Socialist Alliance

Socialist Alliance opposes the Anthony Albanese government’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026.

The proposed law’s main changes are to criminal law, making a new offence for inciting racial (including ethnic and national) hatred and setting up a scheme for outlawing “hate groups”.

It is an assault on democratic rights and provides the Australian state with more means to police and imprison oppressed groups, starting with those who face racism.

The 20th National Conference of the Socialist Alliance took place in Djilang/Geelong over the weekend of January 10-11.
As protests sweep across Iran, Socialist Alliance expresses its solidarity with the students, workers, shopkeepers, young people, women, and all Iranians resisting a brutal and authoritarian regime.
Socialist Alliance strongly condemns Donald Trump’s military invasion of Venezuela and demands that the Australian Labor government rejects the US’ flouting of international law and breaks the AUKUS war alliance.
In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve, Rachel Evan reports.
Socialist Alliance expresses its full solidarity with the victims and survivors of the horrific December 14 massacre at Bondi Beach on Gadigal Country.
Isaac Nellist argues that Labor's refusal to tackle the growing divide between the haves and have-nots has paved the way for One Nation's popularist non-solutions to the cost-of-living and housing crises.
While popular support for Palestine has grown to unprecedented levels on the back of the anti-genocide movement, the solidarity movement’s job is not yet done. Jonathan Strauss looks at the so-called peace plan for Gaza.

At its October 4 State Conference the Socialist Alliance in WA selected well-known activist Sam Wainwright to be its lead Senate candidate for the 2028 federal election.

Socialist Alliance's National Executive's response to the Socialist Party (SP) proposal for the Socialist Alliance to become a faction within their electoral project.
Socialist Alliance calls on the Labor government to condemn US aggression in Latin
The election of Democratic Socialist of America  member Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world because it was a popular rejection of Trumpism, argues Peter Boyle.