A faction of the VSP hoped to "bore from within" and win the ALP for socialism. Inflation is skyrocketing, mortgage interest rates are soaring, and the COVID-19 pandemic is resurging, fuelled by new variants resulting from Labors let it rip policy of axing all safety measures. 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. The Victorian Socialists also support the introduction of a carbon neutral economy by 2035. Victorian Socialists can typically pull out far more volunteers than the alliance too. 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. define the dominant classes VS received the fourth-highest vote, out of 23 parties, in the Northern Metropolitan Region, with4.86%. 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. [36][37] In order to pay for these policies, the Victorian Socialists support the introduction of a wealth tax, a tax on luxury properties (defined as the 25,000 most expensive residencies in Victoria), ending the ability of businesses and organizations to receive land tax exemptions, and instituting or increasing numerous other taxes on large corporations. 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. Mainstream Protestant churches in Australia overwhelmingly supported the war. Good condition in wraps, back cover missing front loose therefor. The Socialist Party of Great Britain recognises only one fundamental social division in the modern worldthe division that exists between the capitalist class on the one hand, and the working-class on the other. This is where the Victorian Socialists could make a difference. We need a socialist society of equality, social justice and environmental sustainability, in which we can organise together to save our planet and reclaim our future. Reform Acts. Six months on from the Albanese government taking office, the conditions of life for millions of working-class people have worsened dramatically. At that time Socialist Alliance joined with Socialist Alternative and socialist Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly to recruit more than 500 people to secure electoral registration for state and federal elections. Victorian Socialists was established in 2018 as an alliance of pseudo-left groups, but now functions as an electoral front for Socialist Alternative. Victorian Socialists is an electoral alliance that is seriously trying to get a socialist voice into parliament, but at the same time, it is not a reformist party that thinks socialism can be introduced through parliamentary politics. While Stephen Jolly will head the campaign, the ticket will also include Colleen Bolger from Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Alliance Moreland councillor Sue Bolton. It falsely labels both Russia and China as imperialist, and through this designation lines up with Washingtons aggression against both countries. The VSP faded away in the following years, finding that there was little political space between the Australian Labor Party and the Communist Party of Australia. Growing working-class hostility toward Labor threatens an historic crisis of capitalist rule. Which is more active? Most recently this was on display after the transnational giant Knauf locked out workers at its plasterboard plant in Port Melbourne. Jolly has been a long-time councillor on Yarra City Council, one of the local government areas included in the Northern Metropolitan seat. The seats stretched from inner city Brunswick, Richmond and Footscray to the outer suburbs of Craigieburn, Werribee and Sunbury. Some of the anti-Labor swing went to the Liberals and the far right. The left should never forget how Pauline Hanson used her first term of office in 1996 to mobilise a right-wing base of support. The Socialist Alliance passes resolution that Labor'sIndigenous Voice to Parliament will be another token gesture, unless the government is forced by a strong popular movement to take real measures towardsFirst Nations justice. 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]. Former political party in Victoria, Australia, 1951 Australian Communist Party ban referendum, "Parliament of Victoria, Legislative Assembly election results for 29 December 1908", "Solidarity Forever, by Bertha Walker - Chapter 2, Tom Mann", Communist Party of Australia (MarxistLeninist), Pensioner and Citizen Initiated Referendum, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victorian_Socialist_Party&oldid=1084120241, Defunct political parties in Victoria (Australia), Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 April 2022, at 17:18. 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. Establish a state bank offering low-interest loans on average mortgages. Bolton, a founding member of Socialist Alliance, is a community leader on the Moreland Council. Cameron was an organizer from 1919 and edited The Socialist from 1920 to 1923. [4], The party was founded in 1906 in Melbourne as a merger of a number of older socialist groupings. We invite all who wish to build a stronger, more united left to support this endeavour as a practical step towards building the socialist movement we so urgently need. With an area of 2,570 km 2 (990 sq mi) and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Socialist Alliance intends to run a full ticket in the Moreland Council elections in 2020 and will work hard to have Socialist Alliance Councillor Sue Bolton re-elected. 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 . By running as a candidate, Bolton can harness support from anti-racist, Islamic, First Nations and disability activists. [6] Formed in 2010, it describes itself as being "from the political centre". 00:51. This is diametrically opposed to a genuine socialist, that is Marxist, perspective on the role of elected socialist representatives within bourgeois parliaments. Around half of those were Church of England, with Presbyterians and Methodists being the next two largest . Male-Homosexual (female-like) / Trans-woman (female) Seated Figurine from Gobekli Tepe. It's an alliance of many groups and individuals who want to achieve specific goal as opposed to a socialist organisation. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Other outer suburban seats were similar to Broadmeadows, with swings against Labor going to the left and the right. Or standing up for our health and education services and demanding that the cuts and outsourcing be reversed? At the end of the day, change had to be fought for by ordinary people not parliament. