War and globalisation

Policy background

The struggle for profit leads inevitably to war. For this reason opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the proxy wars being waged by imperialist powers around the world, are closely interconnected with the fight for global social and economy justice.

Without access to the wealth of developing countries, the US military machine could not afford the weapons of mass destruction that it uses against the people of those very same countries.

By the same token, any blow against the global corporate hegemony is a strike against war.

The Socialist Alliance campaigns for:

• Re-energising and building the anti-corporate and Occupy movements, and working to give them an explicitly anti-capitalist character;
• The cancellation of the debts of all developing countries;
• Withdrawal from the World Trade Organisation and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; no “free trade” agreement with the United States;
• Greater trade union rights and a living wage for workers throughout the world;
• An end to Australian imperialism from the Pacific and South East Asia;
• Building international solidarity with workers of all countries;
• Halting downsizing and mass redundancies, and opening corporate accounts to public scrutiny; and
• Reversing all privatisations and placing all essential industries in public hands, for public benefit;
• Abolishing tax concessions for transnational corporations.