New Australian Greens leader makes a “left” pitch to young people
By installing Bandt as leader, the Greens MPs demonstrated their concern over the mounting political disaffection.
Mike Head•
Socialist Equality Party
The Socialist Equality Party is the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. Our party fights to build a revolutionary leadership of the working class and to win workers in Australia to the program of socialist internationalism. To all workers fighting to defend their jobs and living conditions, to young people without a future, to the millions who are sick of endless wars, we say: This is your party! Get involved today!
Principal documents
Adopted in January by the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), this document reviews and examines essential historical events and political experiences of the Australian working class throughout the twentieth century, within the context of global economic, political and social processes.
The SEP Statement of Principles outlines the basic conceptions of the SEP and the foundation for membership in the party. The document was adopted unanimously at the party’s founding congress in Sydney on January 21–25.
The fight for socialism today
Labor Party props up Australian government in political crisis
Labor leader Anthony Albanese appealed to Prime Minister Scott Morrison to improve his performance and work more closely with the Labor Party.
Mike Head•
Australian government intensifies punitive drive against welfare recipients
Before even paying back the money wrongly taken from some of society’s most vulnerable people via the “robo-debt” system, the government is moving to punish them again.
Margaret Rees•
Take up the fight for international socialism! Join the IYSSE!
One month into 2020, the crisis of capitalism threatens youth with the danger of nuclear war, authoritarianism, climate catastrophe and worsening inequality. International socialism is the answer.
the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Chelsea Manning challenges attempt to permanently bar her from Canada under Ottawa’s state secrecy laws
The Canadian government plans to argue that the persecuted US whistleblower should be permanently barred from entering the country at an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing scheduled for October 7.
James Clayton•
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning criticizes Glenn Greenwald’s right-wing politics
Manning has publicly denounced the journalist Glenn Greenwald for his increasingly right-wing political positions.
Kevin Reed•
Australian Labor Party conference passes mealy-mouthed motion “defending” Assange
Labor’s motion does not even oppose the US attempt to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act for exposing American war crimes, human rights violations and diplomatic conspiracies.
Oscar Grenfell•
Ten years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange published the Iraq War Logs
The publication was an imperishable contribution to the fight against imperialist militarism, for which the war criminals and their political representatives have never forgiven Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan•
Kevin Reed•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Kevin Reed•
The working class, the great mass of the world's population, is the revolutionary force in modern capitalist society. In the past two years, the working class has engaged in a growing number of strikes and demonstrations around the world. Repressed and dismissed for so long, the working class is beginning to assert its own independent interests. The outbreak of mass social struggles signals the beginning of a new revolutionary period.
Almost two decades after the United States launched the “war on terror,” the entire world is being dragged into an ever-expanding maelstrom of imperialist violence. Millions have been killed by the wars of US imperialism and its allies in the Middle East and Africa, and tens of millions maimed or turned into refugees. A century after the end of World War I, these conflicts are once again metastasizing toward a catastrophic global conflagration.
The ICFI is fighting to build a new international anti-war movement of the working class. The fight against war is the fight against its source, the capitalist profit system.
For the international unity of the working class
The ICFI’s program is is based on the unification of the struggles workers internationally: of all countries, nationalities, ethnicities and languages. We fight against all efforts to divide workers on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or various other identities.
The problems workers confront in every country are fundamentally the same: War, attacks on democratic rights, exploitation, unemployment, poverty and environmental destruction. They are world problems that require a global solution: Socialism.
This is the opening report delivered by David North to the 2019 International May Day Online Rally, held annually by the ICFI to celebrate the day of international working-class solidarity and rally the working class to the program of international socialism.
The levels of inequality today are virtually without precedent in history. According to Oxfam, some 26 billionaires collectively control the same amount of wealth as half the global population. In 2018, the wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by $900 billion, or 12 percent, while 3.8 billion people saw their wealth decline by 11 percent.
The growth of social inequality is the deliberate intended aim of governments throughout the world, who have single-mindedly pursued policies to enrich the corporate elite through the impoverishment of the working class.
Against fascism and authoritarianism!
Unprecedented levels of social inequality, continuous wars and the drive to great-power conflict under capitalism are incompatible with the maintenance of democratic forms of rule.
Around the world, capitalist governments are building up the state apparatus, surveillance and censorship directed at growing political and social opposition in the working class, while fascist forces are being systematically promoted.
Courageous Wikileaks journalist Assange remains in an isolation cell in Britain's Bellmarsh prison, threatened with extradition to the United States. His sole 'crime' is to have exposed the truth about the criminal operations of the US and other governments. The attack against both Assange and Manning is directed against the democratic rights of the entire working class.
A campaign is underway at German think-tanks, the government and political establishment, and on the universities, to promote the return of German militarism by justifying and falsifying the historic crimes of the Nazis. The Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei is leading the campaign against the return of fascism in Germany.
Capitalist governments in the United States, Europe and around the world are collaborating with social media companies and technology giants to censor the Internet and block access to socialist, left-wing and progressive publications who speak for the working class.
Around the world, capitalist governments are seeking to divert popular anger against the social crisis produced by capitalism against immigrants and refugees, the most vulnerable layers of the international working class.
The Russian Revolution marked a new stage in world history. The overthrow of the capitalist Provisional Government proved that an alternative to capitalism was not a utopian dream, but a real possibility that could be achieved through the conscious political struggle of the working class.
Trotsky founded the Fourth International in 1938 in opposition to the Stalinist degeneration of the Third International. The ICFI has defended the program and principles of genuine socialism and Trotskyism throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Congress resolutions
2018 Fourth National Congress
2016 Third National Congress
2012 First National Congress
Secretaries
James joined the Trotskyist movement in 1991, during the first Gulf War against Iraq, in response to the ICFI’s analysis of the crisis and collapse of Stalinism and the party’s internationalist and socialist opposition to the Labor Party.Since 1998, he has been a member of the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site. He was elected assistant national secretary of the SEP in 2012 and national secretary in February 2015. He has played a leading role in the campaign by theWSWS and ICFI to mobilize the working class to free the courageous Wikileaks journalist and class war prisoner Julian Assange.
Cheryl was a founding member of the Socialist Labour League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in 1972, and has played a leading role in the Trostkyist movement in Australia for more than four decades. She was elected AssistantNational Secretary at the Third National Congress of the SEP in 2016.
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