The Chaser's election night coverage, “Labor secures bigger majority, excited to do nothing with it” was spot on. Sue Bolton argues that the left has to focus on building the extra-parliamentary movements if it wants real change.
Democracy and democratic rights
Labor’s new laws appointing an administrator with absolute dictatorial powers to run every branch of the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union is the most serious attack on a union in living memory, argues Sam Wainwright.
Socialist Alliance opposes the attacks on the CFMEU by the Albanese government and the corporate media.
The Anthony Albanese government’s treatment of Palestinian refugees escaping the genocide in Gaza presents another blatant example of state-sponsored racism, argues Jonathan Strauss.
Socialist Alliance is not standing candidates in the 2025 WA state election so we will be actively supporting Greens candidates instead.
Labor’s capitulation to the language and substance of Donald Trump’s agenda in the US has dire implications for politics here.
Donald Trump’s victory has sent a wave of depression around the world, especially after the right-wing advances in Europe and the anti-immigrant race riots in England. Peter Boyle argues that the challenge for progressive movements has never been greater.
Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright believes the antidote to the election of far-right Republican Donald Trump, in the United States, is to build an anti-capitalist political alternative that has an orientation to building mass protest movements.
It is not enough to “punish Labor” in coming elections. The real challenge is to build a political alternative that will act for the majority, not slavishly serve the billionaire class, argue Sue Bull, Jacob Andrewartha and Sam Wainwright.
Socialist Alliance opposes the criminalisation of climate activists and believe that fossil fuel capitalists are the real criminals.
Socialist Alliance has joined hundreds of organisations criticising Queensland Labor for suspending the Human Rights Act 2019 and allow children to be indefinitely detained in adult watch houses.
Given how many are being crunched by the cost-of-living crisis, public sentiment would be on the unions’ side if they took united action for wage rises