The fight against war and the global expansion of the ICFI
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
The Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Australia: CFPE and Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee hold successful, well-attended public meeting
The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (HWRFC) and the Committee for Public Education (CFPE) in Australia held an online public meeting on Sunday, 20 November, titled “Unite educators and health workers: Oppose the ending of COVID protection measures! Lives before profit!”
Greetings from the ICFI to the SEP (Australia) 2022 Congress
The crisis of bourgeois rule in Sri Lanka and the tasks of the SEP
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.
Deepal Jayasekera•
Greetings from the ICFI to the SEP (Australia) 2022 Congress
Upsurge in class struggle in UK and internationally: A harbinger of decisive revolutionary conflict
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.
Chris Marsden•
Greetings from the ICFI to the SEP (Australia) 2022 Congress
New Zealand ruling class prepares for war and social unrest
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.
Tom Peters•
Alex Lantier•
Keith Jones•
Joseph Kishore•
Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism
“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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
Build an international movement of the working class against imperialist war!
“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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Free Julian Assange!
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Contact the SEP!
Phone: (02) 8218 3222
Email: sep@sep.org.au
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The global significance of the resort to extra-parliamentary forms of rule in Australia
Behind the backs of the population, and the figleaf of parliamentary rule, as the pandemic erupted and class and war tensions intensified, unprecedented, anti-democratic decisions were taken that overturned the nostrums of accountability of the executive to elected representatives.
Mike Head•
Australian pseudo-left Victorian Socialists in state election campaign—a pro-imperialist group sets sights on parliament
In response to an historic fall in support for Labor and the Liberals, the Victorian Socialists is hoping to join the political establishment as its “left” flank.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Australian state election sees bogus spending promises in face of escalating health crisis
Whichever capitalist party takes office after the Victorian election will intensify the decades-long assault on public healthcare.
Paul Bartizan•
Australian state election campaign in Victoria—major parties conceal preparations for austerity agenda
The pro-business, rightwing Labor government of Premier Daniel Andrews has been in power since 2014, and presides over Australia’s worst state debt and deficit situation.
Patrick O’Connor•
Mike Head•
Nick Beams•
Mike Head•
Martin Scott•
Patrick O’Connor•
A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war!
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.
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Former Australian prime minister calls for mandatory national service for young people
Tony Abbott’s proposal is a sign of the desperation of the Australian political establishment, as it prepares for the coming conflict with China and faces an acute labour shortage at home.
Owen Howell•
US-NATO and Russia escalate nuclear threats
Stop the war in Ukraine!
Not since October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, has the world come so close to nuclear war as it is today.
Statement of the WSWS Editorial Board•
Australia dispatching military “trainers” to aid the US-NATO war against Russia
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Andre Damon•
Peter Symonds•
Peter Symonds•
Oscar Grenfell•
IYSSE (Australia) meeting against war provokes lively discussion
Students and young people responded enthusiastically to the discussion, describing it as “eye opening” and “informative.”
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Australia: Well-attended educators and health workers meeting opens with video presentation on COVID-19
The nine-minute video explains the scale of the COVID-19 crisis and the criminality of governments that has caused it.
Our reporters•
Blood tests reveal at least two-thirds of Australians have contracted COVID-19
It is estimated that one-fifth of all adults in the country contracted the virus between June and August.
Martin Scott•
Facebook censors Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace and a Sydney health worker
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.
Eric Ludlow•
“Tired, sick people are seeking help from tired and sick people in a system in which there is very limited knowledge”
Australian academic Dr Pippa Yeoman speaks about her ongoing struggle with Long COVID
Yeoman spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the failure of Australian governments to support sufferers of the debilitating illness and the disastrous consequences of ending basic COVID safety measures.
Richard Phillips•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee, Committee for Public Education•
Richard Phillips, Gary Alvernia•
Gary Alvernia, Richard Phillips•
John Mackay, Margaret Rees•
Sue Phillips•
Australia: The way forward for striking New South Wales nurses
The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee stands full square behind striking nurses. But we warn that another limited, union-controlled stoppage will resolve nothing.
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Vote no to the Australian university union’s sellout at Western Sydney University
The NTEU’s supposed “historic win” dovetails with the Labor government’s wage-cutting and restructuring demands, and the claim of securing full-time jobs for casual teachers is a sham.
