The Greens vote rose from 10.7% (2018) to 10.9%, not the widely talked-up Greenslide. Some of the anti-Labor swing went to the Liberals and the far right. Their function is not to promote illusions that these institutions can be pressured to the left but on the contrary to expose their function as a vehicle of the ruling class, develop socialist consciousness, and promote the understanding that the working class has to build new organisations to take political power. 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. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. 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As a socialist, I believe we should put people before profit, and I'm committed to fighting for that. [10] It was officially registered by the Victorian Electoral Commission on 6 June 2018. Both Victorian Socialists and Socialist Alliance are running candidates. Bernie Finn, the extreme right anti-abortion campaigner and former Liberal Party member, may also lose his spot. 27 febrero, 2023 . 1/3 2:16 1.9K views 1 47 85 Show this thread Interested in @vic_socialists's Tweets? For example, Victorian Socialists propose not the expropriation of the banks but rather a state-based Bank Super-Profits Tax on the biggest five banks operating in Victoria at 20 percent of annual profits and the creation of a State Bank of Victoria that would supposedly lend according to criteria encompassing the interests of society as a whole.. Victorian Socialists are wearing out their boot leather ahead of Saturday's state poll. 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. The unjust jailing of climate activist Violet CoCo exposes the limits of thetype of democracy we are being asked to uphold. As we go to press, counting is still underway. [3] Despite the Victorian Socialist Party's rejection of independently running in elections, the party did contest the 1908 Victorian state election. It undoubtedly has contributed to the vote for socialists both where we are known as campaigners and also where socialist policies made sense to those who dont really know us so well.. Check out some of our events here. Spence) advocated the Land Plan, others, after the rejection of the third Petition in 1848, were attracted by Christian Socialism, co-operative associations and trade unionism. A broader left is an urgent necessity right now. Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton will run with Steve Jolly and Colleen Bolger on the Victorian Socialists ticket in the November Victorian state election. In September 2019, following allegations of family violence, Jolly was suspended from VS pending an investigation, leading him to resign from the party. This brings together two of Australias most significant socialist forces, a broad range of left activists and, hopefully, more unions. It falsely labels both Russia and China as imperialist, and through this designation lines up with Washingtons aggression against both countries. The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused a crisis for the VSP. The climate emergency gets worse every year as mass extinction events and irreversible biodiversity losses put our future in jeopardy. Other socialist campaigns, such as the Socialist Alliance in Geelong, should also be supported - with the Greens given second preference. The Victorian Socialists brings together socialist groups including Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Alliance, and individual activists, unionists and community organisers. 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. [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. 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 . In 1921 a VSP member who had moved to Sydney, Bill Earsman, was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Australia. Stop deregulation and casualisation, and use every means to improve wages and conditions for workers. Which is more active? The 1920 second congress of the Communist International, in a resolution drafted by Leon Trotsky, explained: Activity in parliament consists primarily of revolutionary agitation from the parliamentary rostrum, unmasking opponents, and ideological unification of the masses, who, particularly in areas that lag behind, are still prejudiced by democratic illusions and look to the parliamentary rostrum. In Melbourne, the Alliance has about half a dozen regularly active members. Like most socialists, the party initially welcomed the revolution, but by 1920 democratic socialists such as Ross had become critical of the Bolshevik regime. I have been slowly comparing their policies, but they seem to be very similar on many issues. The far right failed to capitalise on the anti-lockdown/anti-mandate movement. Socialist Alliance has been on the decline for a long time, particularly in Melbourne. For eight years, Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews has headed a pro-business government. Lots of people involved in the campaign are revolutionaries who are also involved in other socialist or activist groups like Socialist Alternative. What to expect The Victorian Labor government looks set to be re-elected in a landslide. It is exciting to think about how effective this campaign could become. He played a key role in the community-led campaign to stop the East West Tunnel and, more recently, supported the Carlton and United Brewery strikers. Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton will run with Steve Jolly and Colleen Bolger on the Victorian Socialists ticket in the November Victorian state election. Claims the new IR laws willclosethe gender pay gap andstrengthen equal pay laws are welcome. In 2012, Corey Oakley declared backing for US imperialist interventions, writing: The time for knee-jerk anti-imperialism has passed. In Ukraine, Socialist Alternative openly supports the pouring of US weaponry into the hands of the right-wing Zelensky government in the war against Russia, just as it agitated for the US assault on Syria. Our gas and electricity infrastructure and services have been sold in the name of efficiency. 