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.
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!”
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.
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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.
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.
Whichever capitalist party takes office after the Victorian election will intensify the decades-long assault on public healthcare.
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.
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.
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.
Not since October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, has the world come so close to nuclear war as it is today.
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.
Students and young people responded enthusiastically to the discussion, describing it as “eye opening” and “informative.”
The nine-minute video explains the scale of the COVID-19 crisis and the criminality of governments that has caused it.
It is estimated that one-fifth of all adults in the country contracted the virus between June and August.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If a six-month ban on all strikes is a victory, what else do the unions have in store?
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
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.”
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.
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.
The address was subjected to a virtual boycott by Australia’s official media, demonstrating its alignment with the state and with imperialist war.
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.
The case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is critical to the interests of all workers, in the US and throughout the world.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
The IYSSE and numerous other clubs have been disaffiliated by university management.
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.