Committee for Public Education•
Australian maritime unions declare “victory” after court bans strikes at Svitzer
If a six-month ban on all strikes is a victory, what else do the unions have in store?
Martin Scott•
From the archives: What was the “victory” on the Australian waterfront?
This article was originally published in 1999, one year after Patrick Terminals sacked its entire workforce, initiating a bitter dispute involving maritime workers and the working class as a whole.
Terry Cook•
Mike Head•
Patrick O’Connor•
Jim Franklin•
Martin Scott•
Martin Scott•
Historical Foundations
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.
Principles
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 international significance of Australia’s crisis election
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
Oscar Grenfell•
An analysis of the federal election result:
Australian Labor Party records lowest primary vote since 1934
Labor won only a single new seat in the most disadvantaged half of the country, while five of the party’s ten seats gained were in the 23 wealthiest electorates.
Martin Scott•
Australian Labor government moves to slash social spending and impose real wage cuts
The Albanese government has vowed to cut spending even more than initially flagged straight after the election, and to stifle workers’ demands for wages to match inflation.
Mike Head•
Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses crisis of Australia’s two-party system and the way forward for the working class
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Our reporter•
Oscar Grenfell•
Martin Scott•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses crisis of Australia’s two-party system and the way forward for the working class
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
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Australian election: Workers oppose war, the persecution of Assange and rising living costs
“It’s not good enough to vote for the lesser evil, that’s just stupid. Labor’s not even lesser evil anymore. Both parties are exactly the same” – Max, at Inala polling booth.
Our reporters•
Australian election: Workers and youth speak out over rising inflation, war dangers and COVID-19
“The unity of the working class is a must. There’s power in numbers and it’s better to be backed up by different people and groups that all want the same thing. That’s where we get our real power” – Jorella, a Sydney railway worker.
Our reporters•
Workers speak on Australian election: “It doesn’t matter who gets in, the whole system is broken”
Keith, a manufacturing worker who voted for the SEP, said: “Everything is now skewed towards the rich in this country. Things are getting too hard for the average worker to make ends meet.”
Our reporters•
Why young people should support the SEP (Australia) election campaign
The Socialist Equality Party is the only party standing in the May 21 federal election which fights in the interests of youth and students, and the working class as a whole.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Our reporters•
Our correspondent•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
The coronavirus pandemic, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
This is the main resolution that was discussed and adopted unanimously at the Fifth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) held on August 14-16, 2020.
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Lawyer Jennifer Robinson gives powerful defence of Assange at Australia’s National Press Club
The address was subjected to a virtual boycott by Australia’s official media, demonstrating its alignment with the state and with imperialist war.
Oscar Grenfell•
Doctors send open letter to British and US governments demanding Assange’s freedom
The letter was issued after Assange had tested positive to COVID-19, placing his health and life, already compromised by more than a decade of state persecution, under even greater threat.
Oscar Grenfell•
“Workers must fight to free Julian Assange!”—Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president
The case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is critical to the interests of all workers, in the US and throughout the world.
Will Lehman•
World Socialist Web Site interviews CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou about Julian Assange’s extradition
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Mr. Kiriakou at a recent rally in Washington D.C. about the implications of the US attempt to extradite Assange, the defense of democratic rights, as well as the importance of Assange’s plight for working people
Nick Barrickman•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporter•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Fight the bipartisan attack on democracy—join the SEP as an electoral member!
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.
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Apply for electoral membership of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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).
Lecture series: Why study the history of Trotskyism?
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
Leadership
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.
University of Melbourne student union refuses to affiliate IYSSE despite successful affiliation meeting
The student union is riding roughshod over the democratic rights of students who want to fight for a socialist alternative to war, austerity and dictatorship.
Eric Ludlow•
Overturn University of Melbourne student union’s anti-democratic disaffiliation of the IYSSE!
The IYSSE is fighting the decision, which is intended as a precedent to be used, above all, against clubs that represent oppositional, anti-war and left-wing voices.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Australia: Oppose anti-democratic attacks on student clubs at Macquarie University!
The IYSSE and numerous other clubs have been disaffiliated by university management.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
IYSSE establishes club at Australia’s La Trobe University in meeting defending zero-COVID campaigner Dr David Berger
The third IYSSE club in Melbourne was built after months of campaigning among students for a socialist, anti-war perspective and in defence of democratic rights.
Eric Ludlow•
Eric Ludlow•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Our reporters•
Eric Ludlow, Maya Hunt•