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. She was also instrumental in stopping the East West Link and has initiated fightbacks around local environmental issues including the toxic waste dump in Fawkner. That followed exposures of rampant branch stacking, i.e., the fake inflation of membership figures by rival factional powerbrokers. The Robodebt royal commission has revealed that lower level Centrelink workers were telling their bosses that the system was wrong and cruel. 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". Progressives need to support that campaign. 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. The Socialist Alliance passes resolution that Labor's Indigenous Voice to Parliament will be another token gesture, unless the government is forced by a strong popular movement to take real measures towards First Nations justice Socialist Alliance makes ambitious plans at its 17th National Conference This work must be completely subordinate to the goals and tasks of the mass struggle outside parliament.. 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. According to the Greens, VS is unlikely to win an LC seat. [6] Formed in 2010, it describes itself as being "from the political centre". 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). [2], The VSP did not primarily contest parliamentary elections, seeing itself mainly as a force for socialist education in the wider Labor movement. Privatisation of Victoria's transport system has been a total failure, and should be reversed. In 2020, Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne. Socialist Alternatives preparedness to use its numbers to restrict the democratic participation of independents in the Victorian Socialists means that Socialist Alliance does not believe that our continued participation in the project can be effective. 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. 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. E-Book Overview. Nevertheless, the combined votes of the far-right parties were substantial in Eastern Victoria Region (20.8%); the Northern Victoria Region (20.02%); and the Western Victoria Region(19.8%). And the politicians run Victoria like its their own private cash machine. During the state election, Victorian Socialists could get out 150 people to mass doorknock certain areas and get similar numbers to meetings. As the cost-of-living and housing crises hit hard, Daniel Andrews Labor government was re-elected in Victoria, despite a 5.8%swing against it. The party was founded in 2001 as an alliance of various socialist organisations and activists. The 'socialist imperialists' were in the clear majority after 1900. Why dont you join us now? There have been unity projects before: Socialist Alliance itself was born from one such effort in 2001. .Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21 st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books, 2023). "So, how come the left is so divided?" we are routinely asked. The Greens vote dipped by 0.6%. Political parties. He played a critical role in saving Richmond Secondary College from closure in the 1990s. Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. Socialist Alternative . [2] However, after Tom Mann's departure in 1909, the party began to less strongly oppose racism. It is not just that the lead candidate Steve Jolly has a strong track record as a fighter and socialist activist. It is especially revealing that the group says nothing about the nuclear war danger. ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref. "Imagine if we had had a socialist in . Socialist Alliance Upper House: NSW, WA Lower House: Brisbane, Fremantle, Lilley Victorian Socialists Lower House: Calwell, Cooper, Wills: Preferences: As usual, the Socialist Alliance provides a fine barometer of which parties on the ballot are the most left-leaning. VS received the fourth-highest vote, out of 23 parties, in the Northern Metropolitan Region, with4.86%. Vic Soc is organised by Socialist Alternative (Cliffite Trotskyists) and other socialists. Jagdish Patel from the Monitoring Group met with Prof Satnam Virdee to speak about his book 'Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider'. Housing crisis can be fixed with pro-people policies We need a state that works for everyone. Socialist Alliance is a socialist organisation that is predominantly reformist, with a few people who call themselves revolutionaries mixed in who dont really build revolutionary forces at all. [25][26] Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera became the first Victorian Socialists candidate to be elected to office, winning a seat on the Maribyrnong City Council. [32] The party increased its vote from 2018, with its best result being a score of 9.3% in the seat of Footscray. The only criticism of the US military alliance is framed in nationalist terms, with a section on Militarism and Solidarity beginning, Australia faces no threat to its sovereignty.. Previously at the May 2 membership consultation, Socialist Alternative mobilised overwhelming numbers of its members to vote down a motion, which Socialist Alliance supported, from independent socialist members of Victorian Socialists. In Western Metropolitan, it received3.76%. Most recently this was on display after the transnational giant Knauf locked out workers at its plasterboard plant in Port Melbourne. While Stephen Jolly will head the campaign, the ticket will also include Colleen Bolger from Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Alliance Moreland councillor Sue Bolton. I suspect hole #1 Wouldn't it be great if Jolly and the Victorian Socialists could use the platform to build the case for socialism by campaigning to defend workers rights, standing up to corporate power and racist scapegoating and giving voice to the social and environmental movements. 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. Victorian Socialists comprise Socialist Alternative, which had close relations with the recently dissolved International Socialist Organisation in the United States, and Socialist Alliance . 