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. The party achieved a vote of 4.2% in the Northern Metropolitan Region while achieving 7.2% of the vote for the lower house seat of Broadmeadows, in a field of four candidates.[19][20]. Our Policy Platform | Victorian Socialists Our Policy Platform The billionaires have had it too good for too long. Stop deregulation and casualisation, and use every means to improve wages and conditions for workers. Socialist Alternative . A zero carbon economy by 2035. Adapted from Socialism . The seats stretched from inner city Brunswick, Richmond and Footscray to the outer suburbs of Craigieburn, Werribee and Sunbury. 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Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 54 Victoria St Carlton South, VIC 3053, VS Presents: A Socialist Manifesto for Real Change. We need a state that works for everyone. Under the business-as-usual politics of Liberal and Labor, Melbourne has become a segregated city: working-class areas are starved of resources while the wealthy suburbs get the best of everything. John Cain was the 34th Premier of Victoria. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: The 2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton revealed much more than just a presidential winner, it exposed how the Marxist MAINSTREAM MEDIA mob -- and the LEFT-WING PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL followers of SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM that politically control the media, attempted to sway the election in favor of Clinton because she . In 1907 it had about 2,000 members.[5]. [8] Shortly afterwards, a group of independent members formed a caucus in the party called Socialist Unity. Socialist . [2] However, after Tom Mann's departure in 1909, the party began to less strongly oppose racism. [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". Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara Senator Lidia Thorpe should be congratulated for putting a Treaty with First Nations people on the political agenda. Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. 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. The party that might have tapped this sentiment The Victorians imploded a couple of months before the elections. In some places like Canberra they're just exclusively reformists. 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. In 2020, Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne. If the momentum on the Victorian Socialists Facebook page is anything to go by 1000 people were following it within two days it is not an exaggeration to say that this initiative has captured peoples imagination. 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We need to put essential services and infrastructure in public hands again where they can be used to benefit everyone, rather than just make profits for the few. The anti-conscription campaign was arguably the first time that women entered the public stage in Australia in a significant way in their own right. I think revolutionaries and non-revolutionaries can work together in the same campaign (like VicSocs), but outside of those campaigns, revolutionaries need to organise separately because that's the only way revolutionaries can build their forces. The ruling elite in Washington is seeking to shore up its global hegemony through military force. Another articleWhat would a socialist do in parliament?written last month by Victorian Socialists candidate Colleen Bolger, likewise insisted that being elected would see a socialist standpoint injected into contemporary debates and would thereby help shift politics to the left.. [12][13], The 2018 election campaign gained support from several trade unions including the ETU, VAHPA, UFU, CFMMEU (MUA division), AMIEU and NUW. The avowed purpose of the campaign is to get at least one Socialist Alternative member into the upper house of Victorias parliament, aided by second or third preference votes from other parties, all of which are horse-trading preferences with bourgeois parties to secure seats. Turnbull and Peter Dutton predictable law and order comments are clearly meant to attack the Victorian Labor government in an election year. Socialist Alliance has been on the decline for a long time, particularly in Melbourne. And weve got to get socialists into parliament who will fight to make workers richer and billionaires poorer, not the other way around. Legalise Cannabis looks like winningthreeLC seats. Nah, the people in the Alliance who called themselves trots stopped doing that in the 80s. Australian Greens Even though Socialist Alliance aren't able to properly campaign for all of the council wards they're running in, they have put up candidates to compete with Victorian Socialists who could have actually won some of those. The Greens vote rose from 10.7% (2018) to 10.9%, not the widely talked-up Greenslide. Or is that not advisable? Now however, abstentionism has given way to its opportunist mirror-image, parliamentary cretinism, i.e., the desperate attempt to secure seats in parliament on a reformist, non-socialist program. Victorian Socialists is a campaign to get a socialist elected. The Voice to Parliament could end up as another token gesture, unless there is a strong and independent movement for First Nations justice. 10 jerome.small@victoriansocialists.org.au 0437 197 871 I'll call out every injustice, and stand with people wherever there's a battle against a system that, more and more, is rigged for the super-rich. The obvious question is why? 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Without a much stronger opposition, the racist backlash that the Trump era is trying to normalise appears to be gaining ground. Claims the new IR laws willclosethe gender pay gap andstrengthen equal pay laws are welcome. The Victorian Socialists (VS) is a democratic socialist political party based in the Australian state of Victoria. . CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. For these reasons alone, any readers living in the Northern and Western Metropolitan Regions of Melbourne should vote Victorian Socialists in both houses - and encourage others to do the same. Like other socialist parties, the VSP supported the "One Big Union" campaign advocating a united national labour movement, a campaign which led to the establishment of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. The Freedom Party, Angry Victorians and similar far-right parties scored less than 2% of the vote where they ran. This corruption underscores the true character of the Labor Party as a state-financed and trade union-backed bureaucratic shell, operating on behalf of big business against the working class. 