VS out-polled the Greens in several outer suburban seats. Jimenez is a Mexican-Australian who joined the Campaign Against Racism and the Socialist Alternative when she moved . 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. The Liberal Party only picked up one seat from Labor, and the Nationals are reportedly reconsidering their relationship. However, socialists and other progressive parties also received a positive swing. 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]. In the state election campaign for Victoria on November 26, the Victorian Socialists organisation is standing 38 candidates in both upper and lower house electorates, representing the largest election campaign ever mounted by the Australian pseudo-left. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. But it would help champion progressive ideas in a mainstream way. There are lots of ways to get involved with Victorian Socialists in 2023. Ross's two sons, Lloyd Ross[6] and Edgar Ross, however, both became prominent Communist Party members. [2] By 1921, after the foundation of the Communist Party of Australia, the then secretary Robert Ross advocated a eugenicist stance, stating to 'keep your races pure'. [32] The party increased its vote from 2018, with its best result being a score of 9.3% in the seat of Footscray. The ABCs election analyst Antony Green is predictingthat the Animal Justice Party will keep an LC seat in Northern Victoria. Join the discord community at http://abolish.capital, Press J to jump to the feed. The working class must have a political voice, which the Australian ruling class is seeking to stifle with this legislation. Albaneses Labor government is committed to both offensives, placing the population on the frontline of a potential World War III. Now, we are aiming to get a socialist elected to Victorias parliament and the effort is being supported by two socialist organisations, some unions and many left activists. [2], The VSP did not primarily contest parliamentary elections, seeing itself mainly as a force for socialist education in the wider Labor movement. A 5-year freeze on rent increases. This was smaller than 2010, when they scored 11.2% andin 2014, they scored 11.5%. A ghost is haunting the United States the ghost of socialism. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Subscribe to Socialist Alliance & Green Left newsletters. The priorities of this system are wrong. As such, the party supports a platform that includes the reversal of historical privatization of industries, along with strong support for labour unions. Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. 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. 1953. The seats stretched from inner city Brunswick, Richmond and Footscray to the outer suburbs of Craigieburn, Werribee and Sunbury. The billionaires have had it too good for too long. 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. 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. In council, they kind of just accept the narrow confines that councils typically do but do support local campaigns. 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. Victorian Socialists election platform is utterly parochial, barely mentioning a single issue outside the state capital, Melbourne. The Victorian Socialists began as a collaboration between Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Alliance, and individuals not aligned with either group. 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. Both Victorian Socialists and Socialist Alliance are running candidates. They both have good socialist policies. NUW organisers for the union to soften its approach successfully opened the way for union staff to campaign for the Victorian Socialists. As a young man, he changed his name to Cain when he converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism, though very little else is known about his childhood. They are likely to pick up two more upper LC, giving them three seats. Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance (SA) Merri-Bek councillor and Pascoe Vale candidate, toldGreen Left that socialists received significant votes. Take the following, from the private official paper of this weird organisation, the "Socialist Record" (Feb. 1913) : "I [the writer of the article, Mr. F. Edwards] know one branch of the Party which will not sell 'Justice' or the 'Clarion' because they advocate piffling reforms. ], Subscribe to Socialist Alliance & Green Left newsletters. The seats stretched from inner city Brunswick, Richmond and Footscray to the outer suburbs of Craigieburn, Werribee and Sunbury. The left should never forget how Pauline Hanson used her first term of office in 1996 to mobilise a right-wing base of support. 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.. "So, how come the left is so divided?" we are routinely asked. 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. As of November2020[update], the party is represented in local government on the Maribyrnong City Council by Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera. Erroneously, though conveniently labeled "socialism," this formation based on parties advocating the interests of the male, skilled, industrial working class as an expression of progressive 8 CHAPTER ONE politics remained ephemeral in the United States compared to all European industrial democracies, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The Freedom Party, Angry Victorians and similar far-right parties scored less than 2% of the vote where they ran. While Stephen Jolly will head the campaign, the ticket will also include Colleen Bolger from Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Alliance Moreland councillor Sue Bolton. Above all, Victorian Socialists work to divert the rising opposition within the working class from developing into a politically conscious movement against Labor and the unions, and the capitalist order they defend. ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref. It falsely labels both Russia and China as imperialist, and through this designation lines up with Washingtons aggression against both countries. In some places like Canberra they're just exclusively reformists. Victorian Socialists candidates Stephen Jolly and Sue Bolton. Legalise Cannabis looks like winningthreeLC seats. 10 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. Jagdish Patel from the Monitoring Group met with Prof Satnam Virdee to speak about his book 'Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider'. 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 obvious question is why? 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 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. [2] However, after Tom Mann's departure in 1909, the party began to less strongly oppose racism. [12][13], The 2018 election campaign gained support from several trade unions including the ETU, VAHPA, UFU, CFMMEU (MUA division), AMIEU and NUW. The Animal Justice Party and Fiona Patterns Reason Party (which did not stand in 2018) scored a combined 5.3%. 