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. The rest of the swing against Labor went to the right 6.39% to the Liberals and 4.28% to Family First (which did not stand in 2018). There is so much that can be done to fix this state, if only it were run in the interests of workers, migrants, Indigenous people and the poor. Now were paying for it as the energy companies squeeze us for every cent. In 1907 it had about 2,000 members.[5]. 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. Originally formed as the Australian Socialist League in 1887, it had members such as George Black, New South Wales Premier William Holman and Prime Minister Billy Hughes. 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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. Founded in February 2018, it is an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. 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. 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. The working class must have a political voice, which the Australian ruling class is seeking to stifle with this legislation. 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. Hug them tightly. [12][13], The 2018 election campaign gained support from several trade unions including the ETU, VAHPA, UFU, CFMMEU (MUA division), AMIEU and NUW. THE VICTORIAN AGE. 10 The Victorian Socialists (VS) stood in all 22 seats that cover the two Legislative Council (LC) regions of Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. This shift is a revealing response to the deepening crisis of the entire Australian political establishment. 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. However, although Chartism did not achieve a direct political victory, it altered "public discourse . 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. 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 obvious question is why? 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. Victorian Socialists is a campaign to get a socialist elected. Nah, the people in the Alliance who called themselves trots stopped doing that in the 80s. Labors vote continued to drop in working-class areasthe result of decades of imposing the dictates of the corporate elite at the expense of the jobs and conditions of workers and their families. In other words, Victorian Socialists would function as a loyal opposition to the state Labor government. At the start of World War One, nearly eight in ten Australians identifed as Protestants. Receive updates about our campaigns and events. 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. CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. The Victorian Socialists (VS) stood in all 22 seats that cover the two Legislative Council (LC) regions of Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. The seats stretched from inner city Brunswick, Richmond and Footscray to the outer suburbs of Craigieburn, Werribee and Sunbury. Its policy proposals on various issueshousing, healthcare, education, public transport, etc.amount to reformist thin gruel. The Socialist Alliance condemns Russia's war against Ukraine,which violates international law and is a catastrophe for people in both countries. Socialist . If the group publishes the US state department narrative on China and Russia, you'll be able to note an example of controlled opposition, willing or not. That motion called on Victorian Socialists to: develop its organisational structures and sustain a more active membership. The Victorian Socialist Party ( VSP) was a socialist political party in the Australian state of Victoria during the early 20th century. 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. Australian Socialist Alternative conference: In the service of imperialism, The pseudo-left Victorian Socialists in the Australian elections: Parochialism and parliamentary cretinism, Union sends Australian plasterboard workers back to work after 40-day lockout, The Syriza government in Greece: The pseudo-left in power. All kinds of elites and defenders of the status quo stand united against this demon: presidents and megachurch preachers, Fox News hosts and Facebook censors, Wall Street CEOs . Victorian Socialists can typically pull out far more volunteers than the alliance too. We need wage increases and improved work conditions to fix the retention crisis, and funding for 10,000 new staff in state schools. Winning a seat in the Victorian parliament cannot turn around years of attacks and marginalisation. The Victorian Socialists began as a collaboration between Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Alliance, and individuals not aligned with either group. The ruling elite in Washington is seeking to shore up its global hegemony through military force. Under these conditions, the Victorian Socialists is hoping to join the political establishment as its left flank, trying to prop up lingering illusions among workers and youth in the Labor Party and Greens, including by directing ballot preferences to these parties and promoting them as lesser evil alternatives to the Liberal Party. The Victorian Socialists ( VS) is a democratic socialist political party based in the Australian state of Victoria. Bolton received 4.48%in the seat of Pascoe Vale, while the VS candidate (at the top of the ticket) received5.36% giving a combined socialist vote of 9.84%. Other outer suburban seats were similar to Broadmeadows, with swings against Labor going to the left and the right. 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. The left should never forget how Pauline Hanson used her first term of office in 1996 to mobilise a right-wing base of support. Or demanding that public housing and public transport stay in public hands and not run down and privatised? The Sustainable Australia Party (officially registered as Sustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption ), formerly the Sustainable Population Party, is an Australian political party. [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". 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 micro-party's volunteers have knocked on more than 10,000 doors in the inner-suburban seat of . 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