party is based on agreement with its Statement of Principles. The principles of the SEP incorporate the essential experiences of the revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century and the corresponding struggle waged by Marxists for the program of world socialist revolution.
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
Crisp was a founding member of the Socialist Labour League, the forerunner of the SEP, in 1972, and has played a leading role in the Trotskyist movement in Australia for more than four decades. She was elected National Secretary at the Fifth National Congress of the SEP in 2020.
Max was elected to the position of assistant national secretary at the 2020 SEP National Congress. He writes regularly for the WSWS on issues facing asylum seekers and their inhumane treatment at the hands of Australian governments. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Newcastle, majoring in Aboriginal Studies.
Authorised by Cheryl Crisp for the Socialist Equality Party, Suite 906, 185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000.