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 Victorian Labor government looks set to be re-elected in a landslide. The Victorian Socialists (VS) stood in all 22 seats that cover the two Legislative Council (LC) regions of Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. Some of the anti-Labor swing went to the Liberals and the far right. 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. Engaging in a combination of grassroots activism and electoral politics, Socialist Alliance currently has two elected officeholders across Australia, all of whom serve on the local government level. Which is more active? Join us for the launch party of our 2022 state election manifesto, and find out how you can get involved in the historic campaign to get the first socialists elected to an Australian parliament for almost a century. In Melbourne, the Alliance has about half a dozen regularly active members. 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. 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%). Lots of people involved in the campaign are revolutionaries who are also involved in other socialist or activist groups like Socialist Alternative. Of course the Greens should be doing this too but, as a party, theyre just not as convinced as we are that the system stinks. Authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 54 Victoria St Carlton South, VIC 3053. Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton will run with Steve Jolly and Colleen Bolger on the Victorian Socialists ticket in the November Victorian state election. But can we really afford to sit around and wait until the perfect coalition comes along. 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It's an alliance of many groups and individuals who want to achieve specific goal as opposed to a socialist organisation. In 1907, the VSP, plus similar groups in the other Australian states, came together in a loose federal organisation calling itself the Socialist Federation of Australia, but this never became a functioning national party. 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. Capitalism is destroying the planet and all life as we know it We need a climate revolution, Your donation will help our campaign for ecosocialist system change. Historyshows that governments have consistently resisted any proposals from First Nations advisory bodies to deliver real justice. After a conversation in which we try and put 150-odd years of struggle into its historical context, they inevitably respond with: Yes, but dont you think youd be able to fight the right better if you were bigger and stronger?. A place for revolutionary socialists in Australia to analyse Australia-centric events and to organise within the country. But Victorian Socialists do not even pretend to advance a program for workers globally. 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 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. [2] This was in conflict with the mainstream Labor movement which was in favor of the White Australian Policy. 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 . 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. During this long reign, the country acquired unprecedented power and wealth. Sign up Get Involved There are lots of ways to get involved with Victorian Socialists in 2023. Public transport should be publicly built, owned and managed. 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. Would you recommend joining both parties then, to get the best of both worlds? define the dominant classes 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. [21] The party was registered at a federal level with the Australian Electoral Commission on 7 April 2019. [Jacob Andrewartha is a national co-convenor ofSocialist Alliance. Victorian Socialists is a campaign to get a socialist elected. [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". Victorian Socialists comprise Socialist Alternative, which had close relations with the recently dissolved International Socialist Organisation in the United States, and Socialist Alliance . Check out some of our events here. Support for the two capitalist ruling partiesLabor and the Liberal-Nationalshas fallen to historic lows. 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. In Western Metropolitan, it received3.76%. Socialist . Jolly has been a long-time councillor on Yarra City Council, one of the local government areas included in the Northern Metropolitan seat. Politicians are overpaid and out of touch. 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. 00:51. In 1921 a VSP member who had moved to Sydney, Bill Earsman, was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Australia. 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 Victorian Socialists is a democratic socialist party that was formed in 2018 out of an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. The Victorian Socialists brings together socialist groups including Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Alliance, and individual activists, unionists and community organisers. Socialist Alternatives Red Flag declared in July: Imperialist [i.e., Russias] invasion cannot be defeated by pacifist methods. See events What we'll fight for Climate change Early childhood, primary and secondary education First Nations Six months on from the Albanese government taking office, the conditions of life for millions of working-class people have worsened dramatically. Imagine a voice inside parliament that is accountable to the working class and marginalised communities? The Victorian Socialists also support the introduction of a carbon neutral economy by 2035. These groups have all either taken office or propped up the discredited existing establishment parties, in order to suppress working-class resistance to the austerity dictates of the global financial markets. Mainstream Protestant churches in Australia overwhelmingly supported the war. We need wage increases and improved work conditions to fix the retention crisis, and funding for 10,000 new staff in state schools. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. A leading influence in the VSP's formation was the British trade unionist Tom Mann, who lived in Australia from 1903 to 1910. Renee Heath, who led the Liberal Partys Eastern Victoria Region ticket, was so transphobic that former leader Matthew Guy said she would be banned from the party room. The Saarland (German: [zalant] (), Luxembourgish: [zalnt]; French: Sarre) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. 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Victorian Socialists is a campaign to get a socialist elected. Our natural resources the minerals beneath the ground, the arable land, the forests, the water in our rivers have been handed to the highest bidder. Britain had become the most powerful nation in the world thanks to its growing number of colonies, however, with the industrial revolution, urban . 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. Socialist Alliance needs your financial support, Russia out of Ukraine! Privatisation of Victoria's transport system has been a total failure, and should be reversed. 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