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 trade unions are having increasing difficulty in suppressing breakouts of struggles by workers against crushing inflation and a corporate offensive, which has included lockouts of workers. [3] Despite the Victorian Socialist Party's rejection of independently running in elections, the party did contest the 1908 Victorian state election. KERRYN PHELPS: Why Independents are the teal deal Lots of people involved in the campaign are revolutionaries who are also involved in other socialist or activist groups like Socialist Alternative. Indeed, the majority faction organised by Socialist Alternative has made clear that it will not accept anything which is not electorally oriented beyond the very limited Membership and Activity Committee decided upon at the Governing Council on May 9. Our public schools are the most underfunded in the country and our public health system is in permanent crisis. Vic Soc is organised by Socialist Alternative (Cliffite Trotskyists) and other socialists. When the Construction Forestry, Mining, Maritime and Energy Union organised a return to work, accepting the companys below-inflation wage offer that the workers had previously voted down, Socialist Alternative trumpeted this as a victory.. Like most socialists, the party initially welcomed the revolution, but by 1920 democratic socialists such as Ross had become critical of the Bolshevik regime. [30][31], VS ran candidates in the west and north of Melbourne for the 2022 Victorian state election, reportedly mobilising over 1000 volunteers for its campaign and knocking on over 180,000 doors. Winning a seat in the Victorian parliament cannot turn around years of attacks and marginalisation. Join Socialist Alliance to help build a people-before-profits alternative in Australian politics. The seething discontent saw a 40 percent vote by government school teachers in May against a deal struck by the government with the Australian Education Union that cut real wages and did nothing to alleviate intolerable workloads. No new gas or coal. [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. Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. Candidates included the former Geelong Trades Hall Secretary Tim Gooden for the Western Victoria Region and local councillors Stephen Jolly and Sue Bolton for the Northern Metropolitan Region. Victoria has now registered nearly 6,000 deaths during the pandemic, the highest of any state, with the vast majority of these occurring this year, as a direct result of this live with the virus policy. VicSocs isn't really a democratic socialists party it's an alliance of different groups to get a socialist elected. Elections. Contents History Australian Socialist League Socialist Labor Party [29], Members of the party are involved in activist campaigns for a range of progressive causes. Socialist Alliance participated in the founding of the project because we felt that it could be a step towards a bigger and more united left, beginning with an electoral alliance. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. If elected, we will move legislation to make the basic salary of all MPs no more than a 6th-year nurse ($87,000). Justice demands that the crimes committed against First Nations people - many of which are ongoing - be addressed, not simply with words, but with deeds. This was formed in 1915 as an explicitly anti . Other socialist campaigns, such as the Socialist Alliance in Geelong, should also be supported - with the Greens given second preference. Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref. Moreover, the Labor Party is putrefied in Victoria. .Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21 st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books, 2023). The main reason the Alliance left Victorian Socialists is because their only real claim to fame is having a councillor elected and if they had stayed, they wouldn't be able to really justify their existence. The Victorian Age (1837-1901) took its name from Queen Victoria, who came to the throne during the period of industrialization and when manufacturing industry and international trade took over from the old agricultural economy. Electoral Space We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respects to elders past, present and future. From last December, Andrews used his previous popularly supported association with the 2020 lockdown in Melbourne, which eliminated local virus transmission, in order to work with then Liberal-National Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet to scrap nearly all pandemic safety measures. [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. 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. A 5-year freeze on rent increases. There are lots of ways to get involved with Victorian Socialists in 2023. In Geelong, where they are strongest, their members have done stuff like doorknocking to hand out "change the rules" campaign material that advised people to vote Labor. The motion also noted that, the bulk of Victorian Socialist activity is confined to electoral activity, where it should be fighting around multiple issues the whole year round.. Bernie Finn, the extreme right anti-abortion campaigner and former Liberal Party member, may also lose his spot. CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. "The labour movement's championing of democratic rights and improved standards of life has so altered the Australian environment as to make Bolshevism inapplicable," he wrote. He was born John Kane in Greendale, Victoria in 1882, as one of 18 siblings. The Saarland (German: [zalant] (), Luxembourgish: [zalnt]; French: Sarre) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. We have to change things. A socialist looks to the past to establish two pat ism underlay their socialist ideas; as a consequence, class terns of development: first, to trace the fundamental mecha struggle and revolution played less of a role than statist re- nism of the development of the means of production which formism (Pierson 212-239). The working class must have a political voice, which the Australian ruling class is seeking to stifle with this legislation. 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