The context in which Plibersek is attempting her insulting dressing-up of Australian patriotism is the ugly, nakedly racist push by right-wing politicians to whip up nationalism and jingoism at a time when Australia (and the rest of the world) is divided by greater inequality, spawned by a sharper exploitation by the corporate rich.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights
Sam Watson, a giant of the Aboriginal rights struggle, died on November 27. A prominent author, playwright and filmmaker, Watson was also the Socialist Alliance’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs spokesperson for many years.
Far from being too radical, Labor’s shift to the left was too little too late, incomplete and sometimes more rhetoric than substance.
Lead Socialist Alliance candidate for the Legislative Council in the NSW election Rachel Evans gave this speech to a Justice Action election forum on February 25.
The Socialist Alliance will be running three Hunter-based candidates in the March 23 NSW state elections.
Celebrating January 26 is a state-sanctioned exercise that rubs salt into the wounds of Indigenous Australia.
Rachel Evans, lead Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW Legislative Council, has joined those calling for immediate support for the Walgett community in North West NSW that ran out of water on January 3.
The Socialist Alliance will contest the 2019 NSW State Election to put people in control of planning and to build community resistance to corporate greed.
If #Libspill can be summed up as the “madness of Abbott”, we have to recognise that this and other symptoms of political “madness” (such as Trump) are expressions of the dangerous times we live in.
The task of building a stronger socialist left in this country remains.
The internal rifts inside the Liberal Party means the task of building a stronger socialist left in this country is even more urgent.